It’s ratifying to see the genre resurrected to bring new games to a modern audience, but there are definitely going to be two kinds of players of Game of Watchcraft - the ones who get bored after ten minutes, and those who get bored after ten minutes but go back every few days for a burst of nostalgia.
Add one dose of LCD gaming to a hefty splash of World of Warcraft and this is what we get. Seriously.
FDT writes: I’m probably coming at Game of Watchcraft: Spawn of Squishy from the opposite side to most gamers. I’ve never been grabbed by World Of Warcraft in any real way, but I do love my Game & Watch collection. Game of Watchcraft: Spawn of Squishy captures the core gameplay aesthetic of those classic titles very well indeed, and it’ll appeal more to my crowd, I suspect, than the MMO generation, for whom it’ll seem like a quaint one-note joke.
Touch Arcade - Game of Watchcraft: Spawn of Squishy [$0.99 (HD)] takes only a few minutes to master, but Australian indie developer Clicker stretches that into hours by capitalizing on a retro style and offering minor incentives that encourage players to continue adventuring for as long as they want.
