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Overheated engines force a cooler line in Excitebike, Nintendo's side-view dirt-bike race where temperature matters as much as the jumps.
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8th generation · 3D handheld
Nintendo 3DS games, including stereoscopic 3D titles and late handheld RPGs. Nintendo no longer runs that system's digital catalog. Confirm any later official re-release with Nintendo. Where to Play does not host these games.
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Overheated engines force a cooler line in Excitebike, Nintendo's side-view dirt-bike race where temperature matters as much as the jumps.
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Flapping balloons and a hungry fish define Balloon Fight (1985), Nintendo's duel that owes an obvious debt to Joust.
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Shared tanks and destructible bricks fill Battle City, Namco's Famicom game descended from Tank Battalion.
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Popo hammers ice blocks while Nana climbs beside him in Ice Climber, and a condor waits at the top of each mountain.
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Super Mario Bros. turned a running jump, a fire flower, and a flagpole into the pattern later Mario games still answer.
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Medusa heads drift across the stairs while Simon Belmont's whip cracks in Castlevania.
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Poison mushrooms and gusts of wind harshen Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 later retitled abroad.
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The Legend of Zelda hands you a sword in a cave and then refuses to tell you which dungeon comes next.
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Daylight fades into a dangerous night in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987), and the whip's journey becomes a countryside search.
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Light Warriors cross a bridge that breaks behind them in Final Fantasy (1987), Hironobu Sakaguchi's Famicom RPG that launched the series.
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Cut Man's shears and the Yellow Devil's shifting blocks open Mega Man, a shorter and harder robot-master gauntlet than the sequel that made the formula famous.
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Experience points and side-view swordplay make Zelda II: The Adventure of Link the odd Zelda, closer to an action RPG than the first overhead quest.
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Spirit balls turn a risen centurion into beasts in Altered Beast (1988), Sega's arcade game that opens with a call to rise from the grave.
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Marian's loss sends Billy and Jimmy Lee back into the gang in Double Dragon II: The Revenge, and the NES edition rebuilds that plot with its own stages.
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Weapon practice raises a stat in Final Fantasy II (1988), Square's game that grows characters by the actions they take.
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Subspace vegetables and a four-person cast define Super Mario Bros. 2, the Western sequel built from a different Japanese game.
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Tanooki suits and a world map turn short stages into a toy box in Super Mario Bros. 3, with airships parked between the levels.
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Trevor Belmont can take Sypha, Grant, or Alucard onto branching roads in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.
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Rotoscoped leaps and a one-hour dungeon define Prince of Persia (1989), Jordan Mechner's Apple II game of traps and sword fights.
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Megavitamin capsules fall into a bottle to clear colored viruses in Dr. Mario, Nintendo's puzzle about matching red, blue, and yellow.
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Rush the dog joins the support gear in Mega Man 3 (1990), and Proto Man takes a role in the story beyond a distant whistle.
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Charged buster shots and a false patron define Mega Man 4 (1991), which sends the hero against Dr. Cossack before the usual Wily twist.
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Gravity Man's hold and Gyro Man's blades headline Mega Man 5 (1992), alongside a charge shot and the usual special weapons.
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Inhaled enemies become copy abilities in Kirby's Adventure, the long NES journey that gave Kirby a hat for each stolen power.
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Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde chase the dot-eater in Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani's maze for Namco.
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Super Mario Land gives Mario a pocket journey with its own enemies, vehicles, and ending.
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Mario reclaims his castle from Wario in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, hunting six coins hidden in themed zones.
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Link washes ashore on Koholint in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993), an island that is not Hyrule, and tries to wake the Wind Fish.
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Wario hunts treasure with a shoulder charge in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, and the ending changes with how greedy he was.
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Satoshi Tajiri spent his childhood collecting insects and later asked Game Freak to turn that habit into Pokemon Red.
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Simon Belmont's whip swings in eight directions in Super Castlevania IV, and Konami redrew the castle for 16-bit hardware.
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past splits Hyrule into a light world and a dark world that share one map.
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Banana peels and a red shell define Super Mario Kart, the Mode 7 racer whose handling stays slippery on purpose.
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Pre-rendered fur and a mine-cart ride define Donkey Kong Country, Rare's jungle where Diddy covers ground the big ape cannot.
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Super Metroid opens with Samus delivering a baby metroid to researchers and then returning to a station that has already gone wrong.
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Dixie's ponytail spins like a helicopter in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, and she and Diddy are the ones doing the rescuing.
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Rare sent Dixie and Kiddy north in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
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Michel Ancel and Ubisoft moved Rayman into 3D in Rayman 2: The Great Escape, and the Nintendo 64 edition is among the best regarded.
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Pokemon Gold moves the journey to Johto, where a real-time clock changes which creatures are awake.
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Suicune's pursuit runs through Johto in Pokemon Crystal, with animated battle sprites Gold and Silver lacked.
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Past and present reshape Labrynna in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, and puzzles depend on the era under your feet.
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Winter can freeze a lake that summer opens when the rod is used in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.
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King Boo frames a vacuum job in Luigi's Mansion, the GameCube launch game in which Luigi tours a locked house room by room.
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Capcom's courtroom debut Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney first shipped on the Game Boy Advance in Japan during 2001, with Phoenix objecting through testimony.
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Vaati splits one hero into four in The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, packed by Nintendo and Capcom in 2002 beside A Link to the Past.
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The third Ace Attorney casebook, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations, debuted on the Game Boy Advance in Japan during 2004, with Godot's mask waiting in court.
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Ezlo the talking cap shrinks Link in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, the complete 2004 adventure Flagship made with Nintendo.
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Sam Fisher's quietest toolkit is Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, the third Splinter Cell and the 2005 entry many players treat as the peak of the early stealth games.
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Sonic Team built a speedy answer to Mario in Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Sega's Genesis mascot debut.
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Miles Prower joins the dash in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sega's 1992 Genesis sequel that also introduces the spin dash.
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A perceive bracelet catches witness tells in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.
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Whole neighborhoods opened at once, and The Sims 3 is EA's life sim that stopped locking a household inside a single lot.
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Fire, water, earth, and air tokens clear boards in 4 Elements.
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Om Nom waits under a hanging candy in Cut the Rope.
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Finn McMissile and a spy World Grand Prix fuel Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game.
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Miguel O'Hara shares a breaking timeline with the modern hero in Spider-Man: Edge of Time.
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Mark Evans, Endou in the Japanese script, captains Inazuma Eleven, Level-5's soccer story in which special shots exist only after the plot teaches them.
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Linking books on a pre-rendered island define Myst.
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Ceodore Harvey carries FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS, Square Enix's sequel to Final Fantasy IV, following a new generation after the original cast.
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A chick's egg hunt is Toki Tori, the puzzle Two Tribes reissued on WiiWare in 2008 after the Game Boy Color original.
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Jellybean shapes revive a partnership in A Boy and His Blob, WayForward's 2009 remake of David Crane's 1989 puzzle.
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Quote's cave is redrawn in Cave Story+, the enhanced edition Nicalis published of Daisuke Amaya's freeware.
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Tiki Tak Tribe hypnotists steal the hoard in Donkey Kong Country Returns, the 2010 return Retro Studios built for Nintendo on the Wii.
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Monolith Soft set a colony on a fallen titan, and Xenoblade Chronicles follows Shulk from that Bionis outpost toward the Mechonis on the horizon.
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Phoenix order business opens LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, Traveller's Tales' 2011 brick telling of the last three stories.
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Jack Sparrow's four films get retold in minifigs in LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game.
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Separatist tanks roll through LEGO Star Wars III - The Clone Wars, Traveller's Tales' 2011 brick game based on the animated Clone Wars.
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A stopwatch and a cross-country route define Need for Speed: The Run.
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Globox returns to a side-scrolling brawl in Rayman Origins, the 2011 platformer Ubisoft Montpellier made playable with up to four characters.
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Spoken jokes fill an open Gotham in LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes, the 2012 sequel in which Traveller's Tales gave the bricks real dialogue.
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Middle-earth studs litter LEGO The Lord of the Rings, Traveller's Tales' 2012 retelling of the three Peter Jackson films.
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Oscorp's outbreak spills into an open city in The Amazing Spider-Man, Beenox's 2012 game based on the Marc Webb film.
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Plastic figures unlock play sets, and Disney Infinity is Avalanche Software's toys-to-life sandbox built around that swap.
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Ignite matches are a different game from FIFA 14, the soccer annual EA Sports built for the 2013 season.
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Axel Stone, Adam Hunter, and Blaze Fielding walk the street in Streets of Rage, Sega's 1991 side-scrolling brawler that began on the Genesis.
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Blaze Fielding and Axel Stone lead Sega's Genesis brawler Streets of Rage 2, usually ranked as the high point of that trilogy.
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Heavenly Host Elementary swallows the class in Corpse Party after the Sachiko Ever After charm fails.
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Master League planning returns in Pro Evolution Soccer 2011, Konami's soccer annual released in 2010 and still the rival to EA's FIFA.
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Captain Viridian flips gravity instead of jumping in VVVVVV.
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Codemasters delivered the official Formula 1 season as F1 2011, and the Nintendo 3DS release is the cut-down companion to the console simulation.
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Hang gliders and underwater driving arrived with Mario Kart 7, Nintendo's kart racer for the stereoscopic handheld.
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Nifflas rolls a silhouetted orb through quiet machinery in NightSky.
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Spoken scenes and a new eighth day were added in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked, Atlus's 2011 remake of the tactics lockdown.
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Figures store progress on a portal in Skylanders Spyro's Adventure, the toys-to-life game Toys for Bob started.
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Anniversary stages pair a classic Sonic with a modern Sonic in Sonic Generations.
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Optional gyro aiming sits beside the medal routes in Star Fox 64 3D, Nintendo's 2011 stereoscopic remake of the rail shooter.
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A Tanooki tail and stereoscopic depth showcase Super Mario 3D Land.
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Grezzo rebuilt the Temple of Time quest, gyro aiming included, as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.
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Dogs, cats, and horses move into The Sims 3 Pets, a pet-focused release that was a PC expansion and a standalone game on consoles and handhelds.
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Oversized legends share a ring with then-current stars in WWE All Stars, THQ's arcade wrestler that drops simulation rules.
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Rovio put film costumes on the slingshot in Angry Birds Star Wars, swapping birds and pigs for characters and vehicles from the saga.
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Three slingshot games share Angry Birds Trilogy, Activision's pack of the original, Seasons, and Rio.
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Mayor's duties define Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the 2012 mainline town life on Nintendo 3DS that players kept open for years.
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Solange Blanchefleur De Lux fights with a very long sword in Code of Princess, a side-view brawler of combos and a fantasy cast.
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Chrom's Shepherds and a custom tactician carry Fire Emblem Awakening, the 2012 Intelligent Systems tactics game widely credited with saving the series.
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Pencil-line saloons and trains carry Gunman Clive, the sketch-styled western from Horberg Productions.
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Pit flies, then fights on foot, in Kid Icarus: Uprising, the revival Project Sora and Masahiro Sakurai built for Nintendo 3DS.
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A Drop gauge swaps who you guide between Sora and Riku in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, the Square Enix exam set in sleeping worlds in 2012. The pair are sitting the Mark of Mastery.
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A teaching rabbit kicks through Kung Fu Rabbit, the mobile platformer French studio cTools shipped, with later editions alongside Neko Entertainment.
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Crouch walking and photo camouflage were added when Kojima Productions and Konami placed the jungle mission on the handheld as Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D in 2012. The lower screen keeps the map and the camouflage readout.
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Underwater fights against Lagiacrus define Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Capcom's expanded village-and-port hunt on the handheld.
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Gold coins are the obsession of New Super Mario Bros. 2, Nintendo's 2012 side-scroller on Nintendo 3DS built around huge totals.
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A peeled sticker might open a path or become the only command on offer in Paper Mario: Sticker Star, the Intelligent Systems journey Nintendo published in 2012. No battle partner stays in the party for the whole trip.
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A mask that grants miracles draws young Hershel and Randall through the carnival city of Monte d'Or in Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, the Level-5 prequel Nintendo published in 2012. Riddles appear as solid dioramas the stylus can turn and poke.
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Witches stand trial in Labyrinthia in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the crossover Level-5 and Capcom first released in Japan.
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Brian Provinciano packed an 8-bit open city with crime-spoof missions in Retro City Rampage DX.
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Tree Rex and other huge toys join Skylanders Giants, Activision's second toys-to-life game, beside the returning cast.
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Stylus notes cross field scenes, battle scenes, and event scenes in THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY, the rhythm game indieszero and Square Enix released in 2012. Characters from across the series stand together as a party.
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Bunker shields and a score attack homage to Space Invaders are Puppy Games' Titan Attacks!
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Sigma and Phi face the AB game in Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Chunsoft's sequel to 999 directed by Kotaro Uchikoshi.
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Cell blocks replace an open city in Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Armature Studio's 2013 side-view Metroidvania on Nintendo 3DS and Vita.
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Simon, Trevor, and Alucard share MercurySteam's side-view tale Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate.
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An extra cloud world waits past the mine-cart lines in Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, the stereoscopic port Nintendo published in 2013. The Wii game underneath is Retro Studios' work.
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Odie and the lasagna cat share a budget kart in Garfield Kart.
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The Black Duck Army is the target in Gunslugs, Orangepixel's tiny run-and-gun that started on mobile.
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One color has to flood the whole page in KAMI, the paper-fold puzzle, and a Nintendo 3DS eShop version of that indie was released.
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Professor E. Gadd sends Luigi mansion to mansion in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Next Level Games' ghost hunt, known as Luigi's Mansion 2 in some regions.
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Luigi's sleep becomes the world in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, AlphaDream's role-playing game on Nintendo 3DS.
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Athena Cykes joins the office in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, Capcom's fifth main courtroom game and the first in full polygons.
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Maya Fey channels spirits across three courtroom games collected as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy.
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Mega Evolution and a fully 3D Kalos region arrive together in Pokémon X, Y, Game Freak's mainline pair on 3DS.
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Aurora, a living remnant of the Azran civilization, sends Hershel Layton's last prequel around the globe in Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy, from Level-5 and Nintendo in 2013. The case closes that trilogy of prequels.
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A droplet rolls through scattered memories in Quell Memento, Fallen Tree Games' third calm logic maze.
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Selphia wakes a royal amnesiac in Rune Factory 4, and the farmer you guide is either a prince or a princess who remembers neither crown.
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Mikado seals itself over ruined Tokyo in Shin Megami Tensei IV, the Atlus role-playing game that became many players' first mainline entry.
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Figures split into top and bottom halves in Skylanders SWAP Force, the third toys-to-life entry.
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Ravio rents items while Link merges into a wall painting in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.
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Wheelie gaps and hard crashes define the bike-trials game URBAN TRIAL FREESTYLE.
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A wristwatch that reveals invisible spirits is the whole invitation of Yo-kai Watch, Level-5's 2013 phenomenon built around Whisper and Jibanyan.
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Falling off the bottom drops you in from the top in 6180 the moon, Turtle Cream's puzzle platformer.
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Finn and Jake dungeon-crawl in Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom, WayForward's top-down adventure based on the cartoon.
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Gunvolt tags a foe before the flashfield hits in Azure Striker Gunvolt, the side-scroller from Inti Creates, a studio staffed by Mega Man veterans.
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Brief hop-and-run rooms make up Bloo Kid 2, the numbered indie sequel on the Nintendo 3DS eShop.
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Tiz Arrior and Agnès Oblige lead Bravely Default, the role-playing game Square Enix brought west with Silicon Studio.
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Side-view fights and island dungeons shape Elliot Quest, the action role-playing game Ansimuz built on Zelda II's model.
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The same hero can stand as a paladin and later as a cook or a miner in Fantasy Life, the Level-5 tale Nintendo released in 2014, with the butterfly Flutter pulling the story along.
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EA Sports left the Ignite engine off the simplified handheld FIFA 15, a 3DS season that is not the console game.
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A Hypernova inhale swallows huge objects in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, HAL Laboratory's platformer built around the handheld's depth.
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Hand-drawn maps return in Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, Atlus's crossover of Persona 3 and Persona 4 with Etrian-style charting.
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Stolen weapons are the prize in Pixel Hunter, Lemondo's voxel side-scroller that first appeared on PC.
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Hoenn's seas return with Mega Evolution in Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, Omega Ruby.
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Sonic Team smashed color blobs into falling tetrominoes in Puyo Puyo Tetris, a 2014 versus puzzle that reached Nintendo 3DS.
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Steering a droplet returns in Quell Reflect, the Fallen Tree Games maze placed between the original Quell and later Memento.
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Smash Run is the portable-only mode in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, the handheld half from Bandai Namco and Sora that shipped beside a separate Wii U game.
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Clumsy handling hurt Tetris Ultimate, Ubisoft's multiplatform falling-block release that drew poor notices.
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Rune magic and real-time swings fill The Keep, the first-person dungeon crawler Czech studio Cinemax made for Nintendo 3DS.
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Boss powers transfer to the witch in The Legend of Dark Witch, the Mega Man-style platformer from Japanese studio INSIDE SYSTEM.
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Songs, arguments, and clumsy dates fill the hours on the Mii island of Tomodachi Life, Nintendo's 2014 sandbox about neighbors rather than a scored contest.
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The Dark Spark links movie toys with Cybertron wars in TRANSFORMERS: Rise of the Dark Spark, the action game tying those strands together.
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A flutter jump, and stretches where Yoshi turns into a vehicle, define Yoshi's New Island, the sequel Arzest developed and Nintendo published in 2014. Baby Mario still has to be carried along, yet the island and the search for Baby Luigi are their own delivery, echoing the first trip without repeating it.
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Pendleton Ward's Ooo becomes a case file in Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations, where Finn and Jake work as a detective pair.
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Hopping between copies of a room is the trick of Alter World, a platformer first sold on the New Nintendo 3DS eShop.
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Slappy the dummy gets loose in Goosebumps: The Game, WayForward's tie-in to the Goosebumps film.
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Capcom boxed the first six robot-master campaigns, plus extra challenges, as Mega Man Legacy Collection / ロックマン クラシックス コレクション.
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Gore Magala's frenzy spreads along the roads between settlements in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, the Capcom hunt that became the west's major handheld Monster Hunter in 2015. Mounting lets a hunter climb a monster and topple it when the struggle holds.
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Two Pokémon wake without a clear past at the opening of Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, the Spike Chunsoft journey Nintendo released in 2015. A Connection Orb later calls in a huge roster drawn from across the series.
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Ryunosuke Naruhodo stands in a British court in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Capcom's pair of historical trials from Japan.
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Grezzo rebuilt the falling-moon quest as The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D in 2015, after that studio's Ocarina of Time 3D.
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Three Links stack into a totem in The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, Nintendo's cooperation game for three players.
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Shulk carries the Monado through a war between titans in Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, the port Monolith Soft and Nintendo released for the New Nintendo 3DS in 2015. The Bionis and the Mechonis are the colossal bodies the regions rest on.
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Yew Geneolgia faces a moon that has become the threat in Bravely Second: End Layer, Square Enix's sequel to the prior job-and-turn adventure.
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A Pikachu who talks and drinks coffee partners with Tim Goodman in Detective Pikachu, the Creatures case file Nintendo published in 2016. The work happens in Ryme City, where people and Pokémon share a more urban life than a trainer's road.
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Lost islands rise when fragments return to the tablet in Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, the remake ArtePiazza and Square Enix built from the PlayStation saga.
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Hoshido's war is Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright, the easier route in the campaign split Intelligent Systems released.
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Nohr's march is Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest, the harder half of the split, where grinding is limited.
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Both houses meet in Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation, the third route, sold apart from the two main campaigns.
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Kirby pilots a mech in Kirby: Planet Robobot, HAL Laboratory's platformer often ranked with the strongest mainline outings.
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Paper Toads are waiting to be rescued after a flat hero drops into the brothers' world in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, the AlphaDream crossover Nintendo released in 2016. Fights are trios: Mario, Luigi, and Paper Mario each take a turn under timed-hit rules.
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Four Hunting Styles reshape a weapon in Monster Hunter Generations, Capcom's hunt built on Guild, Striker, Aerial, and Adept together with Hunter Arts.
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Khura'in puts Phoenix on trial in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice, Capcom's sixth main courtroom game.
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Professor Kukui's island trials replace gyms in Pokémon Sun, Moon.
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Lazy Bear Games runs a pixel gym where training hours decide the bout in Punch Club.
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Tibby, fallen out of Heaven World, gives the remixes a reason to exist in Rhythm Heaven Megamix, Nintendo's 2016 tower of rhythm games old and new.
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Nanashi walks the ruined streets in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, the Atlus side story released in 2016. Human partners join the party and pull the tone toward personal bonds, louder than the stern journey this plot overlaps.
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Kotaro Uchikoshi closes the Zero Escape trilogy with the Decision Game in Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.
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Sunset highways and a synth-styled score drive 80'S OVERDRIVE, Insane Code's retro racer chasing an OutRun mood.
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Jason hops out of the tank in Blaster Master Zero, Inti Creates' reimagining of the NES classic.
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Square Enix opened the Luminary's journey in Japan on DRAGON QUEST XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age.
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Seedlings join up while an oasis grows shop by shop in Ever Oasis, the 2017 action role-playing game Grezzo made for Nintendo with producer Koichi Ishii.
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Alm and Celica lead separate armies in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Intelligent Systems' remake of the Famicom game Gaiden.
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Chrom and other lords cleave crowds in Fire Emblem Warriors, the crossover Omega Force, Team Ninja, and Intelligent Systems built.
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The Beanbean Kingdom stays in place beside a new troop-command tale in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions, the AlphaDream remake Nintendo published in 2017. The main book rebuilds the earlier Superstar Saga for the handheld.
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MercurySteam remade Metroid II as Metroid: Samus Returns, and the 2017 Nintendo 3DS hunt adds a melee counter to Samus's arsenal.
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A Kinship Stone lets a rider hatch monsters and battle beside them in Monster Hunter Stories, Capcom's turn-based rider game, with Nintendo publishing it in some regions in 2017. Navirou, a talkative Felyne, tags along as guide and comic voice.
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Necrozma's light expands the Alola story in Pokémon Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, Game Freak's 2017 follow-up with a larger plot than Sun and Moon.
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Specter Knight's fall is the campaign of Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment, the prequel Yacht Club Games made and folded into Treasure Trove.
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Dorothy descends into a larger mine in SteamWorld Dig 2, a dig-and-upgrade sequel from Image and Form.
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Zangetsu slashes through an 8-bit-style curse in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon.
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A movie house locks its doors on three casts at once in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, Atlus's dungeon where Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5 share one theater.
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Stocke keeps two histories of one war in Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology, the Atlus expansion of his time-travel quest.
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Alex, and new endings gathered around the Womb of Grief, reshape the expedition in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux, the remake Atlus made with Lancarse in 2018. The Schwarzwelt, the dungeon that swallowed a whole region, is still the place you crawl.
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Earlier microgames and brand-new ones share a voiced story mode in WarioWare Gold, the Intelligent Systems collection Nintendo released in 2018. Wario and the regular crew introduce toys that last only a few seconds each.
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An aging executive shakes down storefronts in Shakedown: Hawaii, the open-world crime game from Vblank Entertainment, the studio behind Retro City Rampage.
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The pod has vanished when Ecco the Dolphin (1992) begins, Novotrade's Sega Genesis adventure remembered for a steep, strange difficulty.
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Red and Blue fuse guns in Gunstar Heroes, Treasure's Sega Genesis run-and-gun famous for that mixing and later revived in Sega's 3D Classics line.
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King Trode's curse drives Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, Level-5's PlayStation 2 role-playing game with Akira Toriyama's designs, and a Nintendo 3DS port followed.
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Naked Snake crawls a jungle survival mission in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
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A tractor beam yanks the ship upward in Galaga, Namco's arcade shooter that followed Galaxian and made capture its signature.
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Pookas and Fygars swell underground in DIG DUG, Namco's arcade maze where the miner tunnels, inflates enemies, and drops rocks.
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A cube rolls from tile to tile, and Edge grew out of an earlier mobile challenge before later living-room and handheld versions carried it.
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The Guide warns you once, then the night belongs to Terraria, Re-Logic's 2011 sandbox of digging, crafting, and bosses on a flat plane.
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Queen Zenobia's decks host Resident Evil Revelations, Capcom's cruise-ship story built first for the Nintendo 3DS.
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Maxwell types a ladder into existence in Scribblenauts Unlimited, 5th Cell's 2012 puzzle where words become objects.
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Mid-lap boats replace cars in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, Sumo Digital's 2012 Sega crossover whose karts switch among car, boat, and plane.
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The web-series host becomes the avatar of a deliberately harsh throwback, and Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures puts that nerd through cheap deaths.
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Galactus arrives over a brick New York in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Traveller's Tales' 2013 packing of a large Marvel roster into an open city.
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Typed words summon objects inside a superhero universe, and Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure is 5th Cell's crossover starring Maxwell.
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Parkour on floating continents replaces a pure sprint, and Sonic Lost World is Sonic Team's successor-console game about the Lost Hex.
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Rusty digs under Tumbleton in SteamWorld Dig, Image & Form's mining adventure.
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Spikes, darts, and falling blocks fill a cruel temple, and 1001 Spikes is the arcade challenge Nicalis published on two Nintendo machines.
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Rotating a small diorama leads Toad to a star he cannot jump for, and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is Nintendo's puzzle spun out of those no-jump boards.
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Lantern Corps rings pull Batman into space in LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Traveller's Tales' 2014 sequel built around those corps.
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Bilbo Baggins signs a contract in LEGO The Hobbit, Traveller's Tales' 2014 brick telling of Peter Jackson's Hobbit films.
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Landings are the trick, and OlliOlli is Roll7's skateboard game about flicking the stick at the exact moment the wheels meet the ground.
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Small generated floors and a compact party define the crawl, and Quest of Dungeons is the roguelike that ships those short delves.
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Pirate gear replaces genie magic, and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is WayForward's half-genie adventure about that swap.
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A shovel replaces the usual sword, and Shovel Knight is Yacht Club Games' Kickstarter homage that treats that tool as a primary weapon.
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Later knight campaigns share a carton with the original shovel quest, and Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is Yacht Club's bundle of those stories.
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Mom's basement resets in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, the 2014 rebuild Nicalis and Edmund McMillen made of the 2011 roguelike.
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Emmet's construction fantasy is retold in bricks, and The LEGO Movie - Videogame is TT Games' tie-in released with the film.
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One screen holds the whole scuffle in Woah Dave!
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A drifter hops tiny planets to rebuild a damaged ship, and Xeodrifter is Renegade Kid's pocket search across those small maps.
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Ordinary townspeople join the party, and Citizens of Earth is the turn-based joke about recruiting a barista, a farmer, and a conspiracy crank.
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DreamWorks animals brawl on floating stages, and Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends is the platform fighter built around Po and the Furious Five.
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Four films of dinosaurs become studs and jokes, and LEGO Jurassic World is TT Games' retelling from the first park through the later island.
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Ricochet shots are the main trick, and SteamWorld Heist is Image and Form's turn-based crew shooter built around bouncing bullets.
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Course parts from several Mario eras snap together in Super Mario Maker.
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The first two Avengers films get the brick treatment, and LEGO Marvel's Avengers is TT Games' retelling of those battles.
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Scenes that the film only implies get their own brick levels, and LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens is TT Games' version of the seventh movie.
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Beck absorbs a boss's power after the fight, and Mighty No. 9 is Keiji Inafune's Kickstarter project with Inti Creates, widely received as a troubled successor to Mega Man.
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Bubble popping wears the shell of a tiny handheld, and Pirate Pop Plus is 13AM Games' arcade toy presented like a toy machine.
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Gentle plant-raising fills a small garden, and Plantera is the sim about tending sprouts on the glasses-free handheld and the successor console.
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Touch swipes sever limbs, and Severed is Drinkbox Studios' first-person slash about a girl reclaiming her family.
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Creeper blasts teach caution in Minecraft, the block sandbox Markus Persson started at Mojang.
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