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You can get a physical dose of Game Boy Color horror with the Metamorphosis Collection

Hard to play in the dark, though.

The Game Boy Color wasnā€™t exactly the best platform for horror unless you count, like, Resident Evil Gaiden and Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare. Anyway, nowā€™s a good time to get into some indie Game Boy Color horror, like whatā€™s packed into the Metamorphosis Collection. You can even get a physical cartridge if youā€™re into that sort of thing (I am).

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The three games included are Opossum Country, Decline, and Specimen 134, all by Ben Jelter. Two of these games, Opossum Country and Decline are available already on itch.io, so you can play them right now for free. They were created for game jams. Specimen 134, on the other hand, is a completely new game. Itā€™s also supposedly a lot longer than the other two. However, there is a demo of it that you can try.

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Iā€™ve played Decline and Opossum Country. Theyā€™re creepy short-form adventure titles. Decline is about a police detective on the verge of retirement solving a supernatural mystery. Opossum Country, on the other hand, is about a gig food delivery person riding up to a creepy trailer park full of evasive people.

A lot of development for Nintendoā€™s old handheld platform has been spurred by GB Studio, a development suite that makes creating games on the platform a lot more accessible. Itā€™s pretty neat. Iā€™ve only done a bit of dabbling in it, but it seems pretty intuitive and simple to use. Itā€™s resulted in some interestingly designed games that wouldnā€™t have been marketable during the handheldā€™s life, giving the platform new life.

For Metamorphosis Collection. You can get the digital version for $13.99. But the real fun is with the physical cartridge, which comes with a box, instructions, and a sticker sheet for $59.99. If you order before Halloweā€™en, youā€™ll get a translucent blood-red cartridge instead of the usual smokey black. Either way, itā€™s pretty neat. Iā€™m on the verge of pulling the trigger on a purchase.

Preorders for Metamorphosis Collection are open now, and physical editions will ship later in November.


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