SJ-19 Learns To Love!

Good game

10/10. Wish these guys would make a full length metroidvania. It would be fire.

Short but very sweet little game. Would recommend

It is what it says it is, a short and sweet metroidivania. It didn't do anything particularly earth shattering but I enjoyed it a good amount and am happy with my purchase.

An enjoyable little Micro-vania 95 minutes to 100% Has a proper map. ..Just be sure to go into options to enable autofiring. The first game; Spooky Ghosts Dot Com bounced right off of me 'in part' because it wasn't a single button press to open and close my map. Unlike that one, SJ-19 was smooth to play, and nothing about it felt lacking to a point of annoyance like most other short microvanias. Just a really enjoyable, solid example of this genre.

Another short Metroidvania from Zertuk. Not quite as "mini" as Spooky Ghosts Dot Com, but still nowhere near a sprawling epic. There's also more of a plot focus this time, though progression rarely [i]feels[/i] like the plot is the one forcing you, even if there's definitely more scripted events. There's only two abilities which gate other areas, which might be a bummer for hardcore genre fans, but exploration is rewarding with plenty of additional goodies to find, including a couple quality of life upgrades behind optional bosses. There's even various upgrades which give you choice between two different ones (and can be switched back) to theoretically have different builds, though I do think they're a bit slop sided towards one being clearly more useful than the other (haven't experiments so cannot full confirm, though). Again, it's not the most dense MV world, but nothing feels slapped together: it's even viable to run past a large amount of enemies if you wish rush the levels (sadly no reward for doing so). Boss battles are definitely a highlight, with all of them feeling like there was care put into their design rather than just "big bloke with tons of HP". Things can get slig…