Pizza Tower might be the best 2D platformer I've played since Hollow Knight, and if you want to restrict that to non-metroidvanias, I gotta go back to 2014's Shovel Knight for anything this good ...

For this Final Judgement in Pizza Tower, Peppino is incredibly impressed with you this time around. He looks hugely shocked with his arms outstretched, like he doesn’t know how to contain himself.

Pizza Tower ’s movement systems and level layouts complement each other brilliantly. With a bit of a runway, Peppino can accelerate into a dramatic, sweaty sprint.

Pizza Tower keeps things simple as far as its story goes: You play as Peppino Spaghetti, the down on his luck owner of Peppino Pizza, who suddenly finds himself frantically climbing the ...

Pizza Tower, on the other hand, knows exactly what it is. Peppino moves like the bus from Speed, bursting through walls and obliterating most enemies in his way.