One example (The Light Tower image that you pointed out) does not = a bad game. From a subjective standpoint, games will never be perfect, because not everyone will agree on the same thing. Example; I don't agree that ZX Advent is better than Gunvolt. Sure ZX Advent had some decent level...
hahahaha I'm half way through a bag off my Volcano and my tolerance is way down because I haven't been smoking much lately, so I was a little slow to catch that that was what your angle was