The Messenger should be here - it’s only half game that was metroidvania. The 8-bit part was pure perfection, for me one of the best boss fights ever done in platformer. +The music +The gameplay +The humor
Mo Astray is a hidden gem, it's more serious than the character design of it's blob like protagonist leads you to believe! I got excited for a sec and thought you were recommending a sequel to it that I didn't know about! Especially because there was a small thing or two that was left open from the lore.......
I recently discovered your channel and I love all your recommendations as it seems we have very similar tastes. But on the flipside, I'm now dreading a notification from you as I know I'm gonna be spending a ton of money and will have to find the time to play these! Keep up the great work 👍
You were pretty spot on with the Eternal Castle, CGA graphics are what they are going for, and it was what most games looked like until EGA was invented around 1984. But even after EGA (and VGA/SVGA in '87), a ton of games still supported CGA graphics options. One of my favorite games from the CGA era was a title called "Alley Cat". Yes, I'm old.
Panzer Paladin looks amazing! Love the mecha combo with your own small character. Mo: Astray looks like silly putty/kirby - can't go wrong with being a "blob creature"! Inmost seems like a pixel-horror style of platform adventure. Great atmosphere of inky blacks and washed out greys. The Eternal Castle has that Another World (Éric Chahi) or Flashback retro graphic fidelity vibe mixed with something else to it. Amazing aesthetic they have cobbled together. Cyber Shadow is just awesome Ninja goodness with that pixel art. Huntdown has that Arcade feel where the machine is throwing enemies at you in hopes you'll mistep and have to quickly shove another coin into the game to get back up blasting enemies into mush again! Katana Zero looks like it has BRAINS as well as raw brawn and so no wonder it's highly rated:
Showing old amazing games like these it's a amazing idea since it shows some good games to people that don't know them..... Or remind some people of games they wanted XD. Keep up with the divercity :D I love it.
Oh..Thanks ♡ I will check them. Now,I already have few neo retro games I didnt finished yet. But,always a pleasute to discover new stuff to keep these nostalgic hype feeling.
I played both Inmost and Mo: Astray. While the gameplay can be difficult, the story is amazing. Both games are recommended for those that seek story-rich games.
M.O Astray is a brilliant game. Freedom Planet is neat too, but the camera was too close to the character and it gave me headaches, had to play it on windowed mode. And yeah, the top 3 are the best, my favorites of the genre, preeety amazing games, speciall Blazing Chrome.
Some games are criminally underrated and often not shown in "best of" lists, even though they are great: Outland, Broforce, Flynn Son of Crimson, Valfaris - check them out, you will have a great time with them!
I think I'd have taken Panzer Paladin out due to that save system and put in Kaze and the Wild Masks, but I guess it didn't really do well enough to appear on such a list.
Did you say Blazing Chrome is Contra Rogue Corps in all but name? You do realise that that game is a twin stick shooter so it's nothing like Blazing Chrome right?
They ruined Hell is Other Demons in a recent patch by allowing you to aim up and down. It was great before that. Now they expect you to aim and move with the same stick and the controls are a nightmare.
@@ClemmyGames Nope doesn’t look like it. I thought the game was really unique forcing you to shoot only left and right (plus head stomps). Second playthrough a year later and they mangled the controls.
@@SheonEver Yep, its really cool but also very difficult, I would say sometimes even Controller-Throwing so. I'm a huge Souls fan so for me this was no dealbreaker.
games i grew up with were 3rd person 3D graphics overall, FPS games, puzzle games, retro games, bird's eye RTS games, mascot games, platformer games, racing, role playing, swords and magic play, logic play like chess and match 4, sport games football, and wrestling, fantasy set ups, card games, the only side srcroller games i ever played were the first sonic games, never played anything by nintendo at all, never played anything from microsoft either, hardest games i ever played weren't even by trashsoft. played a little bit of 2.5D but majority were 3D. so i am really very much indifferent towards pixel arts, and i see no beauty in metrovania games; i never played them, and not interested in them either. never played doom, or quake, never played as a racist american fighting germans in wolfenstien thus my brain is cleaned from the wester propaganda and brain washing. just recently tried out playing unreal tournament. grew up playing many single player games, then started to explore multiplayer games little by little, and every time i tried multiplayer games, i regretted it. tried build your base games the XXXX games eXplore, eXpand, eXploite, and eXterminate. played a few God games, stealth, sims, etc. never have i ever cared for overly inflated and too much famous games. most games i played were shared by word of mouth. and all of them were usually single player as well. so my preference for gaming is very much based on what i am used to.
As far as 2d side scrollers, I'm enjoying Huntdown and starting to get back into Dead Cells after taking a long break from it. I got Ziggurat 2 about a month ago and I've been super addicted to it... Probably the best FPS game I've ever played. Valfaris, both Bloodstained spin offs, Butcher, Death's Gambit, Not a Hero, Skul, Guacamelee 2, Gonner 2, Stryder, Broforce, and Risk of Rain are some of the best out there, and Freedom Planet is at the very top of the list
