absolutely incredible how we're nearly 20 years out from cave story and nobody has come even close to matching pixel in the arena of making a retro platformer that feels this good to play. just an absolute joy, trading cave story's more open world for some phenomenal linear level design. the music too, god. nobody makes that shit like pixel does. makes me mad how good he is at this seemingly effortlessly

the special thanks to tyrone rodriguez in the credits really got me too lol