If you are looking for a stroll down Mega Man-memory lane, Venture Kid offers a solid nostalgia trip down the side streets of the genre’s general neighborhood. Platforming feels tuned to the best examples of the era. Taking heavy influence from classic NES titles, Venture Kid captures the 8-bit age with pitch perfection, even if it misses the mark in other places.
Venture Kid
FDG Entertainment · Jan 13, 2016
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Venture Kid - a 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes
It shines with excellent level design, highly entertaining action levels, responsive controls and a great variety of bosses.
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- 5.0Venture Kid is the sort of game that understands how blatantly it borrows from previous genre luminaries yet makes no effort at even attempting to surpass them; this is very much a ‘what you see is what you get’ sort of experience. Bearing that in mind, it’s inevitably the kind of game that you’ll spend a few hours on, think “Well, that was… fun”, then move on and never return to it. Still, it does what it sets out to do – copying the Mega Man formula – and, when viewed as the sum of its parts, it does a reasonable job.
- All in all, Venture Kid is a retro platformer that plays fairly well, but lacks the excitement or inspiration of the Mega Man series it tried to model. With such a wide spectrum of games in this genre that push the limits of what an action-platformer is capable of, something so vanilla is going to get lost and overlooked. Unless this is the first such game you’ve ever played, you’ve likely seen everything offered here somewhere else.
- Classic NES platforming fans, rejoice. Venture Kid succeeds where even Mega Manâs creator failed when trying to capture that classic Blue Bomber feel. Even with minor flaws, Venture Kid will scratch the itch for Mega Man, and if youâre lucky, scrub the memory of Might No. 9 from your brain.
- After about 2-3 hours of gameplay, and around 400 deaths, I finally beat the game. It felt like ages due to the sheer rage the game made me feel from the numerous amounts of deaths, making me want to cry myself to sleep, but all-in-all Venture Kid is an enjoyable game. It was fun to hop in and lose track of time, probably spouting every curse word in the English dictionary, but it’s super rewarding when you finally beat that boss who was giving you hell. Good luck conquering this roller coaster of a ride. It was thoroughly enjoyable, rage inducing, but still worth it.
- 6.0A lot of love went into Venture Kid. The effort is obvious with the game’s graphics and sound, but as far as gameplay’s concerned, it still needs a few lessons from the Boy in Blue.
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