Hey everyone, this'll be sort of a 'goof-ups' pin with additional info: - I mention in the Grimstone review that the angel Leo is looking for his brother; I think it's actually just a friend. A brother in angelic arms perhaps!! - Technically, Grimstone's setting is also called Lone Star, but it's often referred to as Hell in-game, and that allowed for me to make the easy dunk on Texas. - A couple of people have pointed out that in Attactics, grunt columns don't take damage from melee combat, but do from ranged attacks. Another couple of people said that the clip I showed had a grunt not taking damage. Both are true. The grunt in the middle in the clip didn't take damage, but the others did and that's what I was pointing out. I'm of the opinion that the "grunts do not take damage" tip in the game is not very well communicated, because taking damage is taking damage, regardless of it coming from an archer. All they have to do is put 'melee' in that tip and it'll be fine. - It's true that I am being a little uncharitable to Magic Garden; a lot of the true mechanical depth lies in getting the cherry. I maintain that I would have liked for the changing seasons to change SOMETHING other than the aesthetics, like a new enemy type or a hazard or something. I'd also say that the devs have talked on social media that they don't want people to obsess over cherries, so if I'm purely grading Magic Garden on its gold path, I feel it comes up short. They maybe should have designed a more score-oriented gold goal to force players to engage more with the different potion types and racking up chains. - I didn't elaborate in the Miasma Tower section, but that last puzzle to get you into the time capsule room of the basement is very nefarious. The passcode to start the puzzle involves finding the owner of MPI's name and using a first and partial last name to bring up a binary puzzle that represents the UFO 50 'Random'-sorted menu. You then find those games and take the first letters of their EXECUTABLE name (for example, Cyber Owls' executable is "WNST", short for Winston) to come up with the final password. None of the secret solvers have found a way past this room yet, though they're exploring messing with binary code, the UFO letters in the Heart minigame of Campanella 3, etc. Changing the system clock as far as I can tell doesn't open the capsules. This could just be a Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie situation where some stuff will only be there to tease you until they decide to add content in a future patch, or something like that anyway.
No, what it is is that Lonestar has been dragged into Hell. You are literally Cowboys from Hell. Better than being a C.O.W-Boy of Moo Mesa. Also, it turns out the best character in Grimstone is Lee, because he's a Final Fantasy Blue Mage, and that's always awesome to me.
This is the first video I've viewed from your channel. This is top-notch content, and I love the expressivity of your avatar. I hope this video gets a lot of attention and I wish you the best!
I agree with most of the letter grades for these games. And I like how you categorized them and gave mention to similar indie titles. I still can't believe that a package this cheap has so much replay value. No matter how challenging and frustrating a game could get, there's always a perfect opportunity to stop, pick a different game and return after you've cooled off. A crazy achievement for the devs.
one thing about warptank that makes finding secrets easier, is after you beat the game, flowers appear in every stage, hinting at the location of a coffee. it won't directly point out where the secret is, but instead gives you a clue to the general area.
IMO the best part of UFO50 is that I disagree with basically every rating you gave. Like...almost all of them. Because the games are somehow complex enough for people to even have this may different takes. What a collection!
Yeah, I'm loving seeing the disagreements in the comments. Everyone's got their favorites, everyone's got stuff they're passionate about in this game, which I love to see. It really speaks to the success of the game and the individual games therein.
I think you're pretty spot on for all of the games in this collection, but the D on Magic Garden hurts. I think that special sauce you're missing is the potion system and how it interacts with the games hard limit of 200 oppies saved. As a pure, "play till you die" score attack game, Magic Garden would definitely be less than mid. Slowly racking up points as safely as possible until you make a mistake would be suuuuper boring after a while, but realizing you only get 30~ potions during a run really changed how I approach the game. How am I going to use these limited potions to score as many points as possible? How long can I last without clearing the board? What's the most efficient way to keep my multiplier going as long as possible while not just scoring points but also picking up more oppies to fuel my streak. The risk/reward calculations are absolutely mental because beating the game was easy, but getting a high score has made me a certified Magic Garden junkie.
That's a good review! I think going for the cherry in Magic Garden is where a lot of that strategizing is really going to play a role. The gold goal may just be misrepresenting the game's strengths, because that's what I based my review on as I was going through each game.
@@MattJ.Wilson There's a few games where going for the cherry encapsulates a lot more of the game than the gold. Case in point, in Rock On! Island, to perfect each level you need to take no damage, and this makes it so you have to take on a completely different thought process. Until you get the economy set up, it actually turns out that the character is the most powerful turret in the game. This also means you're thinking about the weaknesses of each enemy more, at least until you can get the economy up and running. If one wave is supposed to have a ton of enemies, you have to figure out if a rock, spear, or fire is the best for the job, or whether you'll try to just pump yourself up and hope you can get the economy flowing before too long.
@@nyahnyahson523 But the cherries are just supposed to be bonus challenges. I don't want to be forced into perfection to appreciate a game. I think people obsessive about difficulty and how big their video game cocks are are trying to justify why "actually if you don't get the cherry then you just didn't GET it, man, not like I do", just another way gamers find to feel smugly superior over others. Don't like it, won't support it.
The Sega Master System controller also doesn't have a start or select button. It is obviously inspired by it. You have to press a button on the console for start.
Alright, I've watched through, time for second less pedantic comment. I think the fascinating thing about UFO 50 really is the fact that everyone who I've seen talk about or review it has very different evaluations on most of the games (Save for Combat ants. Lol.). For example I have seen a few people who are REALLY enjoying score-attacking Magic Garden, while other people bounced HARD off of any games that required mapping or memory. So the whole collection really has something for everyone somewhere in it. Also generally very well presented video! Thanks for making it and sharing it : )
1:15:34 not sure if you know but Quibble Race was originally made in 2004 by Derek Yu and an old version can be found on Newgrounds too under his old account called BossQuibble.
The gimmick in attactics is that grunts dont take direct damage in columns, which they don't specify. In the footage you showed, you can see one grunt no-sell a direct attacker, while another dies to an arrow (indirect). It's a bit poorly conveyed, and im sure someone else has already told you, but yeah. Sorry to comment before finishing the video though lol. I'll try and remember to leave a second comment when I'm done.
It says that directly onscreen in the game, but it's not explained well, because it isn't clear whether "columns" means from their perspective (horizontally), or ours (vertically), or how many units count as a column.
16:28 note on the controller: it looks to be a hybrid of a PC Engine controller and a Master System controller and the Master System's controller didn't have start or select buttons, just button 1 and button 2.
My favorite is Rail Heist, man did i had a blast, starting off clumsy goofer, ending up master ninja bringer of death and clever stealth master, and also making a chicken ladder is hilarious and made me win my cherry. Porgy is very close after, and very very weirdly enough, i had fun with combatants... because i found an exploit and cheesed all the game to cherry, and it reminded me my childhood finding an exploit and being proud at showing off and beating the game. Mortol and Mortol 2 were very fun too. Campenella was fun... i'll stop here because i can go on for way too long.
In Grimstone you can find a grave in Fort Jason that reads "R.I.P. Bola 1959-1988", which definitely confirms the reason for her empty cubical and apparition. Great video by the way!
8:44 There’s actually two games identical to this called “Try Die Repeat” and “Life Goes On,” the latter being so similar I can’t imagine they didn’t take inspiration.
1:03:47 MY GOD MAN, THE RABBIT HOLE IS ENDLESS. I thought I'd seen everything the game contains after doing the Miasma game, but it has EVEN MORE STUFF wtf
Oh man, grading Magic Garden so low is such a bad take. It's unbelievably complex, if you aren't playing it for score you are playing it wrong. The potion mechanics are insane once you learn how to use and abuse them. At least go back and try to Cherry it first, might change your mind completely. Otherwise, solid reviews on the other games
Agreed. I played MG for the cherry and as soon as I hit the point threshold I swapped to playing defensively, “don’t die” mode. It immediately became so much simpler and less rewarding.
Excellent and very thorough video. Now, I haven't played this yet because I'm the last person around without a Steam account so I'm waiting/hoping it's coming to Switch, BUT, if that never happens, this alone would get me to cave because I want to try a lot of these. Much of it is very much the kinds of video games I still love most. It's such an ambitious project. I didn't even really know about all the meta lore behind it, it's pretty interesting. Hoping to play sooner rather than later!
I'm sure they're considering other platforms. It's also in beta in Portmaster to work with third-party retro handhelds like Retroid/Anbernic's so that could be an option for people too. And of course it works great on the Steam Deck! But it doesn't scale perfectly when stretched to full, so I use the provided CRT shader to balance the pixels a bit.
honest to god Mortol seems like the kind of game to be referenced in BS, with one of the characters doing a move, dying horribly, then coming back with "well that didn't work"
Loving UFO 50. I'm 60hrs in with a handful of Golds. Still haven't touched alot of the games...but the collection is already great with so many "classics". Nice review!
I'm pretty sure in Grimstone the Doc ability just raises the effectiveness of healing items and they can be used twice even without a character with Doc.
Resolution, color palate, and inputs were part of the design spec that all the games had to follow. One of those was that it was d-pad and two buttons only. That means none of the games have pause or select buttons. You might not like it, but it was part of the limited design requirements that made them rethink how to make the games.
This is an excellent round up of this great collection. I think you've really nailed a lot about what makes each of them special without overstaying your welcome for too long. Also, it is clear that you really know your stuff when it comes to retro gaming.
This might be the best video I’ve seen on UFO 50. This was incredibly in depth look at all the games and the work you put in clearly shows. Really hoping UFO 50 blows up in popularity soon!
I could SWEAR I have played "Quibble Racing" before. Like, the game, as it exists, on my Windows '98 computer, in the early 00's. Exactly as it functions in this game, with the cheating and the training and the sponsoring and the perma-death and even the racing animations. My friend and I played it for a few hours one day and I LOVED it. I very clearly remember the presentation wasn't as good. Graphics way more simple, more of the menus just drop down, I think, none of the players actually had portraits. But even down to the name of the game and the creatures involved, the Quibbles, even how they looked I have VIVID memories of playing it when I was a child.
There was an earlier version of Quibble Race in like 2004 I think? As a Flash game or something. The same goes for Devilition which was previously a Klik & Play game called Demonika. It's neat to see the ancient indie roots they pulled in for this.
@@MattJ.Wilson Ok, it's not just me then. Thank you much, I actually looked into it after I got this response and I.not wrong, they did already exist. Though there WERE player portraits. XD
Your memory does not deceive you! Quibble Race is as old as 1998 as a standalone game made by Derek Yu and Jon Perry. It's probably one of Derek's oldest games ever. According to Jon's twitter there was an even older version for Texas Instruments Calculators that became Quibble Race.
I expected to watch this over the course of a few days, but I was so engaged by it I ended up just powering through it all in one day. You're pretty funny! I think one of my favorite jokes was bemoaning how complex Sword 2 got and longing for the simplistic days of Sword. I don't know why but that really got me in that lightning round minigame segment. One thing I'm surprised you didn't ever mention is the music but that might have just been because it ranges from "that's fine but will get annoying after a while" to "this is stuck in my head for weeks at a time and I can't tell if I'm suffering or delighted". And living up to the UFO 50 theme of "it's insane you're charging such low prices for so much STUFF", you can buy the full OST on Bandcamp for seven freaking dollars. Yeah, some of the songs are five second jingles and most are minute long loops but it is _300+_ catchy little tunes for all your catchy little tune needs. And of course you can just listen to them for free in the browser. One of my favorite things about UFO 50 is it has a few consistent settings, and some of them are unexpected connections. I like Amy a bunch, and she shows up a lot; she's a kid you can pick in Hot Foot, the credits of Party House show that she's the character you're playing as hosting the party (literally just called The Host but it's clearly her), she shows back up in Fist Hell being billed as the Party Queen fittingly enough, and the player character of Night Manor opens the game having left one of Amy's parties angry (apparently, she was "out of line"). This puts Amy in a fun little domestic, urban setting with some dark, supernatural features because the games feature both zombies coming back from the dead and, you know, all the shit going on in Night Manor. Almost every space game is in the same general universe with Alpha being a consistent feature. You're saving a Grimstone town in Devilition and Maria (also in Grimstone) is one of the bandits in Rail Heist. It's so cool to see these recurring characters and themes crop up in other games! Speaking of Grimstone, I've only played little bits of each game so I could get a taste of each one, but Grimstone might be my favorite. You talk about how people might have really need to have grown up on old RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior/Quest to like it, and that's me! I'm that guy! I grew up on all these NES and SNES-era RPGs and I love them jank and grinding and all! The "Western in Hell" setting is so cool to me and such a fun little novelty, and I happened to accidentally pick four of the most interesting characters to me personally for my party! (I missed one character I think is neat but someone else I picked filled their role so I don't feel like I missed out). It's such a neat little "what if Final Fantasy just happened to be cowboys" what if and it really stole my heart the moment I started playing. Some of my other favorites are Camouflage, Party House, Valbrace, and I really _really_ want to like Porgy but it was a tough sell to get into, I did not know which way to go to get any good upgrades so I kinda felt lost. I'm gonna give it another go with a little more guidance because I really want to enjoy it, it's very cute and seems like it could be so much fun if I could just figure out which way to go!
Amazing effort! Gonna be savoring this video for the rest of the day. Btw, my current top 5 are 1. Seaside Drive 2. Vainger 3. Overbold 4. Mini & Max 5. Velgress
I think I mostly agree with the rankings except I'd put Magic Garden higher (though I like the combo system, I think the scoring should be better if killing blue blobs vs rescuing pink ones was better balanced) and Porgy much lower. The already-backtrack-heavy nature of Porgy is further weighed down by its limited amount of items you can equip at any time. In the deepest area, you pretty much always take a flashlight and more efficient fuel add-on, leaving you with just two items to experiment with just like at the start of the game. Even its dash ability needs work. In theory, you have to use it strategically to avoid enemies but in practice, its fuel consumption means that you are afraid to use it during the longer dives which already take you through already-explored areas.
I think a big thing driving the disparity in some people's ratings is their relative tolerance for grinding and backtracking vs "one slip up and you're restarting" style difficulty, since those are the two main methods the devs use to pad out the relatively small amount of content in each game. I'm in the same camp as Matt, in that I don't really mind making a bunch of similar dives to grab one or two upgrades per trip (or screw up and die), but restarting from scratch every time I miss an input is pretty frustrating.
That's kind of the point of the game, though. The game wants you to combo blue slimes to get big scores. The pink blobs are just a means to end the game so you can't just farm blue blobs forever so you're on a time limit. A majority of your score is supposed to come from the blue blobs.
In Attacktics--the 3 soldier in column description is a little misleading. They're immune to physical attacks but they still get hit by ranged attacks (Ninja daggers, archers and I THINK Spearman) Great vid!
46:44 If you're going for the cherry, or even beating all levels, I believe, this strategy is definitely not enough. You need archers and other units that can attack enemies that home in on your character.
Honestly, I'm gonna hold off on this video because I wanna play the good version of Action 52 for myself and see if I can find the little secrets this game apparently has.
I couldn't agree more about Mortol. It's such a beautifully simple concept, I'm surprised we haven't seen it in any other games. At least none that I'm aware of.
I'm not trying to say you're wrong -- these are all opinions after all, but I don't believe you were playing Magic Garden as intended... or actually you were, which is wrong. Magic Garden is a classic arcade high score game. While you can save all your blobby friends to technically complete the game, the real goal is to turn your friends into enemies so you can defeat them for higher and higher scores! The risk/reward balance and very well thought out point multiplier really makes this game special. I know high score games aren't everyone's cup of tea, but Magic Garden is masterfully done and I feel is a solid B+ game.
I love your review (and also UFO50, but that goes without saying). My favorite game in the collection is probably Party House, but Campanella 2 is a close second. I actually like the whole Campanella series quite a lot. The controls take some time to get used to, but after that, it feels great to play (to me at least). And I actually found Combatants (which almost everyone seems to hate) pretty fun to play in mutiplayer, when both sides are on equal footing. But it would have certainly benefited from being a little faster. I don't mind the lack of minimaps in most of the games, since I find memorization of space layouts quite fun, but I agree that a lot of the games would have benefited from an options menu and it wouldn't break the immersion at all (when hyper contender can have options, why not for example combatants?)
Terrific video! Loved the enthusiasm, and I always find it really cool which games people love and which people don’t is so different person to person.
I was on the fence about this, but the meta narrative aspects of this have aold me. That is absolutely my shit. Plus the games look pretty fun. I'll probably pick it up this week.
Divers was one of the first games I beat and also one of my favorites in the collection so I'm really happy to see someone else actually enjoy it since most of the people I know hated it or just found it boring (fair). I love the atmosphere and how the game gives you literally no help, which you can say about a lot of the games, but this one felt especially jarring to be thrown into. Another thing that wasn't mentioned in the video cause I don't think it matters too much when it comes to reviewing these but Divers ALSO being a part of the Barbuta lore (or at least I'm pretty sure it is maybe somebody can correct me) makes me so happy. I find it really cute that the 3 most polarizing games are vaguely a part of the same world. Also it definitely is annoying to run into a lvl 1 eel when you're just trying to go back to camp, but as i got deeper and deeper I ended up kinda liking that aspect? It ends up becoming a challenge in itself to avoid the enemies which you can do pretty easily once you learn some of their movement patterns. I didn't even know you could avoid piranhas by keeping them in the dark until I was in the final area. But as you go deeper the enemies obviously get stronger so avoiding them becomes even more necessary. While it's not the most challenging thing to just avoid most enemies I still like the thrill of running away and avoiding overworld enemies altogether while you're sitting at low health or durability or even when you're trying to go deeper and you don't wanna waste as few resources getting to your destination. Anyways I just hope you end up having just as good of a time with Divers cause this world needs more 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗘𝗡𝗝𝗢𝗬𝗘𝗥𝗦™
yea, possibly barbuta-connected but also post-apocalyptic themes seem to carry through a lot of the games in the collection as well. wouldn't be surprised if it connected to mortol in some way. for now i'm just going for the gold but the cherry stuff sounds interesting to seek out so i might do both for Divers.
The collections games have way more in common with the history and design of the MSX than the NES. Ufosofts history mirrors many classic pc developers and the actual mock console in game is a computer.
I think it's an amalgamation of a lot of things. In an interview, several devs pointed to various sources of inspiration, primarily computers and consoles they didn't own. One of the six did in fact list the NES as their primary inspo, but yeah, definitely MSX, or pre-Macintosh Apple, or the Amstrad CPC, are touchstones as well. I also think the Turbografx 16 plays a bit of inspiration as well, from the sound chip to the lesser restrictions on color palette, and the general sprite and font sizes.
YOU CAN MOVE BACK AND FORTH IN NINPEK!? I thought it was just an autorunner. that would have saved me so much trouble to know also a D to Magic Garden is criminal. (I absolutely understand your gripes with it, I just find the gameplay really fun and satisfying; because of its simplicity more than in spite of it. Really easy to just pick up and play for a couple minutes whenever)
love the video, just wanted to clear up the Attactics grunt confusion: they don't take -melee- damage standing shoulder to shoulder in a column of 3 or more. they do take damage from arrows and ninja stars, but fellow grunts, spear guys, knight guys, shield guys, etc, they will be impervious from harm against them
oops, I put two dashes for emphasis, I leave comments so rarely I didn't know that would do a strike through. pretend that was bolded or italicized or something
makes sense! several of them started out with Klik & Play/The Games Factory back in the day. I think Derek Yu once worked on Eternal Daughter which in 2004 was sort of the gold standard of indie games before the industry got huge
also now i finished the video, so I'll say that my favorite games personally (having dusted off about 45 of them at the moment) are Overbold, Camouflage, Pingolf, and Rock On Island
I said aloud “Campanella was my favorite game how dare you” when you said that you would be hard pressed to see it being alternative universe Mario. Then you followed it up with “I’d be surprised if this was anyone’s favorite”. The ship feels so good to control! I love how snappy it feels and the levels and bosses (except last) are great!
What's the game in the background of the... uh, user profile pic portions of the narration? The one with the pigs and the Chung King van? Looks like something from Street Fighter.
Yeah, I just learned that yesterday. It does help to know that, although it also makes me think that this might encourage farming enemies, since they infinitely respawn. I'd have to go back to it and see how it affects my play with that knowledge.
Although I feel like my purchase was well worth it an I've enjoyed my time with the games, every single one of them has this ONE thing in them that infuriates the fuck out of me.
Ahhhh okay, that makes more sense. I feel like the tip in-game is not worded the best. But certainly games of the 80s would sometimes have that problem! (ie Simon's Quest)
Also it means actual vertical columns on the screen (meaning the grunts are side by side), rather than military “columns” (ie advancing in a single file). The onscreen tip could definitely have been phrased better! Look for them to change expression when they get correctly lined up.
this was a fantastic video!! id seen a bit of gameplay beforehand but this was great at covering everyhing with getting too spoiler-y. the shoot em up where you play as a bunny looks super fun and grimstone looks rad! ....also, obviously not the point of the video but i agree about totk lol also also, "finally a game for asexuals!" got a big laugh out of me :D
I beat it myself too, I eventually knuckled down. Boy is it stressful though! Although I will say, all three Campanella games have pretty easy final bosses; they have pretty basic patterns and aren't super aggressive. So it was always a relief to get there and be like "oh okay this is a victory lap". Of course, Campanella 2 has you do the escape sequence too but thankfully I got through that with plenty of time to spare as well. IDK what I would've done if I failed there.
@@MattJ.Wilson i really just kinda love how weird and strange it is like before everything was like it's before the series was canonized, it's just a little Ufo smacking cookies and getting coffee. And i do love the rush of the final levels with a slow waltz too end off the game.
@@MattJ.WilsonI think your score for Campanella 1 is a bit criminal lol, it’s definitely one of my favorites of the collection. But I agree with you greatly with Campanella 2, easily the most frustrating game I’ve played so far and I say that as someone with 300 hours in the spelunky franchise alone let alone the other rouge lites I’ve played. No rougelites random generation has ever messed with me more than Campanella 2s.
It's funny you say that because... I talked about how some people might find Onion Delivery easier than I did (I think it's brutal). When I talked about Avianos a couple of people I knew mentioned that they finished it pretty quickly. One person said they cherried it in an hour and a half!!! Maybe it depends on how proficient you are in certain genres to begin with? Like I'm not very good at shmups so I of course think Star Waspir and Caramel Caramel are very hard, but someone who is used to bullet hells and 1ccing Raiden games or whatever, might find those games to be a cakewalk.
Hey everyone, this'll be sort of a 'goof-ups' pin with additional info:
- I mention in the Grimstone review that the angel Leo is looking for his brother; I think it's actually just a friend. A brother in angelic arms perhaps!!
- Technically, Grimstone's setting is also called Lone Star, but it's often referred to as Hell in-game, and that allowed for me to make the easy dunk on Texas.
- A couple of people have pointed out that in Attactics, grunt columns don't take damage from melee combat, but do from ranged attacks. Another couple of people said that the clip I showed had a grunt not taking damage. Both are true. The grunt in the middle in the clip didn't take damage, but the others did and that's what I was pointing out. I'm of the opinion that the "grunts do not take damage" tip in the game is not very well communicated, because taking damage is taking damage, regardless of it coming from an archer. All they have to do is put 'melee' in that tip and it'll be fine.
- It's true that I am being a little uncharitable to Magic Garden; a lot of the true mechanical depth lies in getting the cherry. I maintain that I would have liked for the changing seasons to change SOMETHING other than the aesthetics, like a new enemy type or a hazard or something. I'd also say that the devs have talked on social media that they don't want people to obsess over cherries, so if I'm purely grading Magic Garden on its gold path, I feel it comes up short. They maybe should have designed a more score-oriented gold goal to force players to engage more with the different potion types and racking up chains.
- I didn't elaborate in the Miasma Tower section, but that last puzzle to get you into the time capsule room of the basement is very nefarious. The passcode to start the puzzle involves finding the owner of MPI's name and using a first and partial last name to bring up a binary puzzle that represents the UFO 50 'Random'-sorted menu. You then find those games and take the first letters of their EXECUTABLE name (for example, Cyber Owls' executable is "WNST", short for Winston) to come up with the final password. None of the secret solvers have found a way past this room yet, though they're exploring messing with binary code, the UFO letters in the Heart minigame of Campanella 3, etc. Changing the system clock as far as I can tell doesn't open the capsules. This could just be a Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie situation where some stuff will only be there to tease you until they decide to add content in a future patch, or something like that anyway.
No, what it is is that Lonestar has been dragged into Hell. You are literally Cowboys from Hell. Better than being a C.O.W-Boy of Moo Mesa. Also, it turns out the best character in Grimstone is Lee, because he's a Final Fantasy Blue Mage, and that's always awesome to me.
You also said "They very much do take damage" but show a video of a Grunt not taking damage from the Cavalry guy
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This is the first video I've viewed from your channel. This is top-notch content, and I love the expressivity of your avatar.
I hope this video gets a lot of attention and I wish you the best!
I agree with most of the letter grades for these games. And I like how you categorized them and gave mention to similar indie titles. I still can't believe that a package this cheap has so much replay value. No matter how challenging and frustrating a game could get, there's always a perfect opportunity to stop, pick a different game and return after you've cooled off. A crazy achievement for the devs.
one thing about warptank that makes finding secrets easier, is after you beat the game, flowers appear in every stage, hinting at the location of a coffee. it won't directly point out where the secret is, but instead gives you a clue to the general area.
oh that's cool! that'll definitely be helpful
IMO the best part of UFO50 is that I disagree with basically every rating you gave. Like...almost all of them. Because the games are somehow complex enough for people to even have this may different takes. What a collection!
Yeah, I'm loving seeing the disagreements in the comments. Everyone's got their favorites, everyone's got stuff they're passionate about in this game, which I love to see. It really speaks to the success of the game and the individual games therein.
Onion Delivery gets an extra point for just how much fun it is to look at the protagonist in the top left.
I think you're pretty spot on for all of the games in this collection, but the D on Magic Garden hurts. I think that special sauce you're missing is the potion system and how it interacts with the games hard limit of 200 oppies saved.
As a pure, "play till you die" score attack game, Magic Garden would definitely be less than mid. Slowly racking up points as safely as possible until you make a mistake would be suuuuper boring after a while, but realizing you only get 30~ potions during a run really changed how I approach the game.
How am I going to use these limited potions to score as many points as possible? How long can I last without clearing the board? What's the most efficient way to keep my multiplier going as long as possible while not just scoring points but also picking up more oppies to fuel my streak.
The risk/reward calculations are absolutely mental because beating the game was easy, but getting a high score has made me a certified Magic Garden junkie.
That's a good review! I think going for the cherry in Magic Garden is where a lot of that strategizing is really going to play a role. The gold goal may just be misrepresenting the game's strengths, because that's what I based my review on as I was going through each game.
@@MattJ.Wilson There's a few games where going for the cherry encapsulates a lot more of the game than the gold.
Case in point, in Rock On! Island, to perfect each level you need to take no damage, and this makes it so you have to take on a completely different thought process. Until you get the economy set up, it actually turns out that the character is the most powerful turret in the game.
This also means you're thinking about the weaknesses of each enemy more, at least until you can get the economy up and running. If one wave is supposed to have a ton of enemies, you have to figure out if a rock, spear, or fire is the best for the job, or whether you'll try to just pump yourself up and hope you can get the economy flowing before too long.
@@nyahnyahson523 But the cherries are just supposed to be bonus challenges. I don't want to be forced into perfection to appreciate a game. I think people obsessive about difficulty and how big their video game cocks are are trying to justify why "actually if you don't get the cherry then you just didn't GET it, man, not like I do", just another way gamers find to feel smugly superior over others. Don't like it, won't support it.
magic garden has an insane skill ceiling and very compelling scoring mechanics behind its unassuming front
C is too low for Waldorf's Journey, chill dream vibes of it are immaculate.
Exactly i never thought of it as a rage game
Absolutely A tier game in both 1 and 2player. Tons of fun
The Sega Master System controller also doesn't have a start or select button. It is obviously inspired by it. You have to press a button on the console for start.
Thought of that immediately
Alright, I've watched through, time for second less pedantic comment.
I think the fascinating thing about UFO 50 really is the fact that everyone who I've seen talk about or review it has very different evaluations on most of the games (Save for Combat ants. Lol.). For example I have seen a few people who are REALLY enjoying score-attacking Magic Garden, while other people bounced HARD off of any games that required mapping or memory. So the whole collection really has something for everyone somewhere in it.
Also generally very well presented video! Thanks for making it and sharing it : )
1:15:34 not sure if you know but Quibble Race was originally made in 2004 by Derek Yu and an old version can be found on Newgrounds too under his old account called BossQuibble.
The gimmick in attactics is that grunts dont take direct damage in columns, which they don't specify. In the footage you showed, you can see one grunt no-sell a direct attacker, while another dies to an arrow (indirect).
It's a bit poorly conveyed, and im sure someone else has already told you, but yeah.
Sorry to comment before finishing the video though lol. I'll try and remember to leave a second comment when I'm done.
It says that directly onscreen in the game, but it's not explained well, because it isn't clear whether "columns" means from their perspective (horizontally), or ours (vertically), or how many units count as a column.
16:28 note on the controller: it looks to be a hybrid of a PC Engine controller and a Master System controller and the Master System's controller didn't have start or select buttons, just button 1 and button 2.
My favorite is Rail Heist, man did i had a blast, starting off clumsy goofer, ending up master ninja bringer of death and clever stealth master, and also making a chicken ladder is hilarious and made me win my cherry. Porgy is very close after, and very very weirdly enough, i had fun with combatants... because i found an exploit and cheesed all the game to cherry, and it reminded me my childhood finding an exploit and being proud at showing off and beating the game. Mortol and Mortol 2 were very fun too. Campenella was fun... i'll stop here because i can go on for way too long.
In Grimstone you can find a grave in Fort Jason that reads "R.I.P. Bola 1959-1988", which definitely confirms the reason for her empty cubical and apparition.
Great video by the way!
"grunts still take damage in columns" while showing a clip of a grunt not taking damage while in a column
Ie* has to be in the middle of a column
8:44 There’s actually two games identical to this called “Try Die Repeat” and “Life Goes On,” the latter being so similar I can’t imagine they didn’t take inspiration.
An epic review for an epic game. Can't believe you even went into the 50 bonus games in Camp3. Great job.
1:03:47 MY GOD MAN, THE RABBIT HOLE IS ENDLESS. I thought I'd seen everything the game contains after doing the Miasma game, but it has EVEN MORE STUFF wtf
Underrated channel. Watching a gamer just talk about a game with this level of knowledge is refreshing.
Oh man, grading Magic Garden so low is such a bad take. It's unbelievably complex, if you aren't playing it for score you are playing it wrong. The potion mechanics are insane once you learn how to use and abuse them. At least go back and try to Cherry it first, might change your mind completely.
Otherwise, solid reviews on the other games
Agreed. I played MG for the cherry and as soon as I hit the point threshold I swapped to playing defensively, “don’t die” mode. It immediately became so much simpler and less rewarding.
Nah. The game is trash. Sorry you disagree. Got my cherry, never playing again.
Excellent and very thorough video. Now, I haven't played this yet because I'm the last person around without a Steam account so I'm waiting/hoping it's coming to Switch, BUT, if that never happens, this alone would get me to cave because I want to try a lot of these. Much of it is very much the kinds of video games I still love most. It's such an ambitious project. I didn't even really know about all the meta lore behind it, it's pretty interesting. Hoping to play sooner rather than later!
I'm sure they're considering other platforms. It's also in beta in Portmaster to work with third-party retro handhelds like Retroid/Anbernic's so that could be an option for people too. And of course it works great on the Steam Deck! But it doesn't scale perfectly when stretched to full, so I use the provided CRT shader to balance the pixels a bit.
Somebody else probably already beat me to this but you can charge your kick in Kick Club and the ball will go through enemies.
honest to god Mortol seems like the kind of game to be referenced in BS, with one of the characters doing a move, dying horribly, then coming back with "well that didn't work"
Loving UFO 50. I'm 60hrs in with a handful of Golds. Still haven't touched alot of the games...but the collection is already great with so many "classics". Nice review!
I'm pretty sure in Grimstone the Doc ability just raises the effectiveness of healing items and they can be used twice even without a character with Doc.
Incorrect!
Resolution, color palate, and inputs were part of the design spec that all the games had to follow. One of those was that it was d-pad and two buttons only. That means none of the games have pause or select buttons. You might not like it, but it was part of the limited design requirements that made them rethink how to make the games.
Ok but why was it limited in the first place?
@@theangryewok3001 to make it coherent
It’s me I love Campanella. There’s something just so satisfying about mastering its movement system and racking up extra lives.
Your call outs to the influences of each game were incredible! Good job on the video.
This is an excellent round up of this great collection. I think you've really nailed a lot about what makes each of them special without overstaying your welcome for too long. Also, it is clear that you really know your stuff when it comes to retro gaming.
This might be the best video I’ve seen on UFO 50. This was incredibly in depth look at all the games and the work you put in clearly shows. Really hoping UFO 50 blows up in popularity soon!
I could SWEAR I have played "Quibble Racing" before. Like, the game, as it exists, on my Windows '98 computer, in the early 00's. Exactly as it functions in this game, with the cheating and the training and the sponsoring and the perma-death and even the racing animations. My friend and I played it for a few hours one day and I LOVED it.
I very clearly remember the presentation wasn't as good. Graphics way more simple, more of the menus just drop down, I think, none of the players actually had portraits. But even down to the name of the game and the creatures involved, the Quibbles, even how they looked I have VIVID memories of playing it when I was a child.
There was an earlier version of Quibble Race in like 2004 I think? As a Flash game or something. The same goes for Devilition which was previously a Klik & Play game called Demonika. It's neat to see the ancient indie roots they pulled in for this.
@@MattJ.Wilson Ok, it's not just me then. Thank you much, I actually looked into it after I got this response and I.not wrong, they did already exist. Though there WERE player portraits. XD
Your memory does not deceive you! Quibble Race is as old as 1998 as a standalone game made by Derek Yu and Jon Perry. It's probably one of Derek's oldest games ever. According to Jon's twitter there was an even older version for Texas Instruments Calculators that became Quibble Race.
I expected to watch this over the course of a few days, but I was so engaged by it I ended up just powering through it all in one day. You're pretty funny! I think one of my favorite jokes was bemoaning how complex Sword 2 got and longing for the simplistic days of Sword. I don't know why but that really got me in that lightning round minigame segment.
One thing I'm surprised you didn't ever mention is the music but that might have just been because it ranges from "that's fine but will get annoying after a while" to "this is stuck in my head for weeks at a time and I can't tell if I'm suffering or delighted". And living up to the UFO 50 theme of "it's insane you're charging such low prices for so much STUFF", you can buy the full OST on Bandcamp for seven freaking dollars. Yeah, some of the songs are five second jingles and most are minute long loops but it is _300+_ catchy little tunes for all your catchy little tune needs. And of course you can just listen to them for free in the browser.
One of my favorite things about UFO 50 is it has a few consistent settings, and some of them are unexpected connections. I like Amy a bunch, and she shows up a lot; she's a kid you can pick in Hot Foot, the credits of Party House show that she's the character you're playing as hosting the party (literally just called The Host but it's clearly her), she shows back up in Fist Hell being billed as the Party Queen fittingly enough, and the player character of Night Manor opens the game having left one of Amy's parties angry (apparently, she was "out of line"). This puts Amy in a fun little domestic, urban setting with some dark, supernatural features because the games feature both zombies coming back from the dead and, you know, all the shit going on in Night Manor. Almost every space game is in the same general universe with Alpha being a consistent feature. You're saving a Grimstone town in Devilition and Maria (also in Grimstone) is one of the bandits in Rail Heist. It's so cool to see these recurring characters and themes crop up in other games!
Speaking of Grimstone, I've only played little bits of each game so I could get a taste of each one, but Grimstone might be my favorite. You talk about how people might have really need to have grown up on old RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior/Quest to like it, and that's me! I'm that guy! I grew up on all these NES and SNES-era RPGs and I love them jank and grinding and all! The "Western in Hell" setting is so cool to me and such a fun little novelty, and I happened to accidentally pick four of the most interesting characters to me personally for my party! (I missed one character I think is neat but someone else I picked filled their role so I don't feel like I missed out). It's such a neat little "what if Final Fantasy just happened to be cowboys" what if and it really stole my heart the moment I started playing. Some of my other favorites are Camouflage, Party House, Valbrace, and I really _really_ want to like Porgy but it was a tough sell to get into, I did not know which way to go to get any good upgrades so I kinda felt lost. I'm gonna give it another go with a little more guidance because I really want to enjoy it, it's very cute and seems like it could be so much fun if I could just figure out which way to go!
Amazing effort! Gonna be savoring this video for the rest of the day.
Btw, my current top 5 are
1. Seaside Drive
2. Vainger
3. Overbold
4. Mini & Max
5. Velgress
Minie & max is my favorite
Avianos team here. And yeah. I bought several friends copies because i was so impressed by UFO 50
I think I mostly agree with the rankings except I'd put Magic Garden higher (though I like the combo system, I think the scoring should be better if killing blue blobs vs rescuing pink ones was better balanced) and Porgy much lower.
The already-backtrack-heavy nature of Porgy is further weighed down by its limited amount of items you can equip at any time. In the deepest area, you pretty much always take a flashlight and more efficient fuel add-on, leaving you with just two items to experiment with just like at the start of the game. Even its dash ability needs work. In theory, you have to use it strategically to avoid enemies but in practice, its fuel consumption means that you are afraid to use it during the longer dives which already take you through already-explored areas.
I think a big thing driving the disparity in some people's ratings is their relative tolerance for grinding and backtracking vs "one slip up and you're restarting" style difficulty, since those are the two main methods the devs use to pad out the relatively small amount of content in each game.
I'm in the same camp as Matt, in that I don't really mind making a bunch of similar dives to grab one or two upgrades per trip (or screw up and die), but restarting from scratch every time I miss an input is pretty frustrating.
That's kind of the point of the game, though. The game wants you to combo blue slimes to get big scores. The pink blobs are just a means to end the game so you can't just farm blue blobs forever so you're on a time limit. A majority of your score is supposed to come from the blue blobs.
In Attacktics--the 3 soldier in column description is a little misleading. They're immune to physical attacks but they still get hit by ranged attacks (Ninja daggers, archers and I THINK Spearman)
Great vid!
46:44 If you're going for the cherry, or even beating all levels, I believe, this strategy is definitely not enough. You need archers and other units that can attack enemies that home in on your character.
Been looking for a video like this thanks maan
Honestly, I'm gonna hold off on this video because I wanna play the good version of Action 52 for myself and see if I can find the little secrets this game apparently has.
I couldn't agree more about Mortol. It's such a beautifully simple concept, I'm surprised we haven't seen it in any other games. At least none that I'm aware of.
I'm not trying to say you're wrong -- these are all opinions after all, but I don't believe you were playing Magic Garden as intended... or actually you were, which is wrong.
Magic Garden is a classic arcade high score game. While you can save all your blobby friends to technically complete the game, the real goal is to turn your friends into enemies so you can defeat them for higher and higher scores! The risk/reward balance and very well thought out point multiplier really makes this game special.
I know high score games aren't everyone's cup of tea, but Magic Garden is masterfully done and I feel is a solid B+ game.
This video has unintentionally introduced me to so many cool games i did not know existed like streets of rage 4
I’m at work and would rather be home playing ufo 50, just grabbed a coffee and settling in for the afternoon. Thanks for the LONG review.
I love your review (and also UFO50, but that goes without saying). My favorite game in the collection is probably Party House, but Campanella 2 is a close second. I actually like the whole Campanella series quite a lot. The controls take some time to get used to, but after that, it feels great to play (to me at least).
And I actually found Combatants (which almost everyone seems to hate) pretty fun to play in mutiplayer, when both sides are on equal footing. But it would have certainly benefited from being a little faster.
I don't mind the lack of minimaps in most of the games, since I find memorization of space layouts quite fun, but I agree that a lot of the games would have benefited from an options menu and it wouldn't break the immersion at all (when hyper contender can have options, why not for example combatants?)
Terrific video! Loved the enthusiasm, and I always find it really cool which games people love and which people don’t is so different person to person.
UFO 50? That's a lot of aliens.
Major props for this top-tier video, UFO 50 deserves all the love it can get. Also, how does one access the microgames in Campanella 3?
Really wish you reviewed them chronologically, learning about all the platforms back to back makes them blend together.
I was on the fence about this, but the meta narrative aspects of this have aold me. That is absolutely my shit. Plus the games look pretty fun. I'll probably pick it up this week.
Campanella is the best one! I can't get enough of it.
Divers gave me flashbacks of the difficult underwater bomb defusing level in TMNT on NES.
Divers was one of the first games I beat and also one of my favorites in the collection so I'm really happy to see someone else actually enjoy it since most of the people I know hated it or just found it boring (fair). I love the atmosphere and how the game gives you literally no help, which you can say about a lot of the games, but this one felt especially jarring to be thrown into.
Another thing that wasn't mentioned in the video cause I don't think it matters too much when it comes to reviewing these but Divers ALSO being a part of the Barbuta lore (or at least I'm pretty sure it is maybe somebody can correct me) makes me so happy. I find it really cute that the 3 most polarizing games are vaguely a part of the same world.
Also it definitely is annoying to run into a lvl 1 eel when you're just trying to go back to camp, but as i got deeper and deeper I ended up kinda liking that aspect? It ends up becoming a challenge in itself to avoid the enemies which you can do pretty easily once you learn some of their movement patterns. I didn't even know you could avoid piranhas by keeping them in the dark until I was in the final area. But as you go deeper the enemies obviously get stronger so avoiding them becomes even more necessary. While it's not the most challenging thing to just avoid most enemies I still like the thrill of running away and avoiding overworld enemies altogether while you're sitting at low health or durability or even when you're trying to go deeper and you don't wanna waste as few resources getting to your destination.
Anyways I just hope you end up having just as good of a time with Divers cause this world needs more 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗘𝗡𝗝𝗢𝗬𝗘𝗥𝗦™
yea, possibly barbuta-connected but also post-apocalyptic themes seem to carry through a lot of the games in the collection as well. wouldn't be surprised if it connected to mortol in some way. for now i'm just going for the gold but the cherry stuff sounds interesting to seek out so i might do both for Divers.
So, what is the best game, and why is it Grimstone?
The collections games have way more in common with the history and design of the MSX than the NES. Ufosofts history mirrors many classic pc developers and the actual mock console in game is a computer.
I think it's an amalgamation of a lot of things. In an interview, several devs pointed to various sources of inspiration, primarily computers and consoles they didn't own. One of the six did in fact list the NES as their primary inspo, but yeah, definitely MSX, or pre-Macintosh Apple, or the Amstrad CPC, are touchstones as well. I also think the Turbografx 16 plays a bit of inspiration as well, from the sound chip to the lesser restrictions on color palette, and the general sprite and font sizes.
@@MattJ.Wilsonand you'd be remissed to ignore its parallels to the pc88 and 98
YOU CAN MOVE BACK AND FORTH IN NINPEK!?
I thought it was just an autorunner. that would have saved me so much trouble to know
also a D to Magic Garden is criminal. (I absolutely understand your gripes with it, I just find the gameplay really fun and satisfying; because of its simplicity more than in spite of it. Really easy to just pick up and play for a couple minutes whenever)
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Thank you for the thorough analyses.
Thank you for making this. I just bought the game/s and haven't really decided where to start until after watching.
love the video, just wanted to clear up the Attactics grunt confusion: they don't take -melee- damage standing shoulder to shoulder in a column of 3 or more. they do take damage from arrows and ninja stars, but fellow grunts, spear guys, knight guys, shield guys, etc, they will be impervious from harm against them
oops, I put two dashes for emphasis, I leave comments so rarely I didn't know that would do a strike through. pretend that was bolded or italicized or something
1:28:26 This was made in Game Maker, actually
makes sense! several of them started out with Klik & Play/The Games Factory back in the day. I think Derek Yu once worked on Eternal Daughter which in 2004 was sort of the gold standard of indie games before the industry got huge
also now i finished the video, so I'll say that my favorite games personally (having dusted off about 45 of them at the moment) are Overbold, Camouflage, Pingolf, and Rock On Island
The Rakshaka main menu screen is a masterpiece!
Its a shame, that they deliberately made the only Rts game bad, on purpose.
6:15 what is this game called I couldn't quite hear what you said 😢
Party House is actually just crack. I want a standalone
Someone already ported the game over to Tabletop Simulator, so you can just run it as a 4 player deckbuilder, it ports surprisingly well
Those few frames of Congo bongo at 1:45:00 traumatized me
I will watch every ufo 50 video this website serves me!
What is the code for Night Manor at 36:16?! My friend has a phobia of mushrooms but still wants to try the game
I think I mentioned it elsewhere, OPEN-CAGE
@KotoCrashThey almost died as a kid thinking they were Bear Grylls or something: just eating random mushrooms in the forest..
Great video :) What's the fighting game background you use behind the cartoon version of yourself? I want to use it as a Zoom background lol
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2!
@@MattJ.Wilson Thank you!
I’m certain I could feel the brush strokes of Bennett Foddy in moon cat
Avianos is basically Scythe.
I said aloud “Campanella was my favorite game how dare you” when you said that you would be hard pressed to see it being alternative universe Mario. Then you followed it up with “I’d be surprised if this was anyone’s favorite”. The ship feels so good to control! I love how snappy it feels and the levels and bosses (except last) are great!
I like the game I just don't love it, but the bosses are cool. The cooking pot one is my favorite.
so in combatants you choose what ants does what and not all classes will follow directions you give for a task.
What's the game in the background of the... uh, user profile pic portions of the narration? The one with the pigs and the Chung King van? Looks like something from Street Fighter.
Nice breakdown of all the games. I'm really interested in it but I'm hoping for a console release since I'm not a big PC gamer.
I can't be the only one who gets reminded of "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin, every time I hear the Mortol song
I'M SO GLAD LA-MULANA AND MAZE OF GALIOUS ARE MENTIONED FOR BARBUTA!!!!
my first guess is the capsules will open in 2034
1:45:02 My first console was also the Colecovision. I even own Congo Bongo :)
You're wrong about the points having no effect in Raksasha: every 5,000 pts, the next downed enemy will spawn a power-up, such as a Bell or Egg.
Yeah, I just learned that yesterday. It does help to know that, although it also makes me think that this might encourage farming enemies, since they infinitely respawn. I'd have to go back to it and see how it affects my play with that knowledge.
The lack of racing games was surprising - there were a ton of nice 8-bit games and no Rad Racer-like felt odd
The sequel will be a Wario Ware DIY game construction kit....fingers crossed.
What about the secret hidden game with the codes? This game is bigger than what we think
I cannot find the hamster cheat in night manor anywhere I need it please!
OPEN-CAGE is the Hamster code!
You didn't give a letter grade to Sword 2, how can we possibly know how you REALLY feel about it?
Although I feel like my purchase was well worth it an I've enjoyed my time with the games, every single one of them has this ONE thing in them that infuriates the fuck out of me.
Lovely video
@16:28 Sega Master System
You can't fly away from your problems, Greg.
Anyone else reminded of the Retro Game Challenge games on DS/3DS?
Me, I love that game and its sequel
from an asexuality I would indeed move heaven and earth to retrieve my sandwich
Probably been tried but has anyone attempted to set their system clock to 2039 to see if that opens up a way to continue the Miasma Tower content?
Attactics grunts don't take melee damage in columns. Ranged damage still gets them.
Ahhhh okay, that makes more sense. I feel like the tip in-game is not worded the best. But certainly games of the 80s would sometimes have that problem! (ie Simon's Quest)
Also it means actual vertical columns on the screen (meaning the grunts are side by side), rather than military “columns” (ie advancing in a single file). The onscreen tip could definitely have been phrased better! Look for them to change expression when they get correctly lined up.
this was a fantastic video!! id seen a bit of gameplay beforehand but this was great at covering everyhing with getting too spoiler-y. the shoot em up where you play as a bunny looks super fun and grimstone looks rad!
....also, obviously not the point of the video but i agree about totk lol
also also, "finally a game for asexuals!" got a big laugh out of me :D
7:39 "Finally, a game for Asexuals"
Or, you know, hungry people.
But mostly for asexuals
@wolvertox311 Doublely so if you are an Asexual hungry person.
This joke got me. Who needs to rescue a person? I'm hungry damn it
fave is the wild west rpg love the music
man i beat Campanella like 2 times, i see why fictional LX tebranded
I beat it myself too, I eventually knuckled down. Boy is it stressful though! Although I will say, all three Campanella games have pretty easy final bosses; they have pretty basic patterns and aren't super aggressive. So it was always a relief to get there and be like "oh okay this is a victory lap". Of course, Campanella 2 has you do the escape sequence too but thankfully I got through that with plenty of time to spare as well. IDK what I would've done if I failed there.
@@MattJ.Wilson i really just kinda love how weird and strange it is like before everything was like it's before the series was canonized, it's just a little Ufo smacking cookies and getting coffee. And i do love the rush of the final levels with a slow waltz too end off the game.
@@MattJ.WilsonI think your score for Campanella 1 is a bit criminal lol, it’s definitely one of my favorites of the collection. But I agree with you greatly with Campanella 2, easily the most frustrating game I’ve played so far and I say that as someone with 300 hours in the spelunky franchise alone let alone the other rouge lites I’ve played. No rougelites random generation has ever messed with me more than Campanella 2s.
I can only assume from your difficulty scores that you haven't yet gotten to the harder levels of Avianos.
It's funny you say that because... I talked about how some people might find Onion Delivery easier than I did (I think it's brutal). When I talked about Avianos a couple of people I knew mentioned that they finished it pretty quickly. One person said they cherried it in an hour and a half!!! Maybe it depends on how proficient you are in certain genres to begin with? Like I'm not very good at shmups so I of course think Star Waspir and Caramel Caramel are very hard, but someone who is used to bullet hells and 1ccing Raiden games or whatever, might find those games to be a cakewalk.
Calling that sandwich a cheeseburger