I picked this up since I love retro games and absolutely adore Shovel Knight. I was disappointed. I found the story disjointed and uninteresting. I also dislike the 2 button control scheme when I have other buttons to do actions instead of having to press a direction and the attack button with no option to change it that I could find. I get that they were going for a retro feel but we have newer technology why not utilize the additional buttons. The platforming is challenging and often requires pixel perfect jumps, combat simplistic but varied. The aerial enemies the game constantly throws at you or the sheer amounts of bullets makes me feel like i'm playing R-Type not a platformer and when I died I felt like it was cheap.
