Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap - Remake

[Drowed]

So, we have this now:

I really loved this game when I was younger, so I can say that I'm really excited about this remake. Your mileage may vary, but basically I grinned during the whole trailer. The art direction looks great in my opinion, and the gameplay seems to be exactly the same as the original.

I wish more remakes would follow this kind of art style. In fact, most games in general. I'm a little tired of games in "pixel art", if ever that many deserve this adjective.

 

[Excidium II]

Grafics look p. nice.

 

[Siveon]

Yeah this looks pretty damn great. I've only played Monster World and the one that played like a side-scrolling shooter (forgot the name), but I'd give it a try even if those DotEmu hacks are behind it.

I wish more remakes would follow this kind of art style. In fact, most games in general. I'm a little tired of games in "pixel art", if ever that many deserve this adjective.

Hear, hear. I respect studios that jump the pixels entirely and just do straight up animation. The guys behind Cuphead, Shantae, Indivisible, Rayman, for example.

 

[Excidium II]

The wonder boy i played was about a skateboarding caveman.

 

[Drowed]

The wonder boy i played was about a skateboarding caveman.

Super Adventure Island?

 

[Siveon]

Funny enough there's another game that fits that very same description.

EDIT: Ninja'd. The first Adventure Island also had skateboards, no?

 

[Drowed]

Yeah, I think. And I do remember that other Wonder Boy game, in the Master System:

This screen is of the acarde version, tho.

 

[Excidium II]

In my mind they were all the same game lolz. I thought it was just europe/usa or something.

 

[Siveon]

They were two very similar games released around the same time on rival systems. A big skateboarding caveman market, was there?

EDIT: Oh, Adventure Island was supposed to be a port. Neato.

I hope they do something with Monster World III and IV (Or Wonder Boy V and VI, fuck that weird divide).

 

[tormund]

That looks legit gorgeous. Art style is almost like HD version of Yoshi's Island one.

 

[taxalot]

Apparently, they are sticking to 1:1 remake, despite some graphic changes. They were able to reverse engineer or get access to the original source code of the game and wanted to make sure everything behaved in the same way.

I am _incredibly_ hot for this. I played Dragon's Trap for an absurd amount of time on my Game Gear. I remember thinking the way the game started was super badass.

 

[Drowed]

There's also that other "Monster Boy" game:

http://www.monsterboy.com/blog/

It's more... Japanese, I guess? It doesn't look bad, but, somehow... Not as good as the remake? I can't put my finger on it, but something feels off.

I will still try to get it, anyway.

 

[lightbane]

THAT'S how a good remake should be. Looks absolutely impressive.

 

[CryptRat]

Wonderful.

 

[Siveon]

It's more... Japanese, I guess? It doesn't look bad, but, somehow... Not as good as the remake? I can't put my finger on it, but something feels off.

The graphics remind me more of a 2D MMO like Maplestory. I think it's because of the bloom and how the objects don't seem to exactly mesh well. No, not bad, but if I could take more games in the style of this remake I definitely would.

 

[moraes]

Here in Brazil we only played the remake clone of Wonder Boy III, featuring characters from a well know comic series (for brazilians):

Also, the remake clone of Wonder Boy II:

 

[Drowed]

Yeah, but I wouldn't call it a clone, it was a "romhack", or in this case, a sprite-hack.

It's the same as Super Mario Bros 2, which is a ("official") hack of Doki Doki Panic:

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

you've been mixing "wonder boy" and "super wonder boy in monster land". i never liked the first, the caveman on skateboard never caught me, while i was totally in love with the second, the closest thing to an rpg you could play in an arcade.
this looks like a remake of the second, which is good, but... 1:1? i don't need it, i played the previous game already.

 

[Drowed]

It was only called "Super Wonder Boy" in Japan, afaik. Outside Japan, it was just "Wonder Boy". Also because they're all part of the same "series", some of the games are part of both series, "Wonder Boy" and "Monster World". That's why there is such confusion about the game.

I didn't even remember that they were all are part of a single 'series' until Excidium posted about the first game, and I searched a little about it.

 

[Tehdagah]

Bigger sprites tend to have shittier hitboxes.

 

[racofer]

Here in Brazil we only played the remake clone of Wonder Boy III, featuring characters from a well know comic series (for brazilians):

Also, the remake clone of Wonder Boy II:

Untrue. I played The Dragon's Trap a lot way back then.

 

[moraes]

Filthy imperialist.

 

[---]

Did you keep your 1989 saves?



Fucking. Day. One.


EDIT: also, 17 minutes of gameplay

 

[Gunnar]

All the Wonder Boy games were great, loved the Dragons Trap!

 

[---]

And the new Monster Boy seems even better