Break out your skateboard
Following on from apreviously spotted ESRB ratingand a recent Amazon leak, ININ Games has officially revealedWonder Boy Collection.According to Amazon, the classic compendium will launch in June of this year on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, priced at £25, though these details are unconfirmed.
Wonder Boy Collectionwill include four titles from the… caveman… knight… genie… shapeshifter’s golden age of gaming. The compendium includes the originalWonder Boy(1986),Wonder Boy in Monster Land(1987),Wonder Boy in Monster World(1991), andMonster World IV(1994). The four titles will be boosted modern features such as visual filters, save states, an art gallery, and a rewind function for that utterly abominable “skidding” mechanic in the original game.
The elephant in the room is that the “Wonder Boy Collection” doesn’t feature the best titles in the series, namely the 1989 Sega Master System releaseWonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trapnor its incredible Dotemu remakeWonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap. Also not included is ININ Games’ ownMonster World IVremakeWonder Boy: Asha in Monster World.Licensing issues aside — as that is surely the problem here — the lack of the best game in the series and two recent remakes renders the “collection” moniker a little underwhelming.
Still, for series completionists, pre-orders will open “soon.”
