Master System remake charms a new generation
DotEmu has announced that LizardCube’s Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap has sold nearly half a million copies since its launch back in 2017 on 🐠PC and consoles. Furthermore, the Sega Master System remake will also be coming to mobi﷽le platforms later this month.
Originally released on the SMS back in 1989, Wonder Boy III is a still-great action RPG which sees the retro hero don various anthropomorphic guises in order to travel the land and defeat a series of evil dragons. It’s a very earlier example of the non-linear exploration style that had been popularised by Metroid on the NES a few years earlier.
The 2017 remake features beautiful hand-drawn graphics, re-♛recorded music, new difficulty settings, and improved interface and the ability to play as the all-new Wonder Girl. Players can also switch between the modern graphics/audio and the classic Sega Master System style at any time with the press of a button. In a neat touch, passwor🧸ds from the original release are still supported.
The mobile port – adapted by Playdigious, will feature optimisation for touch-screen technology, but will include all of the features of the console and PC editions. Launching on iOS and Android devices, customers who pre-register at the Google Play store will receive a 30% discount on the title upon its release, currently scheduled for May 30.
Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trapღ is available now on PS4, PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
Published: May 1, 2019 09:00 am