Dark Fear Review | Hardcore Droid
It is no secret that indie devs love them some retro throwbacks. Whether it’s for budget or time reasons, the simplicity of design that such an art style invites, or just good old-fashioned nostalgia, the quality of such titles fluctuate like a wavy MODE-7 intro screen. I blame Cave Story -if you could call it blame– and it’s popularity for the glut of subsequent and similar titles, but from Cave Story onwards the focus has almost always been on emulating classic Nintendo consoles, usually the NES. Rarely do you see a modern game even attempt the feel of an old-school PC game, despite its storied and parallel history to the aforementioned consoles. Enter Arif Games’ Dark Fear, a love letter to those who whittled their childhoods away wrestling with command prompts and switching floppies more than they were actually playing them.
