About Venture Tale:
A love letter to the classic Mega Man franchise in every way, and a pretty damn good one, Venture Kid is an accurate take on everyone’s favorite Blue Bomber. Its a more or less straightforward approach to an established formula of careful platforming and creative enemy and boss attack patterns but its distilled to the elements that just made Mega Man feel so good. This one is for the diehards, and its worth taking a look at if you call yourself a retro enthusiast in any regard. Venture Kid is a retro run’n’gun platformer summoned from the era of NES classics, more specifically of Mega Man. An homage to Rockman in the purest, most accurate of ways from the sprites down the very sound effects. The game follows a linear order, so no fancy stage selection or boss menu here, but it more than makes up for it with a fantastically diverse set of locales. The overall design of levels in general just flows so well and with so many unique tricks, traps and gimmicks in each stage (yes just like, you guessed it, Mega Man). Venture Kid features a difficulty I would call ‘just right’, though for die-hard Megaman veterans it may be on the easier side of things due to a more or less constantly forward pushing pace. Overall, its very accessible for this kind of game while retaining the challenging and memory driven patterns of bosses that its influence had. Visually there’s all kinds of nostalgic nods to the diverse era of the golden age of console gaming, and not just for Mega Man.
