Kraino Origins Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)



For our Kraino Origins Review, we Fight monsters, ghosts, and zombies with our mighty scythe! Find all the secrets, and unlock powerful weapons! Avoid saws, fireballs, pools of acid, and spikes! Kraino Origins is retro gaming goodness! a retro action platformer with fast-paced melee combat, magic abilities, and hidden power-ups! Slash your way through 8 ghoul-filled levels. Avoid traps and hazards to make it to the boss for an epic final battle!

Kraino Origins Review Pros:

  • Decent pixel art graphics.
  • 385MB download size.
  • Four color palettes including one that is clearly the Gameboy green filter.
  • Five save slots.
  • In-game cutscenes.
  • World map level select.
  • Can skip cutscenes.
  • 2D platformer gameplay.
  • Has a Shovel Knight look and feel to it.
  • Breakable objects that drop coins and gems.
  • Hidden areas.
  • When you die you leave a percentage of your coins in a bee that you have one life to get back to in order to reclaim coins.
  • Metroidvania game where you get new abilities so you can get into other previously unreachable areas.
  • Big boss encounters.
  • Slick animations.
  • Enemies respawn when you leave and re-enter a screen so you can farm coins.
  • Drops are randomized.
  • Abilities (usually ranged) use man to use.
  • Enemies can also drop mana and health.
  • You have a down attack that allows you to in essence pogo attack an enemy to death.
  • Infinite lives.

Kraino Origins Review Cons:

  • No touchscreen support.
  • The plus mode option has no description.
  • Cannot rebind controls.
  • Difficulty spikes.
  • Not always the best at guiding you through.
  • No real tutorial.

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Kraino Origins:

Official website.

Developer: GameAtomic

Publisher: eldenpixels

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Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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