We are most certainly amused.
Steampunk wasn’t really a 'thing' back in the heydey of 8-bit video game development, but if it had been, there’s a good chance something like Rock Boshers DX: Director’s Cut would have appeared in glorious cassette or cartridge form. With its Victorian dandies on a space-age adventure for gold and glory, developer Tikipod has given us the kind of silly period sci-fi that would have had H.G. Wells jumping into his time machine posthaste.
Coming from the same studio that gave us Aqua Kitty UDX (look out for plenty of Easter Eggs for said underwater feline scattered across the game), this unusual indie started out as a PlayStation Mobile exclusive before being given the ‘Director’s Cut’ treatment on PC and consoles almost four years ago. It’s even had an outing on PS Vita, so its debut on the semi-handheld Nintendo Switch certainly seems fitting. And while it's yet another port of a game that’s long been lauded elsewhere, its mixture of retro aesthetics, feet-tapping chiptunes and twin-stick shooting shouldn’t be so swiftly dismissed.
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