Gimmick! Special Edition

06.07.2023
Critic 70/100
Gimmick! Special Edition is a Port of the NES classic Gimmick! to modern consoles. Gimmick! Special Edition includes brand new bonus features such as achievements, time attack mode, save, load, and rewind functions, a gallery mode, and more.
Yumetaro is a small green creature who ends up given as a birthday present to a young girl, quickly becoming her favorite toy. Jealous that they are no longer loved, her other toys come alive one night and spirit the girl away into another dimension. Left behind, Yumetaro sets off after them, using the star he conjures above his head to strike down foes and to reach faraway ledges as he searches through strange, hostile worlds to bring his owner safely home.

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31.01.1992

A young girl receives a doll named Yumetarou (ゆめたろー) for a birthday present. She quickly favors the new doll over her previous five toys, who felt abandoned and unloved. While she was sleeping, they suddenly came to life and took her to another dimension. Yumetarou, as the protagonist, must track down his new owner and retrieve her from the toys' world.

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