![]() The game requires fast reactions, patience, and learning from your mistakes. There are no magic items or weapons that can assist you and reloading your last saved spot probably isn’t going to help you much either since it is going to be the same problem you faced last time. Yet because of this, you try harder to be better as you cannot rely on anything else to help you. You get very little at your disposal, the levels are hard and the graphics are basic. Needless to say, V’s is a tough, challenging, merciless game and takes old-school games to the extreme. To get a good idea on how difficult this game was, I died over 300 times in about 45 minutes (the game keeps ongoing stats of number of lives spent and how long you’ve been playing). For curiosity’s sake, I played some of these additional levels and they are nearly impossible. Players can also change some of the options of the game including the visual effects and background appearance having the game go slower and an interesting feature of being invincible so you could explore the maps of the game without concern of death.Īmazingly enough there are several maps and levels in the game which are reportedly harder than the game I played. In addition to regular play, there are various game modes including a “time trial” mode a “no death” mode where you play the game without dying once (good luck!) and “flip mode” where you flip the entire game vertically (which caused both my screens to go black with just the sound available). The sound was tolerable but occasionally grated on my nerves. The sound effects are basic in that they seemed to be inspired by games found on a Commodore 64 or the original Atari 2600. Sound wise, V’s has the retro sound and music from an eighties arcade game fused with some nice flute music at the main menu. The top screen of the 3DS shows the actual game play while the bottom screen displays the map and where you have explored. Some levels looked as if it would induce an epileptic seizure due to all the flashing of lights but otherwise are well designed and thought out. The levels are played out screen by screen similar to the original Legend of Zelda and have only as many colours as the rainbow but with lots of black (you are in space after all). ![]() Your character is a small, light blue coloured humanoid that looks similar to Sack Boy from LittleBigPlanet. ![]() ![]() In fact, this game is not really about the graphics but rather it is an intentionally retro looking game using 8-bit style blocks that look more primitive than the original Super Mario Bros. As mentioned, V’s is a 2D puzzle platform that can be played in the 3DS 3D format which provides some depth but not much else. ![]()
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