Welcome to our review of Trouserheart, a quirky hack’n’slash game out now on Nintendo Switch.
Unsheathe your sword and journey through a realm filled with monsters, traps, and treasures! Defeat monster mobs, slay bosses, hoard treasure and upgrade your sword, shield, and armor. Follow your trousers to the world’s end and claim what is rightfully yours! Trouserheart is all about fun, instantly accessible, pick up and play hack’n’slash gameplay with playful art style and humorous tone. The game offers two difficulty levels and even an optional permadeath mode for the bravest of adventurers!
Trouserheart is rather limited in its gameplay, but there is no harm in that! Trouserheart is fun and quick to play. A little easy in the beginning, but more on that later in my review. Most of all, Trouserheart will give you a great time.
Trouserheart is a hack’n’slash game with a screen by screen mechanic, you enter a new screen, you get to own the enemies or they own you. You advance to the next screen and repeat this until you end up fighting the big boss in the end. It sounds incredibly easy but there is so much more to it.
As you progress down the levels, enemies finally get tougher to beat and you end up having harder battles often. No longer will you be hit with a barrage of easy peasy little buggers. Magicians will come at you, enemies from the ground will come at you, bigger and worse bosses will all come at you.
In between rounds of levels, you can level up with the money you amassed in the levels and it will allow you to go for more money, more hearts, more powerful defense or weapons. I opted to always go for more money as that allows for quicker upgrading down the line.
Graphically, Trouserheart looks quite fun. Sporting a cool comical style, it sure has some very nice graphics and the style truly fits the game. The fact you are running around chasing your pants, it brings a funny touch to the game as a whole too.
As the game is pretty easy at first, it might turn you away a little, even try permadeath instead but let me tell you. Trouserheart has a nice and steep difficulty level that needs no tweaking. Before you know it, you will regret having picked that one upgrade over another. Trouserheart is really a lot of fun.
Its sole downside is basically the simplicity in its gameplay. Aside from moving from one screen to the next, it is all just mowing down enemies. Despite the fun I had and the high score I will be giving, I would like to reiterate that I would have loved even more variety myself, but that the game in its current state is perfect just the way it is.
In conclusion, Trouserheart is fun to play, you will advance quickly at first and then get hit with the difficulty spike suddenly forcing you to rethink everything. I even considered restarting completely, just go back in from scratch. That is exactly why this game is a great game and deserves this proper score.
