Panzer Paladin doesn't reinvent the action-platforming wheel, but it does an excellent job balancing the aesthetics and feel of an old-school action platformer with modern ideas to make it a wholly fresh-feeling experience. The true power of the weapons is only unlocked through their destruction, which adds an extra layer of strategy to each level and boss fight. On top of its retro-aesthetics, it has some many nods to NES era games without getting mired in nostalgia for nostalgia's sake. It doesn't quite reach the heights of something like Shovel Knight, but it brings a lot of cool ideas to the genre of neu-retro while feeling like it could have been right at home on the original NES.
Tribute Games have brought their action-packed title by the name of Panzer Paladin to Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation
Sci-Fi Shovel Knight.
Panzer Paladin is not just full of Eighties tropes, it opts to live in the era instead — and it works
