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8104475 No.8104475 [Reply] [Original]

What's your favourite European-developed scotformer?

Hard mode: no Donkey Kong Country games.

>> No.8104491

I could say ZOOL, James Pond or Tinhead but yeah it's Puggsy

>> No.8104549
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>>8104475

>> No.8104567

Second Samurai

>> No.8104568

>>8104549
Almost forgot about this asshole, thanks

>> No.8104570

>>8104475
>great music
>pretty fucking solid gameplay
>lots of easter eggs and secrets

You posted it.

>> No.8104574

Name a platformer that doesn't use a "mascot"

>> No.8104605

>>8104574
Ninja Gaiden? Strider? Contra? Or did you mean just the yurpean variety?

>> No.8104718

>>8104574
Tomb raider

>> No.8104729
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>>8104475
Seems like the most obvious one

>> No.8104735

>>8104605
Ryu and Strider Hiryu are arguably mascots. Hell Hiryu is originally from a manga.

>> No.8104967

>>8104729
this game was such fucking bullshit.
sequel is better in every possible way.

>> No.8104976

>>8104967
Filtered.

>> No.8106684

>>8104976
Rayman 1 literally wasn't even playtested, the devs admit.

>> No.8107542
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8107542

>>8104729
>Gayman
Plok if he shitty.

>> No.8107553

>>8104475
>>8104549
>>8104729
Japanese platformer character designers:
>Let's make them cute and cool!
American platformer character designers:
>Let's make them flashy and rad!
European platformer character designers:
>Let's make them aggressively weird and hideous!

>> No.8108208

>>8104605
I wouldn't call any of these platformers

>> No.8108226

>>8107542
Plok is gay. Kickass music though.

>> No.8108597
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>>8108226
you tryin to diddle me again?

>> No.8110030

>>8104475
If it wasn't for the OP image i would've said Puggsy, but you got me there.

>> No.8110491

For me, it's Kid Chameleon

>> No.8110505
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>>8107542
How many Plok games were there again? LOOOOOOOOSER

>> No.8110551

>>8110505
You only need 1 good game to be better than any of Rayman's shitty games.

>> No.8110790

>>8104475
Chuck Rock is a cozy chuck and duck rockformer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNUAUHTpJc

>> No.8110802

>>8110790
I prefer the spin-off, Sneed Marble

>> No.8111043

>>8106684
Did you know Super Mario Bros 2 was originally called Doki Doki Panic! In Japan?

>> No.8111050

>>8110505
They already achieved perfection bro. Rayman has never even achieved addequecy.

>> No.8111064

>>8104475
I had this for genesis when I was a kid

>> No.8111440

>>8111050
COPE of the highest order >:^)

>> No.8111447

>>8104718
Lara Croft is a mascot. Her ugly polygon face and tits were plastered everywhere in the 90s.

>> No.8112249

>>8110790
I always thought he was travelling forward through time through an ice age and then the end of dinosaurs

>> No.8112680

Zniggy

>> No.8113750

>>8104475
Banjo-Kazooie

>> No.8114634

>>8111447
Mascots have to be cartoony and silly. Lara's too realistic.

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>>8104574
Pic related.
All Robocop platformers
All Alien Platformers
Friday the 13th
Basically any non-animated movie tie-in

>> No.8117475

>>8104549
oi! me dizzy

>> No.8118592
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>>8104475
Does Jim count? Since Dave Perry is from UK.