Mighty Switch Force! Collection

The platforming is solid, and the puzzles are good, but it's honestly worth buying just for the soundtrack. The tracks "Love You Love You Love" and "Whoa I'm In Space Cuba" have been stuck in my head since 2011. Just remember that these games were $5.99 on the 3DS eShop back in the day. Keep your expectations in check.

I was listening to the amazing, upbeat soundtrack and realized I never gave this a thumbs up. WayForward specializes in making extremely simple, stylized platformers with amazing soundtracks. They are mostly known for their Shantae series, but this series has for me been "the" WayForward game as it condenses everything I like about them into the smallest, most easily consumed package they have. You play through a series of platforming levels and "pick up babes", before making your way to the exit, with each game having a boss that switches things up for a climactic final level, sometimes even being a little difficult. The games are relatively short, each containing only a few levels and even going for the speedrun medals, this game will not last you for very long. Furthermore, the title suggest is has 4 games, but two of those are the same (the low definition and high definition versions of the same game), and academy is more of a "spin off" than a proper entry in my opinion. That said, the great artwork, the upbeat, amazing music and the interesting, yet simple platformer mechanics are definitely worth trying out. Highly recommend.

I like the Robot fella.

What is it with these games? Got them all from a Humble Bundle, because of Shantae, but jesus, they're bad ... Well, to be fair MSF 1 and MSF 2 I can actually see SOME merit, although the gameplay is extremely shallow. In 1 you shoot a gun, and in 2 you're a firewoman ... at least there is some variation here, but the gameplay gets repetitive fast. The art style is also fine pixel-art. Then comes ... MSF Hyper Drive Edition, which is just a "remaster" of MSF 1 with "cleaner" graphics ... arguably, it just looks worse and cheaper. It's the same game, though. That this is even a feature in this collection and not just an extra for MSF 1 with a graphics toggle is beyond me. Then, we have MSF Academy, the worst of the bunch. The levels are just "training courses", so they're all on some computer grid, but the level is super zoomed out, so you can see the entire map, which makes your character, every enemy and the platforms just tiny. So yeah, maybe okay for MSF 1 and 2, but not for that price. Cheap crap.

Really makes you work your brain with the puzzles and perfect timings but that's what makes it so satisfying to play. Also OST is banger

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