Robot Wants It All

Used to play your games all the time when I was younger, I still remember discovering the banana gun in the fourth game for the first time.

These games introduced me to metroidvanias as a kid and playing them now as an adult is just as fun as it was before. Heavily recommended, but with a few setbacks. New content is sorta 60% good and 40% eh. The Easy levels felt redundant than they are necessary and I don't know why you couldn't just play the Classic versions of the games from the get-go rather than these "lite" versions, and besides Ice Cream and maybe Y the Remix levels felt like they made everything fun about each game unfun. I kinda feel like the modifiers and alternate skins didn't go through enough playtesting to even be possible to play, let alone finish with minimal penalties. The Tankbot chassis is a MASSIVE example of this cus apparently you can just get softlocked in certain parts of any level ever due to how slow you are and how it limits your jump. I don't really have a big problem with the shop, I think it's fine, though I wish the main Classic levels were either playable as soon as you boot up the game for the first time or at least be locked to chronological progression, and just forgoing the Easy levels entirely, instead of grinding for in-game currency, and have the shop just be restricted to bonus content, more levels and such. Related to the shop: The money system is kinda backwards cus you if don't play optimally you will need to replay previous levels of games just to grind money from enemies (they won't respawn unless you're playing the masterpiece that is Ice Cream). Luckily I only needed to do this once just to unlock the games, though I'd expect some people to find the process monotonous. The Award system is also an aspect that I'm not too fond of because it discourages exploration and taking your time you can get negative awards that will subtract your total money if you take too long, die too many times or just shooting while you feel like it. I think this should've just been a bonus thing and not affect your money all together. Very mixed feelings about the new collection exclusive Robot Wants Justice cus while features the most fun moveset Robot has ever had and has some legitimately creative gameplay, it's held back by weird enemy and hazard design. It's very easy to die by miscalculation and suffocating into a wall because you didn't position yourself correctly before dashing, and the enemies have more health than the ACTUAL BOSSES mind you. I kinda wish this was ironed out more before release but what can you do. If you do wanna play this I heavily recommend NOT binging through every game in a row and probably take a few days off, at least between Ice Cream and Y cus having to play the god given gift that is Robot Wants Ice Cream then going through Y then Justice kinda soured the mood for me lol. But either way this is still a fun romp to play through and hope that dev keeps doing what they love!