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- If you go against one of the main conventions of the game in the first level, you’ll be rewarded.
- Your foe is now your friend… or is he?
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- A launch title for the first system it released on, it was sometimes criticised for having dark visuals that made it difficult to play on original hardware (subsequent hardware revisions remedied this issue). This is supposedly the reason the next game had brighter graphics.
- There are four unlockable modes, each of which give your character a boost to one specific attribute at the expense of others - magic, strength, sub-weapons, or luck.
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- Introduces a few new enemies to the series, but only one new weapon. And even then, it’s more an upgrade to an existing weapon, doubling its power and ammo consumption.
Current list - https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/247804/the-official-thread-the-14th-annual-greatest-games-event-post-only-once/4/#3