If you like games that are so challenging you're tempted to hurl your controller out of the window, Trash Quest may be one for your radar. Previously released on PC, a small number of user reviews are pretty positive about it as a short, fun and challenging title.
Though it's a 'metroidvania', it's a small map (with the game likely to have a budget price too) in which you always spawn back at the same point each time you die. You will keep your goodies, though, so there'll be plenty of memorisation and practice of each tricky screen or boss encounter.
The progression in the game saves automatically. There's only one single spawn location where you reappear every time you die. But any power-ups, abilities, or shortcuts you've unlocked will remain.
It certainly looks like a title that's designed for patient players seeking a challenge - it arrives on the Switch eShop in December, with a final release date no doubt being revealed soon.
One for the wishlist?
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a "Tough platformer with a retro vibe"
if I had a nickel for everytime I heard that
How nice is it that we associate racoons with garbage.
Looks fun! I'll definitely pick this up.
I get flavours of Xeodrifter and Mutant Mudds from this, with a little aesthetic from Celeste with limited color palettes.
It looks solid, and is probably a good deal better than the other trash panda themed game available on Switch called "Rift Racoon".
I like the music Looks like a small but perfectly formed little game to me. Will keep an eye on it. (Racoons are adorable!)
“Also a bit of a 'metroidvania', if you can forgive the term”
What’s wrong with this term all of a sudden? See it criticised a lot lately and don’t understand it. It conveys immediately that the game is based around a map that opens up through new abilities and backtracking, we could come up with a new term like “search action” or whatever but what’s the point when Metroidvania is well established
@N00BiSH I'd be rich, rich I tell ya
Looks great. Looks challenging
@larryisaman
I think the "backlash" against the term is just lazy posturing. People identify trends and position themselves as against those trends to make themselves seem different or rebellious. In this case it's really quite lame.
Like you said, metroidvania is an excellent descriptor.
Love the music
@Purgatorium Yeah I imagine that’s it. Even Nintendo have acknowledged the term on the eShop recently with a sale bannered under “Metroidvanias.” It’s a fine descriptor.
Saw the raccoon and read the heading as ‘a trash platformer’ lol
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