Old-school platforming fans might want to keep an eye on Amazing Princess Sarah – a 2D title described by its maker as a mix between Castlevania and Super Mario Bros. 2 – when it hits the Switch eShop this week.
The solo work of Giovanni Simotti, the game focuses on Sarah's ability to pick up and throw "thousands of enemies" and boasts smooth 60fps action through its five different levels.
Here's some PR:
Travel through ice castles, cold dungeons, lava caves and much more! Bring your father and king back home!
You are Sarah, princess of the peaceful realm of Kaleiya. The quiet life of your kingdom was lost the day your father was seduced and then kidnapped by Lilith, a demon mistress. Her only desire is to dominate your empire and kill you. Use your powerful sword to kill all Lilith's minions, then quickly throw the dead body on the next enemy to perform amazing combos! Travel through ice castles, cold dungeons, lava caves and much more - straight to the castle where Lilith hides! Bring your father and king back home!
+Highly detailed pixel-art graphics
+ Smooth action @60 frame per second
+ Lift and throw thousands of enemies!
+ 5 castles
+ 6 dangerous bosses
+ 7 crazy newgame+ modes
Amazing Princess Sarah launches on Nintendo Switch on November 12th, 2021.
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What are thooooose!
Looking at the screenshots and then reading "Highly detailed pixel-art graphics" ... how about NO?
... I have several questions.
@Shiryu
None will be answered.
Being a solo work, the sprite art looks fairly detailed, but I feel like the HUD has a clashing style that becomes distracting. The blocky platforms and walls too
Cute visual design, but that music is incredibly generic sounding.
@Shiryu ...maybe that castle is in Silent Hill and that boss represents the sexual nature of the main character's personal torment?
Preordered this with discount- about £4. Looking forward to playing it tomorrow
@Shiryu that is ....... something else
@damien33ad lighten up babe
@damien33ad so any women with cleavage is filth, people take their kids to the beaches and most women wear more revealing things than this.
Forget about enemies...look at THOSE!
Surely they have to be bad for the posture? 😳
Now there's a Princess I can get behind!
@damien33ad the most hilarious, repressed comment I’ve read on here.
Um, this looks........... Yeah uh I'll probably skip this for personal reasons.
So I accidentally bought this a week ago because I mixed it up with something else (weirdly I downloaded and played it days before the stated released date). My mini review:
-The fan service aspect is mildly shocking in the opening scene but the game after mostly doesn't emphasize it at all and you basically tend to forget it.
-I haven't beat it yet but so far it is very easy for a Castlevania-like but still challenging enough to be fun with enjoyable platforming and some of the bosses are fun.
-It is VERY satisfying using the corpses of the enemies you already killed as your main weapon. I don't know why, but it is just fun to pick up dead bodies and chuck them at people.
Overall, fairly simple but surprisingly fun.
It's like a cross between Castlevania and Super Mario 2, but not in an organic, improved evolution kind of way... rather in a spliced DNA from what is (maybe) a strand of fiber collected from the NES cartridges that were found abandoned in the back of a freezer in a town that now no longer exists. Plus it turns out that it wasn't "fiber" but rather the dismembered leg of a cockroach that spent its life learning human language by reading "just for the articles," a certain famous adult magazine.
Looks like she has dislocated her little finger... much ouch.
Super creative idea to make the protagonist wear garters and have large assets
I love creative odd character design. Peeked my interest ....
Woo that artstyle looks bad. Also did they run out of armor in that castle? This game should allow you to be oneshot by almost everything. And she should insta die on a ice level. I’m putting on a sweater just looking at this.
To be fair, I think the artist knew what he was doing. How many of you clicked on this article just because of the thumbnail? 🙄
Yeahhh, this will be a hard pass. There's MUCH better Metroidvanias out there.
Looks decent enough for a future cheap sale pickup.
Huh, bit of a genderswapped Hamlet situation in the plot? If MY dad wants to be seduced by a demon mistress, more power to him I say.
@thiz It actually cost 0.99p on 360 twelve years ago
She's got great big.....tracks of land!
Gameplay looks cute.
Apparently the official art is distracting.
@HamatoYoshi so relieved to see the amount of likes on your comment, despite the constant narrative that is being forced into news articles by certain editors of NintendoLife and a loud minority of ree users.
I playing this currently. It's not a masterpiece or anything but it's pretty darn fun.
@DumbElder I imagine if I make that comment in a few years time I’ll probably be banned from the page!
I can't help but notice that the box art version Sarah has huge... tracts of land.
@PessitheMystic Thumbnail got me here, yes, but only to make fun of the game.
This looks like the kind of game you'd see on a list of "Obscure TurboGrafx CD Games Worth Playing Today," right down to the title that sounds like a terrible localization of some Japanese name like
Tengoku no Akuma Nage: Subarashī Oppai Hime!!
I wonder if that was intentional or if the developer is just really bad at naming things.
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The game’s logo is what puts me off the most.
@Drac_Mazoku That naturist princess mode sounds fun!
Well they definately have two strong arguments for buying the game.
But in all seriousness and I wonder about this all the time: How stupid must some of these heroes in games be to wear such outfits? The chances of you getting fatally hurt are ten times higher than they are when you’re wearing regular armor. It just makes no sense.
One I will pick up. This one was also released in 2014 so it is not a new game persay
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Talk about back problems.....
...I saw boobs, now I'm here.
...Seriously, though...I just bought Civilization VI on Switch and its expansions since they were all on sale. I'm good until Big Brain Academy comes out next month. lol
Anyone thinking of double dipping?
@NintendoJunkie Main character seems to be able to carry her boobs perfectly fine so its certainly not because of them. If anything her pair could have been a tad bigger so they woud be more visible during gameplay too. ❤
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The gameplay footage looks good. If it checks out with reliable reviewers I imagine it would be a bargain basement purchase for me at some point. Maybe
This look cute, and I like 2D platformers as well as cute things so it's probably gonna be a buy for me.
@Annalina k
@Shiro28 Literally already happened, lol. I won't tag the person as to give them attention, but it happened early in the comments.
@Tobiaku Agreed, she does carry them well. She probably does a lot of core exercise.
@Kilroy That's hilarious lol it doesn't take long and too much to have them triggered lol
Bewbs .... That is all
So, I noticed the Switch trailer in the eShop has the thumbnail censored to show less cleavage. This is going to sound shallow af, but it would be nice to know if Switch and the other platforms are 1:1 or if anything else is censored.
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@Kilroy Thats not shallow, thats common sense. Good you noticed. Could it be ESRB counting it as boxart? ESRB has for some reason issues with boobs. Seen cleavages censored on covers before, and in case of sometimes the US have recived brand new box art because of it.
I like the concept but it also looks painfully generic
@Annalina
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Back to the topic; that pixel art looks really inconsistent on top of the absurdity of it. However provocation sells; pretty sure this will be another mediocre gameplay experience.
Sarah has good boob, but none of that is seen in game. So perhaps I'll actually be focused.
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