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16 Games Considered

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Limbo
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Botanicula
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Machinarium
Very PositivePuzzle (point-and-click)
Thomas Was Alone
Very Positive–
Leo's Fortune
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Limbo

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Touching story

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Manages to tell a touching story in spite of it's complete lack of dialogue.
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Intricate puzzles

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Limbo uses a wide range of puzzles in game that range from simply moving a box to puzzles that have multiple parts and normally do not reveal their secrets until the player has died while trying to solve it.
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Black and white art style

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There has been many imitators since but Limbo is the original game that used a black and white art style for a stylish and creepy effect.
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May be too dark for children

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The game, by design has the main character dying quite a bit, often very gruesomely and so may not be appropriate for younger players.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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Botanicula

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Immersive mode

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Botanicula utilizes immersive mode which is available on all Android devices that are on 4.4+.
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Intuitive puzzles

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Unlike this studios previous work (Machinarium) the puzzles are intuitive and difficulty ramps up fairly.
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Graphics border on being art

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The fantastic visual in the game is remiss of art one would see in a pop art gallery.
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Buggy and crashes

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There are quite a few graphical bugs in the game as well as a lack of stability.
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Machinarium

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Hand drawn steam punk graphics are visually stunning

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Machinarium's graphics are quite exquisite to look at and definitely give the game a fantastic steam punk vibe.
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Machinarium has included hint system to help on the harder puzzles

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For the harder puzzles in the game all players have the option to use an included hint system to help figure them out.
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Machinarium includes immersive mode

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Immersive mode is a full screen feature that hides navigation and notification bars on Android 4.4 and up and is thankfully included in Machinarium
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Difficult to play on a small screen device

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Machinarium can be difficult to play on small screen devices such as phones.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
Genre:Puzzle (point-and-click)
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Thomas Was Alone

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Ethereal soundtrack

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Haunting guitar strums mixed with beautiful piano chords and bits of chiptune creates a very fitting soundtrack.
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Great story

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For what is a pretty simplistic looking game, Thomas Was Alone offers a truly great story that actually gets the player to care about what are basically squares and rectangles.
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Professional narration

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What really drives the well crafted story home is the wonderful narration done by British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television, Danny Wallace.
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Short

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The gameplay only lasts about 3 or 4 hours.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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Leo's Fortune

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Immersive mode

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Leo's Fortune includes immersive mode for Android devices on 4.4+.
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Smooth well crafted levels with great puzzles

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It even has a nice storyline to go along with it.
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Charming narration

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The story of Leopold is completely narrated, which gives the game a nice sense of polish as well as helps give some life to the story.
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Excellent platforming gameplay and touch screen controls

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Leo's Fortune offers some solid platforming which is pulled off not just by some good level design but greatly programmed touch screen controls.
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Short game

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Easy

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Leo's Fortune does not offer a lot of challenge.
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Genre:Platformer / Adventure
Controller Support:HID
Co-Op:None
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Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery

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Puzzles are a part of the world

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Puzzles in this game are not too difficult and usually can be quickly figured out by being attentive of your surroundings. But they are not supposed to be hard, they are meant to bring you further into the world.
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Excellent atmosphere

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A detailed aesthetic, a great score and an intriguing narrative together create a world that engrosses you from the very beginning.
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Subpar gameplay

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The gameplay often times feels convoluted or just too high concept.
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Genre:Puzzle / Adventure
Controller Support:No
Co-Op:None
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Terraria

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Survival-horror elements give a sense of urgency

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Instead of building a deliberate feeling of suspense, Terraria uses bright palettes and arcade action to provide a fun experience outside of the survival elements. When those elements gradually appear one by one, each is all the more shocking from the contrast which makes for an ever growing sense...
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Always a new experience

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Upon start of the game a world is randomly generated which allows the user to get a new experience any time they start a new world making for unlimited replayability.
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Immersive mode on Android 4.4+

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Terraria features immersive mode on any Android device with Android version 4.4+.
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Free demo for easy testing

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A trial version of the game can be downloaded on Google Play. A feature of the trial version is that it does have a full game unlock through in app purchase, for those that don't want to lose their games progress by downloading a different version of the game.
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Allows for great freedom of expression

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The game has all kinds of tools and materials that you can acquire and use to build whatever you can imagine.
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Local multiplayer

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You can play with up to 4 players over local Wi-Fi.
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There is lots to explore and find

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Terraria has a randomly generated world with all kinds different areas to explore, items to find and craft, and secrets to unearth. There is a basic introduction to the game, but mostly everything revolves around experimenting and exploring.
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Risk of loosing data

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Many users have reported that they have lost save games as well as cloud save files. Whether it is caused by the game updating or just random bugginess is still unknown as the devs have not responded to these issues.
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Cloud saving is broken

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Currently cloud saving is broken so that means you can build your world but it sits in your phone. You cannot back it up, you cannot sync it with other devices, nor even manually backup unless your device is rooted.
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Genre:2D platformer / Minecraft-like
Controller Support:Android (MOGA / HID), Steam (Full)
Co-Op:8 Player Online / 8 Player LAN
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Grim Fandango Remastered

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New commentary track

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The current remastered developers have added a new commentary track from the original key developers to the game.
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Inspired by the Day of the Dead holiday, Mexican folklore and film Noire

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Grim Fandango is self admittedly inspired by the Day of the Dead Mexican holiday as well as Noir style films.
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New repainted characters

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The character models are newly painted for HD.
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No tutorial

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A missed opportunity with this remake is the chance to finally add a tutorial.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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The Cave

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Good story

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Throughout the game you unravel your chosen characters sinful pasts.
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Clever, sin-based puzzles

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You control 3 out of 7 characters representing deadly sins. They have to use their special abilities and work together to solve logic puzzles. The puzzles are also thematic and change based on characters you've chosen.
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Humorous narrator

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The main character of the game is The Cave itself. The Cave has a tendency for ironic, deep-voiced remarks regarding his new inhabitants, their past and the events currently taking place.
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There is lag and stutter on some devices

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On lower end devices there may be significant lag and dropped frames.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
Genre:2D platformer / Adventure
Controller Support:Full
Co-Op:3 Player Couch
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Broken Age

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Polished art design

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The graphics, music and voice acting are all top notch. Considering the amount of money this game made through its Kickstarter, they very well should be.
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Full game

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For 15 months only the first part of the game was available on a few platforms. With the mobile releases the full game is what is on sale both part one and part two.
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Puzzles in second act too convoluted

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In comparison of the first act, which had simple puzzles that moved the story forward, the puzzles in the second act are extremely difficult with no easy or obvious answers. Having to resort to a guide to even finish the game because of the imbalance is really no fun at all.
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Poor story in second act

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The second act of the game has an increasingly incoherent story that explains very little of what is going on. Considering the first act ends with a cliffhanger and many questions to be asked, to see the second half explain almost none of it makes for a frustrating story.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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Lethal Lance

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nVidia Shield support

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The game can be played with either on screen virtual buttons or a nVidia Shield gaming device.
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No in-app purchases

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Although it says there are In-App Purchases on the Play Store page of the game, in reality there are none. Once you buy the game, you get the full experience without additional costs.
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Oldschool gameplay may have trouble holding attention of player

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Lethal Lance holds so tight to the design of old school platforming of yore that in this day in age some may consider the gameplay boring.
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Another World

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Controller support

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Another World features controller support for MOGA devices as well as the Xperia Play.
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Challenging and fun

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For what is a 20 year old game to still hold in gameplay, story and presentation is quite a feat and an enjoyable one at that.
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Great remake

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The newly added HD graphics show that much time was spent creating a fantastic remake of what was a very iconic game.
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Some issues with the control scheme

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Touch controls for movements such as jump can be hard to pull off as the swipe gesture needs to be very exact.
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Genre:Adventure
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Ittle Dew

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HID gamepad support

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Ittle Dew supports HID gamepads.
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Fun boss puzzles

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The boss levels in the game are puzzles that are aggressive towards the player, making for a nice change from the normal puzzles to be found as well as add a bit more challenge to the gameplay overall.
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Block moving puzzle oriented

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Ittle Dew is comprised of mainly block moving puzzles to progress room to room in the games dungeons. While there are a few other puzzles throughout the game, mainly block moving is what the player will be doing.
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Touch screen controls are not the best

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The touch screen controls do not lend themselves well to the action gameplay of Ittle Dew, luckily the majority of the game is puzzle oriented.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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The 7th Guest: Remastered

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Android OS exclusive

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The 7th Guest: Remastered is an Android OS exclusive, meaning iOS and the Windows Phone platforms will not receive the game for sometime. Seeing as how a lot of high quality releases on release on iOS at first, it is refreshing to see Android the preferred platform for a release.
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Newly redesigned touch controls

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The controls have been completely redesigned for the touch platform, making for an easily controlled and intuitive experience.
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Classic graphics game mode

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There is an optional classic graphics setting that can be used that makes the game appear as it originally did with a mouse pointer as the input and all.
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Nastalgia

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For those that played the original title, it will be a fun trip down memory lane to play the game again after so many years.
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HD graphics that upscale

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The graphics have all been redone for HD and have been created with up-scaling in mind to allow for proper representation on the assortment of device resolutions and screen sizes on the Android platform.
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Classic point and click puzzling adventure with high replayability

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The player will try to make their way through 22 different point and click stages that each contain a puzzle that must be solved to progress. A classic point and click formula that does not stray from the genres roots.
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Large file size

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The new HD graphics, included full soundtrack and in game full-motion videos take up quite a bit of room on the device, just short of 1GB.
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The Great Fusion

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Strange story with hand drawn graphics

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The story is a bit crazy and a little all over the place, which is fitting with the look of the hand drawn character and backgrounds.
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Good story

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The Great Fusion has many moments of satire and is even charmingly cynical, giving the story a lot of character and making it a joy to play through.
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Poor translation

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There are grammatical errors in almost every line of dialogue.
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Peppy's Adventure

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Walkthroughs available for every level

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For when a player gets stuck there are walkthrough videos available to watch after 25 tries.
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Advertisements can be removed for free

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The developer of Peppy's Adventure has provided a way to remove advertisements for free.
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Replay value

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With 4 different stars that can be found per stage, there is quite a lot of challenge and replayability.
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Plenty of levels and stages

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With 165 stages scattered across 11 different levels there is quite a lot of content to be had.
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Odd controls

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The use of two control pads may be odd to some players.
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