UFO 50 Review: Indie Nostalgia reaches the key 2

As older PlayerI thought I had a fondness for reactionary games. But I don’t. I grew up when it was just playing any exciting video game, even if the game itself was bad. UFO 50 Change it. Issued for the first time last year on the computer and It was recently transferred to the key and switch 2 on August 7The unique Indie address fluctuates the text program with a set of 50 “Retro” games that were not actually present.

UFO 50 is a collection of reactionary fictional games designed to look like it came out in Apple II, Amiga and NES ERA, but it was designed with modern play ideas. Unlike the technical islands of India like Stardew Valley or Dave The Diver, these games are committed to only two button and D-Pad, making the old school design more authentic.

Because of this specifically, UFO 50 is not for everyone. To enjoy this game, you really have to dig, because there is no better term, games. This may seem coming from references, but the group in honor of an important era of video games and re -visualizing this fabric in modern concepts and ideas.

Although UFO 50 appeared for the first time on the computer last year, it appears at home to switch and Switch 2. Switch has always been a haven for independent games, and the developer group Mousfouth is perfectly proportional to this tradition. Its fifty titles are considered to be picked and played-to-play experience And most importantly, however, these games shine on a smaller screen, giving you this comfortable and reactionary feeling to roam the sofa with a kind of old magic games used to present them.

There are how many games?

As the name suggests, UFO 50 50 games (plus an additional secret). Each address is unique, although some participating mechanics, some are directly connected. The group as a gaming group is frame for a fictional system, the LX console, created by the soft fictional UFO. In fact, the developer MSSMOUTH – the studio led by the creative Derek Yu – found “this catalog in an abandoned warehouse and issued it for modern key devices, where dozens of non -identical games are woven into a firm and chronic network.

On the game selection screen, you can dive deeper into both the fifty address. It is said that all of them were developed in the mid -eighties of the last century, which represents different points in the studio’s timetable, with inspiration ranging from films, newspapers to the worker’s pet.

Fifty games extend over common types at the time – platforms, race and different puzzles games – but each comes with a little development.

There are games like Bushido Ball that resemble classic reactionary addresses. This, for example, plays like the new Windjammers game-only with samurai. Fist Hello is a final rhythm similar to the fighting with zombies, where enemies are programmed to exploit certain angles, making them a particularly difficult challenge.

Then there are titles that take modern types and give them a full shift. Rock on Island is a tower defense game with caves and dinosaurs, the loyal to the old school feels that it can pass as a mysterious version abroad that did not hit the United States. Night Manor is a click adventure and click in the context of Shadowgate or uninvited, but with an additional chase sequence and hiding mechanics.

Although many UFO 50 games are strong, a few of them did not sit with me well, and some are located in the types that I do not even enjoy with modern drawings. Camouflage is a surreptitious game that looks like a giant puzzle, while Mooncat adjusts the normal platform controls in a very confusing way.

UFO = unique, wonderful and original

It is difficult to put the words of how the exceptional UFO 50. Will my favorite game be at all or even the game? Maybe not. But I love the way my gaming was strokes by mixing the aesthetics of my childhood with intelligent recent transformations.

Nostalgia has been struck to nostalgia that my mind nourishes while he nourishes the part of me who wants something new-and the deep catalog delivery 50 games. Some sessions lasted only 10-15 minutes, while others extended for hours. It is the type of group that I can pick up a year from now and diving directly, however, it also contains this cloud that makes me want to play whenever I have free time.

Some people will not get the call, and this is good. It is easy to turn off reactionary graphics, simple controls or primitive novels. However, if you have ever wondered you attract you to video games – from the hook that makes you play to the idea of play itself – UFO 50 is the type of game that allows you to explore it. For Switch 2 owners looking for something to fill the gap while calm, it is difficult to overcome UFO 50 at only $ 25.