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I mean I've played it and i have it (really just bought it for computer teacher mom who never used it) but ... Eh. Maybe I'll try again some day.

Cool. That's one I think I'd like, so thanks for the suggestion!

Oooohhhh thanks for reminding me of that. 

I actually have been meaning to watch both that movie and that show. I'll still check out the book if I like Blade Runner. 

I couldn't get into MineCraft. Too shallow a graphics whore for it to appeal to me. Plus, I'm more into a challenge being made for me than I am crafting my own experience in a game, to be honest. 

Is Sun and Moon the game where it was on GBA and sunlight affected it? Konami game, I think? Always wanted to try it.

Super Meat Boy is fun, but really more of an arcade-y experience. It's a platformer, but otherwise I wouldn't really compare it to Shovel Knight. 

Haven't played Super House of Dead Ninjas

I think Rayman Legends on PS4 is really good, have completed all the main paintings, and still go back to complete the Origins paintings I unlock. I still think Shovel Knight has enough charm to hold its own though. 

Never played Ori or N++ (which looks to me like a lower-res Super Meat Boy kind of game), or most other games you mentioned.

I would consider Guacamelee in basically the same league as Shovel Knight, and I honestly think I prefer Shovel Knight more as a more pure platformer, where Guacamelee is more of a Metroidvania. 

I think Shovel Knight is at least as good as, if not better in some ways, all of the ones you mentioned that I've played. I don't have much NES nostalgia and even with the SNES, nostalgia won't get me to care about a game. I still say Shovel Knight is notable on its own merits as a game. Agree to disagree.

Like what

I wonder if I'd have as easy or as boring a time as you with some of these. I'm with Cary on 2 and X being easier Mega Man games, but have heard the newer ones purposely upped the difficulty because people have false memories of those games being harder than they actually are. 

And I dunno, I enjoyed what I've played of that Disney collection more than you have, I think.

I'm not really rushing to get any of these either though, except I think I'd like Zero.

Different Strokes ...

I don't care how much Shovel Knight looks like an NES game, but how incredibly well it plays as a platforer. I think you're conflating nostalgia with my love of a genre you don't happen to like as much there. :p But I'll check that one game out, I guess. Maybe. I dunno.

I actually could use those tbh, it's just that there's so much literature on it on the interwebs, why read a book split into chapters roughly the size of any articles I may come across? Lol

Hitchkiher's Guide to the Galaxy? If it is indeed the same series, I know a lot of references, but never actually read those. Or maybe I only know the answer to the universe reference ...

I dug stardew valley, but the days seemed  short.