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 On 11/22/2022 at 07:46 PM by Cary Woodham See More From This User » |
My brother Nathan wanted to record a podcast with me on our favorite 3-D platformers, so before I do that, I wanted to talk about my favorite 2-D platformers, so that’s just what my other brother Jeff and I did in this episode of The Pizza Pixel Podcast. Please click on the link and give it a listen if you can. Thanks.
Pizza Pixel Podcast Episode 13: Top Five Favorite 2-D Platformers.
In the comments section, let me know YOUR favorite 2-D platformers! Thanks for listening! Later! --Cary
When it comes to 2-D platformers, if I had to do a top 5, they'd all be Metroid and Mario games, with Super Metroid coming out on top. My favorite series after those would be Castlevania.
One unusual platformer I enjoyed was Mischief Makers on the N64. I hope they consider putting that on Nintendo Switch Online.
Yeah I rented Mischief Makers once. It was fun, even if I did have the same problems with it as I did other Treasure games.
The N64 was really lacking in 2-D platformers. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Yoshi's Story, Mischief Makers, Kirby 64, and Goemon's Great Adventure. I hate that I missed out on that last game. It came out when I was just graduating college so I was still poor and couldn't afford to buy it, and it was also really rare, even back then!
1. DKC because I've played that the most.
2. All the Vanillaware games, Odin's Sphere, GrimGrimoire, Muramasa: Demon Blade because of the art style.
3. Rayman Origins/Legends mainly for the overall design, music, art style. . . so great.
4. Klonoa series 'cause it isn't as hard as most and has interesting 2D+ environments.
5. Duke Nukem Manhatten Project. The PC version only. Console version had control issues. Reason: it's Duke Nukem, and I can shoot stuff as well as platform.
I do like Odin Sphere and Muramasa a lot. It's hard for me to classify those as plastformers because you seem to do more hack and slashing in those. I liked playing as that Valkyrie character in Odin Sphere.
The new 2D Rayman games were very good, too. They had excellent controls.
I thought about it later and I agree, I think the Vanillaware games aren't really platformers.
It's all right. I break the rules a lot in my podcasts. We make up the rules as we go along and break 'em all if we're not having fun. That's from a song.
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