Simple fun. That was what Matt was thinking during his first half hour of Vertical Drop Heroes HD. The art was so-so and he didn’t like a lot of the color choices but it was simple fun, nonetheless. In fact, it was even challenging. Playing in co-op with Kat, they hadn’t once made it past the boss at the end of Level One in their first half an hour, despite it only taking three or four minutes to reach the bottom.
Metal Arcade: JJ Evangelista writes:
I had the wonderful privilege of reviewing Vertical Drop Heroes HD a few months ago, back when it was still being green lit for Steam. Now that Vertical Drop Heroes HD has been voted through and an official Steam release is upon us, the developer has added some additional features to the game’s already huge arsenal. I won’t go into too much detail, since, for the most part, this is the same game (you can read my detailed review of the original release here). However, there are some newly added features that are worthy of note, for better or worse.
Vertical Drop Heroes HD is an action platformer where you play a character with unique skills who must, for reasons unknown, descend down 10 levels defeating enemies who get in your way, including a boss before progressing. "Only 10 levels?" you say? Well Nerdook Productions draws on aspects of an genre as old as PC gaming itself to make those 10 levels feel a lot longer.
Pixels for Breakfast writes: At the start of this year, game developer Nerdook, who is known for creating a multitude of 2D platformers and strategy games for sites such as Kongregate and Newgrounds since 2010, announced that it would be switching its focus from flash games to developing indie games; its first project was to revamp and expand on the original Vertical Drop Heroes (VDH). Give it a try on Kongregate here. The introduction of the word ‘HD’ in the title naturally suggests that the two games share a lot in common, and while this is true to a large extent, the new version differs in that it plays much more like a roguelike platformer with RPG elements and it is no longer tailored as a role-playing platform game.
