One of the most influential indie games ever released was Team Meat’s Super Meat Boy. A tremendous success story for the small team, it created a paradigm shift for what people would come to expect from homegrown platformers. Pretty much immediately after that, a deluge of tough-as-nails, ultra-precise indie platforms came out that has continued on to this day.
One of the better imitators to come out of that flood of releases was Michael Todd Games’ Electronic Super Joy. Released to basically no fanfare in 2013, it was a flashy, stylish, brutally difficult platformer set to the pulsating tunes of techno music. It was incredibly addicting and seemed to successfully emulate what Team Meat captured with its debut title.
Nearly six years later, Michael Todd is at it again with Electronic Super Joy 2. While technically not the second entry in this series, this is a true sequel in every sense of the word. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to have really upped the ante in any significant way.
Source: Destructoid Review: Electronic Super Joy 2