Davoo

Yo Giantbomb community, I'm a Youtuber who asked for recommendations for "sidescrollers with interesting jump arcs" for a research project a week or two ago, and you guys gave me a mindblowingly impressive array of games, many I'd never heard of. I wanted to thank you all, but for some reason my reply wasn't showing up in that thread. Might be some Giantbomb rule about new members, or some button I missed. Sorry about that; I'm very busy at the moment to study new websites. =X

Anyway, that sidescrollers video will take a lot of work, so it won't be out for a while, so until then I thought I could come to you fine folks for additional recommendations. This time: stealth games where you can go without any killing (or at the very least, go long stretches of level without killing).

Of course, there's Theif 2 (and the original to a lesser extent), Deus Ex if I remember correctly (I got through the whole first level without killing, anyway) come to my mind immediately.

I'm doing a research project on jump arcs in side-scrollers, and want to know about as many of them as possible. Thus, I have come to the Giant Bomb community to draw upon your knowledge.

What constitutes an "interesting or good jump arc" can be literally anything. It could be because of the input; the animation; the gravity; the power-ups; the narrative; anything at all that has anything to do with the jumping, no matter how crazy or esoteric the logic. So whatever kind of jumping you can think of that you think is funny or cool or impressive or interesting or what have you; tell me about that game and I'll definitely look into it.

The only limitation is that I will be sticking to just side-scrollers here, but I may get into 3D jumping later on, so feel free to bring up some of those as well if you really want to.

Thank you.