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There are a few puzzles, some minor (but surprisingly solid, enough to make me want more) platforming and a Guitar Hero inspired rhythm game in there as well, but most of the game is running around town getting into antics and figuring out the mysteries. Does that get you excited? It got me excited! And I’m happy to say that the game delivers on that promise.Īt its core Night in the Woods is inspired by “classic” adventure game, and the majority of the gameplay involves choosing which friends to spend time with (it would take multiple playthroughs to see the end of all of their stories), talking to various townspeople, and trying to solve the mysterious happenings around town. Night in the Woods is a game about a punk rock cat who drops out of college and comes home just in time to experience weird David Lynch inspired happenings in her town. Nothing wrong with a short game but the possibility is duly noted.īy Adam Smith on July 2nd, 2014 at 12:00 pm.Welcome to Hidden Nindies, a new feature where we put the spotlight on some of the lesser known indie games on current Nintendo platforms! We don’t have a strict line drawn for determining which games meet this criteria, but the spirit of the feature is to both expose Nintendo gamers to neat games that they may not have heard much about and to help indie game developers gain some attention for the quality games that they have built which may have fallen a bit under the radar on the Nintendo platforms (even if they were more successful elsewhere.) These are not reviews per se, and the writers may not even have finished the games, but something about them stood out enough to warrant a recommendation. Reading through the page leaves me with the impression that the game will be quite short, mainly because it all takes place in the house, a chapter per floor. There are 25 days left to raise just over $35,000. And then Bulb Boy’s solution to his dilemma makes more of a mess than expected – than I expected at least he seems quite pleased – and a layer of reality peels back to show horrors just beyond the veil. Maybe an occasional cartoon spider.That seems to be the case and it all risks turning out a little bit Tim Burton-lite (a territory that Tim Burton himself has occupied for at least a decade now). And the conclusion is far more unnerving and grotesque than the preamble had led me to expect.It’s a cute game, right? Bulb Boy is a cute little fella and the scares are going to be in the form of bogeymen in the closet and under the bed. In simple form, sure, but it’s a promising start. That’s not to say Bulb Boy is lacking in imagination though – the demo takes place in a single room but its three brief puzzles show variety.

Visually, the closest point of reference I can think of in recent times is Knock-Knock, but the game itself is more traditional than Ice Pick Lodge’s nightmare engine. Bulb Boy is currently Kickstarting, has a short demo (download or play in a browser) and is an unusually stylish creation.īulb Boy certainly stands out from the crowdfunding crowd.

#Bulb boy ign portable#

Perfect for a point and click horror game though, in which a portable light source is a handy resource, particularly when it’s in the form of a detachable head, eyes and all. Bulb-headed folk (Bulb Face?!) simply aren’t meant to be superheroes.

They’d be crap, obviously, their giant glowing bonces intruding onto the periphery of Justice League International photoshoots. If Bulb Boy were a Silver Age comic book hero, he’d be called Light Lad and would have a father figure/mentor called The Illuminated Man.