
Flea is a challenging retro 2D platformer with an intriguing back story.
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Fantastic retro platformer with tons of character!
I absolutely adore new releases on older systems, especially when they are as great as this one. Flea! is a pretty huge game set out over 80 levels (including various, very cool, scrolling boss levels) in which you play as a constantly-jumping flea called Harry who is off to collect bottles of blood to save his people (or *ahem* flea-ple). I’m a big fan of a simple idea done well and Flea! is a textbook example of that principle. The controls in this pixel art, 2D platformer are immediately accessible with left and right controlling the direction of your jumping and a hammering of the A button required to lower the leap-height (a surprisingly satisfying mechanic). This is pretty much all you need to make your way through the 80 challenging stages that make up the game. Accompanied by a chiptune soundtrack that had the same effect on me as the classic Bubble Bobble theme – in that, it’s heavily repeated but never feels repetitive – you start with 21 lives that, in the wrong circumstances can disappear faster than a pint of lager in the hands of Chips Rafferty. You gain lives by collecting blood and handing it over to a rotund flea every few stages, each bottle translates to one extra life and hear my words as I say that you should NOT get cocky when you bank up over a hundred and feel invincible, as one level can easily see thirty or forty chipped off at an alarming rate due to the games fast-paced instant restarts. The balancing of going off-piste to snag a few extra bottles of blood at the risk of having to restart the stage is wonderfully pitched and led to some very, VERY tense moments for me! If you are a fan of single-screen puzzle platformers, then I highly recommend this, It’s a game with really high replay value due to the challenge it presents and I’m clearly going to give it a spin at my next gaming night to see if myself and a group of friends can finally save the flea kingdom and get past the boss of level fifty which put paid to my current run, this is a flea bite I’m happy to have!
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The game doesnt work at all if you use the "fullscreen" option in the settings, it drops the fps down to 1 fps. This can be slightly worked around by playing in windowed and then right clicking the window and "maximixing" it. The game looks very choppy at times boss fights are weird because they are "auto scrollers" but they also auto scroll your character at the same time, which makes it feel very weird to try and control. Most of the levels are trivially easy except for the occasionally random extremely precise jump. Though the difficulty did start to ramp up around the time I decided to stop playing, it started to become more frustrating than actually challenging. You collect the blood on the screen and it becomes lives. Needless to say by around level 35 I had well over 100 lives so there was no threat of actual game over. There is a "small jump" mechanic which requires a very bizzare single button "press" just before you land. This feels very weird to actually try and pull off. There is no save mechanic that I could find so when I quit the game around stage 35 and relaunched it, it made me start all the way back at the beginning. Though in the pause screen there is an option to "delete save" there is nothing anywhere that indicated I could actually save in the first place and/or load a save. The pixel art and music is decent Apparently the game was designed to be played on an actual NES, which I guess is a neat thing if you are a programmer. But if you are actually looking to buy/play a game I dont know why you would go out of your way to play a game that was purposefully severely handicapped for the sake of being able to play it on a 40 year old console. There is another game called "bouncing hero" on steam that is the exact same concept but with much better execution. That game isn't that great either but I found it enjoyable enough to at least finish unlike this. So I would recommend that game instead.
Fun and tough retro platformer but I would say that as I made it. :)
Excellent little game - takes me back to the NES for sure. Great tunes, authentic visuals and some really nice level design - think Super Meat Boy, if you weren't around during the NES era :-)
Very fun puzzle platformer that has you always jumping. Great visuals, music, and a very unique premise. One of the best NES homebrew titles to come out in a long time.
Time is FLEAting, so if you want a NES inspired game look no further. Worth it for the puns alone.
It's listed saying "partial controller support" that is a lie. It doesn't work with a controller even if you map the buttons properly. UPDATE: Now that NESTek is replaced with NESBag upon update, controller inputs on Steam work flawlessly
I once created a Tetris clone for NES, so great job, man!
I really enjoyed this game a lot! Its heavily influenced by classic NES games of old. I can definitely see the TMNT style platforming, Kirby's Adventure style music, and the the color palette of early NES games. This game is difficult but it is very fair. There are not dirty tricks. I really recommend picking this game up, its pretty short but very fun!
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