Xanthiom 2

Hermoso

Just finished Xanthiom Zero, the free remake of the first game, and it is so good. I love the insane story that is juuuust baaaarely there. I love the gun and the mods. The feel and level design of the game is just spot on, perfect metroid-like. Art-wise, I'm not gonna lie, the game lacks inspiration, you fight a lot of extremely generic monsters, evil fish, evil turtle, evil spiny thing, etc. But I found the whole thing really endearing and just a joy to play. edit: Now I beat Xanthiom 2, which I also loved. It's very much the Super Metroid to Xanthiom Zero's Metroid. Again, the feel and level design are top notch, with cool events and creative boss fights. The story is, uh, there and I'm sure someone out there gets it, but I sure didn't. Luckily the game is very entertaining regardless. Xanthiom 3 when?

This is the closest I've ever come to re-experiencing Super Metroid again. If you like the 2D metroids, get this game.

Fun

Very good. Neat upgrades puzzles.

Man, really fun game. Only have played the Xanthiom 2 part as of right now, but I got 100% in that part, just need to clean up the 80 meter kill and do the all modifier run for it. My 100% play of it took me just under 4 hours, which while on the short side, was still really fun to do. It was especially hilarious when I found an insane combo for the gun that just ended up trivializing any fight that didn't have a gimmick to damage it, but I'll leave that up to anyone who wants to try and find it. Honestly, my biggest complaint for the Xanthiom 2 part of it was one of the puzzles where there are 6 bugs. While the hint is nice, it didn't help me a ton and I ended up having to look it up so I didn't just end up spending forever just trial and erroring the correct answer.

Started off a little slow and I was concerned might be a little basic at first, but opened up into a very nice little MV.

I'm very sad I'm done with it. I started with Xanthiom Zero, which I recommend for the whole story. The Resimulated version sort of puts things in a different perspective, and it's just beautiful. And Part 2 was amazing! I found the controls and the game play to be convenient and fun. And the music? Had to turn it up!