I’d wholeheartedly recommend Demon Throttle to fans of retro games … if they can ever get their hands on it. Plus, it’s impossible to get the true ending if you don’t find the secret chalice in each level during a run.ĭespite its intentional toughness, Demon Throttle is a really satisfying game to perform well in, and the repeated runs make it feel like a roguelike in the way most difficult retro games without save states do. Even after hours of play, I still struggle to get far on most runs. Each character dies after just a few hits, and you have to start from the beginning after a game over like many games from the NES era. Demon Throttle is a simple game once you learn how to fire, jump, and switch characters consistently, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It’s part bullethell as players must dodge the barrage of enemy fire constantly coming toward them and part action RPG as the player can defeat enemies to level up and pick up upgrades for each character’s stats. Demon Throttle is like King’s Knight as players continually walk forward through one of four upwards-moving autoscrolling levels, shooting the enemy and destroying the environment in front of them. Most importantly, Demon Throttle is also really fun to play, even if it is intentionally super hard. The soundtrack also features some of my favorite chiptunes of the year.
The little narrative here is irreverent, played for laughs, and vocalized through bitcrushed audio, so it’s quite charming. As a result, its story is quite simple, with a Gunslinger and a Vampiress trying to take down a Dragon Lord after he kisses the Gunslinger’s wife and takes the chalices that can turn the Vampiress back into a human. Especially when playing with the in-game CRT filter and no dynamic backgrounds are on, you’d be forgiven for looking at Demon Throttle and thinking it is actually an NES game. It feels like Doinksoft and Devolver Digital ripped Demon Throttle straight out of an NES cartridge. Demon Throttle | Nintendo Switch | 2022 | Physical Exclusive A retro romp that goes full throttle
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