Top 5 Must play PSP games for PS Vita owners

Playstation Portable is one of the Sony's most impressive handheld devices was released in year between 2004 and 2005. It was sold over 82 million worldwide and it shares tons of amazing game titles to play, but Sony decided to released their PSP's successor called PS Vita which was released in year between 2011 and 2012. Despite the poor sales of PS Vita that didn't do well on handheld gaming market it does offers some of the amazing titles to play and some great features such as touchscreen/rear touchpad, dual sticks and remote play.

I'm very glad that I have PS Vita for 5 years because I've enjoyed playing some of PS Vita games and of course downloadable PSP games. It's a shame that the physical PSP games aren't backwards compatible with the PS Vita due to lack of UMD format, but instead you have to purchase the PSP games library from PS Store which is not a bad thing because you may be lucky to buy these for cheaper sales.

There are some of the PSP games that PS Vita owners should be able to enjoy these awesome titles and I'm going to make my top 5 must play PSP games for PS Vita owners. This is for the PS Vita owners who did not own the original PSP, but they should able to download it from PS Store and play on their PS Vita system, so please enjoy this top 5.    



5 - Resistance: Retribution

 

















Resistance are one of the fantastic FPS series by Insomniac Games (same developers team behind Ratchet and Clank series). This game is a spin-offs to main series and unlike rest of the games are First-Person Shooter this game is a Third-Person Shooter where you take control of British Royal Marine named Lieutenant James Grayson has his mission to wipe down the Chimera invasion.

This game features impressive cover-based gameplay mechanics with easier to control aiming system which works well for the TPS style and it has excellent selection of combat weapons with great shooting range. It has epic single player campaign with fantastic storylines and characters that made the presentation sounds interesting for the series. This game also features 8-player online matches with modes such as Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Containment, Free For All and Assimilation.

This game is definitely worth playing for most of the PS Vita owners should able to purchase from PS Store.


4 - Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny

 

Soul series were very known for being one of the best 3D weapon-based fighting games in history.
Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny is definitely the quality game for PSP to show how amazing this game looks on PSP standards due to technically impressive visuals and animation. Despite the game has missing the proper story presentation and online versus modes this game features quick match modes where the players are given the list of A.I players to choose which opponent to fight and gauntlet modes is the tutorial which has similar story telling features like Soul Calibur II's Weapon Master mode, but it has 34 chapters with two to four sub-missions in each stages. This game also has character customization mode which you can able to edit and customise your character's appearance just like from Soul Calibur IV.

I finding the combat gameplay is very accurate to control due to incredible fighting techniques, great use of weapon systems and fluid combo performance are very playable and responsive to play. The game also has memorable characters from previous titles and also features playable guest Kratos from God of War series.

If you're the fan of the series then this is definitely for you to play.  



3 - God of War: Chain of Olympus

   

















God of War is always one of the most badass hack n slash series on Sony platforms. This game are surprisingly the best game for the PSP library. This game is a prequel to original God of War which is loosely based on Greek mythology and set in ancient Greece. You take control of Kratos who been guided by the goddess Athena, who instructs him to find the Sun God Helios, as the Dream God Morpheus has caused many of the gods to slumber in Helios' absence.

This game is very similar to previous installiment with a focus on combo-based combat, platforming and puzzle elements. I'm very impressed with the overall game because the developer team Ready at Dawn has managed to help Santa Monica Studio to make such quality PSP game due to magnificent controls for PSP standards. It has amazing combat gameplay with insane combo systems and great selection of weapons and power-ups. It has well designed levels environment with excellent puzzle solving that made the game quite challenge. I also loved the overall look of graphics which shows the powerhouse of the PSP systems with fantastic visuals, well designed characters, gorey special effects and runs on 60 fps. Kratos are always one of the most badass video game characters of all time that kicks everyone ass and it has superb storyplot and amazing Greek-themed presentation.

PS Vita owners should able to experience this epic hack n slash action.



2 - Metal Gear Soild: Portable Ops

Metal Gear Soild is always one of my favourite Konami franchises of all time. Kojima Productions was the mastermind behind Metal Gear series were well known for being the most influential stealth-action game that defines the game's genres. I'm very surprised to see any of Metal Gear titles being released for handheld system. Metal Gear Soild: Portable Ops is a stealth-action game for PSP which take place in the events 6 years after the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. You take control of Naked Snake who is forced to fight off his former unit FOX after they instigate a revolt in a South American base. He get to meets a surviving member of the Green Berets team named Roy Campbell was sent to investigate the affair.

This game retains the stealth-action gameplay from the MGS 3: Snake Eater, but offers the team-based approach where you have to recruit allies and form a team of trained specialists which is helpful for players to work with the teams during the mission. I finding the team-based gameplay is very useful for each missions which gives a player experience to enjoy the single-player campaign. I really loved the stealthy gameplay mechanics where the player has ability to hide on the objects and sneak behind the enemies without getting caught and I also liked the mission objectives is where the players has to complete each tasks on every mission which bought so many in-depth challenges. This game has incredible stylised cutscene, well-written story and fantastic cast of characters that bought out such amazing presentation and the graphics did a good job for PSP system with realistic looking characters and great level designs that really fits well in a game. This game also features online multiplayer mode which is an expansion of the "Metal Gear Online" mode previously featured in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.

Fans of the MGS series were pretty impressed to see how Kojima Productions managed to make such excellent game for PSP titles, so this is definitely the second must play for PS Vita owners.



1 - Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

     

















Final Fantasy was one of the biggest landmark of turn-based RPG genres by Square Enix. The success of the main series has spawns so many of sequels, spin-offs and other related series. It is hard for me to get used with the Final Fantasy series because games like FFIV, FFVI and FFVII are the only three games that I've enjoyed, but I finding FFXIII are quite not good as the previous titles that I've liked. What really got me attention is the Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy for PSP which is quite a different game from the main series, so I just got this game purchased from PS Store and downloaded it on my PS Vita. I spent playing this game for three to four weeks to complete and it really pleased me a lot.

Instead of traditional turn-based RPG, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy is game mixed between action RPG and 3D fighting game genres. It is a prequel to original Dissidia Final Fantasy. The game initially focuses on the twelfth war between the gods Chaos and Cosmos who have summoned several warriors from parallel worlds to fight for them.
This game features additional mechanics that adds to the battle system such as EX mode and assist. It also features some of the new playable characters such as Lighting, Tifa, Vaan, Laguna, Kain and Yuna, while it's still retains the returning characters from the originals such as Cloud, Squall, Onion Knight, Zidane, Cecil and Terra. This game has single-player story mode with open-world map where players being able to experience a story while exploring the world with scenarios and events taking place as the story progresses. It has great battle system mechanics and terrific combat controls that keeps the performance of gameplay feel freshed and polished to play. The exploring is great for finding items chest, purchasing a variables of magics and battle out against the enemies to level up your character's skills. You can also purchase your new weapons, armours, moves and accessories to improve your character's abilities. This game has versus modes where you can fight against other player through local or online modes and you can also battle against A.I players as well. I really loved the presentation of the game with cinematic sequences, stunning characters and superb storylines that made the game quite entertaining, and it has one of the best soundtrack from all Final Fantasy series.

This is by far one of the best games for PSP library that is highly recommended for PS Vita owners should be able to enjoy this kind of game.    


Honorable mentions:

Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Ridge Racer
Everyone Tennis
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
Killzone: Liberation
Metal Gear Soild: Peace Walker
Corpse Party
Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX
Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles
Megaman X: Maverrick Hunter
Gran Turismo  



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Top 5 Most Underrated Wii Games

Many of people knew that Nintendo Wii was one of the best-selling game consoles of Seventh generation era that shares with well known game titles like Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Metroid Prime 3, Punch-Out, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Wii Sports Resorts. There are some great library of games for Wii that didn't actually deserved a much attention to wider public is due to poor sales, mixed reception from fans and critics, and not many people have heard of the game before, but these are the top-notch games that should have been deserve a much credit and to give reason why is it worth to pick up and play for most of the video game collectors.

I'm going to make my top 5 most underrated wii games of all time.




5 - Red Steel 2

The first Red Steel is a FPS game was released in 2006 as a Wii launch titles, but sadly it turns out to be one of the most disappointing launch game for Nintendo Wii which has received mixed response from critics. Ubisoft Paris decided to release a better sequel called Red Steel 2 in 2010. It is a stand-alone sequel to predecessor, but offers a use of Wii Motionplus to enhanced sword gameplay. This game is quite different from the predecessor, so instead of Yakuza style settings from the first original, this game takes place in western style theme where you get to play as unnamed hero, who is the last member of Kasagari Clan, has his mission to take down the members of the Jackals.

What really surprises me about this game is the Wii Motionplus accessory that connected into the bottom of the Wii remote which gives the advantages of motion controls such as reflexes sword gameplay and responsive combat controls that made the game more playable. The game also offers impressive single-player missions and excellent upgrades such as new techniques, armor and weapons. I also loved the detailed art style of graphics with amazing cel-shaded visuals and design which tends to be a lot better than the first game. It's a shame that this game sold poorly in comparsion with the first game because everyone started to lose interest with this sequel after their disappointment with the first game, but still this game is definitely worth playing for Wii collectors.




4 - Wario Land: Shake Dimensions  

        

               

















As many of gamers knew that Wario Land series is one of a Nintendo's handheld classic 2D platformer from the 90's to early 2000's, but until the developers team Good-Feel decided to release the recent Wario Land game for Nintendo's home consoles such as Wii in 2008.

Wario Land: The Shake Dimension (A.K.A Wario Land: Shake It in US release) is a 2D platformer game where you get to play as villain like Mario named Wario set his adventure to search for the treasures in Shake Dimension world. It is one of the first 2D platformer game for home console which utilise the use of Wii Remote's motion-controls allowing Wario has ability to shake the objects, throw enemies and tilting Wii remote to aim which is very creative for Wii titles. It features awesome levels with hidden secrets, collecting rare treasures and really cool boss battles. I'm also impressed with the overall graphics that advantages the Wii systems because I really loved the fully animated character's design which makes the game look specular on both opening and closing cutscenes. It's colorful and it's well produced animation designs that shows how amazing the game looks.

It didn't caught any of attention because this game never got released for Nintendo's handheld console such as DS which could have been sounds awesome, but still this game is an fantastic underrated gems for Wii title offers excellent gameplay and stunning graphics.




3 - No More Heroes Series

           

Suda 51 was known for their titles such as Killer 7, Shadow of the Damned and Lollipop Chainsaw. One of the series that caught my attention is No More Heroes for Nintendo Wii was released in 2008. The game follows big time loser named Travis Touchdown who been living in motel for long time. After meeting with woman named Sylvia Christel, he accepts the job to kill most of the drifter to earn the rank to become number 1 assassins of UAA.

What I really liked about the game is the presentation because it has well written storylines, funny characters with amazing sense of humor and great atmospheres for most of the cutscenes settings. The gameplay is definitely well played with the use of Wii remote and nunchunk controller which is perfect for hack n slash genres. It features great side-quests to earn money which can be spent on weapons, training sessions, clothes and video tapes and ranking fight. It has the best original soundtrack and amazing voice cast for most characters in the game. This game also received a port of the game called No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011.

They later release the sequel called No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle for Wii in 2010. This game take place after the events of the first game. This game does have amazing story, characters and humor, I felt the sequel is lot better because it has two playable characters, four beam katanas, new deathmatch modes and better campaign mission that made the game so entertaining.

The reason why both of these games hasn't sold well because most of the Wii owners has too much relying on casual games titles, but still No More Heroes series are excellent M rated hack n slash game for the Wii system and I hope Suda51 will able to make third installiment for Nintendo Switch in upcoming future.




2 - Sin and Punishment: Star Successor

  




















Treasure is one of the best video game developers are known for classic titles such as Gunstar Heroes, Radiant Slivergun and Ikaruga. The game that really impressed me the most was Sin and Punishment: Star Successor for Wii is a the arcade-style rail-shooter game was released in 2010. It is a sequel to Japanese-exclusive 2000's originals called Sin and Punishment for N64.

You get to play as two of the playable characters such as Isa and Kachi has their mission to defend themselves from the group of Nebulox, which is led by Doko who wanted to kill these two for his betrayal. This game features newer gameplay mechanics, better graphics, online ranking, 2 player co-op, and 8 stages to play. It plays perfect with the Wii remote are easier to aim and shoot at the enemies and it has groundbreaking levels that are worth for playing is due to atmospheric stages, epic boss battles and fast-paced action that ran 60 fps making it the most polished arcade shooter on the Wii. It's a shame that this game has gotten completely ignored in worldwide, but this is definitely one of the best bullet-hell shooter that is worth for pick up and play.  




1 - Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Before I got interested in Fire Emblem franchises, the series used to be Japanese-exclusive Tactical RPG in 90's until the Fire Emblem for GBA was released worldwide in 2004 which received much praises from critics and fans. The success of the game spawn many sequels for Nintendo consoles, so I decided to pick up Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for Wii from the game store. I've played this game for three weeks to complete and it really amazed me because this is one of my favourite tactical RPG games I ever played.

This game takes place after the event of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, it involves Micaiah and her friends has their goal to battle against the Begnion army in war-torn Daein. It has fantastic story and decent characters with well designed visual novel settings that made the presentation such top-notch and I really enjoyed the turn-based strategy gameplay is where you can take control of your unit to fight against the enemy's unit and capture the enemy's base to complete the goal.

Most of the critics and fan of the series finding the game wasn't good as the Path of Radiance for Gamecube because they criticised the game is too similar with the predecessor, frustrating difficulty and lack of motion-controls. This game are considered to be the hardest game for Wii titles, but it adds the challenge of the gameplay overall that takes sometime to get used too which makes the game worth playing. I think this game should deserve much credit to make the game enjoyable for the fan of the genres, so this game is a totally most underrated Wii games of all time.




Honorable mentions:

Madworld
Conduit series
Metroid Other M
Ghost Squad
Tatsunoko vs Capcom
Gunblade NY/LA Machineguns



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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided PS4 Review

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a FPS Role-Playing games for PS4, XBONE and PC, which was developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix. It is sequel to 2011's game called Deus Ex: Human Revolution for PS3, X360 and PC, but also available on Wii U along with multiplatform consoles as Director Cut in 2013 release.

I remember playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution on my PS3 since 5 years ago, so it wasn't my favourite FPS shooter on my list, but it's still plays okay because it does have really great presentation, outstanding graphics design and decent combat gameplay which I had fun playing and sometimes the game can be quite frustrating for most of the missions, but overall it's better than the original 2000's game Deus Ex in my opinion. I've decided to play the 2016's sequel for my PS4 to see if this game actually becoming good as the Human Revolution and so far I actually liked this game a lot better than the previous game because I felt the both main and side mission are quite entertaining to play and the combat gameplay are just like the Human Revolution, but slightly more polished combat systems makes easier to play. The graphics are still outstanding for most of the game's design and I find the story in the game is pretty okay in the whole because it's not quite sounds strong as the previous game, but offers interesting narrative and conversation dialogue that made the storyplot sounds pretty decent overall.


Without go further do, let's talk about the game's overall.



Presentation

This game sets two years after the event of Human Revolution. It's starts off with augmented security offer Adam Jensen now working with the special interpol unit, Task Force 29, to capture terrorist group of augmented humans. After the mission from Task Force 29, he returns to Prague to meet his Juggernaut contact, Alex Vega giving Jensen a mission task just right before they got caught in the blast of terrorist's bombing, but they got survived after the terrorist's attack. His task is to make investigation that linked to terrorist's bombing and confront those who are behind the attacks in Prague.

I actually found the story is pretty interesting to hear the conspiracies theory that involves hiding behind the secrets that really affecting the human mankinds, but it's good to hear the character's investigation that brought out the information to find out what really happened to human's world. I also liked the dialogue conversation between the characters that brings out the extra plot in the game and the main protagonist Adam Jensen is quite a cool character with his awesome long-coat, futuristic sun-glasses and his badass aug-technology that made him look great, but he's lacked of his personality as he looked quite strict with the supporting characters during the conversation, which is okay for story's presentation. I also liked the looks of the stealth-kills animation where Jensen performs two types of melee attacks on their enemies, but it's seems too simple compared with the previous game that has more variety of melee attacks during the stealth-kills animation, but still it's pretty brutal at the same time in the game. The weakest point was the game's ending kinda feels empty that didn't give a proper story's conclusion and the length of the game is kinda short compared with the previous game doesn't mean the story sounds bad overall.

Overall, the story has interesting plotlines, the main character are quite decent and the cutscenes are quite cinematic especially with stealth-kills animations.



Gameplay

The player takes control of Adam Jensen to complete the each main and side-missions in the game.

The combat gameplay are slightly more polished than the previous game. It has some of the useful types of weapons such as pistol which is a basic weapon to use, but you can also modify this weapon with the silencer making it less noisy to shoot and changing the different types of bullets such as EMP bullet are useful for temporary disable security objects. The combat rifle are great for long-range distance, but you can also use anti-armor bullets are used for damaging enemy's armor, turrets and security robots which works really well with some different types of bullets. The shotgun works with the close-range combat, while sniper rifle are used for long-range distance, but allowing to give instant kills on the enemies. Most of the weapons in the games has amazing aiming controls and shooting accuracy making it more polished combat gameplay. You can perform two types of stealth-kills such as putting the enemy to sleep or instantly kill them, so putting the enemy to sleep are lot more quieter than using the instant melee kills for the stealth gameplay. In stealth gameplay, the player will see on the radar which actually tells that there are enemy nearby, so if the enemy did see you in the unauthorised area then they will fight you as hostle. You can hide behind the cover that prevent enemy caught you in action, so you will notice the yellow indicator on the screen which tells you that the enemy will able to notice you in the area before the fight starts. I say the stealth gameplay are very challenging for some missions which increases the fun factor of the single-player campaign.

On the dialogue tree, your character has to make decisions by selecting each of the conversation dialogue-lines, so it's entirely up to you to pick the ones is right for the game's story which increases the story experiences.    

This game has several of the places to explore such as houses, hotels, bank, station, pubs and so on which are good for finding collectables datas, newspapers, ebook, and variable items. You can also hack some of the devices to gain infos, shutting down security cameras and obtaining codes to unlock doors, so I say the hacking gameplay are quite harder to trackdown the systems, but still it's quite challenging for those who enjoys collecting stuff. You can go to the store to purchase and sell the variety of weapons, bullets, computer software equipment, energy cell and health item which are very useful for some in-game missions. You can also use praxis kits to upgrade character's augmentations such as adding capacity of health and energy, abilities to lift heavy objects, using eye visions to scan the areas, making character's jump higher, adding more space on weapon and items inventory, and plenty of cool stuff that really enhanced the gameplay style.

Overall, it has entertaining missions, polished combat gameplay, great use of stealth mechanics, impressive hacking mode and some cool upgrades that made the game enjoyable.


Graphics


I say the graphics in the whole game are absolutely fantastic with glossy visual effects that has great use of textures details and the environment level design are well made for most of the buildings and places that has amazing backgrounds of the streets, pubs, houses and hotels which I believe the developer team wanted to make the level environment look bigger in the whole game. The character's design are looked realistic because you can see their facial expressions and body language are actually pretty more accurate and real alike as it's looked really good on the both cutscenes and in-game missions.

The graphics are much improved over the Human Revolution just to keep the game up to date. Overall, it offers fantastic visuals, great environment design and realistic character's models that made the game looked spectacular in general.


Music and Sounds

It really has upbeating industrial soundtrack mixed between electronic and ambient really sounds good in the whole game as it fits for gameplay missions and cinematic presentation adds the overall atmosphere. They did a amazing job with the sound effects of background sounds, ambient noise, gun shots and all of the sound work are sounds quite stunning and the voice cast did a great job of their character role that really fits the tone of voice as it's sounds really good on the character's dialogue.

Overall, it has stunning soundtrack, fantastic sound effects and great voice cast for their character role.


Special Features

This game has two side-stories downloadable content (via Jensen's stories) such as System Rift and A Criminal Past, and it features mini-game mode called Breach to complete the numerous of challenge which are quite cool to enjoy these features in this game. You can also check extra menus to see some of the cool trailers and behind the game scenes.


Advantages

Impressive presentation

Polished combat gameplay

Awesome stealth mechanics

Brutal melee kills

Outstanding graphics

Stunning soundtrack

Cool special features



Disadvantages

Short length campaign

Terrible ending



Final Verdict


Presentation 7.5/10 - Interesting plotlines, decent character and badass stealth-kills animations.

Gameplay 7.5/10 - Entertaining missions, polished combat gameplay, great use of stealth mechanics, impressive hacking mode and some cool upgrades.

Graphics 9/10 - Fantastic visuals, great environment design and realistic character's models.

Music and Sounds 8.5/10 - Stunning soundtrack, fantastic sound effects and great voice cast.

Special Features 7.5/10 - Three DLC content, mini-game mode and some extras.


Overall 7.5/10 - This is actually an enjoyable FPS game that has impressive missions, great combat and stealth gameplay, fantastic graphics design and interesting story that I finding it more entertaining. The game suffers short-length campaign and poor endings choices are not the best part of the game, but still this game offers exciting mini-game and three side-story DLC content to enjoy, so if you're the fan of this series or FPS role-playing genres in general then this game is definitely for you to pick up and play.


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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse PS4 Download Digital Review

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a 2D platform game which was both developed and published by WayForward Technologies and it is a sequel to 2010's game called Shantae: Risky's Revenge for Nintendo DSi. This game was originally released in 2014 for Nintendo 3DS and it was later ported to Wii U, XBONE, PS4 and PC in between 2014 and 2016 release.

I really enjoyed playing Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on my PS4 last year because it has simple storyplot, amazing protagonist, solid gameplay and decent graphics that made the game so stunning to play, so if you haven't seen my previous review from last year, please check it out on the link down below before reading this game review:

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I've decided to purchase this game from PS Store for £5 because of the stunning Easter sales that reducing the price cost. So far, I finding this game lot better than the previous installment Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut because it has impressive presentation, solid graphics, better stages to explore, useful pirate's items, amazing boss battles and slightly longer than the Risky's Revenge which adds the greater improvement to make the game even better and enjoyable.

Without go further do, let's talk about the game's overall.



Presentation

After the events of the Shantae: Risky's Revenge the part where Shantae has lost all her Genie powers after defeating her counterpart. This game takes place in Scuttle Town, After she has dealing with Ammo Baron in the morning, she returns back home and takes a bath until she was been approached by her nemesis named Risky Boots who blamed Shantae for stealing her henchmens and her belongings, but they have discovered the dark magic that puts a curse on tinkerbats turns into evil cacklebats. Risky believes that her former captain Pirate Master, who was sealed away long ago, is attempting to revive himself. Risky takes Shantae to the quest to destroy the dens of evil, recover Risky's lost pirate items, and retrieve the Dark Magic that inhabiting the Cacklebats.  

I'm pretty impressed with the story overall where Risky, who used to be Shantae's rivalery, are no longer being enemy in the game which is kinda interesting to hear the villains in most of the films, TV show, and video games series decided to help with heroes rather than being evil in the story aspects. The story is easier to follow as it has useful dialogue box to read on the cutscenes to hear the plotlines and the character's animation on the slideshow shows their amazing humour during the cutscenes and I really liked most of the characters in the game are quite memorable in the whole game. It has the same town area from the Risky's Revenge, but most of the islands are well presented because it has stylish level sets of deserts, snows, forest, seasides, undergrounds and graveyards are looking spectacular in the game.

Overall, it has fabulous storyplot, awesome characters, great style of cutscenes and well presenting area.


Gameplay

Shantae's goal is to find dark magic and defeat the dens of evil in order to defeat Pirate Master.    

Like from previous game it did retains the same 2D Metroidvania gameplay style as the previous game. Her main attack is her purple hair as whipping weapon, but despite losing her ability to use genie power she now uses the Risky's lost items which can be found in dungeon stages. Using the Risky's items is very useful for most of the stages; for instance the pistols are good for long range attacks, the pirate hat are used for gliding through the level, the scimitar allows player to break rock-solid objects on ground floor, the boots allows player to dash through the stages that can break through walls and cannon are used for triple jumping which most of the Risky's items works really well in the levels. You can also use the various of special items, such as pike-balls which rotates around the player, the bubble can be used as shields to reduce getting hit by enemy's projectiles, the monster milk which increases the player's damage attack and health items such as potion and food which increases the player's health icons. Special items are very handy for most levels and boss battles, so you can purchase these items from the shop in Scuttle Town. In the shop, you can purchase the character's new moves such as backflip which allow player to evade the enemy's attack, recovery which allows player to recover from being knocked out by enemies and power kick that uses the higher offensive attack on the enemies. You can also purchase the new upgrades for whipping attack and risky's attack items allowing to increase more damage attack which helps the character's abilities to become even faster and stronger during the gameplay. You can also improve character's health by collecting squid's heart from the different levels and hand it over to squidsmith place to add character's capacity which makes the player lasted long during the gameplay.

I really liked the exploration in the game because it is fun to explore every area like searching for key to gain access to the next level, finding secrets inside the cave, collecting the important items to give someone and collecting dark magic which increases the amount of fun factor. Visiting a same island again does adds the replay values if the player wanted to search more newer area, so you can also check the map screen which helps the player to look around the stages. This game does have really good puzzle solving in most of the dungeons stages, but the game however does have some annoying parts where player gets instantly hit by some dangerous hazards and sometime the player did tends to fall off the stages which takes sometime to get used with harder level design. I say each of the boss battle are quite epic which makes the game so entertaining to play.

I believe this game has longer-length than the previous game and it also has pirate mode which the player still retains most of the pirate items from the start which makes the game slightly easier and it's great for the speedrun walkthroughs.

Overall, It has great combat items, solid controls, impressive puzzle-solving, excellent exploration and epic boss battles.


Graphics

The graphics are looked the same from the previous game, but still has the fantastic character's sprites for 16-bit standards, the level environment has stunning look of landscape and scenery, and the visuals are very colourful and detailed.

This game does not have screen-size options which is quite shame that I always prefer set it to 4:3 resolution to make the game look right, but instead its on 16:9 size. To be honest, I did notice some of the graphics that did got polished on textures and filters to make the game look cleaner in HDTV, but it's still look nice in overall.

Overall, it has excellent character's design, well detailed environment, and nice visuals effects in whole.

  
Music and Sounds

I got to say that the whole arabian style soundtrack are by far the best in the game. It was composed by Jake Kaufman, who was known for composing music for Shovel Knight, Contra 4 and Ducktales: Remastered, adds the amazing catchy music on each levels as it's sounds good as the previous installment.  I still liked the 16-bit style sound effects and simple voice effects for characters which is sounds much clearer for console version.

Overall, it has terrific music and great sound effects.



Special Features

This game has two unlockables such as pirate mode and wallpaper art and it does have trophy achievements to earn the player's experience. Unlike the Risky's Revenge, it has no unlockable costumes which is quite shame and it would have been nice to add more unlockable content in the game,

Overall, it has two unlockables, but lacks of more unlockable content in the game.



Advantages


Fabulous story

Memorable characters

Solid gameplay

Has replay values

Excellent exploration

Fantastic graphics

Terrific soundtrack


Disadvantages


Some frustrating hazards

Lack of screen size options

Not enough unlockable content



Final Verdict


Presentation 8.5/10 -  Fabulous storyplot, awesome characters, great style of cutscenes and well presenting area.

Gameplay 8/10 - Great combat items, solid controls, impressive puzzle-solving, excellent exploration and epic boss battles.

Graphics 7.5/10 - Excellent character's design, well detailed environment, and nice visuals effects in whole.

Music and Sounds 8.7/10 - Terrific music and great sound effects.

Special Features 5/10 - It has two unlockables, but lacks of more unlockable content in the game.


Overall 8/10 - I felt that this sequel offers better gameplay overall, the presentation keeps the story and characters more interesting, the music were the best part in the game and the length of the game is somewhat bit longer compared with previous installment that keeps the game in the right direction. This is definitely must play for the fans of the 2D platformer genre, so this game was still available to purchase on Steam, PS Store, Xbox Live and Nintendo eShop as downloadable game.



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Top 5 2D Platformer Games

2D Platformer are always be one of my favourite video game genres of all time. It was one of the most popular video game genres back in the retro gaming days era, which has most of the memorable Platformer games titles such as Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Castle of illusion, DuckTales, Adventure Island and Bonk, while today's modern Platformer games has Rayman Origins, Braid, Limbo, Fez and Super Meat Boy. 2D Platformer is all about simple two-dimensional gameplay, colourful graphics, appealing video game characters, challenging levels, collecting power-ups and memorable gaming tunes that made the genre so good in gaming. 

Today, I'm going to make my top 5 favourite 2D platformer games that I really liked on my list.

5 - Prince of Persia 

       

Prince of Persia is one of the greatest video game franchises that I really enjoyed playing those excellent titles. The original game was first released in 1989 for Apple II and later ported to various of console platforms, which was created by Jordan Mechner who was known for his first game Karateka. It is one of the 2D platform game that featured rotoscoping for the cinematic animation, which I can considered this game's genre as cinematic style platformer. The player controls an unnamed Prince has his goal to rescue Princess from the Jaffar in 60 minutes before the time runs out. 

I'm very pleased that this game focuses on cinematic approach for its game's presentation which was very different from the traditional 2D platformer games. The player's controls plays really well where Prince has the ability to run, jump, climbing and ducking throughout the levels and these levels are full of deadly hazards such as spikes traps, deep pits and guillotines, which adds the challenging difficulty. It has fluid combat gameplay where Prince has the ability to slash and parry against the enemy, which controls really well in the game. The graphics are very innovative with the use of the rotoscoping which gives the character's animation more realistic look for the character's movements and the level design has colourful environments, well detailed stages and it runs smoothly in the whole game for most of the console platforms. 

This game has inspired many of the 2D platformer games such as Flashback and Another World. The game's success led to the sequels such as Prince of Persia 2, Prince of Persia 3D and two of the sub-series such as The Sand of Time and 2008 Reboot-title Prince of Persia.   

4 - Rayman Legends

Rayman is one of the Ubisoft's best platformer series that offers the amazing titles such as original 1995 Rayman, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc and Rayman Origins. My favourite Rayman's game title is definitely Rayman legends for various console platforms because I felt this game is the strongest titles in the series which offers magnificent features for modern days platformer.   

This game brings a funny sense of humor, cool characters, and fantastic story that made the presentation so entertaining to watch during the cutscenes. It has over epic 120 stages to play including 40 unlockable stages from Rayman Origins. The gameplay has fluid controls, wacky stages, several of hidden secrets, very helpful assistants, superb boss battles, 4-player co-op, and what made the game enjoyable is the rhythm based levels is where the players have to collect all of yellow lums in the right rhythm while the background music plays the awesome cover soundtrack of Hard Rock band such as RamJam - Black Betty, Survivor - Eye of the Tiger, and Anti-Social - Trust that gives high overall atmosphere of the game. The graphics has richer art style of the whole game with cartoony character design, colorful stages with some of great layouts and backgrounds, smooth animation and nice visuals, which made the best graphics for modern days gaming. 

Rayman Legends is one of the best sequel in the series that everyone, who are the fan of the platform genre, must play for multiplatform consoles. 

3 - DuckTales: Remastered

I really liked watching the 80's cartoons show in my childhood, especially with DuckTales is one of the Disney's classic animation TV series that everyone loves in late 80's. It has great characters, catchy theme song and it has tons of good sense of humors what makes this TV show more memorable, but with the success of TV show led to Capcom's 1989 video game DuckTales for NES which was known for unique levels, tight control, highly challenged gameplay, and it has the best soundtrack of all time. It gained positive reviews from the critics, and it was the commercial success, which sold million of the copies becoming Capcom's highest selling titles for their platforms. In 2013, Disney Interactive Studios and Capcom announced the remake of original NES titles called "Ducktales: Remastered" was released in August 13th, 2013.

I'm very glad that the developer team Wayforward Technologies did a fabulous job with the remastered version which offers such improvements over the original 1989 game for NES. It featured more presentation with storytelling cutscenes and featuring original voice cast from the TV series is just like watching the original TV series which adds the overall story development. This game retains the same style as the NES version which made the gameplay feels like a classic 2D platformer game. The player have abillity to jump by using pogo stick which lets you jump multiples times on enemies, objects and hazards and you can also hit objects by swinging the pogo sticks like a golf club sticks which is quite innovative for platformer genres and it has amazing levels to explore which is great for finding secret places in the levels, collectable treasures, and some important items to collect in the stages. I really enjoyed the boss battles because it's makes the game more challenged and fun to play.

It has memorable levels from the original game, such as Amazon, Himalayas, African Mines, Transylvania, and of course the Moon is one of the best level in the game. I really loved the hand-drawn characters, smooth animation, some decent visuals and colorful details which made the graphics look stunning in the whole game and it has same catchy theme music from the TV series along with the original soundtrack in the levels are sounds pretty outstanding especially from the moon stage has the best video game soundtrack in history. 

DuckTales is one of my favourite Disney's video games that never disappoint me, so these are must play for the fan of the 1989's original NES game.    

2 - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 

Sonic the Hedgehog series is the most memorable video game franchises by SEGA, so we all know that lovable Blue Hedgehog is the fastest video game characters in gaming history. 

The first Sonic the Hedgehog game for SEGA Genesis/Megadrive was a commercial success and one of the best platformers games on 16 bit system which praised for faster 2D gameplay, graphics visuals, soundtrack and memorable stages. The success of the first game led to 1992's sequel called Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was also best selling game for SEGA Genesis/Megadrive and gained positive review by most of the video game critics.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 offers amazing improvements over the 1991's original game. It had fantastic zone stages to play, superb gameplay mechanics which introduces Sonic's new ability such as spindash, 3D special stages to collect chaos emeralds, and you get to play as Tails (first apprentice on Sonic 2) for both 1 or 2 player co-op and VS battle. I felt the gameplay is more fast-paced than the first game and the level stages are slightly more exciting to play which increases the game's atmospheres. The boss stages is very entertaining for most of the zones which increases the gameplay's challenge and I had to admit Dr Robotnik is one of the best villain in the Sonic series. I loved the 3D special stages that blew my mind to see how SEGA Genesis/Megadrive was capable of running 3D environment on 16 bit system and I love collecting so many rings to earn chaos emeralds, which it felt this is lot better than the special stages from the first Sonic game.

If you're the fan of the Sonic series then this is definitely must play for SEGA Genesis/Megadrive collectors. 

1 - Super Mario World

Super Mario series are always be the most ironic Nintendo franchises that gained popularity in gaming worlds. It's starts off with 1985's Super Mario Bros for NES was the commercial success and becomes most influential platformer game that defines the game's genre. The success of Super Mario Bros led to many sequels and adaptations into a television series, an anime, and a full-length feature film. We all know Mario is one of the Nintendo's most beloved video game mascot in gaming industries.

In 1990, Nintendo has bought Super Mario World for SNES was the first Mario game ever released for 16-bit system. The first player controls Mario, while the other controls Luigi has their goal to rescue Princess Peach from their nemesis Bowser once again. The player must navigate through the overworld map which has selectable levels, fortresses, ghost houses and other map icons to complete.

The gameplay plays like the original Super Mario Bros, but introduces new moves and power-ups such as spin jump which are used for break blocks beneath them and cape feather allows them to fly and glide above. The game also introduced new character Yoshi which has ability to eat most of the enemies and spit out the shell. It has several of secrets which unlocks the new path in the overworld map which is a newest thing for the Mario series. It has simple controls to use, linear levels with many great challenges, the map are great to explore, outstanding power-ups and epic boss battles that made this game so nostalgia. The graphics are very appealing for 16-bit system which offers more variety of colourful environment, simple character's design, well-built level design, great animation and impressive visuals that aged really well. 

This is one of my favourite 2D platformer game on my list and this is highly recommend for most of the Super Mario fans.      

Honorable Mention:

Super Mario Bros (Including Super Mario All-Stars)

Yoshi's Island

Yoshi's Story

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic Advance 2

Castle of Illusion: Starring Mickey Mouse

QuackShot

Aladdin 

Wario Land 4

Alex Kidd

Cool Spot

Limbo

Thomas Was Alone

LittleBigPlanet 2

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Top 5 Local Multiplayer games

I really love spending time playing video games locally with my family and friends in the same room, yes I'm talking about local multiplayer games.

It is one of our best gaming moments that brought us such a great games to play with addicting multiplayer modes that we never got so bored to play because it is fun to play with 2-4 players on the same TV and it has the greatest multiplayer matches for most of the game's genres such as shooters, sports, fighting and party games.
I know today's gaming had so much relying on online multiplayer where gamers playing against others through the online services, but still the local multiplayer does have a charm for us to gain our gaming experience to play games locally rather than just playing online.

I decided to make my favourite top 5 local multiplayer games that I really enjoyed playing with anyone.




5 - Rocket League

        



















Rocket League is a vehicular soccer games for PC, PS4 and XBONE, which both developed and published by Psyonix. It is a sequel to Psyonix's 2008 game called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars for PS3 (via PS Store).

It was first released in 2015 for PS4 and PC, while it was later released the XBONE in 2016. It gained 18 millions players and sold 6 million sales after the releases is due to offering titles as free downloadable game for PS Plus members on release date to market the game and it had becoming most popular sport titles for modern gaming.

Rocket League is a fantastic arcade style sports game where you get to play as vehicular players to complete the match against their opponent, so it is a soccer game with vehicles that really got me attention to play because it features excellent gameplay controls where you can perform amazing trickstyle to learn and it has playable futuristic sports stadium with addictive game modes to play such as soccer mode which has a basic football net, hoops mode is where you have to bounce the ball into net, snowy day is where you play with hockey puck and rumble mode is where you can use with powerups and items during the match which is great for competitive multiplayer modes with 4-player splitscreen and online play.

The local multiplayer on this game is fun to play with 4-player offline, but you can also battle against the computer bots which is a great feature for both exhibition and season mode. This is definitely must play for the fans of the genres.



4 - WarioWare, Inc: Mega Party Games!

WarioWare, Inc: Mega Party Games! is a Minigame party game, which both developed and published by Nintendo for Nintendo Gamecube and it is a 2004 remake of  GBA 2003 game called WarioWare, Inc: Mega Microgames!

This game involves around the concept of bite-sized minigames which is known as microgames that lasts only few seconds. The game can only controlled with directional pad and single button, so a player must figure out what they are supposed to do, aided by a word or phrase that appears briefly, and clear the conditions within the time limit. The minigames has several of gameplay events such as shooting a certain numbers of targets, selecting a multiple choice answer, or simply surviving until the time has passed, so if the players made several of mistakes on each gameplay event then you will lose all of your lives which causing to end the game.

This game has the weirdest minigames to play with, but it is also one of the most enjoyable family game for the Nintendo system because it has many of wacky minigames events, funniest sense of humour and has multiple of multiplayer modes to enjoy that are very innovative and most entertaining game to play. I highly recommended to most of the casual audiences, who are into with family-friendly games genre, must play on the Gamecube.



3 - Saturn Bomberman

         

Saturn Bomberman is a action maze games by Hudson Soft for SEGA Saturn.

I really enjoyed playing this game because of amazing action-based maze gameplay and crazy multiplayer battles where they can blow up each other with tons of bombs.
What really made the game awesome is the multiplayer modes that supports up to 10-players on battle mode with 2 multi-taps adapter that made the game so much fun to play with 10 people in the same room.

The multiplayer modes has epic stages to select from and having up to 8 or 10 players is played on the widescreen arena, which shrinking the characters and blocks to tiny proportions and making the playing field very large is quite unique for the action maze style gameplay. It features excellent power-ups such as flame, bombs, speed, power glove and of course the best part of the game is each of dinosaurs can perform their special abilities such as ultrasonic waves, kick bombs, sprinting, roar and jump are the coolest things for the Bomberman series.  It's addicting, it's epic and it is definitely one of the best multiplayer game for the Saturn.



2 - Goldeneye 007

GoldenEye 007 is a FPS video game for Nintendo 64, which developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. It is based on the 1995 James Bond film called GoldenEye.

It was wide known for being a most important game in gaming history that defines the FPS genre as the game focuses on more realistic FPS style than the standard Doom-like approach. The game introduces single-player missions, newer gameplay mechanics such as ability to aim controls, stealth elements, and a console multiplayer deathmatch mode that made Goldeneye 007 successful in 1997 as being one of the best FPS game on N64 system and the third best-selling N64 game that sold over 8 million copies worldwide.

This multiplayer features several of playable characters from Bond universe, selectable weapons and playable stages to choose from, and it allows up to 2-4 player to complete against each other through 5 types of split-screen deathmatch modes such as normal which is a basic deathmatch can be played as free for all or working in teams, You Only Live Twice is where the players has only 2 lives left to survive, Licence to Kill is where the players can die by one hit with any weapons, The Man With the Golden Gun is where the golden gun, which is capable of killing opponents with only one shot, can be picked by one of the player and The Living Daylights is a flag-tag match where the flag is placed in the fixed location on the map and the player who holds it longer wins the match.

The gameplay on the multiplayer mode plays really well because it has fantastic map levels design, amazing weapons to use and excellent matches which are perfect for 4-players battle and it is by far one of my favourite multiplayer modes for FPS gaming.



1 - Super Smash Bros Brawl

         

















Super Smash Bros Brawl is a 2D Crossover Fighting Games for Nintendo Wii, which both developed and published by Nintendo and it is a sequel to one of the best-selling Nintendo Gamecube title called Super Smash Bros Melee.

I really love the smash series where you get to play as your favourite Nintendo roster from different franchise and it made me mind blowing to see how Nintendo developers made such a creative idea of making outstanding fighting game on the Nintendo system because I really love the previous Smash Bros games, but the Brawl is by far one of my favourite fighting game of all times.

It features playable roster such as Mario, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Pikachu, Fox, and of course the third-party characters that made me surprise like Sonic the Hedgehog and Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) made a first debut for smash bros series. It has selectable stages from different franchise such as Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, F-Zero, Metroid and more.
It has excellent multiplayer mode to play such as brawl mode is a basic match where the player have to knock the opponent out of the screen, stamina mode is where player have to beat opponent until the health percentage goes zero, giant mode that turns players into giant-size., tiny mode that turns player into tiny-sized and sudden death mode is where players can get instant hit causing to fly off the screen.
It has simple gameplay controls, especially using with Nintendo Gamecube controller, which makes easier to learn fighting styles and featuring nice varieties of using weapons and items during the match. The players can able to collect smash ball which allows to perform instant finishing moves which is quite awesome and the each of fighting stages has so many of the crazy stuff like getting knocked over by vehicles from Mario Kart stage, touching lava pit from Metroid stage, changing level dimensions from Fire Emblem stage and some weird stuff from WarioWare stage which is quite clever.

Super Smash Bros Brawl is definitely one of my all time favourite local multiplayer games that everyone should able to enjoy their fighting game experience.



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5 Reasons why Game Boy Advance is Awesome

Game Boy Advance is a 32-bit handheld console which is manufactured by Nintendo and it was first released at the launch of March 21st 2001 in Japan, while it was released 3 months later for the US and EU release. It is a successor of the two of the successful 8-bit handheld such as Game Boy and Game Boy Color from the 90's era. It was well known for having excellent varieties of game libraries, 32-bit graphics, using link cable for GBA multiplayer and Gamecube, and ability to play older GBC and GB games is what made GBA so great in early 2000's. It sold over 81.51 million units worldwide as being the most popular handheld systems of sixth generation console era.   

I really enjoyed playing many games on the handheld system where I can play anywhere in outside of my home, so that means I can take this system with me and play over to friend's house, holidays, buses and more places to play there. Game Boy Advance is a fantastic handheld system for my video game collection and I still have the two GBA's in my room, so I decided to make 5 reason why GBA is Awesome. 

1 - Games library 

GBA has many of the great game's titles to play. GBA was known for having memorable titles like Mario Kart Super Circuit, Sonic Advance, Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, Wario Land 4, Fire Emblem, Metroid Fusion, Golden Sun, Advance Wars, Mario vs Donkey Kong, some Pokemon's titles and many of the excellent games that has impressive graphics, stunning soundtrack, great presentations and primitive gameplay style, so these are the games titles that really defines the GBA's hardware system.     

2 - Plays GB and GBC games

   

I still have the Game Boy Color in my late 90's just before I got the original GBA in around 2003. What made me so surprised about the GBA is the system can able to play older GB and GBC titles as backwards compatible which is sounds absolutely amazing that the newer console can able to play all the classic titles from the past, even the Sony did a same thing with the PS2 and PS3 consoles can able to play the older PS1 games libraries.

Backwards compatibility is the most useful things in the gaming that people, who owns the newer system that plays backwards compatible software, doesn't have to buy a older game console in order to play game. For example, if you have already have the GBA hardware that can play all of GB and GBC games then you won't need to get GB and GBC hardware in order to play these titles unless you're the video game collector that loves spending time collecting games and hardware consoles.

I really love spending time playing both classics GBC and GB games on my GBA hardware like Super Mario Land, Legend of Zelda: link's Awakening, Tetris, Contra, Castlevania Adventures, Street Fighter Alpha and Game and Watch Gallery 2 are really fun to play. 

3 - Link Cables 

Like the good old GB and GBC system that uses the local link cables that connects both handheld systems for multiplayer modes, Nintendo did a same thing with the GBA for some of the games titles that you can play up to 2 or 4-player modes. For example some games like Mario Kart Super Circuit, Sonic Advance, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Final Fight One, and some Pokemon titles like Ruby and Sapphire that features multiplayer modes which is quite awesome and what really surprised me the most is the Gamecube's GBA link Cable where you can plug GBA systems to the Gamecube systems, so you can use GBA systems as the second screen or separate controller for certain GC titles. For example some games like Metroid Prime for GC does have unlockable content which requires the Metroid Fusion for GBA and GC link cable to unlock content such as NES version of Metroid and Fusion Suit to use in Metroid Prime. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for GC does have a transfer options in Chao's Garden, so you can able to store Chaos into the GBA's Chao's Garden from Sonic Advnace by using the GC link cable which is sounds pretty innovative for sixth generation console era.  

4 - Hardware models

   

The original GBA models was first released in 2001 and it is the most comfortable handheld system to hold. It has nice button layouts, classy handheld design and it has some great features like headphone jack where you can plug in with headphone and volume control to tune the volume level. Nintendo was later making another GBA models called GBA SP which was released in 2003 and it has flip-in clamshell where you can close the game down to protect the screen from dust and scratches. It has rechargeable lithium ion battery where you can charge it with AC adapter and it has the back-lit screen which has the back light on the screen, so the players can able to see the game properly while playing the game which seems to be lot easier than using the original models. The GBA Micro was released in 2005, which is the last model of the GBA's line. It's slightly look smaller than the previous GBA's models, but it's lacks several features such as backwards compatible and link cable ports which is quite shame for GBA owners, but it's quite cheaper to purchase the system. 

I really prefer the GBA SP lot better because it has back-lit screen and rechargeable battery, while the original models are comfortable to hold and headphone jack are seem pretty awesome, so I still have these two handheld systems in my home for long time. 

5 - Region Free

    

Like a classic GB and GBC hardware does allow every games titles from around the world to be played on the system, GBA are also region free which means you can able to play any of the US and Japanese software titles. It's pretty strange that Nintendo did put a region lock on their home consoles like NES, SNES, N64, GC, Wii and Wii U that prevents gamers playing games that brought from different countries. I was really surprised to see older handheld consoles that can play all of the games titles. For example I have the game called Wario Ware Twisted which never got released in EU, but it is one of my all time favourite GBA game that features lot of wacky mini-game modes, weird sense of humour, colorful graphics and creative gameplay that introduce gyroscope motion controls are very innovative for handheld systems. 

It is cool to collect some of the great exclusives games that never brought release outside of the Japan or the game that were also released in US, but not in EU.    

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