#NIMBLE QUEST FULL#

There is no doubt that the developer has great love for the 16-bit generation because the care taken to accurately represent the look and feel of that time period are expertly recreated. Every sprite and every background look like they could have been taken directly from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I was originally drawn to Nimble Quest because of the excellent Super Nintendo era graphics. It quickly becomes a screen filling, hectic mess, and that is when Nimble Quest shines brightest.

#NIMBLE QUEST FULL#

Nimble Quest is best when you have a long line of heroes and the screen is full of enemeies throwing attacks at you while your hero train is throwing attacks back at them.

Once you are trailing a long tail of heroes, it can become difficult to avoid crashing into your own tail and killing off the heroes following you, but that’s all part of the fun. Once you grab the new hero they fall in line behind you, adding to your firepower but increasing the length of your train. Occasionally, however, a killed enemy leaves behind a new hero unit. As you kill enemies they drop money which can be used to increase the duration of powerup items that enemies also frequently drop when killed. Getting hit by enemy attacks reduces your hp, while running into anything kills you instantly. As you walk around the screen you change direction by swiping, and you attack enemies when they are in range of your attacks, which vary depending on the hero you chose at the beginning of the game. In Nimble Quest, you start out as a single hero. Once you crashed into your tail or a wall, the game was over. In Snake, you started as a tiny dot and you grew as you ate food until you filled the screen, essentially fl0w as played on the Atari.

If you are familiar with the old game Snake, then you know what to expect at the base level of Nimble Quest. Obviously someone played a lot of Snake a child and thought ‘You know what would make this better? If it had some light RPG elements!’ And so it was that Nimble Quest was born.

You’ve proably heard of Rogue-likes, but have you ever heard of a Snake-like? Unlikely.

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