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#8. Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Contrasting this with Metroid Dread is fun. Dread is an aggressive, hostile game while Ori is the most serene thing on the planet. Instead of focusing on combat, Ori wants you to fly. Its traversal is so good that you get into this flow state where you just don't touch the ground for minutes at a time. The platforming takes some execution to get right but it's not overly hard to get from point a to point b, and it feels so good in the process.

This game introduces direct combat and autosaves and all the things the original was missing, plus several more movement tech powerups that has you chaining abilities to just soar. The music? God damn. What a game.

#7. Spelunky

I just love tiptoeing down Spelunky's depths, trying to survive whatever each run is going to throw at me. There's always something that kills me and my success rate is like .1% or something stupid. I'm good enough to get to the end consistently but I always screw something small up, and the smallest of errors can be game ending with the right combination of factors. Spelunky is fun to just scurry around and try to survive the endless amount of BS that the game wants to kill you with.