GEMVENTURE: 8-BIT PUZZLE QUEST FOR YOUR NES
Very well spotted by the always reliable Tiny Cartridge: GemVenture, a homebrew NES game by Tom Livak that manages to capture basically all of the underlying spirit of Infinite Interactive’s PuzzleQuest shrunk down to 8-bit form.
There’s no quest, and no real sense of character beyond picking a class for its set of spells, but where I honestly thought I’d give the ROM a quick run and never think about it again, it honestly sucked me in for longer than I’d like to admit.
What it does differently, and perhaps smartly, for its size, is provide both spiked gems to inflict damage on your opponent and heart gems to heal yourself on the same playfield, which, combined with its move-timer, gives a much faster paced push and pull feel to the puzzle battles than the game that inspired it: a true one-more-go-er.
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