After about five and half hours, I finished my first play through. Missed out on a few items, but I'm going to play through the game again later and aim to collect all of the weapons/armour and find any secret rooms that I missed. This was the first time that I've played any Wonder Boy game, and it was pretty enjoyable. I absolutely loved the art style and music! Even though I never played the original, it was still fun to flip between retro and modern from time to time, just to see what a certain scene/setting looked like originally, and how they updated it for the remaster.
There were a lot of moments where I had no idea where to go next, but I eventually figured them out on my own through tons of trial and error backtracking. Any frustrations I had with the enemies were kind of to be expected seeing as what era the game is from. I really took advantage of the range and multiple hits of the boomerang weapon with the minor enemies. Especially near the end when I didn't want to get too close and risk losing any of my hearts. Only thing that really bothered me was how getting hit creates a window of being immobilized, which typically lead to the dragons pushing me across the screen for 10 seconds until they restarted their path.
Anyway, I'm glad that I decided to pick this up on the Switch. I can see myself pulling it out to play during long trips, or when I want to play something casually while watching TV.
