Xanthiom Zero Reviews

Solid 3+ hour metroidvania experience.

This game gets a hearty recommendation from me. A solid and challenging metroidvania that leans more towards older metroid games, and I love it all the more for it. It's cheap too. Took me 4 hours to reach the end and I don't regret my time spent. One of the most interesting features to me is the ability to customize how your weapon works. Do you prefer range to damage? Do you want your shots to explode and shatter on impact? Perhaps homing shots are your thing. In the end game, my settings had the gun firing long range homing shots that also struck enemies with lightning, and did 3x damage but made my weapon overheat from too much firing. And there's all sorts of possible combinations for you to play with and find, because while there are mundane things to find such as extra energy, extra damage, abilities and upgrades, there's several weapon modifications to find too, which fixes a common complaint with metroid games in particular where most of the pickups you find are just higher missile capacity.