Noitu Love 2: Devolution Demo

Noitu Love 2: Devolution is a retro arcade 2D platformer made by a single developer that follows an insane story and features great visuals.

As the name suggests, Noitu Love 2: Devolution is the second part of a series, but don’t feel bad if you haven’t played the first part. It wasn’t all that known, and this iteration is much better than the first one. It’s not the kind of game that requires any previous knowledge, and it’s easy enough to be picked up by anyone, even if they are not familiar with the genre.

Games like Noitu Love 2: Devolution have their own universe and storyline that don’t make any sense. Don’t try to understand what’s happening, just go along with it. If you like it enough, you’re going to care what’s what, and you will start reading about the main character and its struggles. Until then you’re just a passenger on a wild ride, and you can only witness what’s happening, without any idea about the concept.

Players get to control Noitu Love, some kind of ninja boy (?!) as he progresses through the levels, battling hordes of Darns, which are some weird creatures. Anything being this point in the story means that you have played long enough to care.

The most interesting aspect of the game is the control scheme, which relies on the mouse and keyboard, which is rather unusual for this type of titles. You control the main character with the WASD keys, and you aim with the mouse. In fact, the mouse aiming is crucial since Noitu can jump from one character to another, only by using the mouse.

The mouse is also used to grapple to various parts of the levels and even in boss battles, so it’s the most important part of Noitu Love 2: Devolution. The graphics and the animations are spot on, but it would have been nicer to get some bigger resolution version. The current settings are more than annoying.

Also, don’t hope for controller support, because the developer hasn’t implemented any. The demo only features the first level of the game.