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Golden Force
Released On: Jan 28, 2021
65
User Score
Available after 4 ratings
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
65
27% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
64% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
9% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
65
27% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
64% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
9% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Golden Force doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it does the nearly-impossible by offering a truly 16-bit experience, from sprite-based visuals to the tough-as-nails difficulty. If Gunstar Heroes copulated with Rocket Knight Adventures, Golden Force would be its beautiful brood. Just don’t go digging for the easy mode, it simply doesn’t exist.
Golden Force is a fun and varied 2d action game, but you'll need a lot of patience to overcome its challenging difficulty.
While games like Shovel Knight utilize the rose-tinted memories of retro gaming to full effect, Golden Force delivers the white-knuckle reality. For those who regularly replay older games, Golden Force will feel right at home and take some time to fully master. For those who are just looking for a good time, the game is harder to recommend simply because of the frustration inherent in progressing through it.
There’s a good game in here somewhere and I really want it to break the surface, but performance issues and questionable difficulty are holding down a great game.
Much of Golden Force is very, very good. Any diehard fan of 16-bit games will find a lot to like, but in an age where games like this are common, Golden Force is too technically flawed and too hard to recommended to all but the most dedicated players.
Taken on its own, Golden Force is decent. It looks wonderful, with some solid combat mechanics and very engaging boss fights. Start to compare it to other pixel platformers on the system, and you'll come to lament the forced trial-and-error gameplay, tedious combat, and unnecessarily broken upgrade economy. Patient players may stick it out, but for everyone else, the Switch has plenty of other well-crafted platformers.
Golden Force makes too many missteps to recommend it, especially on the Nintendo Switch. It's entirely possible that other versions of the game run better, as was the case with Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night when it first released, but that remains to be seen. But even if the game ran perfectly, Golden Force would still be saddled with an unrewarding progression system and frustrating level design meant to bombard players with cheap deaths. Those looking for their retro gaming fix should look elsewhere.
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Summary The Demon King has set his sights on Muscle Island, a hitherto heavenly and peaceful place where life was good. The dark figure has installed his army there and persecutes the population with the help of his generals. Wasting their last coins in taverns, the mercenaries of the dreaded Golden Force take advantage of their last vacation m...
Rated M
for Mature
Platforms:
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 5
Initial Release Date: Jan 28, 2021
Developer:
- Storybird
Publisher: Just For Games
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