Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX

Never played this before, first impressions it's an old school punishing platformer. But IT's REALLY FUN! and it's beautiful too. But maybe I'm weird. I didn't grow up with difficult platformers outside of playing mario games (which were pretty easy) , I recently played the Dragon's Trap remake and had so much fun beating it! There's something I really missed about short, replayable games with difficulty. I don't really rage quit like other players though, I just see every death as a lesson and find it fun to see how I get better. Dragon's trap and Silksong honestly taught me how punishing platformers can be and how fun it is when you learn to be more precise with your movements. Game design has changed so much over the years, that games like this feel so different than most games out today. Can't wait to unlock the other game modes. Love that similar to Dragon's Trap you can see both versions of the game.Hope we get more old school games remade with new graphics, and I thought I had seen some of the best recent games pixel art in games like blasphemous, eastward, moonlighter etc but this game has a wonderful vibe and I'm glad I got it. I just miss when games felt like video games. I love playing with the D-pad, and getting incremently better at it. Music and tone remind me of why I enjoyed Dragon's Trap remake so much, it's just a peaceful, almost tropical sound with vibrant colors.. It's different than running around a massive world with no goal in sight at times. I really wanna play more games like this one. Sorry if my review is a bit long and over the place for someone that hasn't played for very long, I'm just very passionate about video games. One thing I will say though is not everyone may like this, you'll find yourself dying a lot even early on, but with infinite retries basically, but the uplifting art and music, offset any feeling of it being punishing. There's also other accessibility options if you find the game too difficult.