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A decade after the last proper 2D Mario game, 'Super Mario Bros. Wonder' is a refreshing dip back where it all started.

It’s a gun. It’s an umbrella. You put them both together and you get a Gunbrella. It functions almost exactly like you’d think it would. Once you have your quirky weapon concept, there needs to be a game built around it. What kind of game would it be, and how would it play? Gunbrella takes this playful premise and demonstrates to gamers precisely what it can become.

Now you’re talking. Indie games have been imitating classics of the past for years and years now, and it’s about time that one of them had the cajones to take a run at the seminal ActRaiser, Quintet’s 1990 genre-melding masterpiece. To be fair, SolSeraph had a crack at combining top-down elements with platforming, although the results were rather disappointing. Fortunately, Smelter – rather fittingly – melds together real-time strategy with action-packed side-scrolling, and it does so with quite some skill. We have to admit, the distractingly horny opening movie set some alarm bel...