If you want to check out some of his other music before Narita Boy releases, try his 2018 album Planets on Spotify. Talent and vision really run in this family. Even more interesting, the composer, Salvador Fornieles aka Salvinsky, is the brother of the guy whose brainchild Narita Boy is, Eduardo Fornieles. It’s up there with the best of Disasterpeace (who did Hyper Light Drifter and Fez). Tense, swelling, orchestrated synthwave of the highest quality, with actual musical skill put into its crafting. If you’ve watched the trailer above, and you are anything like me, you’ll have also noticed that music.
To someone like me, its like a wet dream of fantasy and digital magical realism that feels like the best of the Dark Crystal and Tron. The Trichoma, something to do with the three colours available in the digital realm, is a magical substance made from their combination, like the Force in Star Wars. Old Amiga’s and other tech turn into horses and mechs and giant digital frogs. Other floppies give you power-ups and abilities. You can use a hover-board, Back to the future style, but its made from a floppy disk (the ‘save’ icon for you Gen Zs). The concept takes elements of digital media and then transplants them into a magical realm, imbuing them with magical properties. It’s like the Matrix was made in the eighties. Its got that vibe, that essence to its visuals and world design. Narita boy is a thing of pixel perfect beauty, heavily influenced and probably right up the alley of anyone who loved Hyper Light Drifter, Fez or Sword and Sworcery: Superbrothers. Only you, Narita Boy, are capable of wielding the Trichroma Techno Sword and standing in the way of the Stallions (think digital badasses in robes) and their takeover of both worlds. With the boundaries between the digital and the real world breaking down, the game has become reality. Every kid has one.īut the console seems to also be a portal into the digital realm. It’s the biggest thing to ever hit the eighties. Lionel Pearl, reclusive genius and games designer, has created the Narita One console and the Narita Boy game. The plot is Ready Player One meets the Matrix, with a healthy dose of Dark Crystal, Bandersnatch and Tron. They have been hard at work ever since bringing to life what to me looks like something incredibly unique. Narita Boy, developed by the tiny team at Studio Koba, realised its Kickstarter campaign and made a little extra back in 2017.