22nd July 2014, 2:10 PM
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidDAng...Knight.php
This is an interesting article from a little while ago about this new, and quite good by all accounts, NES-style platformer for PC/3DS/WiiU. I'd say that thanks to all these changes, the game is definitely not a NES game. Something like Mega Man 9 was a much more authentic NES game than this one is -- as they detail in the article, in Shovel Knight they added in parallax scrolling (no, the excuse in the article is not valid, what you see in the game could never have been done on a NES), upped the resolution to 16:9 widescreen, added several more colors because they thought the NES color palette was too restrictive, and got rid of all sprite flicker and sprites-per-line restrictions, most notably. No way is that resulting game really a NES game; the developer writing this article is definitely stretching when he claims that these changes still leave this as basically a NES game. It's in the NES style for sure, and is close to a NES game... but thanks to those changes, it's not something that could be done on a real NES. Still though, what it looks like it is is a quite good game! Anyone have it yet?
This is an interesting article from a little while ago about this new, and quite good by all accounts, NES-style platformer for PC/3DS/WiiU. I'd say that thanks to all these changes, the game is definitely not a NES game. Something like Mega Man 9 was a much more authentic NES game than this one is -- as they detail in the article, in Shovel Knight they added in parallax scrolling (no, the excuse in the article is not valid, what you see in the game could never have been done on a NES), upped the resolution to 16:9 widescreen, added several more colors because they thought the NES color palette was too restrictive, and got rid of all sprite flicker and sprites-per-line restrictions, most notably. No way is that resulting game really a NES game; the developer writing this article is definitely stretching when he claims that these changes still leave this as basically a NES game. It's in the NES style for sure, and is close to a NES game... but thanks to those changes, it's not something that could be done on a real NES. Still though, what it looks like it is is a quite good game! Anyone have it yet?
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