#1 HORACE

A story-led platformer spreading a bit of robot love

Format PC Developer Paul Helman ETA Spring 2019 Web bit.ly/gm_horace Paul Helman would like to think of his debut game as “a triple-A SNES title,” and to play it is to understand why. It’s an old-school platformer with plenty of contemporary bells and whistles that belie the fact it’s been assembled by just one man. “I DIDN’T WANT YOU TO GET HALFWAY THROUGH AND YOU’VE SUDDENLY GOT FLAMETHROWERS” Despite the console influence, from the start it pays homage to a host of vintage games: there are blink-and-you’llmiss-them nods to Emlyn Hughes Soccer and The Last Ninja during the opening scenes, while there’s a (thankfully brief) Spectrum loading screen flash as the eponymous robot boots up. And its title screen music will be instantly familiar to players of a certain vintage: it’s Beethoven’s Moonlight…

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Gamesmaster (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018

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