Gimmick! 2 is out now, which is great news for fans of difficult platformers starring fun lil’ green guys | Gaming

Pssst. You into hardcore 2D platformers? And do you like lil’ green guys, just like, gooby wooby lookin’ orbs of green? Then I present to you Gimmick! 2, which has an unexpected exclamation point before the “2” and all of the above. It’s out now and will no doubt please fans who’ve been waiting years for a sequel to the original Gimmick!, and possibly other platform enthusiasts who are after a decidedly different style of gap-hopper.

For a brief nugget of context, the original Gimmick! was a Famicom platformer developed by Sunsoft and released in 1992. Funnily enough, at the time it only ever got localised for Scandinavia, where it was called Mr. Gimmick (what all of the Demon Souls bosses should’ve been named… ahem, anyway). It starred a green yokai called Yumetaro,…