Flea! Reviews

Time is FLEAting, so if you want a NES inspired game look no further. Worth it for the puns alone.

It's listed saying "partial controller support" that is a lie. It doesn't work with a controller even if you map the buttons properly. UPDATE: Now that NESTek is replaced with NESBag upon update, controller inputs on Steam work flawlessly

Well done! Reminds me of Super Meat Boy which is a good thing :) Great that the .rom is included in the Steam version. Thx for your effort! Nice game!

I really enjoyed this game a lot! Its heavily influenced by classic NES games of old. I can definitely see the TMNT style platforming, Kirby's Adventure style music, and the the color palette of early NES games. This game is difficult but it is very fair. There are not dirty tricks. I really recommend picking this game up, its pretty short but very fun!

The game doesnt work at all if you use the "fullscreen" option in the settings, it drops the fps down to 1 fps. This can be slightly worked around by playing in windowed and then right clicking the window and "maximixing" it. The game looks very choppy at times boss fights are weird because they are "auto scrollers" but they also auto scroll your character at the same time, which makes it feel very weird to try and control. Most of the levels are trivially easy except for the occasionally random extremely precise jump. Though the difficulty did start to ramp up around the time I decided to stop playing, it started to become more frustrating than actually challenging. You collect the blood on the screen and it becomes lives. Needless to say by around level 35 I had well over 100 lives so there was no threat of actual game over. There is a "small jump" mechanic which requires a very bizzare single button "press" just before you land. This feels very weird to actually try and pull off. There is no save mechanic that I could find so when I quit the game around stage 35 and relaunched it, it made me start all the way back at the beginning. Though in the pause screen there is an option to "delete save" there is nothing anywhere that indicated I could actually save in the first place and/or load a save. The pixel art and music is decent Apparently the game was designed to be played on an actual NES, which I guess is a neat thing if you are a programmer. But if you are actually looking to buy/play a game I dont know why you would go out of your way to play a game that was purposefully severely handicapped for the sake of being able to play it on a 40 year old console. There is another game called "bouncing hero" on steam that is the exact same concept but with much better execution. That game isn't that great either but I found it enjoyable enough to at least finish unlike this. So I would recommend that game instead.

Very fun game! Super difficult and couldn't put it down. Full of puns and adorable characters that make you want to finish the levels to meet them all.