Axiom Verge

Through abilities such as teleportation, the Address Disruptor(a gun that creates NES-era visual data corruption on objects and enemies, similar to if you put an NES cart in wrong), the drone, and other abilities, it expands on the standard 2D Metroid gameplay in a huge way.

Really nice variety of weapons (there's like, a ♥♥♥♥ ton more than I expected there to be), at one point I had 5 or 6 and I assumed I had, at most, 2 weapons left to find, but turns out the weapon wheel expands a huge amount.

I was constantly exploring new regions and surprised by the variety in terrain, the music is great, very fitting, and only gets better as the game goes on, the gameplay was fun and very varied while providing plenty of options for weaponry, the visuals are some of the best 8-bit style graphics ever made, and the story is perfectly serviceable.

I am definitely going to buy the soundtrack once it goes on sale.

The visuals are awesome, love the variety in the environments/areas you visit, especially in terms of the colour palette that's presented to the player here.

Finally I’ll mention how well the game utilizes the controller, with each and every button having it’s own purpose for a good variety of gameplay mechanics.