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Hard platformers with banging chiptune soundtracks? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OmegaMouse@feddit.uk to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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I'm really in the mood for a game like Shovel Knight after listening to some chiptune tracks the other day. Something fair, but challenging would be ideal. Must have a good soundtrack!

Along these lines I've already played:

Shovel Knight
Celeste
The Messenger
Hollow Knight (well, in terms of the difficulty not the music)

Does anyone know of any I've missed? They don't necessarily have to be modern indie games - old NES/SNES games for example. SMB3 and SMW are classics.

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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Micro Mages? Essentially a modern nes-game, co-op for up to 4 players.

edit: while not really a platformer (but does include platforming sections, iirc) and soundtrack does slap hard with the chiptunes: Retro City Rampage

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that this fits on a NES cart is really neat! Thanks for the suggestion - I hadn't heard of this one before

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

the game from steam also comes as a nes rom-image, you can use it any nes emulator. I used Mesen, got quite a bit more customization & scaling options etc... and save states because I suck at it :D