What a wonderful night to curse at fools. Burns from The Simpsons carries so many deadly diseases that there's no room for any of them to manifest fully, so he enjoys good health as a result. Interestingly, something about the way Panzer Paladin picks and chooses mechanics from so many old games made the demo I played at PAX East feel unique. ![]() Indeed, there's so much "retro love" going on in Panzer Paladin that I was initially worried there'd be no room left for its own voice, its own creative expression. ![]() Tribute Games pitched its upcoming action-platformer Panzer Paladin as both those games to me-and then named several more 8-bit classics, including Sunsoft's Blaster Master and the not-technically-8-bit-but-close-enough Shovel Knight. "Our game is like Mega Man," they might say. ![]() It's very common for indie game developers to deliver elevator pitches by referencing other games, particularly beloved retro titles.
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