Guessed by Darashiva
'MediEvil' has just the right kind of whimsical, lighthearted story and humour I'm looking for in a video game. It also has a fantasy medieval setting, which is always nice, obviously to make the pun of the game's name. It is a level-based adventure game, where you can play some out of order, some have to be visited multiple times and some are optional. They are all selectable on a nicely decorated map that shows miniature versions of the layout of the levels imbedded in a landscape. I like detail like that. The "Kingdom of Gallowmere". The level design is very varied, and I particularly look back fondly on two of them.
One is a level that is completed by solving various riddles. A statue tells you a riddle, and you have to figure out what to do at some point in the level to open up a new path, and a new riddle. The other is an insane level that is an onslaught of hundreds of enemies in an insane asylum. This level is actually not easy, even though nearly all the enemies are one hit kills, you'll get overwhelmed at some point. The whimsicalness and humour lasts right up to the end culminating in a particularly original final boss fight. And because you don't want to miss all this, you remain hooked until the end.
