3 days ago
Echoes Of The Unread Is A New NES Platformer Hitting The Right Notes
Echoes of the Unread
Hobbyist game designers and retro tinkerers have been making homebrew retro games for vintage game consoles forever, that's not new. But nowadays, it seems like just about every day a new retro game is revealed to be in development that actually looks fantastic and like it could have been a bestseller in the 80s or 90s since it runs on actual hardware. That's the case here with Echoes of the Unread, an innovative indie NES platformer currently in development.
The game is currently live on Kickstarter via Mega Cat Studios with just over a week to go as of the time of this writing, but it was already fully-funded in its opening 24-hours on the platform.
To learn more about the game and its origins, check out the dev diary series from creator Matt Tuttle below:
I tried out the demo of the NES game for myself and came away very impressed. I'm a sucker for charming, original takes on retro platforming and Echoes of the Unread has tons of personality and charm. Rather than just asking you to run from left to right, squashing enemies and collecting things along the way, there's a bit more going on here.
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For starters, it's both a story-driven and music-focused puzzle platformer. The main character, Rhapsody, is a girl who falls asleep while studying at the library and awakes to a world where books burst into life. Singing has magical powers in this world and she must use her talents to find a way back home. She'll have to venture across a variety of worlds featuring themes from westerns and horror, to fantasy and even sci-fi. There's a huge variety on display and the pixel artists really put in a lot of work to make sure you rarely see the same thing twice.
Echoes of the Unread
The demo I tried (check it out for yourself on the Kickstarter page for free) featured a few levels, but I mostly just explored, enjoyed the music, and appreciated the quality of the pixel art. Every enemy is expertly animated and the soundtrack is immediately catchy in the same way all of the best games from decades ago were for our brains as kids.
I'll definitely be keeping my eye on Echoes of the Unread, especially since it's an authentic retro game that runs on original NES hardware.
