The Legend of Zelda has been identified for influencing numerous video games all through its lifetime, and the most recent to hit the Change eShop is an affordable and cheerful indie recreation referred to as Chico and the Magic Orchards DX.
Simply in case the ‘DX’ within the title wasn’t fairly sufficient to type the connection, the sport, developed and revealed by Daikon Video games, is a Recreation Boy Colour-inspired puzzler that shares a number of traits in widespread with Hyperlink’s Awakening DX.
You play as Chico, a “chubby-cheeked chipmunk” who should utilise a large walnut to unravel puzzles and discover a magical world set throughout a number of ranges. With its accessible controls, vibrant visuals, and pixel-grid filters, we actually would not blame you for mistaking this one for a real GBC port. Heck, it is even bought some customized Recreation Boy borders to provide it that further genuine really feel.
Here is what Daikon Video games has to say:
“When Chico the chubby-cheeked chipmunk stumbles right into a portal within the forest, he’s transported to a magical world! Right here he finds large walnuts galore, however getting them dwelling received’t be simple! Clear up puzzles and challenges throughout quite a lot of distinctive ranges, collect a horde of large walnuts, and assist Chico get again to his forest!
With distinctive dual-mode gameplay, you’ll have to actually use your nut to crack these worlds. Alone, Chico can bounce over obstacles and push wall switches. If he has a walnut, he can roll it over spikes, bounce it off of partitions and bumpers, and extra. Discover a strategy to get the walnut via to the tip of the extent with you! Every world introduces distinctive new mechanics that may check your mind and your abilities.”
Chico and the Magic Orchards DX launches on the Change eShop on December twenty ninth, 2023 for $4.99 / £4.29.
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