Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

It was great. The inspirations for this game are obvious and numerous, but I have to say I got the most Megaman X4 vibes for sure. Levels and bosses that resembled Storm Eagle, Magma Dragoon, Slash Beast. The dialogue could be better and the controls feel a little sticky at times, but overall it was a lot of fun and i hope they make another.

Very roughly done and it's not even original. There's a contra boss in there and bunch of Megaman X concepts. You can feel your attacks are clunky and not really "free at will" at all. The only way for the devs to make this game harder is just messing with bunch of basic things such as, shorten your slashing range , give you very limited space and time to attack the bosses , shorten the bosses' reaction time and adding weird "stopping " to your character's direction changing. (You will encounter problems like keep slashing at the other direction instead of the boss or enemies that you want to aim at because of that weird "moment" ) Too expensive for such lousy programming and this remind me of other games a lot instead of playing a different game. Yep, it's just a "those great game's replacement" or something. This doesn't deserve the price.

This game rules. The designs are so cool. I’m early on, but combat is maybe a bit simple. I’d love to see a sequel though.

Short 'n sweet. I beat the game in about two and half hours collecting about 75% of the items. It's like Mega Man X with collecting upgrades in stages and fighting bosses but with the controls of Shinobi - in other words, plays great! Difficulty was pretty manageable, I would say it's about on part with something like Mega Man X, but with equippable items that lower it such as health back on defeating an enemy or a double jump. I'm not sure if there's anything to unlock if you collect everything, about to look that up, but it was a really enjoyable little 2 and half hour romp.

fun retro game with a genisis feel

YES