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(This review is particularly for Shovel Knight's adventure: Shovel of Hope)

This game is frankly a master class in platforming action-adventure. Shovel Knight feels like Mega Man, with:

- Link's Zelda 2 spells (styled like Mega Man's items).
- Scrooge McDuck's pogo jump.
- Castlevania wall meat.
- Wario treasure hunting.

Each major level takes about 15 minutes which, while slow for a Mega Man game, is perfect for the busy gamer that may only have 15 minutes at a time to play. Levels are packed and have a really good difficulty scale. Nothing seems insurmountable, and you have all of the tools you need for the time. You even get all the gold you need without grinding. All the items are useful, and you will learn the maps well.

If you like the genre, it's a must play.

This is a most excellent and stylish action-adventure game. If you like Metroid or Castlevania games, this is a great accplication of the mechanics with an uncommon theme.

This is a quick game, but a thoughtful one. You'll finish it in 5 minutes. Itt's really worth a try, even if you aren't big into visual novels.

I talk about this puzzle game a lot to friends and colleauges. Bascially, you have to move a ball from one side of the screen to another using slopes, pulleys, and other physical objects. But, you have to draw some of the objects in! It's really rad.

This game is pretty awesome, but not for the faint of heart. It is a rare Western danmaku (bullet curtain/hell) shooter with a nice seletion of playable ships. Basically there are tons of bullets everyone and you have to dodge them and shoot bullets back. It is very simple. But simple doesn't mean easy! Still, a pleasant game on lower difficulties. I'd rather play Touhou, especially for the music and atomosphere, but you can't get those games in the West in an easy way yet. A great alternative!

Hard to say more than what has already been said. Good puzzles. Funny script. It even has co-op! My only gripe with it is that there are a lot of puzzles between points of story, but it could be me having little patience for puzzle games after a certain extent. Don't let me stop you, though.

I wanted to like this game, but I couldn't. It has a lot of style, but the gameplay felt too slow. It had the making of a 3D adventure-puzzle, but I could really understand the logic too much. There are also a lot of factors to keep track of, such as what characters you are currently holding onto, which is a drag on working memory.

I really like the idea of this game, but the execution could be better. If you are currently learning a language, this is a great method to practice and learn vocabulary, but if you looking for a module to start from square one, you should probably get a dedicated learning package. Again, this game has it's merits, many that I have written about for papers and such, but from a ludological perspective, it can you some work.

Ys Origin! The game is amazing if only for its music. But the gameplay is awesome too! It is also different from other Ys games because you have mutliple characters with different stories. They go through the same locales, but they have very differenet playing styles and different cutscenes. It reminds me a bit of Sonic Adventure 2, where you have the Hero and Dark paths. The same basic mechanics are on both sides, but the story is different.

Either way, it is a really fun game and has difficulty settings from the chill game player to the crazy gamer. It is on the upper escelon of action games that you probably didn't play.

Oh man, oh man, Ys. I started with Ys Seven on the PSP, so I expected a less polished game, since this was the first, but I was incorrect. This game is update of the first two Ys games from the 1980s. The graphics and music has been updated to be smoother and fuller, although the original content looks and sounds amazing as well. The gameplay takes a bit of getting used to. especially from a background of playing Zelda games, but you get used to it quickly. There are tutorials as well.

If it helps, imagine playing Zelda: A Link to the Past. Now remove the puzzles to make it a pure action game, and then make it so that you can only attack enemies by running into them (it works in this game). That's Ys 1 and 2. The game is good and has a good story as well.

It is hard to recommend it any more than I already have.