When comparing Peppy's Adventure vs Merchant, the Slant community recommends Merchant for most people. In the question“What are the best free games for Android?” Merchant is ranked 2nd while Peppy's Adventure is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Merchant is:
The game has a nice retro pixel art style. From the menus to the dungeons or shop there is a very familiar aesthetic to the overall design that would have fit in quite well on consoles in the 80's.
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Pros
Pro Walkthroughs available for every level
For when a player gets stuck there are walkthrough videos available to watch after 25 tries.
Pro Advertisements can be removed for free
The developer of Peppy's Adventure has provided a way to remove advertisements for free.
Pro Replay value
With 4 different stars that can be found per stage, there is quite a lot of challenge and replayability.
Pro Plenty of levels and stages
With 165 stages scattered across 11 different levels there is quite a lot of content to be had.
Pro Pixel art
The game has a nice retro pixel art style. From the menus to the dungeons or shop there is a very familiar aesthetic to the overall design that would have fit in quite well on consoles in the 80's.
Pro Fun resource management mechanic
The player can sell their loot (gathered from a dungeon) for in game money, to then be spent on needed equipment or can equip their loot to try harder dungeons to get better loot to sell for new equipment. Each action is a gamble and may or may not pay off for the player.
Pro In active development
Merchant is still in a very active development phase, which means there will be plenty of bug fixes and new features and tweaks to the gameplay added.
Pro Dedicated subreddit
Merchant has a dedicated subreddit page where users can discuss the game, strategies and bugs.
Pro Completely free and zero permissions
Merchant is a completely free game that also has zero permissions.
Cons
Con Odd controls
The use of two control pads may be odd to some players.
Con Current version has both ads and in-app purchases
Con Wait times
There are wait times in the game for both crafting and adventuring. This makes it impossible to sit and play for any length of time and makes the user have to come back to the game often in order to make any significant progress.
Con Lag/delay of action
When pressing buttons in the menus there is a noticeable delay until the requested action actually takes place.