Vattle Giuce is one of those weird little Game Boy games that somehow sticks with you. At first glance, it’s just another pixelated action-strategy thing—until you realize how much thought went into the enemy patterns and level design. You start off with this dinky little character, and within minutes you’re dodging projectiles, baiting enemies into traps, and figuring out which power-ups are actually worth grabbing (hint: the blue one is a scam).

The controls are simple—just a couple buttons—but the game makes you work for every win. Some levels feel impossible until you memorize the enemy spawns, and then suddenly it clicks. And yeah, the graphics are pure 8-bit nostalgia, but there’s something satisfying about how clean and readable everything is, even when the screen gets chaotic.

If you’ve got a soft spot for old-school Game Boy games that don’t hold your hand, this one’s a solid time-waster. Just don’t blame me when you get stuck on that one level with the spinning blades.