What do you get while you take a further giant serving to of onions and cram ’em into Tremendous Mario Bros 2? Effectively, that’d be Onion Assault, essentially the most onion-y platformer to grace the Change in yonks. So let’s peel again some layers!
Onion Assault is the latest title from Hörberg Productions, the small Swedish studio behind 2012’s Gunman Clive. And Hörberg’s now traded the wild west for onions on this old-school motion platformer.
Hörberg Productions put on their affect on their sleeves as Onion Assault is a really apparent homage to the NES basic Tremendous Mario Bros 2. Not dissimilar from Mario and co again in 1988, Onion Assault will see you plucking goodies out of the bottom, bowling them about and standing on enemies heads with out taking injury earlier than chucking them too. In lieu of the bros, you’ll take management of Pelle Lok and Mama Lok, a topless beefcake and a scarfed babushka respectively. United by their love of throwing recent produce, you’ll take the duo by way of a gauntlet of platforming goodness.
You’ll be confronted with playful new methods to muck round from degree to degree (16 to be precise) resembling springy spiderwebs that’ll bounce something despatched their method, or cannons able to launch an onion at breakneck pace. And the bosses are the place the mechanics get further spicy – however I gained’t spoil something.
That mentioned, I do want the throw-and-ride concept was pushed slightly additional – past the boss battles and one explicit tank part, the the gameplay doesn’t appear to have advanced a lot since we noticed Mario doing one thing comparable within the late eighties.
Whereas I’m rambling I additionally had some points with the checkpoint system. There doesn’t appear to be any clear indication as to when or the place checkpoints lie and a dying can come fairly shortly (and cheaply) in a few of the later ranges. And this wouldn’t be a lot of a problem if there have been a couple of extra well being pickups or the controls have been slightly tighter. However you can additionally chalk this all as much as the allure of a indie throwback title calling again to problem of the NES period.
Onion Assault is brief however candy, with a few onion-induced tears. All in all, it’s a decently stable platformer that makes an attempt to recreate an typically ignored a part of the moustachioed man’s historical past and for that you need to give it props!
Score: 3.5/5
