Who could have thought a game focused on squares would be so much fun? Simple on the surface but underneath its minimalistic presentation lays the beating heart of a challenging and extremely satisfying platformer. One packed with content that can be enjoyed whether you’re playing alone or in a group. If you’re on the search for a new eShop purchase then I cannot recommend Flat Heroes enough. An absolute must for fans of the genre.
(speaking from using the game on the switch, if you're using a keyboard the arrow keys are a glaring downgrade from the joystick with the amount of precision you'll be needing)
Easily worth what I paid. The initial concept seems incredibly simple, but the potential is used to incredible lengths. You discover plenty of new tricks and skills as you play, despite only using two buttons and a joystick. The physics are flawless- your character hitbox is EXACTLY what it looks like and it bumps into anything exactly like you'd expect it to. Campaign levels progress in difficulty through a total of 10 worlds, each introducing at least one new thing. Survival levels are incredibly fun, since they're guaranteed to challenge you no matter your skill levels, and competing against the leaderboard creates a ton of incentive. The PvP mode is the only part of the game that doesn't feel super fleshed-out, but it's still fun to play and the AIs aren't too merciless considering they only have one difficulty setting.
If the normal campaign was too easy, there's hero mode, which is everything all over again except challenging even for professionals. (totally not me taking nearly 40 tries to beat the world one boss on hero mode)
Ultimately, the real fun comes from 4-player campaign. Sometimes that makes it easier to beat levels, but so often, despite there being no PvP, you accidentally sabotage (and are sabotaged by) other players in hilarious ways until everyone gets mad enough to start doing it on purpose, letting the one person who stays focused manage to beat the level. If you have friends, I highly, highly, recommend dragging them into this.
I'd totally support a sequel! There's so much more that could happen with the game, and I'd pay three times the cost for something like a level creator.
As minimalistic as rounded proposal that reminds us the best of games like Super Meat Boy, while having a unique visual style and some excellent coop modes.
You could easily think that this game is too simple. You would be wrong: there are a lot of perfectly polished platform levels in Flat Heroes to play alone or accompanied and good and fast multiplayer modes.
Flat Heroes is a surprisingly addictive hazard-dodging platformer but don't expect its multiplayer component to provide any more enjoyment than playing solo. If you're looking to test your 2D gaming skills then Flat Heroes surely won't disappoint.
Thanks to its very well adjusted difficulty curve, the amount of challenges and a well crafted multiplayer mode, Flat Heroes will undoubtedly be appreciated by fans of puzzle games, who will also be surprised to find this much content beneath such a simple looking game.
The multiplayer aspect is a bit of a mess, there’s not enough meat on its bones to really keep me interested and then, even if it did, it would all be over too fast. The quick-play style it boasts is definitely a plus but on the other hand, if I only had a few minutes to play a game like this I could never see myself popping on Flat Heroes over N++. And because of that, I unfortunately just cannot recommend it, when the clearly superior title is available on all the same platforms, including the Switch.
Flat Heroes is fantastic! The single-player game has plenty of creative levels, the bosses are fun and challenging, and the gameplay is simple yet smart. The multi-player is great also with both collborative and competitive options. This game is hard to put down yet easy to jump into. So great!
Didn't know much about the game except for the few reviews I saw around giving high praises. They were not wrong, the game has really tight controls, awesome enemies and is incredibly fun to play, my biggest surprise on Switch so far.
Flat Heroes has sort of a Super Meat Boy feel with minimalistic design. The gameplay is challenging where you basically try to survive for 10 or so seconds each .
Pros:
- Cool gameplay concept where you try and survive in short time
- Tight controls
Cons:
- Some the of the randomness can be frustrating
- Getting a new tactic on the very last boss was frustrating after learning the game all the way through
- The game is not pretty to look at
I’ve been looking forward to Flat Heroes for about a year now, because it looks exactly like a multiplayer version of Super Meat Boy, one of my favorite games. Sure it’s been on Steam for a while, but when we’re talking couch multiplayer platformers, I’ll always prefer to play on the portable wunderkonsole.
Looking at the title screen, you will note two curious features. The first is that there’s no options to speak of, not even volume. The more striking feature is that there is no **** online multiplayer. At all. When I see that in a game like this, it registers the same way as a noose and a handwritten note.
Read the full review here: ****/2018/07/31/flat-heroes-demo-review/
SummaryFlat Heroes is a minimalistic, super intense action game starring squares for 1 to 4 players. It features a delightful control that allows players to move around the scenario in a super fluid way allowing them to beat all the challenging scenarios that its cooperative mode offers.
The game also features four completely different vers...