Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom Reviews
Monsterboy and the cursed kingdom is a great game that juggles between classics and modern platform games.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is the great revival of a series that has disappeared from the scenes for too long, and the unequivocal demonstration that classic approaches and structures can find space in today's videogame landscape.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom may come as a surprise for some but the game's overall quality design and structure quickly become obvious, especially to fans of 2D platformers and metroidvania-style games. With its good level design, high quality cartoonish art style and several mechanics from its predecessor, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom should be on the radar of 2D platformer and metroidvania enthusiasts.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is everything that you'll want in an official sequel to the Monster World franchise. Regardless of the late game frustrations and spike in difficulty, it is one of the best modern day platformers I have ever played.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom brings a long dormant franchise back into the limelight for a whole new generation to enjoy.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is the best example of how a development team can revitalize an old series. It is a must have game.
Review in Italian | Read full review
A delightful platforming game for the PS4!
series, except with much better art and music. Some warts do show up, mostly stemming from a steep early difficulty curve and occasionally hard-to-judge hitboxes and jumps, but on the whole, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a fabulous entry in a relatively dormant series. My future-gazing hope is that this team can have another go and make it more of a bolder, modern game than a warm, loving throwback to a series clearly near and dear to them.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is an extremely fun and entertaining game that not only pays homage to the Wonder Boy series, but also takes the matters into its own hands and delivers one of the best platforming experiences of this generation.
Review in Persian | Read full review
For those with a great deal of patience looking for a challenging 2D platformer with huge amounts of character, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is great. For everyone else, it’s likely to be frustrating just as often as it is fun, severely putting a dampener on the whole affair.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a game that defines the expression “love at first sight.” Its presentation is spectacular, the gameplay mechanics are simple without showing any kind of technical problems and the story is basic and fun with characters that you meet throughout the adventure. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a game that deserves to be on your end-of-the-year list of games to be played.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is really one of the best 2D action platforming games that i experienced in 25 years of playing. I really didn't expect this amount of fun and entertaining before starting the game, but it really shocked me with its amazing art style, engaging action and entertaining platforming. The most important thing about Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom's gameplay is the "Balance" that exists between all elements and mechanics of gameplay, specially on using various forms of the protagonist, Jin. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is an amazing spiritual successor to Wonder Boy series and it is absolutely worth your time and money.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Easily one of the best platformers released this generation with striking visuals and great game design. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is an absolute delight from the beginning until the end its epic story campaign.
Both a faithful spiritual sequel and a fresh adventure, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is an excellent platformer with some truly gorgeous visuals.
Still, the overall experience should prove enjoyable for those looking for a retro inspired action-platformer with a beautifully produced visage; there are just some hurdles you’ll need to clear first.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom perfectly bridges the gap between old and new, delivering the same style and charm of games from the Master System and Mega Drive, but including the same style of platforming and puzzle solving that have made modern indie titles stand out from the crowd. Essentially, it has captured the heart and soul of the original, and given it a breath of fresh life.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is not on the budget side of the indie spectrum, but what Game Atelier and FDG Entertainment have released is far from a cheap experience. The beautifully hand drawn art style, rocking soundtrack, rewarding boss battles, excellent progression system, and thrilling adventure, offers the very best of what makes a great action-adventure platformer, and turns it into a must own for anyone interested in the genre.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is not a flawless game and certain parts of it could have been much better, but no one can deny its high production values and how masterfully it is made. Wonder Boy / Monster World fans will find themselves right at home and experience a vastly improved but extremely faithful successor to those titles, and newcomers to the franchise can enjoy playing one of the best and most fun metroidvania titles released in the recent years
Review in Persian | Read full review
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a phenomenal game and one of the best Metroidvanias ever made.
Monster Boy stands alongside the likes of Celeste and Yoku’s Island Express as truly fantastic representations of the genre, doing enough differently and with enough style, polish and care to ensure it’s kicking and screaming on the doors of the Game of the Year contenders.