Lester - A high quality C64/128 metroidvania by Knifegrinder, that's worth checking out!

As we said before, while some of you including myself, are still looking forward to playing the upcoming game of Leap!; A high quality C64 title via KnifeGrinder which is a tribute to Bounder; a game released in 1985 by Gremlin Graphics. There's another game that's worth checking out when it releases today through itch io, and that's Lester, a high quality metroidvania for the C64 that puts you in control of the AR2020, a robot sent to liberate a space station taken over by an evil AI.

As noted by the creator "Lester takes inspiration from modern MSX Metroidvanias like Ghost / Minighost and the old Konami's productions like The maze of Galious. Furthermore, even though it originally started as a hello world project fiddling with a TRSE tutorial. Within 3 years it became a graphic adventure engine, a zelda-like engine, a single screen platform engine, an attempt to convert Minighost and then a standalone game". So yes if you have a Commodore 64, I'd highly recommend checking this game out as soon as it's available for download!

FEATURES :

  • - An entire space station to explore
  • - 60+ rooms full of metroidvania action
  • - Upgradable weapon, special powers, map and inventory
  • - 11 tracks OST
  • - THEC64 (Maxi and mini) compatibility
UPDATE : Lester is now available to download!

Links 1) Website

14 comments:

  1. Looks cool! I’ll be playing as soon as it’s released.

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  2. Well, that seems to be a great game - the controls are nice and smooth. Now it is downloaded and I have to spend some hour i guess :-)

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  3. Tried to game on my C64 and it is for sure a nice game of high quality. Thanks :)

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  4. My kid's been playing it this morning. He says it's ace but wishes the lil fella could walk a smidge faster. lol. But aye, a well made c64 game for sure.

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  5. It somehow crashed on me once when trying out keys on the keyboard, but that aside, very cool game! And playable! Wish it'd save the game, the checkpoints, I mean.

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  6. An Amazing game maybe too short and a Little bit on the Easy side...but graphics,sound and playablity are really top notch and it's freee!! Really a NES quality game and a candidate for the best c64 game of 2023...play It! Cheers from Italy

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  7. Exactly 2023 begins with a candidate for the best C64 game of 2023

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  8. WOW
    Great game with beautiful graphics and excellent playability ... we hope it comes out physically too, perhaps on cartridge ... Great C64

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  9. Great game! Really enjoying it. Very polished.

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  10. I've come from the future to say I love what they've done with the physical release.

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  11. Amazing game. I just finished it and wow. Well thought-out game that really makes the C64 feel fresh.

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