Bought a bunch of Steam games.
Half Minute Hero is quite the charming title and surprisingly has good production values on the art and music front of things. I realized Sakuraba's songs right away without even knowing he actually composed for it. That and whole unique arcade styled approach to the JRPG formula is great!
Another game I bought was Crimzon Clover. Personally I never played a shmup since this one game on the Artari. I've always watched them in arcades, but was never really into dropping my quarters for them(was more into Metal Slug). This game seems to bring back everything I love about these sort of games. Variety is spaceships, fast paced action, and explosive sound effects that almost feels like I'm playing an actual arcade machine. It's amazing! And also very replayable due to the scoring system. So yeah. It's great to play a shmup that I actually want to get good at. It also helps that this is my first ever bullet hell game, and I'm now better appreciating it.
Ittle Dew I got in support of the developer more than anything. The art is exactly the kind of style I'm looking for in a game, even tho the game itself is mostly unpolished and riddled with the worst elements to reuse and recycle from Zelda games(pushing blocks and block puzzles >_>). I just hope the maker creates more games in the future with this style and sense of humor. It's not great, but it feels really personal. Like little projects my old friends use to do when they were young budding game makers.
Lastly, I tried the Angry Video Game Nerd game. I wasn't blown away at first, but then came the fucked up rainbow unicorn level and I was immediately in love. I'm so easy to please with surreal shit that it ain't even funny.
The rest of the games are on backlog until I upgrade my hard drive in the upcoming week. Unfortunately my list doesn't have any "metriodvanias". Not alot of them look very good or to my taste. Valdis Story and La-Mulana are just hard to top as far as the indie scene goes, and alot of the ones I'm looking at are still in development via Kickstarter.