This was my hint for number 34.
This origin story reboot takes gameplay from many well known and highly rated franchise and uses them extremely well.
Lords of Shadow is a Castlevania reboot from Mercury Steam and is the origin story of their version of the series. Three major gameplay styles that it borrows from is Devil May Cry's stylish action, Uncharted style traversal, and not as good but Shadow of the Colossus. A very beautiful game with great gameplay.
Combat you have straight vertical strikes and wide horizontal strikes with your whip. You start off fairly limited at first, but as you progress, you get points to learn more attacks and combos through your combat repertoire and it creates an extremely combo heavy combat system. You'll also earn accessories as you progress through the game, so you'll add additional attacks to your list, but you'll also be able to use these accessories to get items you'll use them for puzzles to some levels, and also in past levels to acquire health and magic upgrades you may not have been able to acquire before.
The levels are all graphically amazing and fairly big, but the way the developers created them adds more to how amazing they look. Some stages you'll start on the ground level, climb up from the bottom, and then end on the top of an area, which the game will zoom out and show you just how far you've travelled.
The game starts off a bit slow though. The first three chapters are the shortest, and they're good, but some of the levels in those chapters feel too tutorial like and really drag the chapters down. After you hit chapter four, except for one or two stages, the game gets better and better all the way to the end of chapter 12. While the game has a good ending, there is DLC I haven't played that adds an additional chapter.
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