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ITT: God tier indie games
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>That soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_x-wHTt7V8
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are there any good indie RPGs?
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>>266365363
I was literally going to press submit.
Man, I wish there were more games as good as this one.
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>>266365027
>inb4 Gone Home shitposting
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>>266365512
tales of the drunken paladin is decent
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>>266365512

Valdis Story: Abyssal City if you count Metriodvania style games
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>>266365674
super poorly optimized. rustles my jimmies
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Legend of Grimrock
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>>266366061
>posting this
>not also posting fortune summoner
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>>266365027
I never expected much out of FP but goddamn that game was great. Good difficulty and all.

carol is best girl
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Why
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>>266365627
I was about to write this.

Cave Story is top tier.
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>>266366280
Sequel never
;_;
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>>266365027

I agree.
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>>266367069

Looks fun.
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Faster Than Light
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Lethal League.
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>>266367230
it was better when it was a flash game
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>>266365512

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden.
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>>266367562

>No relevant update in a year
>Early access
>Release date postponed until forever
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>>266367562
Go back to work Tiy
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I don't know if I would go as far as God Tier, but Binding of Isaac is pretty fun. Good replay value, keeps me playing it. Too bad it fucking crashes all the time. Flash probably wasn't the best choice.
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Cerebella best girl
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>>266365512
Expeditions: Conquistador
Divinity: Original Sin
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>>266365674
VS:AC pisses me off. I hate the platforming and stunlocking bullshit. I gave up at the engineer's palace or whatever. The game is no longer fun at that point.
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>>266368018
God Tier anon not dogshit.
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>>266368143
Wrong Number release date when
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TBOI

even more with Rebirth coming out next month
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>>266366929
>shit indie game
>20$
>less than 10 maps
>online only
>no players
genius!
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>>266365027
Pic unrelated right?
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>>266365153
2weeb4me
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>>266370237

What.
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>>266365153
they do it for free
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>>266369571
Spacechem makes me feel stupid.
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honest question here, but why do people like faster than light? the combat is boring and you spend so much time just looking at bar fillings ups, grinding is rewarded rather than punished, a lot of event are heavily stacked against the player (small chance of success for a small reward vs high chance of losing an important member) and unlike a proper roguelike there is a very small pool of items and random stuff

is it because it let you roleplay your star trek fantasies?
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>>266370397
You and me both buddy
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>>266367069
Ok so it's a good Sonic clone?
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>>266370297
Ignore him, he's retarded.
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>>266370297
maids
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>>266365027
Agreed, anon, agreed
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>>266365809

Is it? It's just been sitting in my library untouched.
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I thought it was a cut above all the other retro platformer games.
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>>266370951

fucken furfag
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banner saga is great
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>>266367216
Miss
Miss Miss
Miss

Oh, look, your hull is breached and your crew is being killed by boarders.

I love that stupid, unfair game.
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>>266371021
it really good but it gets DAMN hard after the third level or so
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>>266371053
>retro nintendo power logo
gotta admit, i love this pic
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>>266371053
Did the boss mode and other promises come out after?
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http://oppressionquest.com/

>10/10 LITERALLY PERFECT GOTY
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>>266371373
not out yet, but they're working on them and it'll be free dlc

also it has over 300 cheat codes, some are pretty ridiculous like making shovel knight (and his hitbox) 8x normal size
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>>266371176
Except the ending comes out of fucking no where. It looked like the game was going to open up and you'd have more choice with your party. Nope.
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For an indie title, Age of Wonders III is meaty and pretty to look at. The early game in Civ where you explore and battle barbarians is one of my favourite parts of that kind of game: it's bigger in AoW3 and persists for longer as you conquer things due to all the independent forces populating the map.

Michiel van den Bos does the soundtrack for it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJwDOIM5iA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxzxWlvDEeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VIaAyGKdyg
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Intrusion 2
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>>266371668
AoW3 isnt indie
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>>266371743
Isn't it a Rehash of a flash game?
Just asking, i'm actually curious.
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>>266371819
Triumph developed the game and published it themselves. That's what an indie game is.
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Agreed OP. Its actually my most played Steam game.
I don't use Steam too terribly much for gaming
I hate multiplayer games

>>266370578
Its not a Sonic clone. It has too much focus on combat to be one.
I also think its better than Sonic

>>266365342
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMhI4A6aUmM
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>>266371470
why do you even care?

games journalism hasn't had any integrity for years, if it bothers you so much just ignore it
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>>266371470
10/10
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>>266371642
yeah the sudden ending was the one downside, but apparently that was only part 1, theres 2 more coming
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>>266371979
>rehash

No its a sequel.
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>>266372352

The hopes of Chapter 2 got Candy Crushed.
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>>266371819
>muh 2D art
>muh pixels
>muh bedroom, basement or garage dev team
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Super Meat Boy
I got the itch to play it again but then remembered all the frustration too.
It's so good yet so infuriating.
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>>266370481
It feels really satisfying after going through so much bullshit, and seeing the boss finally blow up using what you had. Although I only won once, barely destroying it with my last missile, and don't feel like replaying it for the other ships (especially Crystal).

Anyway, Astrebreed is pretty amazing for its price, a shmup, but even then, hacking through enemies and bullets with a sword-wielding mech felt satisfying. From the same group, Fairy Bloom Fresia is all about being a cute fairy going Fist of the North Star on stuff.

One Way Heroics is a good roguelike. Has some "casual" mechanics (item vault for one), although you can just ignore that and beat it with what you start with.
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Dungeons of dredmor
Risk of Rain
Both The adventure of van helsing games
Torchlight II
One way heroics
FTL
Betrayer
Tiny and Big
Grimm
Binding of isaac

i can continue forever, even though, for every good indie game, there are 5 shitty ones
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>>266371668
godly soundtrack, though many wouldn't count AoW3 as indie because it is an old title.
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>>266372531
>implying
http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/17/5624980/king-settles-trademark-disputes-with-the-banner-saga-developer
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>>266372531
>Company of Candy Crash Saga, a game for shitbook and Shitphone making a shitloads of minigames with Saga at the end
>The Banner Saga, a game about vikings'n'shit getting sued by that company because he got "Saga" at the end
>mfw
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so what are some kickstarter games that actually turned out to be good?

all I have is
-FTL
-banner saga
-shovel knight

are there more?
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Hydorah

its like Gradius, and its freeware
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>>266372839

Oh good. It hurt me typing that too.
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>>266365512
This piece of art.

Fresh off the presses (in English).
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>>266372978
Divinity, Wasteland.
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>>266373027
>3x3 bullet
oh god
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>>266372756
AoW3 was released in March of this year. That doesn't make it old by a stretch, not unless you want to discard nearly every other example in this thread (for no good reason because age has nothing to do with 'indie' status either). The expansion pack is even more recent.

>>266372978
I felt I got my money's worth with Strike Suit Zero, even with the non-Strike-Suit missions, and more-so with Infinity, the arcade-game-format spinoff which was nothing but Strike Suit fighting.
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>>266372978
Leisuire Suit Larry remake of his first title
decent game but no hope for remake/sequel becuase even al lowe left after a lot of shit that happened
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>>266369571
Autism: The Game
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>>266373216
its fine, they constantly glow so its pretty easy to spot them from the background
http://youtu.be/okHlHgQC3WQ?t=4m13s
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>No one posted Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae
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Sale figures don't lie.
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>>266373902
I liked it before they introduced hunger.
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>>266373249
i was talking about AoW series in general buddy.
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>>266373902
Minecraft was pretty good before beta 1.8
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>>266373027

damn, was just coming here posting that...

... man what else i can post now

oh yeah, this one is oldie but solid

http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Within+a+Deep+Forest

yeah, i know the author went to do artsy fartsy game but this one is fun, i promise
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>>266367562
I see your Terraria in space and raise you Terraria in moon.
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>>266374160
>I liked it before X
No, that's retarded
The problem with minecraft isn't that they introduced shit that ruined the game, the problem is that Notch failed to deliver on most of his promises and the potential of the game was squandered
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>>266372978
OP's game is a Kickstarter game
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Iji
An Untitled Story
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>>266374498
Have you ever thought the potential was also wasted by shitty updates?
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>>266374498
I only ever played it twice, once before hunger was around (made a tunnel and got bored) and once more after hunger was implemented (made a wooden hut and got bored). Never heard of Notch or any such promises until long after both turns either.
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>>266374498
such as?

I never played minecraft but I just always heard the people who spend hours on it everyday do nothing but complain about it.
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>>266374719
But again, my point is that no feature really "ruined" the game

>>266374876
Basically we were promised a 3D dwarf fortress
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>>266371053
>Knight who can use a multitude of actually useful weapons using a fucking impractical weapon
>Good
No
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>>266374681
>Iji
Holy shit how did I forget about this
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>>266372629
The main character is David Mitchell?
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>>266374498
Minecraft has two problems, both lack of content and updates that ruin the game.

Minecraft is a bad game for its genre, but it's the best game of its genre. It's really easy to make a game that makes Minecraft look like a 5/10 game. It's easy to think it deserves an 8/10, but that's just because all other games suck not because it's good.
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>>266374989
Didn't Notch also say if Minecraft were to be ported to other systems that it would be free if you had the PC version already?
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>>266374994
you gonna dig up treasure piles with a sword?

seems pretty practical to me
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>>266373151
Motherfucking this. The stands don't look like what Araki would make though. Otherwise, gr8 gam
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>>266374394

>terraria-1-3-mobs-weapons(...).pngterraria-1-3-mobs-weapons-and-armor

What the fuck, did they have a leak?
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>>266375130
He didn't say that. He promised ALL future versions of the game to be free for alpha buyers, which basically includes what you said. At least from what I know about. But I'd asume I'd hear it elsewhere if it were true and not from you for the first time.
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>>266365512
Oneshot
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>>266375369
Pretty sure that's all fan stuff. But well, 1.3 does have a shit load of fan contribution, so I wouldn't be surprised of at least something of that came to terraria
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>>266375130
Yes, and in theory we can sue him for that.
Nobody really bothers, though. He pulled that promise very early (when he had less than 15,000 customers).
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>>266375564
1 million people bought Minecraft in Alpha, all those people were promised Minecraft for free. So although that specific promise may only include 15000 people, he also made an extended promise that includes 1 million people. I and many others bought Minecraft under promise of getting every future version for free which he has not delivered on.
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>>266376225
But do you really care about the Xbox version? All the best mod that make the game tolerable are on PC
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Iji is fucking amazing. I loved every second of it.

>>266365180
>>266365363
Aquaria and la-mulana are both great metroidvanias.

>>266371053
Lots of fun. Makes me wish Megaman wasn't dead.

>>266365027
Freedom planet is pretty great; it's a shame almost all of the people who played it are incredibly autistic furfags/sonicfags.
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>>266376642
Motherfucking IJI yo. Loved it.

>FTL
You know it, become the captain of a pixelated ship and explore systems while upgrading, fighting baddies and escaping the enemy fleet

>Binfing of Isaac
Dungeons and monsters. Never know what the next playing attempt will bring.

>Strike Suit Zero/Infinity
Spaceships, spaceships that turn into overpowered mechs. Comfy soundtrack, nice visuals with lost of flare. Refined controls, even with kb/m

>Bastion
Isometric action. Kickass narrating voice. Nice implementation of choices. Challenges and unlocks keep you playing.

>Which
Very short adventure horror by Mike Inel. Nice for a lonely night when you got 30 mins to spare.

>Hotline Miami
Fun, blood, guts, gore, retro. Did I mention it's fucking fun?

>To the Moon
Not a game, but the music is great and the story/characters actually quite interesting.
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Even while still being unfinished, Distance is fantastic
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>>266372725
Holy shit, nobody understands my love for One War Heroics.
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>>266365027
FP was good, but not god-tier.
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>>266380248
Indeed. The quality of the level design was very inconsistent.
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>>266375539
I didn't even know there were new remixes out! UNTZ http://virt.bandcamp.com/album/mighty-switch-force-ost
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>>266375539
fun fact some of the people who worked on mighty switch force went on to make shovel knight
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>>266375539
Switch force 3 fucking when?
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>>266380927

They started working on concepts for another Mighty off-shoot after SF2, but nothing has been said about it since. SatPC's endless delays might have had a part in it.
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>>266374394
>coldsteel
oh boy
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This fucking game man
Touches me in all the right places
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ToN2qjIkk
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>>266371743
It's so short though. The addition of two more bosses and level preceding them would make it just about perfect.
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>>266380517
How do you figure? Seemed pretty consistently well designed to me.
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>>266375539
this!
bought it the other day on wiiu estore its so much fun
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>>266371176
Is the multiplayer banner saga still good?

It was pretty fun last time i played, but unlocking/upgrading characters took ages.

>>266382009
Double dragon neon was really awesome. Skullmageddon was pretty much Betty from kung pow but more menacing.

The only part i didn't like was that boss that was a plataforming secton on a huge tank.
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>>266373027
You're underselling it. I can't get into Gradius at all but I fucking loved Hydorah.
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>>266365027
I want to fuck gashi-gashi
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>>266382887
never really got into the multiplayer so I can't say, but I liked the single player so much that I played through it a bunch of times to get all the achievements

winning on hard without ever losing a battle was pretty intense, this is what the first fucking battle looks like
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