Mushi Mansion

Simple but charming and genuinely pretty fun. Mushi Mansion is a playful fusion of survival horror and side scrolling beat-em-ups. The focus here is slanted towards the beat-em-up side of things rather than the survival horror, but the general level design and direction is a classic Resident Evil style set up - large mansion with many locked doors and backtracking requiring you to learn the layout, limited resources, and safe rooms where you can have a smoke about all the bugs you've killed in peace in order to save your game - assuming you've got smokes of course. The game runs very smoothly - despite fighting bugs (or Mushi, I guess) the entire time, I didn't run into any that weren't supposed to be there (you know, the game crashing kind). The character controller is nice and responsive, hit boxes are where you'd expect them to be, it all just feels good. It's not a particularly long game, but there's quite a bit of replay value here - unlockable modes, difficulties and costumes and a fairly well defined a ranking system. Once you've beaten the game you'll unlock a sort of remixed mode that shuffles all the key items around and changes the enemy spawns to keep you on your toes…

killing super sized mantis's with a flying knee and some slaps 🥹

It's a charming beat 'em up with a potential for some absolutely wild combos. There's a ton of replay-ability in the sense that there's special items, skins and just difficulty increases to unlock. The tutorial is clear in it's instructions and you can have fun with the attacks (trust me you'll at least giggle) It's not very long, but since you can replay so often I don't think it needs to be. You can also choose just about how long you make your own playthrough because you can be a wimp like me or just go on a killing spree. Definitely recommend, it's polished enough for you to use your intuition!