Gimmicks
Plays
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While the game is a metroidvania, it plays more like the older Castlevanias, with plenty of platforming, level gimmicks and traps.
Source: Video Game / Hasslevania - The narrator tells the reader to skip or reread passages, plays blank page gimmicks, lampshades various devices and generally discusses the process of writing the novel as the story is being told.
Source: Lemony Narrator -
It plays out as a parody of a stereotypically bad abridged series, with shoddy editing, one voice actor playing all the roles, and a number of silly gimmicks that would get tedious after more than a couple minutes.
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