Jeremy Parish

NES Works #044: Rygar (Patreon)

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2018-11-23 22:03:38

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2026-06

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metroidvania nes works tecmo

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Happy Thanksgiving, people who celebrate that holiday this week! Here's a suitably thanks-worthy game: Rygar for NES, a pioneering title that holds up exceptionally well for its age. It helped stoke a young Jeremy's enthusiasm for exploratory action games, and it remains a good time despite its lack of a save feature and the need to grind a bit more often than would be strictly ideal.

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Rygar retrospective: The sunset of a new dawn for NES | NES Works #044

Tecmo delivers its third game almost immediately on the heels of Solomon's Key and Mighty Bomb Jack, and it's a doozy. Rygar kicks off a couple of trends we're going to see a lot of in the coming years on NES: It radically reinvents an arcade game for the console, and it's pretty much a proto-metroidvania action title. Good stuff here that deserves to be enshrined in history.