Wonder Boy Collection Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)
This Wonder Boy Collection Review shows off this carefully curated collection of essential Wonder Boy releases – featuring four SEGA masterworks from the golden era of platformers. This quartet of acclaimed games brings something for everyone with its blend of classic platforming and action-RPG gameplay.
Wonder Boy Collection Review Pros:
- Beautiful graphics from 8 bit to 16 bit
- 111MB download size.
- Four games in one package –
- Wonder Boy.
- Wonder Boy in Monster Land.
- Wonder Boy in Monster World.
- Monster World IV.
- Gallery shows off concept/promotional images along with the original box art.
- State save/load system for each game.
- Adventure platform gameplay.
- Game settings for Wonder Boy and Wonder Boy in Monster land allow you to change starting lives, bonus lives, and difficulty.
- Graphic settings for each game are display (4:3 DAR/1:1 PAR/Perfect/Fullscreen), scaling (soft/crispy/razor), shader CRT style tweaks – mask type, mask intensity, Scanline intensity, sharpness, and curvature.
- Can rebind controls for each game.
- Rewind system with settings for adaptive/1x/2x/3x/4x.
- Full-screen preview button.
- You can change the settings when you want.
- Save when you want.
- Tight controls.
- An excellent nostalgia trip.
- Each game plays differently from an arcade game to a progressively more engrossing RPG take.
- The definitive Monster Boy Collection.
- A lot of fun to play.
- Rewind and save state is an absolute must for us, crap players.
Wonder Boy Collection Review Cons:
- No touchscreen support.
- Doesn’t actually have a tutorial or instruction manual.
- Few performance hiccups from time to time.
- You cannot change the wallpaper art or screen borders.
- Doesn’t add anything substantial history-wise.
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Wonder Boy Collection:
Developer: Bliss Brain
Publisher: ININ | ININ Games
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