Volchaos is getting an update. Fun Infused Games announced it for the retro gaming masterpiece. It is now made available on Xbox Live Indie Games. Moreover, the update is without any extra charges to the current owners of Volchaos. If not, it will be accessed for 80 Microsoft Points.
"There are more than a few people who openly criticize the overabundance of pixel art games on the XBLIG marketplace; and the fact is that there are quite a few. Early on, many developers thought to cash in on the nostalgia factor and as a result hordes of games that were visually inspired by a past generation of gaming flooded the service, but very few games actually captured much of that 8-bit generation’s gameplay or feel. While in many ways Volchaos is a modern game with some modern ideas, it certainly does manage to capture the feeling of the long lost “floaty” platformers of the past."
Trendy Gamers: Last week I reviewed Escape Goat. It was a game that took the look and feel of Castlevania on the NES and instead of fighting enemies with a whip, the game was infused with some interesting platforming/puzzle levels. In Volchaos, the look is clearly Indiana Jones but the feel is all Super Mario Bros.
It's a little on the Super Meat Boy side but there's plenty of originality and lots to like in this XBLA Indie platformer.
