Screenshot: Cyber Shadow
The ranks of aesthetically beautiful, mechanically gorgeous retro platforming games got a little thicker this week, as Yacht Club Games—best known for one of the flagship titles of this little sub-genre, Shovel Knight—published Aarne Hunziker’s lovely new Ninja Gaiden riff Cyber Shadow. Possessed of a fascinating blend of NES design principles, cut with modern day quality-of-life features, it’s an adrenaline-pounding blast from the past, sending the titular
Shadow slashing his way across the ruins of robot-controlled Mekacity.