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Parrying is a specialized block mechanic, often with a tight input window, which prevents the player from taking damage. While some games allow this through a timed directional input towards the opponent, other games tie this to deliberate block inputs as a "Perfect Guard".
Enemies that are adamant in their will to hunt you down. Example: Pac-Man ghosts.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
A general term to describe a race or species that predates the civilisation/setting that the game takes place in, usually used in the game to provide hints or clues to the protagonist to help solve some sort of grand mystery or defeat an enemy through the help of relics left behind. Occasionally, there may still be traces of them, either through technology or lone survivors that have somehow managed to live to the present day.
Quick Time Events show up in all sorts of games as an attempt to make cutscenes interactive. Press the buttons displayed on-screen before time runs out, or else.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
Special locations in game that allow the player to manually save their progress.
The Screw Attack is one of Samus Aran's special moves from the Metroid franchise.
A style of action-adventure gameplay revolving around exploring a labyrinth with the necessity of locating new items and equipment to progress beyond otherwise impassable obstacles. The concept is named for its common usage in the Metroid and Castlevania franchises. While the term most commonly refers to 2D games, it can also refer to 3D games.
The Shinespark is the charged jump maneuver that Samus can do after running at full speed, then by pressing down on the D-pad to hold the charge, then by preforming the dash move against a slope, and finally by jumping shortly after. This is first seen in Super Metroid. It really only needs to be used to view a secret message by Nintendo in Metroid Fusion. Samus can Shinespark horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
Side-scrolling games present the world as viewed perpendicular to the direction the characters are facing on screen. With a heavy focus on lateral movement, objectives are often met by moving from one end of a stage to the other.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
Temporarily makes your character or the world around you go faster, either by stepping on an object, activating a power or object, or by collecting a power up. There are many other ways in which a Speed boost can be used and it depends on the game.
The inability to walk in any direction whilst shooting a weapon of any sort. The player usually still has the ability to pivot.
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Games which were officially cancelled at some point, only to see official resurrection after the fact.
Also known as a triangle jump, this is the ability to hit a wall and propel yourself off of it like you were some kind of crazy ninja or parkour fiend.
Video games based on Japanese IP's that were developed by Western studios.
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