The GBA Pixel Book

The Game Boy Advance landed on shelves in 2001, dazzling fans as it put 2D worlds front and centre of its offering.

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The GBA Pixel Book

From Advance Wars to Zoids Legacy. Delve deep into The Game Boy Advance’s magnificent game portfolio, spotlighting over 240 titles.

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Rolled credits in Amazing Mirror, but will probably keep playing to find those sweet chests. Trying to puzzle out how to get to different rooms is fun to my brain.

The final boss is pretty hard for a Kirby game, with 6 phases (plus a boss right before it). I finished with 1 bar of health and burned about a dozen lives.

Overall, I would rate this one pretty high, once I got used to the loop. I probably liked it more than Super Star. It's unfortunate that this concept was never iterated on, though a lot of ideas come back for the also underappreciated Squeak Squad.

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Continuing the trend of "don't listen to the Internet" and "there are no bad Kirby games", Amazing Mirror is pretty great. It feels like an evolution of Kirby's Adventure, which was a bit of a dead-end since the series ultimately became more like Super Star. It gets called a metroidvania, but I think that's a misrepresentation and sets expectations that aren't going to be met. It is nonlinear but doesn't really have ability-based gating.

There is some really neat stuff and clever level design. For example, this golem dude has 2 different copy abilities; you can get stone or fighter, depending on when you inhale him.

A lot of complaints are about the map, but the complex ways areas connect and fit together is really masterful if you like navigation puzzles.

Anyway, if you heard a game is bad, it is actually probably awesome. #kirby #gba #gameboyadvance #amazingmirror

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@SarahLynne/116290842673792878

This is super-cool. Sarah Parker is making retro video games printed on bar codes that you scan with a slightly obscure Gameboy Advace peripheral.

This is the kind of art that makes the #retrogaming and #homebrew communities really shine.

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