I like this one. A lot of these retro styled games try way too hard for me personally, but this one has decent QoL, classic controls and tileset styles, and doesn't overstay its welcome. Music is on point, and took me around 4-5 hours to complete while collecting all the orbs, forgiving the fact I accidentally left it running for a few hours one day.

My only real gripe is here that given some of the one-way routes, especially mid game before all upgrades etc are collected, some of the warp and save points are WAY too far apart; I hate dying and having to spend 2+ minutes running back to the same location because the movement is pretty slow.

Definitely looking out for the sequel on sale, but having played this through, not sure I could validate paying the extra for the 8-bit editions. Recommend for a nice little metroidvania for sure!

I like this one. A lot of these retro styled games try way too hard for me personally, but this one has decent QoL, classic controls and tileset styles, and doesn't overstay its welcome. Music is on point, and took me around 4-5 hours to complete while collecting all the orbs, forgiving the fact I accidentally left it running for a few hours one day. My only real gripe is here that given some of the one-way routes, especially mid game before all upgrades etc are collected, some of the warp and save points are WAY too far apart; I hate dying and having to spend 2+ minutes running back to the same location because the movement is pretty slow. Definitely looking out for the sequel on sale, but having played this through, not sure I could validate paying the extra for the 8-bit editions. Recommend for a nice little metroidvania for sure!