![]() In a word, on surface appearances alone Eastward embodies absolute perfection. From its dazzling environments to each one of the character sprites, the designs and animations on display in Eastward are colorful, elaborate, and unique. There’s no other way to put it except to say that I consider Eastward’s old-school visuals to be the consummate representation of anything that one could ever want from pixel art. Aesthetically, Pixpil’s debut sports a lovely, detailed, 16-bit graphical style that makes my inner aficionado for the Super Nintendo’s glory days weep for joy. I want to begin with the game’s best features and these unquestionably involve Eastward’s presentation. Scroll downward to find out! Presentation So, did one of my most anticipated games of 2021 deliver on the hype? I literally could not wait for the chance to play this game on my Switch, and after numerous delays, that day finally arrived on September 16th. This is, after all, how Pixpil themselves described Eastward in their ‘first devlog.’Ģ-D Zelda? Japanese anime from my youth? That was more than enough to precipitate my utter fascination and excitement over Eastward. Likewise, the vibrant pixel art of Eastward was repeatedly said to take inspiration from mid-1990s Japanese anime. Aside from a similar camera perspective, Eastward was billed as sharing Zelda’s DNA in its real-time combat as well as its emphasis on puzzle-solving. ![]() Over the intervening two years, it became all but impossible to excavate information about Eastward without meeting comparisons to The Legend of Zelda, especially the legendary franchise’s top-down, 2-D iterations. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.With a development cycle that took up the better part of half a decade, it wasn’t until Eastward was announced for the Nintendo Switch back in the summer of 2019 that this action-RPG from Pixpil, a small indie studio based in Shanghai, China, and British publisher Chucklefish ( Wargroove, Stardew Valley), completely enraptured my imagination. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. ![]() Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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