Recent reviews by Shimon11

Death Wish has some of the worst, most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss fights in gaming history. Who on the dev team thought these visual cluster♥♥♥♥s were a good idea? The controls aren't tight enough for this kind of thing. When you make a PLATFORMER, it should be about PLATFORMING, not this unplayable garbage.

I can beat every level in Celeste and every boss in Nine Sols, and Snatcher EX is harder than both of those. That's just... wrong. Why would you do something like this?

Stutters like crazy on Linux. (at least I think it's stuttering, it's nasty whatever it is)

Tanky enemies, repetitive stage design, bosses 4 and 5 use impossible patterns. That's all the words I care to write about this junk.

A strange game.
You have tons of options at your disposal, but none of them feel particularly powerful or satisfying (except SDT which takes an eternity to build up). This game (and the series in general) feels like it was made exclusively for making combo videos. Enemies have stupidly inflated health on higher difficulties, not to make them more dangerous, but just so you can style on them for longer. It's the video game equivalent of edging: the goal is to last as long as you can without actually finishing.
It looks cool... but does it FEEL cool? Nope, not at all. Beating up things that take forever to die is so very unsatisfying.

Dodging everything is very obviously impossible. I know arcade games are supposed to be hard, but it is actually humanly possible to beat most of them without any continues, unlike Mirage Feathers.
Also, Overdrive doesn't actually do anything as far as I can tell.

Shovel Knight is one of the slowest, weakest, and most boring characters I've ever played as. The other 3 aren't much better: Plague's bomb jump is unwieldy and he can't attack straight ahead while airborne, Specter's air attack triggers whether you like it or not and can get you killed by accident, and King is the worst of all, having one (1) single move and that's it. I know this game is very NES-styled, but there are similar games with actual fun mechanics. You'd have to be very new to video games to enjoy Shovel Knight.

I also despise the huge amount of knock on hit, the lack of checkpoints in certain segments, and the boss fights.

Cover shooter with regenerating health, bullet sponge enemies, QTEs, unskippable walk-and-talk sections, and a really dumb upgrade system. Boost mechanic is cool, but largely impractical. The boss fights REALLY suck. Most of the guns suck too, the rocket launcher is the only thing that works well for larger enemies.

It's... decent. The way medals work is hateful design, and the final stage is AWFUL (really though, are there any shmups with good final stages?).

Bad idea, terrible execution. There's unavoidable damage everywhere, you can take tons of hits before dying, your ship is really weak and has trouble killing basic enemies, the rotation feels like a gimmick and isn't even that useful, no real practice mode... Not a single thing about the gameplay is good.

You spend more time waiting for MP to regenerate in boss fights than you do actually attacking the bosses. It's boring as hell.
Also, Remilia has two undodgeable attacks (the ones with pink lasers).