One such game I used to love was that fantastic platformer ' Wonder Boy ' designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa. A game which started its life as a skateboarding rock jumping and axe bashing platformer, that later became the adventure platformer with RPG elements Wonderboy in Monsterland. And it's the original Wonderboy which is getting an announcement, as thanks to the creator Benjamin Yoris@BenYoris letting us know, the classic skateboarding platformer which many of us still love to this day, is still coming to the Amstrad CPC as a much improved 128k version!
While this is still demo footage and I'm unsure when it will be released as a final version. Atleast this gives us a glimpse of this 128k remake with highly improved details, sprites, smoother scrolling, and a great soundtrack. A new new remake that is in the works by Ivan Duchauffour (GurneyH) for Code & Optimization, Benjamin Yoris (OneVision) for GFX and Game/Level Design, and the late Stéphane François (e-dredon) for music.
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Thanks for covering the info !
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome matey 😎
DeleteHuge disappointment, it's slow despite the reduced sprites, the backgrounds seem zoomed in, the screen window is very small, and what can I say about the music? It's awful.
ReplyDeleteThe music is awfully repetitive in the Arcade version too. As for the negativity, have you even seen the original Amstrad version? This is a massive improvement and has my utmost respect for doing it
DeleteThis is really well done as fast scrolling does not play well to the Amstrad's strengths. Nice coding work.
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