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A Look Back @ Shantae

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The eternal life question of “what a girl wants?”, as answered by the purple-haired lady genie exotically named Shantae, is to kick pirate booty and restore order in a quaint little 2-D circular-designed world. It also means that when you’re given an hourglass figure that the entire contestants of those goddamn top model shows would sacrifice a newborn or two for, you exploit it via the sensual art of the belly-dance. Only in this case, dancing lets you to turn into a menagerie of animals to help solve conveniently-placed puzzles blocking your path.
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A Look Back @ Monster World IV

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Year Released: 1994

Platform: Sega Megadrive/Genesis

Developer: Westone

This old gem back in 1994, created by a small group called Westone of Sega, is a Zelda 2 Clone done right. Westone itself had an interesting history: earlier on, they created Wonderboy for the arcade, also known as Adventure Island for the NES. The IP split into two directions: one is a linear fast-paced platformer (Adventure Island series) and the other is an open-ended adventure game influenced by the likes of Metroid & the infamous Simon’s Quest, dubbed as Monster World. Granted, I’ve never played the other Monster World series, but the acclaim the previous titles received may urge me to test out said series.
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