tokucowboy Oh dang, I’m not sure I was aware of that!
‘Something’ brought to mind a few of the sections of another beloved favourite of mine, Legendary Axe II/Ankoku Densetsu, which was entirely an 80’s barbarian platformer, but that had a bunch of extremely specific and also strange pseudo-Gigeresque enemies like this odd fellow:
…and this guy:
Also hilarious for being called Legendary Axe II in the US but having your guy not have an axe, I think this and its prequel are pretty underappreciated, but it might be remnants of my 1989 brain somehow learned to beat both of these oddly janky games speaking.