My Top 10 2D Platformers - (2023 Edition)

In this video I finally get around to showing my favourite 2D platformers and giving you all a run down of some of the best games in the genre.

This time, I decide that rather than my normal rambling manner, I would instead find eloquent people online who've already well explained many of the points I want to make and highlight a few clips from their channels. This is only the beginning, naturally; and I will be following up this video with detailed discussions on these games myself, but this felt like a fun and different way to share my top 10.

(Little did I know editing this together would take more than 30 hours of editing and 4 rounds of rendering because variable framerates and bitrates on game footage is a nightmare for a video render... it would have been faster to record my own gameplay and speak over it myself; but we live and learn).

Oh and yes... there are total red-herrings in the thumbnail.

Original Videos & Channels:
@NitroRad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XFKHZF-As
@CGRundertow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqoOfd65-k
@GVG - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXx1aAffLv4
@IDreamofIndie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUtldrMV4lU
@NoisyPixelNews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZi9xl8BleU
@billiam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gscQ7-11mGM
@projared - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTHvN9v55qA
@ExpansionPack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OAWHnAhrA4
@snomangaming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZoQ9a7oPvo
@ingeniousclown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19czO9fGqw
@GMTK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqHcE6B4OP4

All of the above content is used in part, and without permission or knowledge; but I hope each and every video maker I've featured here sees it as the endorsement and recommendation it is. Check out these channels, many are no longer active; but their videos are high quality and I would simply be repeating what they've already said anyway, so why not give them the credit for their astute and professional coverage.

----- Content -----
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Number 10: Axiom Verge
6:00 - Number 9: New Super Mario Bros. U
10:10 - Number 8: Cyber Shadow
15:22 - Number 7: Kaze & The Wild Masks
19:42 - Number 6: Infernax
24:31 - Number 5: Sonic Mania Plus
28:53 - Number 4: Shovel Knight
38:45 - Number 3: Celeste
45:42 - Number 2: Hollow Knight
51:58 - Number 1: DKC Tropical Freeze

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