Utter mastery of the 2D metroidvania that was entirely worth the wait. No one knows how to pace, animate, and score this genre like Bombservice. Everyone else needs to study up.

Reverie still stands out as the entry with the most character, but this is every bit as tight and refined while boasting some of the most breathtaking pixel art I've ever seen. In the future I'd like to see the team be more narratively ambitious as they started to be in Minoria, but Farewell doesn't feel particularly lacking in that department...it's just that with everything else being near-perfect, this is the one area left to improve upon.