Nowadays, there is always a feeling of discrepancy between modern retro games and their original sources of inspiration. Old games are always rumored to be the best and most creative creations ever conceived, but when you actually sit down and try see what was all the rage about, you will find a great difficulty in enjoying them, particularly because of the hardware limitations at the time, and that’s why games like Cyber Shadow has to exist.
VGChartz's Craig Snow: "My version of this article last year was fairly well-received, so I decided to revive the concept. Hopefully this article gives the eight titles I felt were most under-played relative to their acclaim in 2021 just a little bit more publicity."
The Artful Escape was great! I checked it out on Gamepass and loved every minute! That was trippy as hell and a totally unexpected thrill ride. I highly recommend that one!
One of favourites last year was "lost in random"
Totally went unnoticed yet a gem of a game.
Tim Burton style visuals, fantastic characters, interesting story, fantastic game play mechanics with real time and turn based dice mechanics also quite a challenge with some bosses.
I did play the Artful Escape though. But I agree, the rest of those titles were never even on my radar.
Wildermyth deserves a spot. so fucking entertaining and gets better the more you play it.
VGChartz's Christian Evans: "Ever since Nintendo released Donkey Kong all the way back in 1981, the 2D, and later 3D, platform game has oft been the staple genre of choice for tentpole releases, while also birthing many major gaming mascots along the way. No longer just about hitting your jump point, the platformer fosters all kinds of weird and wonderful mechanics & styles, always seeming to cultivate creativity in design, and pushing the boundaries of what has come before. 2021 was no different, and was indeed a very good year for platformers of all types."
Good choice, PN2 was clearly the best platformer of last year. It Takes Two is a close second though, the fact that it has couch coop is awesome.
Psychonauts is definitely mine, but all of the obvious ones pretty much stand toe to toe in quality.
I've played better 2d platformers than Cyber Shadow over the last couple of years, and didn't feel the need to get too far into it.
Digital Foundry : As an incredible 2021 reaches its conclusion, the Digital Foundry team present their favorite games of the year. Kicking off with an exhaustive list of modern, retro and retro-modern titles, it's none other than John Linneman!
Some good games on his personal list. I really need to get Returnal. I hear so many good things about it. Psychonauts 2 is such a great game, I only wish it had a physical release. But like cuphead... I have to settle for digital (for now at least)