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rynlingSparklite is a Link to the Past style 16-bit top-down rougelike. Your home base is on a floating island, and each descent plops you down onto a procedurally generated world where you gather resources for some purpose I don't fully understand. To upgrade your equipment, I think? Probably.
The game looks cute and seems charming, but it suffers from Bad Switch Port Disease. Specifically, you can't walk to the left. Instead you have to do a weird maneuver where you turn right two to four times depending on where you want to go. It's very difficult to control, and I don't think this was intentional.
I'm going to have to put Sparklite into the same category as Airoheart, meaning that there were no quality control checks on the Nintendo Switch version. I understand that porting games isn't simple, but "you can't walk to the left" seems like it would raise some sort of flag. Oh well.
The good news is that a frustrated post-Sparklite search on the Nintendo Switch store taught me that a sequel to Blossom Tales recently came out. (Hooray!) I already started playing, and it's a joy. A very simple joy that perhaps wears its A Link to the Past influences a bit too shamelessly, but a joy nonetheless.
The game looks cute and seems charming, but it suffers from Bad Switch Port Disease. Specifically, you can't walk to the left. Instead you have to do a weird maneuver where you turn right two to four times depending on where you want to go. It's very difficult to control, and I don't think this was intentional.
I'm going to have to put Sparklite into the same category as Airoheart, meaning that there were no quality control checks on the Nintendo Switch version. I understand that porting games isn't simple, but "you can't walk to the left" seems like it would raise some sort of flag. Oh well.
The good news is that a frustrated post-Sparklite search on the Nintendo Switch store taught me that a sequel to Blossom Tales recently came out. (Hooray!) I already started playing, and it's a joy. A very simple joy that perhaps wears its A Link to the Past influences a bit too shamelessly, but a joy nonetheless.
