D+PAD Magazine writes:
Explodemon! is a PSN-exclusive puzzle-platformer that is the result of a seemingly late birthing of the 16 and 8-bit adventures from years’ past that have mostly been left meandering in the pits of nostalgia since the headshot’s rapid growth in popularity. Despite the fact that Curve Stuidos’ long over-due love letter to these games cribs its ideas from seminal franchises like Mega Man and Metroid, it’s easy to forgive its lack of originality by virtue of it simply being a well-made and charming romp that feels as if it was made to pay genuine homage to its inspirations as opposed to haphazardly ripping them off.
Explodemon combines the retro style of 16-bit platform games and Japanese action titles with the upgradable skills, hidden collectables and clever puzzles from more modern titles. Players use Explodemon's self-destructive nature to combat enemies and fly through the air, all the while solving a huge variety of physics-based puzzles.
Joseph Butler-Hartley looks over the release of Explodemon on Steam for Zero1gaming.com
(CriticalIndieGamer) It has been said many times that imitation is the highest form of flattery. Nearly everything from the 20th century thought to be an original idea was derived from some other work. Homages, remakes, tributes all of these words apply to the same thing, the philosophy that originality is dead and everything is a rehash. Charles Caleb Colton is famous for the phrase “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” which brings us to Curve Studios' effort, Explodemon.
