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Super Daryl Deluxe

Super Daryl Deluxe

|Indie, Role-playing (RPG)

8.1 /10

Aww Great!

Niche

515 ratings
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Why play it

Super Daryl Deluxe is a 2D action/comedy RPG with a focus on very customizable combat and absurdity. You play as Daryl Whitelaw, a new student at Water Falls High School, a school that has been secretly taken over by a devious self-help author that plans to use the school as a front for an evil brainwashing scheme that will annihilate proper society as we know it. Daryl will struggle to climb the social ladder, save a contraband textbook business, and tutor a princess locked deep in the heart of the school. His exploits will send him through time and worlds unknown where history and fiction mingle and come to life. Utilize dozens of skills to create hundreds of unique four-skill combinations and blast your way through hordes of enemies and bosses, leveling and transforming your combat system as you play. You’ll be the most popular kid in school in no time, and you might even save the world.

Story and worldbuilding

Super Daryl Deluxe follows an orange headband- and bellbottom- wearing adolescent who is forced to spend the height of his awkward teenage years in a new school that has, unfortunately, been taken over by evil self-help authors. His name is Daryl, and he just wants to make friends. What starts out as an innocent effort to help jump-start a young contraband textbook business turns into a dangerous quest through the underbelly of the school (and all of the classroom-based dimensions therein) in the hopes of stopping the Honors Students from brainwashing everyone and offering the world up to the evil authors behind it all.

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Rating momentum

Aww Great!: 8.1/10 across 515 ratings. Word of mouth is strong — if you like the genre, go for it.

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Leans into Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Platform — a quick read on whether that fantasy matches what you usually enjoy.

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Game InformerBrian Shea · 27 Apr, 2018
6/10

Super Daryl Deluxe is a fun, humorous ride that goes all-in on its strange vision. Unfortunately, nondescript quests, unclear objectives, and uneven balance prevent it from becoming anything more

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DestructoidKevin Mersereau · 12 Apr, 2018
7/10

There's so much passion on display here. The two guys who created this were definitely onto something, and I'll be there day one for whatever they cook up next.

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Push SquareSam Brooke · 9 Apr, 2018
4/10

Dan & Gary Games has given the Metroidvania-RPG genre a fair crack of the whip with Super Daryl Deluxe, but its needless amount of monotonous side quests and its floaty, button-mashing combat negates the occasional humorous highlights. There is a good game in here somewhere, but plenty of fat trimming is in order before you can get to it.

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Nintendo LifeLiam Croft · 9 Apr, 2018
8/10

Super Daryl Deluxe is one of the coolest games on Nintendo Switch right now. Its skill-based combat will have you coming back for more as you unlock numerous abilities that change the game, the story will have you laughing with its witty through line, and the visual presentation is a sight to behold thanks to a stylish art style that is sure to please. If you ever need a bit of a pick me up, there's not much better than playing Super Daryl Deluxe on the go.

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Hardcore GamerChris Shive · 9 Apr, 2018
8/10

Super Daryl Deluxe combines solid Metroidvania and RPG mechanics to create a game that would be good based on that criteria alone, but the creators went all out to bring their vision of an extremely absurd high school to life.

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PS3Blog.netTracey · 30 May, 2018
8.5/10

Super Daryl Deluxe has a lot to offer. It's charming and very fun from start to finish, with a weird story that will make you smile along the way.

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Pure NintendoHeath Shusterman-Zimmerman · 21 May, 2018
7/10

Super Daryl Deluxe offers up a humorous story backed by its great amount of customization and exploration. One of my favorite things about the game was that you never knew what twist or turn it was going to take.

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ZTGDJae Lee · 17 May, 2018
7.5/10

Super Daryl Deluxe is difficult game to describe due to its strange narrative and mix-match of gameplay elements. It draws inspiration from many movies and games alike and while it certainly could have used a lot more polish, it's a worthy effort and a promising start to a brand new indie development team.

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Game News PlusUmut Uyurkulak · 7 May, 2018
9/10

Super Daryl Deluxe is the delicious, unique and fun representation of absurdity. For platformer, RPG, metroidvania games fans, this game is a must to have. The game deserves every penny you would spend for it. It is cheap, fun like hell and it has a unique humor. Play it, you will never regret it.

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Chalgyr's Game RoomRichard York · 7 May, 2018
8/10

Remember those weird and awkward days of trying to fit in in high school? Well, they're about to get weirder. And awkwarder. A retro style game about that crazy and scary period of time during high school, you can follow the poster child for weird and dorky, Daryl, as he tries to make sense of his teenage years. Also, dimensional rifts and brainwashing, strange creatures, and super powers.

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