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Curse of the Crescent Isle DX (itch.io)

Still working on that itch.io backlog. Honestly I almost dropped this one a couple levels in because it wasn't hooking me, but I managed to stick with it.

At first, this game looks like a Doki Doki Panic-like, mostly because of the HUD and the fact that you primarily interact with enemies by standing on their heads and picking them up and throwing them. Play a few levels though and you'll get the ability to ride enemies and this is the game's actual mechanic, and the rest of the game is a puzzle platformer using enemies' unique abilities to traverse the game's levels. Honestly it's a good effort but kinda mid. There are only a few enemies with meaningful mechanics and all the bosses are complete nothing fights except the final one. I beat the full game in about 80 minutes though I'm sure you could spend longer if you were trying to collect the giant coin on each screen. It's also glitchy, especially when enemies try to interact with each other in cramped spaces. By far the best levels are the ones that feel like they were ripped straight out of VVVVVV which maybe implies that I should just replay that game instead.