Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

A loving remake handled by the guy that practically established the Master System fandom online. Every element of the original game is recreated, but feels entirely accurate. Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap was easily one of the top games on the Master System and Game Gear, but it's age shows at parts, particularly with the hit detection, level layouts and bosses. Newcomers may be very offput by these, but failure is not punished too hard and the game itself is rather short (should take 5 to 7 hours for a first playthrough). The game has no leveling system but does have increasingly better gear that can be purchased or found. Enemy designs and their colors clue how strong they are and are used as a hint of sorts to the player to travel elsewhere; Harder monsters naturally give better money and loot too, so although prices for swords and armor increases it never feels as if there is a

One thing you should note is that this is not so much a remake as a reskin of the original Sega Master System version. As a reskin of one of the famous early Metroidvania milestones, this is an impeccable technological and artistic wonder that raises the bar for things to come. Running off of the original SMS ROM with meticulously reverse-engineered refinements, it reproduces the slightest gameplay nuance to perfection in higher framerates while flawlessly incorporating beautifully animated and scored modern assets which you can switch back and forth to the retro style on the fly. The game also features a neat gallery mode with sweet unlockables such as early animation drafts and music session videos. Even the development debugger/editor is left intact for tinker-lovers out there (sadly no workshop support though.) This is clearly a labour of love and it shows. However, it also means

This is probably my favorite game from when I was a child, I still have the Game Gear cart with my old-school console collection and it is one of the games, I've always strove to keep with me wherever I went, even though I only beat it at a teenager. For someone like me, this remake is like a dream come true, that one thing you never actually think was gonna happen but actually does. Graphics: If you've been following the trailers/hype up to release, you'll have noticed that the guys over at LizardCube tried to re-create the game to the best of their ability and I have to say that even though I have a soft-spot for the original graphics (which don't look as bad as I expected at 1080p), the updated visuals look amazingly gorgeous and I find myself swapping between retro and updated on the go because I can't make up my mind about which to keep. The UI in retro mode also got a few tweaks

Beautiful animation one of the best modern 2D animated games I've played in recent years. Great remix soundtrack. Easy to pick up and play. Lovely charm and personality to all the characters, enemies and the world itself. It's like Zelda 2 but without the leveling, not cryptic mandatory secrets and not as hard as Zelda 2. Faithful remake of the 1989 classic sega platforming adventure game I had alot of fun playing this as a kid in the mid 90s and its sequels. I do have nostaglic feelings for this game but without my nostalgia glasses this game is still amazing to playthrough, look at it's gorgeous animation and it's lovely soundtrack.

There have been a lot of discussion of this remake online recently. The biggest emotion I've been seeing from people is "This is how a remake should be made!" Let me tell you my friend, this is how a remake should be made. The game itself is not fundamentally different to the original 1989 classic (with a tiny amount of extra content!), and everything you remember from the original will be right here waiting for you. The gameplay has not been tampered with, it is a very faithful adaptation, almost to the point of wondering whether they should have fixed a few pain points with how faithful it is. They've done an incredibly smart thing in allowing you to switch, at will between the original game's visuals, and the new art style built for this remake, and they have even kept the original passcode system (and old passcodes will still work! A save game from 28 years ago will work and let yo

Hello friends, I just beat this game, so i wanted to write a review about it. For those of you who are reading this, i played this game after playing the successor game "Monster boy and the Cursed Kingdom" , which is the spirited successor to this game. This game is a remake version of the original sega system release. Although the game is quite short, at least from my perspective, it is fun enough as is. There are neat features also in the game, such as switching to retro style graphics and retro style music. There are some other extras too. Also, here is my pro/con list: PROS: - A remake of the original wonder boy the dragons trap, updated for today's graphics and settings. - A prequel to another good game, monster boy and the cursed kingdom. - Extras including ability to make retro music, graphics, and artworks. CONS: - Some hardcore gamers might see this game too short as it is