Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 has come and gone, and if you tuned into the whole two-hour show, you may have been rewarded with roughly five minutes of actually interesting announcements. Onimusha looks great, Unbeatable finally has a release date, and, well, I’m sure something else notable happened in there. But as with all of the infinitely multiplying Geoff Keighley-hosted games showcases, it was more show than games. The original Bubsy games on the SNES and Sega Genesis and their PlayStation sequel are basically punchlines, seen as mediocre Sonic the Hedgehog ripoffs at best. It doesn’t get much more classic than sidescrolling beat ‘em ups, and two interesting ones appeared before Opening Night Live.