“Breath of Death 7: The Beginning” (“BoD”) is the little Indie RPG that started it all for Zeboyd games – two guys with a weird sense of humor and a love of turn-based, retro-styled games. While Zeboyd has moved on and become an honest-to-God success, now providing the technical knowhow behind Penny Arcade’s ‘On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness’ series (a privilege which once belonged to Hothead Games, everyone starts somewhere, and for Zeboyd is was this game on the Xbox Live Indie Marketplace.
Presentation
“BoD” looks like an NES game from the 8-bit era. Characters on the games variety of tile-based maps are represented by simple sprites with two frames of animation, while enemies in the game’s first-person battles are represented by static images. Th... |
Rating of
4/5 |
