Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons

First let me get the good stuff out of the way: - Faithful to the style of games this is based on - Charming graphical style and music - Easy to pick up and play with a partner Now let's talk about the rest. So this game is kinda hackishly put together and is largely built around fetch quests. A LOT of the game is fetch quests that lead into fetch quests. At first, the premise of a co-operative metroidvania sounds pretty damn cool, until you play long enough to realize how much the co-op aspect feels tacked on last minute to better sell the product. When you find yourself in a position where the player you've chosen is straight up unable to do anything against some bosses while the other player must do all of the work, on top of the design largely reflecting the singleplayer style play where you're able to switch characters on the fly, it dawns you just how much the game isn't really built around co-op at all. As a single-player experience, this game is pretty alright, albeit very tedious. I'd also say it lacks a bit of imagination in that it owns the stock RPG themes and presentation without deviation from those, which might be nice for some who like that theme in itself. The…

Amazing find! This charming retro co-op has a lot of fun to offer. Feels like playing an old SNES game with quality of life updates. Level design is well thought out and progression is paced nicely leading to enjoyable exploration and challenges to master. Still working on beating the game 4 hours in. This genre is a hard hit-or-miss for me, so I was pleasantly surprised by how much I like this one.

It's another metroidvania, this time as classic fantasy that resembles a MSX game. Pretty fun, if not spectacular.

Good game to play with a friend, some things very incredibly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ though so prepare yourself.

This game is a fun 2D Metroidvania where you explore, fight monsters, explore dungeons/mazes, fight bosses and do quests while powering up. Collecting your gear as you level up and increase your max Health after defeating enough foes. The game uses pixel graphics but also run a CRT filter over it (I never checked if it could be turned off). I'm not big on CRT filters personally but the game looked good despite it. The game could be a bit challenging at times, especially the boss fights which was fun for the most part but made some of them annoying, one in particulare that was a slogfest of waiting for it to retreat from its attacks, so you had a chance to quickly attack again only for it to counter on the same floor up to four times. Despite the snake boss the games bosses were very fun. The exploration could be tricky sometimes as well but for the most parts were fairly straight forward and easy to navigate. It did have some annoying enemy placements at times though and some of the dungeons/mazes ruins could be tough to find but was overall fun as well. The controls worked well and I had few issues with them overall. The character switching worked a bit iffy at times b…

Has a very fun local co-op mode. Great sense of exploration and puzzles.