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[kpopSuperstar]

It may be a 2D Metroidvania, but there is something about the soft angelic music and inertia that made me feel like when I played Nier Automata.

It came out in January and it has been lost in the shuffle, and it seems all the game sites and award shows are ignoring it, but this is the real deal.

Who played this and are you as high on it as I am?

 

[Paasei]

Haven't played it. Looks quite fun and I'm not (yet) bored of metroidvania's. Still working my way through Silksong and the 2 Blasphemous games. Still didn't get around to play Ori either.

 

[Hohenheim]

I didn't quite click with the first one, but will definitely check this out at some point. Love the style of it.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Ender Magnolia is pretty good. Gameplay is better than Ender Lilies but I prefer the vibes of the previous game.

Play Nine Sols, the best indie last year and a real challenger to Team Cherry. Criminally overlooked. To me it's right there at the top of the genre.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

 

[Sensei]

Played both Ender Lilies and Ender Magnolia, but neither really resonated with me. They're not bad games by any means, just not GOTY contenders for me.

 

[The Cockatrice]

After Silksong I doubt I can touch any other metroidvania this year because I might just hate them since they're all going to be super inferior to it.

 

[SolidQ]

Both games superior Finished them 100%
Hope there will be 3rd game

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

After Silksong I doubt I can touch any other metroidvania this year because I might just hate them since they're all going to be super inferior to it.

The one I said, Nine Sols, has similar quality in bosses, story, art direction and combat. IMO it's just a notch below. I bought it in a recent sales and felt like a steal. Knowing its quality I'd have paid full price.

Also, it has the best final boss in the genre and one of the most challenging in any videogame, on par with Isshin from Sekiro. Every boss is hard and unique but the final one took me hours to beat without feeling frustration. Combat is that good.

 

[The Cockatrice]

The one I said, Nine Sols, has similar quality in bosses, story, art direction and combat. IMO it's just a notch below. I bought it in a recent sales and felt like a steal. Knowing its quality I'd have paid full price.

Also, it has the best final boss in the genre and one of the most challenging in any videogame, on par with Isshin from Sekiro. Every boss is hard and unique but the final one took me hours to beat without feeling frustration. Combat is that good.

I played Nine Sols and it was decent up until the final boss who completely ruined my enjoyment of the game and I have no issues with super hard bosses and it became even worse because I was forced into the true ending and thus an extra garbage phase that had broken hit detection. There are quite a few upcoming ones that I'm interested, but imma leave them for next year. Had my fill of metroidvania genre for a while.

 

[Lokaum D+]

 

[NoobSmog]

It's a really good game if you like metroidvania's, also one of the better ones. Easy recommend if you're looking for one to play.

 

[WoeIsMe]

Have had my eyes on this, not really sold on the esthetics and animations though.

The one I said, Nine Sols, has similar quality in bosses, story, art direction and combat. IMO it's just a notch below. I bought it in a recent sales and felt like a steal. Knowing its quality I'd have paid full price.

Also, it has the best final boss in the genre and one of the most challenging in any videogame, on par with Isshin from Sekiro. Every boss is hard and unique but the final one took me hours to beat without feeling frustration. Combat is that good.

I played Nine Sols and it was decent up until the final boss who completely ruined my enjoyment of the game and I have no issues with super hard bosses and it became even worse because I was forced into the true ending and thus an extra garbage phase that had broken hit detection. There are quite a few upcoming ones that I'm interested, but imma leave them for next year. Had my fill of metroidvania genre for a while.

Nine Sols last boss is fantastic! Took me a while to beat it, what a feeling when everything falls into place, zen-mode. Wish Silksong had something similar in the boss-departement(although Silksong overall is a better game, but still, Nine Sols is fantastic!).

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Nine Sols last boss is fantastic! Took me a while to beat it, what a feeling when everything falls into place, zen-mode. Wish Silksong had something similar in the boss-departement(although Silksong overall is a better game, but still, Nine Sols is fantastic!).

Though much easier fights, Karmelita and the First Sinner gave me that kind of fencing frenzy. I enjoyed them so much.

Spoiler

Lost Lace

is excellent, but input detection and some broken hitboxes spoilt it a bit for me. The same happened with Nightmare Grimm.

Eigong is the hardest of them but it's a question of learning her many patterns, no cheap moves detected.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Ender Magnolia is pretty good. Gameplay is better than Ender Lilies but I prefer the vibes of the previous game.

Play Nine Sols, the best indie last year and a real challenger to Team Cherry. Criminally overlooked. To me it's right there at the top of the genre.

Got 9 sols the other day and...it's fucking amazeballs, good art direction, great music and sound production, great gameplay loop/combat...

Don't care for the story (8 hours in) but so far it's an 8 out of 10 game easily

 

[GymWolf]

Enjoyed both games a lot.


If you like aquatic themes another very decent one is pronty