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Message: [QUOTE="lestagio, post: 543691, member: 911738"] What are some games you picked up, not expecting all too much, that turned out to be extremely good? Here's a few of mine... My reason for making this thread is because of Pizza Tower. I picked it up last week because I like a good platformer, and the artstyle looked nice, and it had good reviews. I also heard it was Wario Land 4 inspired... I didn't ever beat Wario Land 4 (it's on the backlog, hope to get to it soon) but I remember enjoying it from what I did play, so I snagged Pizza Tower for 10 bucks off Steam the other day... And it's my favorite game I've played this year (at least of games I played for the first time). No question. The level design is so great and the themes are so unique, the game is pretty short but has lots of collectibles and things to get that encourage replayability, it has a high skill ceiling, the controls are tight... I literally don't have a single negative thing to say. I've been shooting for 100% now, because it's just the most fun I've had with a game in ages. It's ridiculous and stupid, and it knows it. It's not trying to tell some grand old story, but it does something that many games fail to do these days... FEEL LIKE A DAMN VIDEO GAME! Animal Well was another that surprised me when I played it. I'm a big fan of Dunkey, and so I picked up the game, but I wasn't expecting it to genuinely be so well done... Yeah he only published the game, but often, anything backed by someone popular on the internet is often not of very good quality. And yet, Animal Well was extremely solid. Banjo Kazooie I only got around to last year, and it turns out that I'm an absolute IDIOT. I had always seen it as a kids game, and just another 3d platformer. And then I actually played it and it was another one of those that is just beautiful in every way. Even on the N64, it looks pretty damn good, and just feels so tight. It's an expansive game with lots of collectibles but still feels very compact and fun to play. Celeste also shocked me... I played this a year or two after it came out and it was yet another platformer that I had heard good things about. I was expecting it to be good. BUT then I played it and... it became one of my top games of all time. The control and level design ALONE is perfection, but then the topics and ideas of depression, anxiety, fear... It all hit very close to home for me and just became one of those games that really affected me over anything else, and is now a yearly replay. I've got PLENTY more that surprised me, but those are just a few. I'm wondering what some of you have found, because maybe it will convince me to pick something up that I underestimated! [/QUOTE]

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