{"id":20348,"date":"2020-08-05T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20348"},"modified":"2020-07-26T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T12:54:54","slug":"tcheco-in-the-castle-of-lucio-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/tcheco-in-the-castle-of-lucio-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What if WarioWare style games were popular back in the NES days?\u00a0 Then Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio is what you\u2019d get!\u00a0 You play as Tcheco, a man\u2026boy\u2026not sure\u2026who must venture inside the Castle of Lucio which isn\u2019t much like a castle at all.\u00a0 You must travel through single screen rooms quickly figuring out platforming challenges to nab keys and make it to the exit of each area.\u00a0 But each room is weirder than the last!\u00a0 The game has been available on PC for some time now.\u00a0 In fact, five years ago my friend reviewed it for me on Steam!<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 But now you can play it on consoles as well (reviewed on Switch here).<\/p>\n

As Tcheco, you can run and jump and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Each room has obstacles for you to avoid and keys to grab which will open an exit somewhere in the room.\u00a0 Reach the exit to make it to the next level.\u00a0 Sometimes you must simply avoid enemies while other times you may need to solve a quick puzzle.\u00a0 Like kicking a soccer ball to a goal, or timing your movements so you enter a stone head\u2019s mouth to come out its nose as a platform moves by.\u00a0 In other areas you must utilize items like a skateboard or jet boots.\u00a0 Or a helpful spring loaded jet powered poodle (think Rush Coil or Rush Jet from Mega Man).\u00a0 Every so often you must fight a boss, like a giant genie baby who rains fire down on you.\u00a0 You never know what to expect next, and that\u2019s what makes this game fun.<\/p>\n

There are two modes of play.\u00a0 In \u201cClassic\u201d you get an energy bar which goes down with each hit.\u00a0 And when it all runs out, it\u2019s Game Over and you must start from the beginning again.\u00a0 The other mode is \u201cTry Harder.\u201d\u00a0 Here you only get one hit, but you just start over at the last room and can try as many times as you like.\u00a0 Believe it or not, the second mode is easier and you can even continue where you left off.\u00a0 The graphics and sound really make it feel like a long lost 8-bit NES game.<\/p>\n

It could\u2019ve used a few more modes, though.\u00a0 Like maybe one where you can pick from any room you\u2019ve completed and practice it, or a mode that randomizes the rooms so it\u2019s different every time.\u00a0 Play control also doesn\u2019t feel responsive in some areas either.\u00a0 The game is challenging, but has that \u2018just one more try\u2019 feel to it that makes it fun.\u00a0 If you want a weird, NES style game to play, you can\u2019t go wrong with this one.\u00a0 I certainly would\u2019ve rented it back in the day.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 If you get hit by an enemy or obstacle, you just let out a muffled 8-bit scream.\u00a0 The Game Over screen shows Tcheco\u2019s head turn into a cartoony skull, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed, but younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if WarioWare style games were popular back in the NES days?\u00a0 Then Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio is what you\u2019d get!\u00a0 You play as Tcheco, a man\u2026boy\u2026not sure\u2026who must venture inside the Castle of Lucio which isn\u2019t much like a castle at all.\u00a0 You must travel through single screen rooms quickly figuring out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20350,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions\/20350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}