The Messenger
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As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan's survival. Leveraging players expectations as a core game design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as an 8-bit action platformer with a simple story, that unravels into an epic time traveling tale, eventually revealing itself as a 16-bit Metroidvania game packed with replay value and deadpan humor.
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Nothing To Fear
Rescue all Phobekins
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Enter The Ninja
Beat the intro without dying
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Deposit At The River Bank
Jump down the big waterfall in Bamboo Creek
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Glacial Peaked
Get to the top of the mountain
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Did The Thing
Defeat the Arcane Golem
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Sweet 16!
Time travel to the future
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Was That A Dragon?
Defeat the Sky Serpent
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Man's Best Fred
Ride Manfred around the world back to where it all started
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Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow
Make it out of the underwater labyrinth
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Tumble Hijinx
Bump on a few flowers in Rivière Turquoise
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The Lava Is Floor
Run on lava
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More like EleMENTAL Skylands
Complete the Elemental Skylands scenario
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Well, That Was Unsightly
Survive the Corrupted Future chase
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Sun And Moon
Receive the Key of Love
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Losing Weight, Gaining Ground
Buy five upgrades in the shop
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Be Lootful And Multiply
Destroy a Big Time Shard
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Walking On Air
Execute 15 Cloudsteps without landing or clinging to a wall
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I Swear It's My First Time
Make it through Dark Cave without the 'Power of True Sight'
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Challenge Expected
Destroy your first Power Seal
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Wheelin' And Sealin'
Destroy all Power Seals
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Started From The Bottom
Buy all upgrades from the shop
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I've Been Around
Enter all areas of the world
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Eye Of The Shareholder
Meet Quarble
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Fine, I Won't Open It
Be lectured on happiness
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Bait Taken
Be lectured on the power of stories
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You Said This Was A Platformer
Be lectured on the inner child
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Hope This Phelps
Buy the Swim Dash upgrade from the shop
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One Hit Wonder
Kill a green demon in a single hit
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Welco Metot Henex Tlevel
Keep a windmill shuriken going for 15 seconds
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No Argument Here
Make it from the beginning of the game to beating the Queen of Quills with zero deaths
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How Ninja Is That?
Attack your first enemy projectile
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Rocked Opus
Defeat Octo
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Voodoo Told'em
Defeat the Voodoo Totem
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Star Messenger
Win the race with a perfect score
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Betcha can't buy just one
Make your first purchase at the Craftman's Corner
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Thanks I hate it
Meet the voodoo mask
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Sunk Cost
Unclog the Money Sink
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All in
Accept 'THE DEAL'
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