Narita Booooooy.

Narita Boy is a side-scrolling, 80s VCR-soaked pixel adventure. You play as the titular Narita Boy, a chosen hero of sorts who’s tasked with saving a digital dimension from its all-powerful creator. There’s a lot more story here than you might think — most of it told through lengthy dialogue boxes — but the gist of it is that you’re on a rather epic quest, and you’ll be kicking a lot of arse.

Narita Boy is mostly comprised of combat, platforming, and some light puzzle solving. It’s not really a Metroidvania — there’s no branching map — but there is quite a bit of backtracking as you find keys that unlock previously inaccessible locations. It’s a linear journey, and the game keeps track of your current objective, but with no markers and no map, you can quite easily lose your bearings. It’s not necessarily a problem — the way forward is usually a lot more obvious than it appears — but it does mean that you have to pay constant attention to your surroundings.

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