Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a "spiritual successor" to the Wonder Boy franchise. It's a cute platformer where you can switch between animal transformations as the situation demands. You can butt-stomp enemies. It's set for release this year, and will be coming to consoles and PC. These are objective facts, as they relate to the video game Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, which I saw at PAX South.
If you're a fan of the Wonder Boy games, then I hope you take some measure of joy in the knowledge that Ryuichi Nishizawa, a member of the original development team, is working on Monster Boy. As somebody who wasn't even alive during the era of the Mega Drive, that information doesn't even begin to scan for me, so I hope I've brightened somebody's day by a fractional amount.
I'm really struggling here, gang. Monster Boy feels like a licensed platformer for a French-Canadian animated series that doesn't exist -- a Flash game for a Spider Riders-style Saturday morning cartoon. It's such a middle-of-the-road experience, a 5/10 on the Destructoid review scale, a completely basic video game that will likely not inspire any strong feelings of emotion in most players. Except while you're playing as the Frog, that is. Swinging around with your tongue is pretty fun.
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