Treasure Hunter Man 2

Far exceeds expectations. Kinda nice metroidvania with the major downside being that it doesn't have a map and so remebering stuff like a small yellow switch on a wall somewhere gets annoying after a while.

1/16 STORY 🔲 No story 🔲 Not main aspect 🔲 Bad story ✅ Average 🔲 Good 🔲 It'll replace your life 2/16 GAMEPLAY 🔲 Lifeless / static 🔲 Poor UI ✅ Average 🔲 Good 🔲 Excellent 3/16 DIFFICULTY 🔲 Playing asleep ✅ Some brain usage 🔲 Easy to learn / Hard to master 🔲 Difficult 🔲 Dark Souls 4/16 GRIND 🔲 Nothing to grind 🔲 Isn't necessary to progress ✅ Only the main item 🔲 Average grind level 🔲 Alot of grinding 🔲 Too much grind 5/16 GAME TIME 🔲 Long enough for a cup of coffee (1min-15min) 🔲 Short (15min-5h) ✅ Average (5h-10h) 🔲 Long (10h-500h) 🔲 Super long (500h+) 🔲 To infinity and beyond (∞) 6/16 Replayability 🔲 None ✅ Once or twice 🔲 It has a few endings 🔲 DAMN! thats some replayability 🔲 Party game! 7/16 MULTIPLAYER ✅ No multiplayer 🔲 Trashy servers 🔲 Some hiccups 🔲 Smooth and pleasant experience 🔲 Co-op 🔲 PvE 8/16 GRAPHICS ✅ Stuck in the last century 🔲 Low Effort 🔲 Average 🔲 Good 🔲 I NUT! 9/16 AUDIO 🔲 Earrape 🔲 Bad ✅ Not too bad 🔲 Good 🔲 Eargasm 10/16 AUDIENCE 🔲 Children (0-5) 🔲 Kids (6-12 🔲 Young teens (13-15) ✅ Old teens (16-19) ✅ Adults (20+) 🔲 Everyone 11/16 PC REQUIREMENTS 🔲 Potato ✅Decent ✅ Good ✅ Rich boi 🔲 > NASA 12/16 PRICE 🔲 …

(I'm updating this review, now that I've replayed it and achieved 100% on it a year since I first beat it. Don't worry, I'll keep it somewhat shorter this time) Treasure Hunter Man 2 is a great sequel to what was a solid first entry, this time with a Game Boy Advance style aesthetic, thanks to the screen resolution and gratuitously rotating sprites. This is a deceptively tricky but mostly fair Metroidvania, that's also short and sweet. You can easily complete this game in the span of 8 hours if you go for 100%. The updated version runs at a consistent 60 FPS compared to the original, which was mostly locked to 30, but would speed up out of nowhere at times. Be forewarned, that the new version doesn't trigger achievements, so if you care about getting them, you'll need to play the original version. Now for the big problem: Even as of this writing, nearing 2025, the updated version is STILL broken and cannot be completed 100%, as it'll only ever tick up to 67% with all treasures in the main game collected. You won't be able to access the postgame as a result.

Beat the game in about 3 hours - probably a couple more hours if you're a completionist ( 6 ish). A really good mini metroidvania. I appreciated the unique colour palette and full remapping of the keybinds which is rare for small indie games. Well worth the price.

Solid indie metroidvania. Much harder than it initially appears but it still feels fair. Already played for an hour and feel good about the price to entertainment value. I might be biased because of love this style of game.

Several hours of decent metroidvania fun, well worth the few bucks! A fairly calming game with simple controls.