We’re great fans of the proliferation of new NES games that’s started to appear on the retro scene, and we love that they’re often playable on modern hardware. With that in mind, here’s our Roniu’s Rale Switch review, following our previous report on the game.
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This may be a Roniu’s Tale Switch review,, but Roniu’s Tale is unmistakably a NES game through and through.
Roniu’s Tale is framed as a dungeon crawler, but each dungeon is a fiendishly clever puzzle that must be solved to collect orbs and keys, with the overall aim of the game being to free a ghost trapped in the dungeons. The puzzle element comes in because once you stand on a square, it disappears beneath your feet, and you can also fall off the playing field. This means that forward planning and slow, considered movement are required to progress through the levels. The puzzles are somewhat similar to those in which you must draw a shape without lifting your pen off the paper, but considerably more exciting than that sounds!
I said Roniu’s Tale is a NES game through and through, and it is, but some of the cut scenes are monochrome, which evokes a different classic Nintendo cnsiole, namely the Game Boy.
With Roniu’s Tale, Mega Cat Studios have expertly weaved together a charming, cartoony aesthetic with dungeon-crawling exploration and head-scratching puzzles, creating an addictive NES experience that comes highly recommended to all fans of 8-bit puzzling.
Roniu’s Tale is available on the eshop from today (Friday 24th February).
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