Awesome Action Platformer That Was Overlooked
People saw they bleed pixels and immediately assumed it was another super meat boy clone. Sure, it attacks the same nostalgia receptor in your pixel filled nogan, but does so a bit differently.
(I'm not gonna write a whole lot about it, only some summarizing thoughts)
The soundtrack is F'ing killer, utilizing synth and modulation in some really interesting ways (those note drops are so gooood)
the art direction and overall style of the game is hawt. Great pixel art, and great sound design
it employs an interesting checkpoint mechanic that allows it to be as hard as something like smb, but have longer levels. Killing dudes and doing it fancy like fills up a checkpoint meter. The cool thing: you choose where the checkpoint is (which cannot be close to dangerous things like spikes). Also, the game doesn't save checkpoints when you quit a level, so tough through it to make sure the game saves, or face retrying a whole level on your next play session (I like its unforgiving nature, but some might not)
The game just feels really awesome to play. It controls extremely well and feels rewarding. Make sure you have a gamepad though!!! you can get away with a KB with smb, but this game features a lot more moves then that game did.
If you need more convincing, watch the QL on the site. Definitely one of my favorite games of 2012.
