BadDecissions: I'm not a fan of calling games "pretentious," a word that gets thrown around so often by gamers about anything that does anything experimental that it basically no longer means anything. So I'll just say that I have no idea what Anodyne, the game I'm playing now, thinks it's doing, and maybe the problem's on my end, and maybe not.
No, I don't recall getting much out of Anodyne's...story...but I still liked the game because of the combination of Zelda-like action and weird imagery.
I just started playing Super Cyborg, which I grabbed from Indie Game Stand yesterday. I'm a big Contra fan so I had to get it and so far the impression is very good. It's basically just NES Contra (or maybe Probotector, based on the heroes' designs) on steroids, which is fine with me.