So many great names missing here! I definitely recommend Children of Morta (same developer of Moonlighter), Dead Cells, Child of Light, Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Megaman 11 and so many more 2D masterpieces…The list would be immense but these games are amazing!
This to me seems like the closest to golden sun which was my favorite game on the advance I miss playing that game sooo much but I want something newer but the same if that makes sense lol
I strongly recommend Astalon: Tears of the Earth and World of Horror. Some other great and underrated and super difficult 2d games are La mulana 1 and 2.
Good list yeah, though interest may vary. Like although i still recommend Chained Echoes for those that like turn-based rpgs i sadly couldn't get far into it despite being an avid fan of them. Story is jarring, exploration is painful until later, gear+crystal system is ass (the devs also know this but refuse to fix it). It has a lot of things going for it but I just couldn't stick with it.
Same here, failed to hook me for some reason and dropped it after 15hrs or so. Same for Sea of Stars. A lot of these indie RPG’s get the aesthetic right but drop the ball when it comes to depth, complexity, or some part of the gameplay loop.
@@PhantasmThe He was just stating a fact, if you think it's more comfortable that's your opinion and besides that's not your real reason you just wanted to be contrary to his comment and it's all you could come up with. Steam decks and android variants exist with some having nearly identical form factors to the switch, and on top of that PCs can plug into a TV with HDMI and even in 2023 the PC recognized the Switch controllers with premade button maps and everything.
@@makokx7063 i played it in japanese with english text. I meant the writing. Simple and efficient storytelling is what octopath traveler is about, the first deliver really simple stories, taking away every non necessary details to keep only what is essential to serve the story. Very charming way to tell a story. The second one, i found that most of these stories didn’t have the same charming feeling, sometimes, the characters made decisions that didn’t serve their own characters. Throné’s story is chaotic, what’s happening doesn’t make sense. There’s too much details to the story and not enougn time to justify every one of them, due to the fact that there’s 7 other stories to tell. I think Partitio story is the one that respect the roots the most, simple, easy to remember. Just an exemple, they introduces this character, hikari, simple character, pretty classic Shonen virtues, selflessness, honesty, never bow before evil, but to make the story happened, they decides to make him back down at the beginning to return later, with some allies. This allow the story to happens, but it does not serve the character, he fights alone against questionnable odds in every other chapters, but couldn’t do it in the first? Nah
I am a super tactical rpg fan but I stopped at triangle strategy demo because of it having wayyyyy too many dialogues. Maybe it is just at the start but it threw me off.
Moonlighter was terrible. I got it the day it came out on PS4. Hyper generic, very rinse and repeat. If you played it for 15 minutes you've experienced everything it has to offer.
Man, I enjoyed the hell out of Moonlighter. Best it twice, may play again someday. Fast, fluid traversal, fun combat, exploration, all tied to a double progression system (character and shop) that kept me hooked throughout. Only wish all this was tied into a wider rpg story with interesting characters, etc., but for what it is (a short indie game with an addictive gameplay loop) it’s one of my favorites.
@@sonofwotan To each their own. I found a negative review that perfectly sums up how I felt about it. "The idea is amazing but it can only carry the game so far. Dungeon crawling for loot to sell and upgrade your own shop etc is a great pitch but the execution is not there. Combat is uninteresting at best, the shop management is shallow and annoying because of the pricing system and just lots of micromanagement and the items themselves don't do anything other than have a price. If one of these things were good it would save the game but it just falls short." It's just go through generic dungeons that are all the same with very basic combat, collect a bunch of shit, sell it to get better weapons that are all the same, rinse and repeat. No real story line, no NPCs worth caring about, I can't remember a single one. "Shallow" perfectly sums it up for me.
@@makokx7063 I hear ya, sometimes games just don’t click with us. AC Valhalla, RDR2 and more recently, BG3 and Metaphor are examples of popular games that I just couldn’t get into. I do think it’s unfair though, to blame the games themselves, as if they lacked something, did something wrong, or fumbled the execution, when all we are really saying is we ourselves didn’t care for it.
@@sonofwotan Yeah, I wanted to love RDR2 and I just couldn't. I restarted about 4 times and could never get more than 10 hours into it. Yet I played things like Bloodstaind probably 5 times over.
@@makokx7063 Good, guess I’m not the only one then. I went through exactly the same process with RDR2. Looking back, I think I know why. I’m a sucker for smooth traversal and a crunchy progression system, and Rockstar games feature the clumsiest movement imaginable and no character progression to speak of, no levels, no skill tree, nothing. Makes it hardly feel like a game at all, at least for those of us who like such things. By the way, thanks for mentioning Bloodstained. Never heard of it, but I’ve been looking for my next game and that one looks badass.
Where big octopus
Exactly why I clicked lol
@@discoh0bbit965same....
Chained Echoes
@@SwitchGameList it ALWAYS Chained Echoes
I was tricked
I recommend Owlboy and Flynn Son of Crimson, both beautiful pixel art games!
Triangle Strategy and Chained Echoes are both underrated gems. Octopath Traveler 2 was also a huge improvement over the original; that says a lot.
nope and nope
So many great names missing here! I definitely recommend Children of Morta (same developer of Moonlighter), Dead Cells, Child of Light, Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Megaman 11 and so many more 2D masterpieces…The list would be immense but these games are amazing!
maybe in part 2 haha, thx for your comment
Strongly recommend Chained Echoes, it probably couldn't have picked a worse release date and was tragically overlooked by many.
This to me seems like the closest to golden sun which was my favorite game on the advance I miss playing that game sooo much but I want something newer but the same if that makes sense lol
Chained Echoes is criminally underrated. What an amazing game, story, art style, music, battle system, etc. Truly a fantastic RPG
❤❤❤ Triangle Strategy y Octopath Traveler ❤❤❤ greetings from 🇦🇷🥇🎼🎷🍺🏎️🐄
Good video, would of liked to see Dead cells on the list though highly recommend!
Yooka laylee is the spiritual sucessor to Banjo-Kazooie.
Yeah, the name alone is a dead giveaway, even though those Rare games all had very similar vibes.
Chained echos NEEDS the physical release date confirmed from first press games .... seriously !!!! Get on it.
I've had mine pre-ordered for 2 years. Never again.
You just reminded me that i pre ordered it 😅
Missing Sea of Stars here....
I strongly recommend Astalon: Tears of the Earth and World of Horror. Some other great and underrated and super difficult 2d games are La mulana 1 and 2.
Cheers. World of Horror sounds like something I must look at. Octopath Traveler 2 looks nice here.
Another good and recend game: Core Keeper.
If you liked Stardew Valley and Terraria you will love it!
My favorites are hyper light drifter and. Resolutiion
chained echoes 10/10
Sea of stars
That's what I was thinking. Not putting Sea of Stars on this list is a crime
I'm surprised neither of the Ori games made the list!
Good list yeah, though interest may vary. Like although i still recommend Chained Echoes for those that like turn-based rpgs i sadly couldn't get far into it despite being an avid fan of them. Story is jarring, exploration is painful until later, gear+crystal system is ass (the devs also know this but refuse to fix it). It has a lot of things going for it but I just couldn't stick with it.
Same here, failed to hook me for some reason and dropped it after 15hrs or so. Same for Sea of Stars. A lot of these indie RPG’s get the aesthetic right but drop the ball when it comes to depth, complexity, or some part of the gameplay loop.
Big octopus or bust!
Nice List! Thank you!
This guy loves to say the word "deep" doesn't he? He described half the games on this list as "deep".
1. Hollow Knight
Where big octopus? Don't use thumbnails that aren't real games. If you did, I'm very offended. I never want to use this TH-cam channel if it's false.
Chained Echoes
You're a big octopus
Crossing Souls
What is the game
of the second 0.7?
You mean 0:07 ? Chained Echoes, that is a good game btw. Combat is ok to decent, depending if you like turn-based, but the story is amazing.
Sorry, but you forgot drova. Please take a look
Thumbnail game?
U can play on pc in normal graphics and resolution
It's more comfortable playing on the Switch
@@PhantasmThe He was just stating a fact, if you think it's more comfortable that's your opinion and besides that's not your real reason you just wanted to be contrary to his comment and it's all you could come up with. Steam decks and android variants exist with some having nearly identical form factors to the switch, and on top of that PCs can plug into a TV with HDMI and even in 2023 the PC recognized the Switch controllers with premade button maps and everything.
@@ix8750 I'm just stating a fact it's more comfortable on the switch, I can load up the game and it's all setup
Basically mobile games.
Celeste is a Masterpiece of a game.
Octopath Traveler 2 is mostly disapointment if you played and love the first one. Narration is not great
I agree with the Octopath Traveler comment. OT2 was boring, couldn't finish it, but the first one was great
I played it in Japanese and it was amazing. By "narration" do you mean the writing or voice acting?
@@makokx7063 i played it in japanese with english text.
I meant the writing.
Simple and efficient storytelling is what octopath traveler is about, the first deliver really simple stories, taking away every non necessary details to keep only what is essential to serve the story. Very charming way to tell a story.
The second one, i found that most of these stories didn’t have the same charming feeling, sometimes, the characters made decisions that didn’t serve their own characters.
Throné’s story is chaotic, what’s happening doesn’t make sense. There’s too much details to the story and not enougn time to justify every one of them, due to the fact that there’s 7 other stories to tell.
I think Partitio story is the one that respect the roots the most, simple, easy to remember.
Just an exemple, they introduces this character, hikari, simple character, pretty classic Shonen virtues, selflessness, honesty, never bow before evil, but to make the story happened, they decides to make him back down at the beginning to return later, with some allies. This allow the story to happens, but it does not serve the character, he fights alone against questionnable odds in every other chapters, but couldn’t do it in the first? Nah
I am a super tactical rpg fan but I stopped at triangle strategy demo because of it having wayyyyy too many dialogues. Maybe it is just at the start but it threw me off.
Moonlighter was terrible. I got it the day it came out on PS4. Hyper generic, very rinse and repeat. If you played it for 15 minutes you've experienced everything it has to offer.
Man, I enjoyed the hell out of Moonlighter. Best it twice, may play again someday. Fast, fluid traversal, fun combat, exploration, all tied to a double progression system (character and shop) that kept me hooked throughout. Only wish all this was tied into a wider rpg story with interesting characters, etc., but for what it is (a short indie game with an addictive gameplay loop) it’s one of my favorites.
@@sonofwotan To each their own. I found a negative review that perfectly sums up how I felt about it.
"The idea is amazing but it can only carry the game so far. Dungeon crawling for loot to sell and upgrade your own shop etc is a great pitch but the execution is not there. Combat is uninteresting at best, the shop management is shallow and annoying because of the pricing system and just lots of micromanagement and the items themselves don't do anything other than have a price. If one of these things were good it would save the game but it just falls short."
It's just go through generic dungeons that are all the same with very basic combat, collect a bunch of shit, sell it to get better weapons that are all the same, rinse and repeat. No real story line, no NPCs worth caring about, I can't remember a single one.
"Shallow" perfectly sums it up for me.
@@makokx7063 I hear ya, sometimes games just don’t click with us. AC Valhalla, RDR2 and more recently, BG3 and Metaphor are examples of popular games that I just couldn’t get into. I do think it’s unfair though, to blame the games themselves, as if they lacked something, did something wrong, or fumbled the execution, when all we are really saying is we ourselves didn’t care for it.
@@sonofwotan Yeah, I wanted to love RDR2 and I just couldn't. I restarted about 4 times and could never get more than 10 hours into it.
Yet I played things like Bloodstaind probably 5 times over.
@@makokx7063 Good, guess I’m not the only one then. I went through exactly the same process with RDR2. Looking back, I think I know why. I’m a sucker for smooth traversal and a crunchy progression system, and Rockstar games feature the clumsiest movement imaginable and no character progression to speak of, no levels, no skill tree, nothing. Makes it hardly feel like a game at all, at least for those of us who like such things. By the way, thanks for mentioning Bloodstained. Never heard of it, but I’ve been looking for my next game and that one looks badass.
These all suck.
nice try tim
Nice picks. Chained Echoes is definitely on my list.
Thanks, hope you enjoy it!
Yes, you've convinced me on Chains of Echoes too.