Paul Devlin writes: "In the past number of years, there has been a resurgence of 2D platformers made by independent developers that have injected new life into the genre, and this writer is of the opinion that we are currently witnessing the renaissance of the platformer."
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Earthblade is a 2D fantasy platformer in a seamless pixel art world and is the next release from the Celeste team, well it’s still is but likely will not be released in 2024 as Extremely OK Games’ head Maddy Thorson explains in an official blog post. Earthblade was first announced in April 2021 and then had its first trailer at The Game Awards in 2022. You are Névoa, an enigmatic child of Fate returning at long last to Earth, in this fantasy platformer. Earthblade’s lush pixel art world offers seamless exploration, challenging combat, and countless mysteries to pick apart. Celeste was an amazing game, so we know this will be too, we just will need to wait at least another year.
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Hardly see a lot of 3D indie platformers because of development costs
Ugly 2D games obviously u know shit about games. I expect PlayStation is your only memory. If u have nothing constructive to say don’t bother. Unfortunately there still isn’t enough really decent 2D games that match up to the classics regardless of this article anyway.