NEO did such a good job of giving you a fresh experience in the Shibuya UG without feeling like a retread. The original is basically impossible to truly experience without a DS or 3DS, but they managed to implement a completely new battle system that still ticks all the check marks in my brain for TWEWY. I loved it.

Super cute lil Super Metroid tribute, highly recommended!

Perfect game, no notes, randomizer available for PC version

A short little metroidvania that was like... a trailer hoax that ended up being a real game that was only available in japanese, on their website, for a limited time. BUT you can find the game and a translation patch on archive.org now!

This was really fun for a while but eventually I just got over it. Might have to revisit it sometime soon.

Pretty good for a game that's been in alpha since 2013. Really big depression game for me.

The best of the Gunvolt series so far. Being able to play as both Gunvolt and Copen give it extra replayability in a true spiritual successor to Mega Man (Mighty No. 9 sucks), made by the team inside Capcom that made Mega Man X+X2 before leaving to start Inti Creates.

Fairly short, but definitely felt like a monster movie from the monster's prospective. Incredibly fun to make that bad boy blob around the place.

2018

Just an absolute masterpiece. The biggest downside is there's very little replay value, unless you wait about 3 years to forget what happened the first time.

This was one of the first times I could play a pixel art game with a modern soundtrack without being pissed off by it (I'm kind of a dork like that). Extremely good gameplay and story. Can't recommend it enough.

I never really figured out how to beat this but I loved it and should go back for more soon.

A very cute little nice game for christmas! My favorite part was the music, the way they mixed melodies from the original Cave Story into holiday music, the overworld screen using percussion samples straight from SMB3, and the music changing after sitting on the overworld for a few minutes which was a nod to the special world levels in SMW.

2018

Okay it's kinda like if Hyper Light Drifter was a horde/wave survival game in modern japan? :slaps roof: you can fit so much fucking Great Soundtrack in this bad boy. Not sure if there's an ending or not, really enjoyed my time with it.

I loved this for a while. A very interesting dungeon crawler, though a bit grindy. Gorgeously detailed art that gets a little ruined by constant slow zooms. A surprisingly engaging story between dungeons.. if you can unlock it. Several characters with unique fighting style and a fatigue system that keeps you from playing the same one over and over. I stopped playing at some point, probably because I picked something else up, but would really like to get back to it.