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Indie Heroes Collection 1

SCORE: 70

I am very thankful I had the money to purchase Indie Heroes Collection 1 on the Evercade systems. Blaze Entertainment believes in helping out indie video game developers. They have certainly done so with the fourteen games within Indie Heroes Collection 1. The games on the Indie Heroes Collection 1 cartridge are Alien Cat 2, Anguna Warriors of Virtue, Chain Break, Debtor, Deadeus, Doodle World, Flea!, Foxyland, Kubo 3, Ploid, Quest Arrest, Super Homebrew War, Twin Dragons, and Uchusen Ultimate Ploid Battle. All of these games are done in the 8-bit to 16-bit game play eras.

Indie Heroes Collection 1 contains puzzles, action RPG, runner, platformers, horror, adventure, and shooters. Graphically there is little in Indie Heroes Collection 1 that impressed me. Even for that era most of these video games look extremely independent. There are a few like Anguna Warriors of Virtue, and Foxyland that look decent. Chain Break and Deadeus look good for the Gameboy. Many of the rest could use some graphical improvements especially if there are ever sequels to these games.

Musically the games within Indie Heroes Collection 1 sounds good. The horror ones are a it on the creepy side. I like how new concepts have been applied to older video game eras. Chain Break is the perfect example of this. There were not runner games back in that era. So it is neat to see new game ideas applied to older game play styles. What if someone had thought of a runner back on the Gameboy? Let me know if I am wrong on that historical understanding. Do you know of endless runners on the Gameboy from back in the day?

Super Homebrew War pays homage to other indie video games as well. There are plenty of games within Indie Heroes Collection 1 that remind me of other games. Ploid and Twin Dragons are a couple of examples. The same goes for Uchusen Ultimate Ploid Battle and Flea!. Kubo 3 makes me think more Atari 7800 than NES. I am not into the graphical style of Doodle World personally. Debtor is another one that does not really speak to me personally. Everyone has their own personal tastes.

I definitely am getting my moneys worth out of Indie Heroes Collection 1. I love the cartridge, case, manual and stickers that came with Indie Heroes Collection 1. I have written about this idea before as well. Indie Heroes Collection 1 is exactly what the video game industry needs - physical copies of independent video games. This compilation has a lot of different things in it. Indie Heroes Collection 1 gives me hope for a Wisdom Tree compilation at some point in the near future.
- Paul

Graphics: 60%
Sound: 65%
Replay/Extras: 85%
Gameplay: 80%
Family Friendly Factor: 60%

System: Evercade
Publisher: Blaze Entertainment
Developer: Broke Studio, John Roo, PSCD Games, Nape Games, Bite The Chili Productions, IZMA, Nate and Araceli Peters, Lowtek Games, Tuxedo Games, SJ Games,
Rating: ‘12’ - Everyone TWELVE and OLDER ONLY

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