The Next Penelope does indeed involve top-down racing, but that’s just part of the package. Bulb Boy is just a nice if short little adventure game for those who want to try something a tad different and don’t mind a bit of strangeness to go with it.ĭeveloper/s: Aurélien REGARD / Seaven StudioĪnand! Paging Anand! Are you listening? You know how you always want more top-down Micro Machines type racing but no one does that anymore? Well here you go. Feeding slimy insects to a hungry spider or hiding from murderous enemies with their entrails dangling out of their butts is nasty business, but thanks to the picture book art style and the heartwarming plot it doesn’t come off as cynical or contrived. The game can be fairly ambitious in its efforts to gross you out, but always does so in ways that are designed to make you smile rather than retch. Kids you want to scar for life by having them play Bulb Boy, because you’re heartless and you hate kids. It also makes the game perfect for those who have trouble reading, like kids. Any hints or instructions you get will be presented to you via visual cues and icons popping up whenever needed, making the dreamlike (read: nightmarish) feel of the game even more pronounced. There is no real inventory management, practically no backtracking since the game’s puzzles are pretty much self-contained, and it’s also got a total lack of text and voice acting, apart from the occasional, unintelligible gibberish. It’s adorable and it’s revolting and it’s also really enjoyable.Īt its core Bulb Boy is a point-and-click adventure, albeit more streamlined than other games in the genre. On the other hand it’s a story about trying not to have your glow-in-the-dark head violently torn apart by a screaming poo monster. But it’s strange in a good way, for the most part. I don’t mean the titular Bulb Boy, I mean the game.
I know this isn’t the most “hidden” Nindie out there, but it feels like it didn’t get a whole lot of attention on the Switch, so I had to include it.īulb Boy is a strange beast.
The art is pretty amazing, the music is pretty awesome, the story is excellent (and timely), it controls very well, and overall it’s just a great package. 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. 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.
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