Clearly a lot of Blaster Master and Mega Man influence here. This game captures the retro feel of the early NES era very effectively (and at even lower resolution). Those d*mn birds on the surface gave me flashbacks of the stupid demons in Ghosts and Goblins. Their path is quite frustrating. I had a lot of fun, but there is a bug with respawning once you get to the core. I seem to spawn off screen and couldn't get back into the boss room. Overall a really cool entry that definitely has mad nostalgic vibes all throughout it.
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I was personally thinking of the eagles from Ninja Gaiden, but Ghosts and Goblins is another good source of frustration! Haha!
As for the bug: I might have pushed a version that left the override spawn (I used for testing) enabled. Hopefully it's fixed now; I will verify it later when I get a chance. Thanks for playing!