**Platform:** PC - Browser/Flash

**Genre:** Platformer

**Estimated year of release:** 2006 or earlier

**Graphics/art style:** Everything, from platforms to characters and backgrounds, look like they were made using the shape and fill tools from Paint, usually with a shine or some form of gradient/pillow shading. Most characters (players, enemies, and bosses) had big cutesy eyes. Backgrounds are simplistic and start off somewhat cheerful before becoming dreary as the game goes on.

**Notable characters:** The player character of the first game is a red square with circle hands and half-circle feet wielding a sword, the player character of the second game is a black circle with circle hands and half-circle feet also wielding a sword that upgrades as you beat each boss. I can't exactly remember what the basic enemies looked like, I think most of them were spiky as were most of the bosses. Second game has a giant pufferfish-like boss that is mostly black with spikes that attacks from jumping up from below the level and the weak point being a rectangle on the end of its tail. Both games had a giant mech (maybe a mech dragon?) as the final boss (looking a bit rougher in the second game after losing in the first) that would fire a beam as one of its attacks and you had to attack the lower jaw to damage.

**Notable gameplay mechanics:** Both are pretty basic platformers, you can walk left and right but have to progress to the right, jump on platforms and across gaps and stab enemies with your sword. The second game had your sword upgrade after beating each boss, becoming a different kind of sword each time and adding an extra attack to your combo. I remember one of the swords looking like a Scimitar and one of the combos adding a flashy attack where you spin your sword forward like a buzzsaw. Both games lack a save system, using a password system to keep track of your progress, I think the password for the fish boss was just "Fish".

**Other details:** I was about 10-12 when I played these games, so my memory of most things aren't too clear after 20-ish years. While writing this I decided to draw up a picture of the things I remember the clearest (the two player characters, the fish boss and the final boss) to help.

[Browser/Flash][2004-2006] Two game platformer series where you play as a red square and black circle with swords.