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There’s no doubt that in terms of presentation the game looks great, and has distinctive combat, but in terms of overall design it struggles a bit

This is the case of a game that has a decent enough core set of things in its favor, but that struggles because in an eShop full of solid platformers it fails to shine. One piece of the problem is that while mechanically everything works fine, your moves are limited and not terribly interesting, limiting the ongoing excitement factor. While you do have a meter that you can try to keep up there’s also no very clear and gratifying reward for being successful like you see in something like Super Mombo Quest or hear through the smart utilization of sound. The result is a platformer that plays perfectly well, and provides some challenges, but fails to break free from the crowded middle of the pack of similarly good games that don’t manage to step it up enough to feel great.

Building on the foundation of an already-solid predecessor, Blasphemous 2 soars to new heights of brutality

If you enjoy well-written characters and have been searching for something a bit less run-of-the-mill than your average story-driven experience you can definitely find it here.

Feeling like a mix of Flat Heroes and Just Shapes and Beats, Hyper Shapes keeps it simple but challenging

Right and Down appears to be targeting precisely that space, as its name implies restricting your choices to simply moving right or down at any time as you work to clear the stages of its roguelike fantasy strategy world.