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Aquaria is finally coming.  A demo will be released along with the full game via download from bit-blot on December 7th.  It’s $30, yikes, but they promise there will be about 20 hours of content so that’s pretty good bang for your buck.  The download is a hefty 200MB but they’re claiming it’s due to all [...]

 
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Heaven 2 Ocean is a sidescrolling (side-tilting?) platformer with light puzzle elements.  It’s veeeery similar to LocoRoco for the PSP.  The controls are simple, just move the mouse left and right to tilt the screen.  Why would you want to tilt the screen you ask?  To move your cluster of [...]

Zan-Zan’s at it again in the second installment of the short series.  This game’s short, really short.  That’s not bad if you’re looking to spend a quick 20-30 minutes collecting mushrooms.  It’s a decent, tiny platformer with simple controls, left-right arrow keys to move, space bar to jump and advance the text.
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Do you like platformers?  Do you like final fantasy?  Do you like leveling up via grinding?  Then Final Vision is your game.
After a couple minutes of tinkering with strange controls (They turn out to be handy once you get used to them) you choose your character’s class.  There are four types, and one non-type.  Here they are (taken from [...]

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The Art of Theft is a stealth platformer set in 1991.  Our protagonist is a British cat burglar named Trilby and he’s loose in ”Chapow City,” which is somewhere in America.
The game starts off with a quick tutorial to get you acquainted with all of Trilby’s basic moves.  Right away you’ll notice the [...]

Bud Redhead is a collect-all-the-fruit-you-can sidescroller.  The graphics are pleasant and everything is well polished, which is such a relief from the hordes of indie games out there with poor UI, bad controls and even worse gameplay.
The only problem with Bud is that it’s pretty basic.  You just collect trinkets to increase some number that doesn’t [...]

Planet Damios is a platforming action puzzler very similar to the original metroid for the NES. 
You start the game in what appears to be a prison cell and you must roam around the world trying to find whatever it is you’re supposed to find.  *Spoiler* There’s no story.  *Spoiler* Sheep are running around trying to kill you, wtf?  [...]

So i made the unlikely mishap of playing Knytt Stories before Knytt.  They’re beautiful works of art.  I’m scared Knytt’s not going to live up to the hype after playing its sequel first, but I sure hope it does.
K-Stories took me about 24 minutes before I realized what wondrousness was gracing my fingers.  —>One time this guy picked [...]

Shiny things are great.  So are starfish.  But you know what’s better than anything you’ve ever heard of before?  The Hazel Chronicles. 
The Hazel Chronicles is a 2d side-scrolling platformer this really well established development house is working on.  The budget is well over a million clams.  Those are clams as in dollars.  Not pesos or the ever [...]