At its heart, Full Quiet is a Metroidvania-style platforming puzzler adventure with an emphasis on exploration (and a very good one at that), but as our Full Quiet Switch review will uncover, it’s actually a little bit more than just that. This is because despite being made for the 8-bit hardware of the NES, Full Quiet has clearly been designed with contemporary indie game values in mind.
This clash of an artistic 21st-century indie gaming ethos with 1980s 8-bit hardware makes Full Quiet a unique experience, thus making Full Quiet a truly “modern retro” game, and while it would have been technically possible in the NES’s heyday, it’s unlikely that such a deep, arty, rich immersive open-world experience would have been designed back then, and it certainly wouldn’t have been seen as commercially viable enough for release on a mainstream NES cartridge back when the NES was in its prime.
In Full Quiet, 8-bit Legit have created a gaming experience that manages to be authentic to the NES while also being a decidedly 21st-century game. It’s a full-bodied gaming experience that you shouldn’t stay quiet about.
In addition to the Switch version (reviewed), Full Quiet is also available on Xbox, Steam, and NES cartridge.
