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Pixel Quest Review | Hardcore Droid

Added: 14.08.2014 14:13 | 11 views | 0 comments

Hardcore Droid: "I really wish indie developers would hurry up and start fetishizing N64/PS1-era games, but until that day comes, we have games like Pixel Quest and its cousins. From just reading the title, Pixel Quest sounds like the platonic ideal of a pandering retro RPG, but its actually after a little more authenticity than a lot of the winking mobile games out there that are trying to be cute or ironic with titles like Loot Dungeon or Swipe Hero or whatever. Pixel Quest plays it straight and doesnt care if its gameplay systems are taken straight out of 1988, which is to its credit, but at the same time, why wouldnt you just play a game from 1988 if youre craving something retro? Have you really played every game in the Ultima series? What about the Wizardry games? Pixel Quests ceiling is low-budget Zelda II, and thats interesting, but the games that inspired it are still out there, leaving it fairly redundant and lacking the quality-of-life gameplay improvements that...