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Owlboy, continuing my slow progress. Reminds me of Cave Story a bit.
How are you liking the game? It has been on my wishlist for a long time, and I should be getting it sometime soon now.
I also have to play Cave Story, was hoping for a sale, but it hasn't gotten one in years, so will have to get it at full price.
It is good, a nice mix of story and action I think plus the (unique?) concept of your owl carrying characters who have their own abilities is interesting. The puzzles are pretty simple it's mostly about the combat though there's also a little bit of stealth needed at times.
Difficulty does ramp up quite fast, or at least compared to something like Mario Wonder but Owlboy is a shorter game so I guess that's to be expected. The pixel art is luscious and there are some memorable scenes. In reviews I think it ranges from 70-90% and I'd give it 80+ for sure.
If you have a linux machine Cave Story is also freely available via flatpak: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.gitlab.coringao.cavestory-nx
Thanks for the link, I do have linux machine but I dont' really enjoy gaming on PC. I am assuming this is the original freeware release of the game (repacked as flatpak)?
I guess so, the readme states:
https://gitlab.com/coringao/cavestory-nx/