Super Roboy Steam Charts & Stats

This was the metroidvania equivalent of ballpark nachos for me. If you like "nachos", even a slurry of taco meat and pumped cheese can be enjoyable/fun, but aesthetically and mechanically it's a bit messy. The environments are mostly a spare and uninteresting shadow of Hollow Knight's staid monochromes. The half-cuphead/half-metroid art styles clash with the bullet effects-- though it seems like there's been an effort to upgrade visuals since release. Combine these issues with weak cohesion across the conceptual designs (environment, enemies, hazards, etc) and there's just not much of a sense of place or specific danger while you're exploring. I was never excited to have unlocked a new movement ability. Some of this is personal preference, but the gameplay "runs together" as well. The free aiming let's you be pretty sloppy and you have enough health/damage to sloppily wade through many threats. Nothing feels especially clean. There's a clear power curve and lots of upgrades, but the way you manage them is incremental and "sloppy" too. From enemy placement to boss patterns, everything just feels a little too loose and unpolished. There's some enemies without health bars, objects with behaviors that change depending on what "kind" of room you're in, and mechanics without clear (or any) cues. I do really like the "lock on" targeting, but there's a lot of other mass weighing it down. Do we need all of these dense, multi-step menus? Do soaring orchestral themes make sense here? Does any of it feel "inseparable" from the rest? At the end of the day this is a small team's game and I enjoyed it enough to finish-- I'm able to forgive the shortcomings-- but it [i]does[/i] affect the way it feels and you'll probably notice, especially in comparison to the genre's most beloved titles. Now all that being said, there's an exuberance to small indie projects. That's what ultimately edges it into a reserved "thumbs up" for me. Developers are trying out pet ideas, remixing their inspirations, and being creative with their limitations. The biggest sin for a passion project is being boring, and the game is difficult and new enough to avoid that pitfall (aside from some spongy foes). So if the trailer looks like fun to you and you've got the appetite for it: go ahead, grab a fistful of napkins, and dig in.

Fantastic game! Was hooked immediately. Loads of fun upgrades, nice level design. Perfectly represents what's great about the Metroidvania genre.

A solid metroidvania. I started on normal and it seemed really difficult so I restarted on easy. Enemies, especially bosses, are very spongey. The fact that this game was made by one dude makes it all the more impressive! Grade: B+

nie exploration, tight controls, standard metroidvania skills. I'm not very good at boss fights, but I managed on normal difficulty.

This games exploration is its strong point! Unlocking abilities to assist with finding secrets, looking for hidden walls, trying to find that last floater is extremely enjoyable. 50% done the game currently, but a solid 8.5/10 unless it all falls apart during the last 50% lol