![]() ![]() ![]() Narita Boy tells the story of the titular faceless chosen hero who has been called to liberate the digital world from HIM, a nefarious overlord who rebelled against the creator, and his dastardly minions–The Stallions. It’s nothing like that, but hey to each their own. This is what we nerds who grew up in the eighties imagined the 2020s to be, either we’re physically living in a digital world listening to nothing but synthpop, while fighting our robot overlords. From Star Wars to Tron to Akira, Narita Boy covers quite a lot of ground blending elements of retro cool and venerating it to divinity. Narita Boy is a love letter to the retro sci-fi fantasy we old nerds grew up to. While retro action platformers has had a resurgence with Shovel Knight, Carrion and even most recently when the excellent rendition of Cyber Shadow- each game is a love letter to their respective sub-genres. Surely, there are better ways to get my synthpop fix besides putting Daft Punk and The Midnight on shuffle, but there’s more to Narita Boy than meets the eye. The clincher was when I ended up listening to the theme, I knew I had to get it. Whether or not it was the synthpop / synthwave soundtrack, or just how it was presented as a stylized retro action platformer along the lines of Flashback and Blackthorne, made me want to try it out. When the trailer for Narita Boy dropped last February, I was hooked. ![]()
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