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Game Boy Works #112: Rolan's Curse (Patreon)

Published:

2018-06-10 01:16:31

Imported:

2024-04

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game boy works

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This episode wraps it up for Game Boy Works Vol. II! Expect the book (and the hardcover of Vol. I) in a few months, if you back this campaign at the book level.

I wish there had been a more exciting game to wrap this phase of the series on, but I guess there's something fitting about going on a slightly deflated note. This is Game Boy, after all. Home to lots of interesting ideas and lots of lackluster execution…

New and different things are in the wings! But first, some patron requests and Super NES videos… and maybe some Game Boy side excursions, who knows.

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Rolan's Curse retrospective: Hackneyed slash | Game Boy Works #112

The second volume of Game Boy Works comes to a conclusion (look for the book this fall!) with a look at the system's first Zelda-style game. Uhhh… kinda. Rolan's Curse offers a glancing tangent to the top-down action-RPG, but there's not a lot of substance here — just the appearance of the thing. A brief, clunky, fast-paced, and ultimately linear adventure, this feels like a relic from an older time. But at least the dialogue's weirdly amusing. That's something, right?