{"id":10846,"date":"2022-11-30T14:35:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/review-astronite-1-bit-metroidvania-adventuring-with-a-dash-of-dark-souls\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:35:27","slug":"review-astronite-1-bit-metroidvania-adventuring-with-a-dash-of-dark-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/review-astronite-1-bit-metroidvania-adventuring-with-a-dash-of-dark-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Astronite &#8211; 1-Bit Metroidvania Adventuring With A Dash Of Dark Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The full Spectrum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/astronite\">Astronite<\/a> looks like it hails from the ZX Spectrum, and that\u2019s precisely its goal. Touted as a \u201c1-bit Metroidvania\u201d, it\u2019s rendered in stark black and white, with thin line art and all the evocative hallmarks of PC gaming&#8217;s bygone age. It even features little floppy disk icons at its save points and old-style telephones at its teleportation devices, allowing you to hop from one side of the map to the other.<\/p>\n<p>Astronite\u2019s difficulty, too, is another callback to video gaming\u2019s nascent years. A good, solid kind of challenge, it starts digging in as early as the Abandoned Grottoes with a nasty set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_world\">Mario World<\/a>-like stone plungers, spikes, and water to hinder your movement.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/astronite\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Astronite &#8211; 1-Bit Metroidvania Adventuring With A Dash Of Dark Souls<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The full Spectrum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/astronite\">Astronite<\/a> looks like it hails from the ZX Spectrum, and that\u2019s precisely its goal. Touted as a \u201c1-bit Metroidvania\u201d, it\u2019s rendered in stark black and white, with thin line art and all the evocative hallmarks of PC gaming&#8217;s bygone age. It even features little floppy disk icons at its save points and old-style telephones at its teleportation devices, allowing you to hop from one side of the map to the other.<\/p>\n<p>Astronite\u2019s difficulty, too, is another callback to video gaming\u2019s nascent years. A good, solid kind of challenge, it starts digging in as early as the Abandoned Grottoes with a nasty set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_world\">Mario World<\/a>-like stone plungers, spikes, and water to hinder your movement.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/astronite\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}