A Robot Named Fight!

ARNF is definitely worth the money that's for sure. If you're considering picking it up here's the pros and cons: Pros: The randomized level design is spot on, and really gives you that feeling that you're playing Super Metroid for the first time as a child. It's super satisfying killing the gooey meat monsters. The powerups are endless and rarely disappoint. Every time you play the game, you are not only faced with a new randomized level/maze that can be completed in one sitting, but each time you play you're practically guaranteed to find a powerup you've never seen before. The more you play, the more powerups you unlock for future runs. The game as a whole is not so challenging that you're going to give up. The entire game was made by ONE GUY! Support this man, as he deserves all the prase! He's often looking through and responding to forums, so he seems to listen to feedback quite well. Did I mention infinite replayability? How many PvE games can make that claim? Zero that's how many. Cons: Sometimes randomness kills your run? I don't like the randomness of the upgrade stations. I wish their was an option to donate 99 scrap to see a list of potential upgrades or something. The dumb overlord robots give you "lil' whoever" too much. Also shield drones are lame. Feels bad to get lame upgrades. When you get something good that compliments your other upgrades it feels great though, just wish it was more common. TL;DR Game is very good, and was created by a single person. Scratches that Super Metroid Itch for eternity with a new experience each time you play. Roguelikes are not for everyone though, and some runs you'll waste hours before you see that luck has reduced your chances greatly. Edit: I had some cons in the past but those have been updated and removed. This game is now nearly perfect. The only thing I would add is more secret endings! :D

Do you love Metroidvanias, but hate how you don't lose all your progress when you run into a tough boss or get stuck n a spike pit? Than this is the game for you! Seriously though, I have a love/hate relationship with this game. It was rough at first, but thankfully I ended up more towards the former than the latter. It can be beyond frustrating to die and start again with nothing. I told myself I would give it up a number of times. I couldn't let go, and eventually got a play through with some serious fire power and completed it. On the plus side, you essentially get a new Super Metroid game every time you play. That's pretty darn cool. Time will tell if I come back and to it again. There are better endings and plenty of unfound upgrades to go for, but I'm satisfied for now.

It's a good game, mostly because it emulates Super Metroid quite well, if not too good that it will never be its own game. The flat colors hurt the environments and atmosphere. Other than that it's quite enjoyable.

If you like classic Metroid, you'll probably like this. I wanted the rogue-like structure to do more than just unlock possible items, I wanted more character progression between runs to make the runs slightly better each time. The shrines and other places to present offerings were confusing and I never got any use out of them. That said, the game is still somewhat entertaining, if you like Metroid-like games. The visuals and sound design are quite good! But overall, I just couldn't push myself to keep doing runs.

Game frequently spawns 15 or more enemies per area that pass through walls, home in on your location, shoot lock-on projectiles, and instantly kill you. Sometimes starting the game causes your character to self destruct. Enemies frequently extend past the range of your current weapon or are blocked with barriers allowing them to OHKO you. On top of that, the rougelike element is extremely weak; the game is essentially an auto generating Metroid clone with garbage checkpoints. A real disappointment because it had so much potential but was squandered by bad coding. Edit: game locked me out of progression due to not giving me a weapon that can shoot through walls. Grade reduced from one point to zero. Game is unplayable.