Review: Arzette: The Jewel Of Faramore (Switch) – An Adroit Homage To The Worst Zelda Games

You’ll need a Philips head for this.

You can’t move for retro-inspired games these days, to the extent that a developer saying “Hey, this looks like an old game!” has started to feel less like a selling point and more like a hop onto a crowded, pixelated bandwagon. If you’re after something that looks a bit like a modern NES or SNES game (despite usually being the sort of thing those systems wouldn’t actually be able to handle due to their limitations), you could throw a rock at the Switch eShop and knock over about 12 of them with your first attempt.

We doff our backwards baseball caps, then, to Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, which manages to take the overused ‘modern retro game’ concept and do something new with it. Slightly crazy, mind you, but new nonetheless.

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