You can also use it to discover hidden paths to rooms full of treasure. You can use the burrow to come up under a rock and lift it up and then throw it at an enemy, or use the extra air from popping out of the ground to clear an extra long gap. You have a natural jump button in Mina the Hollower to be used without items at your leisure, but if you hold the jump button, Mina will burrow into the earth to provide all sorts of utility to your combat, puzzle-solving, and exploration. Perhaps most important in all of this is the burrowing ability. Meanwhile, bones are a wonderfully on-brand currency for experience in this game and if you collect enough, you'll level up to increase your damage, defense, Side Arm damage and more. You can also find relics that can be equipped to give you special abilities like being able to take more damage or use your Side Arms more frequently. In this game, players start with a whip to bust up baddies, but it isn’t long before you also get Side Arms like a knife that can be thrown like a boomerang, an axe you can lob over obstacles, and a drill arm to charge down enemies. It’s not just the spooky scary motif either. It also feels like it has some DNA from games like Castlevania and Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 on the Neo Geo Pocket. However, Mina is more than just a Zelda reskin. You’ll travel section to section throughout the world, fighting ghouls and monsters of all types, solving puzzles, traversing dungeons, and even pummeling bosses who will reward you with extended health. That’s easy to see from the art style and animation. Mina is a top-down adventure in the vein of games like the original Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening or Oracle of Ages/Seasons. Arriving on a cursed island, Mina’s job is to bring peace to its quirky inhabitants with her whip and a deluge of trinkets, relics, and sidearms she’ll find along the way. You'll play as the titular Mina, who is a slayer of spooky creatures that go bump in the night. The Mina the Hollower demo was a short affair, but it certainly showed off a good idea of what we’re in for gameplay-wise. I recently got some hands-on time with a PC demo, and while it definitely feels like Game Boy Zelda games and other similar titles of yesteryear, there are all sorts of fun gimmicks here that go beyond that and make me excited to see more of what Mina has to offer. Still in the middle of an ongoing Kickstarter campaign, this game is meant to pay homage to old-school portable top-down adventure games while taking on a rather spooky vibe in its aesthetic. Explore a huge, dark world brimming with secrets, challenging battles, and interconnected level design.Yacht Club Games absolutely spun some heads recently when it revealed Mina the Hollower.Descend into the depths of madness with a bone-chilling, yet heartwarming tale inspired by Victorian Gothic horror.Electrifying MSX-style soundtrack by chiptune virtuoso, Jake Kaufman.Level Mina up to suit your unique playstyle. Collect and equip Trinkets to acquire a variety of exotic effects.Discover and utilize a reliquary's worth of unusual Sidearms to gain the advantage in combat.Lash at foes with your trusty whip, Nightstar- or choose from an arsenal of weapons, each with a totally different move set.Leap, dodge, and burrow through the ground to battle monsters or navigate the world.Modern touches abound: detailed animation, widescreen visuals, and rock-solid controls!.Hauntingly authentic 8-bit visuals in the style of Game Boy Color, refined for the modern era.Encounter a cast of bizarre characters, search out secrets in an array of exotic locales, and illuminate the omnipresent darkness in Mina the Hollower, a brand new game from the developers who brought you Shovel Knight! Explore a vast world filled with pixel-perfect graphics, masterful gameplay, beastly bosses, and infectious music. Burrow beneath hazards and monsters, whip foes into oblivion, and gear up with an arsenal of sidearms and trinkets. Take control of Mina, a renowned Hollower hurtled into a desperate mission to rescue a cursed island. Descend into a frightful world of action-adventure in Mina the Hollower.
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