- Too Many Ninjas
- Super Mogura Tennis (Mogura 2 review)

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Synaesthete is an arena shooter which attempts to bombard players with a cacophony of sound and images, hence it's not surprising that this DigiPen student project contains a seizure warning as well. The objective of the game is to guide the protagonist from one area to another, though each exit is only made accessible once the entire room is cleared of enemies.

Attacks are initiated by timing the correct key presses to each beat. This is where Synaesthete suffers, because a simple arcade game was unnecessarily turned into a car wreck with complicated control elements - the only letdown of an otherwise impressive team effort. The game is still undergoing changes, so there's a possibility that it's difficulty could be toned down in future releases.

Name: Synaesthete
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 50MB
Videos: Gameplay video 1, video 2

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Strict Machine is an arena shooter which borrows gameplay elements from Invader, another one of dessgeega's creation. Use the W, A, S and D keys to shoot in any of the four possible directions. Tap a shoot button quickly for rapid fire.

There are only six stages to play in total.

Name: Strict Machine
Developer: dessgeega
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB

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In Rose and Camellia, the player steps into the high heels of an aristocrat, working her way up the social ladder and earning respect among her peers. This is achieved by engaging them in an age-old tradition of slapping each other in the cheeks until one succumbs to her opponent.

The roses shown at the bottom of the screen indicates each combatant's strength. To attack, simply move the mouse from the bottom right of the screen to the upper left. The slap will be successfully executed if the line drawn crosses her cheek. Click on the evasion button to avoid your opponent's attacks, then launch your own counter attack quickly with a similar move. Move the cursor from the bottom left of the screen to the bottom right to sidestep a slap.

The gauge at the top left of the screen indicates the current player's turn, while the number of roses shown at the top right represents the selected difficulty setting.

Name: Rose and Camellia
Developer: Nigoro
Category: Action
Type: Browser
Demonstration movie: click here

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In IMA, the player's objective is to collect pulsating stars by guiding a multicolored ball towards it. This is achieved by hovering the circle around any of the selectable objects. Your ball will then float towards it at a high speed, and with a little practice the velocity from a swing can even be used to reach stars at isolated locations.

A chosen object will glow differently, and no mouse clicks are ever required. A work in progress.

Name: IMA
Developer: maxmoosa
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 5MB

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In this Android remake, your robotic friend has been sent to shut down a nuclear reactor which is going to explode. You have to battle and blast your way through a myriad of mutant monsters, and when you reach the reactor to shut it down, you've got to make your way back to the screen where you started from.

The original game is absolutely awful, though, with ridiculously simple graphics and sound effects, and it's also too hard.

Name: Android
Developer: DevlSoft
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 3MB

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Bound Bear is a small action game which resembles Mike Kasprzak's PuffBOMB, but with simplified game mechanics. In it, the player is required to guide a young bear towards it's larger brethen located on the other side of the screen. Use the left mouse button to set the direction and launch power, but beware as later levels will have destructible blocks which obstructs your direct path towards completion.

Collect a white bear with a square face to increase your life count by two. Both difficulty settings contain ten levels each. Extra lives do not appear as often in hard mode, while white blocks will generate after a short while as well.

Name: Bound Bear
Developer: GamePure
Category: Action
Type: Browser

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Sound Energy is another action game by GamePure, creator of the Speed Cluster series and several other notable Flash releases. Click on the left mouse button to change the color of your circle, then collect the corresponding objects on screen to build your combo count. Energy is lost whenever your circle collides with an object that is of a different color.

A combo box appears when you have several combos going. Switching colors when your circles is hovering above any of these boxes will cause a variety of effects, dependent on your current combo count. Grey objects tend to chase after your circle. Blue circles float horizontally and red ones move vertically.

Name: Sound Energy
Developer: GamePure
Category: Action
Type: Browser

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Marippy is a Mappy remake by yu-ki with characters from the Touhou Project universe. The Z key can be used to open or close doors, and touching one of the enemies will result in the loss of a life.

A trampoline breaks when it is jumped on by the player three times successively. Slam a door at an opponent to knock them out temporarily, and collect all items to complete a level. Timing your jump and landing is important as three misses in a row miss could result in a bad fall when the trampoline under you is broken.

A faithful adaptation of the source material, though this means that it's audience would be limited to players who played the original as well. Set the image quality to low to reduce slowdown.

Name: Marippy
Developer: yu-ki
Category: Action
Type: Browser

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Barbarian is a sword-fighting game that pits one barbarian against other barbarians to free a beautiful Princess captured by the Evil sorcerer Drax. The game offers sword combat in various locales.

There are several kinds of hits, and some hits take off half a point while others take off a whole point. Each player has six of these 'power points'. They also have a unique move called 'death sword' which decapitates your opponent, killing him with one fell swoop.

Name: Barbarian
Developer: Luxregina
Category: Action
Type: Browser

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