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Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Games closest to Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Metal Slug 1996Also relentless, unpretentious and classical in form
Metal Slug 3 2000Also relentless, unpretentious and classical in form
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope 2016Also relentless, unpretentious and epic
Metal Slug 2 1998Also relentless, unpretentious and classical in form
Serious Sam: The First Encounter 2001Also relentless, unpretentious and resolved
Serious Sam 3: BFE 2011Also relentless, unpretentious and epic
Rise & Shine 2017Also unpretentious, relentless and epic
Serious Sam 4 2020Also relentless, unpretentious and epic
MDK 1997Also unpretentious, relentless and epic
Battletoads 1991Also relentless, unpretentious and resolved
Shoot Many Robots 2012Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Shadow Warrior 1997Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
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Series
Ash vs Evil Dead 2015Also unpretentious, relentless and nostalgic
Future Man 2017Also relentless, unpretentious and epic
Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix 2023Also unpretentious, relentless and nostalgic
Books
Queen Victoria 2009Also relentless and unpretentious
Flashman and the mountain of light 1990Also classical in form
Just One Damned Thing after Another 2016Also relentless, unpretentious and epic
Films
Gintama: The Very Final 2021Also unpretentious, relentless and epic
The Toxic Avenger Unrated 2025Also unpretentious, resolved and nostalgic
Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya 2013Also unpretentious and epic
Albums
- B-Day 2002Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
- Get Heavy 2002Also relentless, unpretentious and resolved
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