Favorite pure platformers

What are your favorite pure platformers? This means no Metroids and no Castlevanias

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Skullmonkeys

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    SMB3

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You gotta define what you want more than just “pure” and “not metroid or castlevania”.

    Master of Darkness and Kid Icarus.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      A pure platformer would be a game that focuses the vast majority of its gameplay around the jumping and/or the platforms. Usually there would be different kind of jumps possible or have some momentum, and most of everything is solve through the jumping.

      For instance Adventure Island, even though you do get power ups to shoot at stuff, those are just temporary bonuses (like the flower in SMB), they're not the chore of the gameplay, which is using your various possible jumps to overcome the enemies and platforms.

      Castlevania is like 10-20% platforming, Mega Man is like 50%.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        What about puzzle elements? Is Wario Land 2 a pure platformer? What about games with “gimmicks” almost everly level like DKC2? I think SMB3 and Sonic 2 would be my favorite that really fit the criteria. For 3d platformers it gets even harder. In collectathons like Banjo Kazooie or DK 64 the main focus is hardly on jumping. Even in Mario 64 there are levels where little to no jumping is required. Crash runs through whole levels with only a jump or two. Croc maybe? I suppose Ninpen Manmaru on the saturn oddly enough is the closest to a “pure” 3d platformer. It has no attack and is basically a tank-controls linear jumping obstacle course, but its not as good as the others I listed.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >What about puzzle elements? Is Wario Land 2 a pure platformer?

          Puzzle-platformers are a thing

          >Crash runs through whole levels with only a jump or two

          I can't think of many levels where that'd be true. Even the auto scrollers have tons of jumps.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think your description defines jumping flash for ps1 pretty clearly.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Rayman 1

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I always end up going back to these three

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are there many pure platformers outside of Mario bros?
    I’ll say Ninja Gaiden series

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      DKC is very pure

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Commander Keen 4

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What’s with the anti castlevania shitposting going on
    Is it just that one obsessed anon?
    Or is it the janny trying to make shitpost threads to make people angry

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Is it just that one obsessed anon?
      Yes. There is one absolute schizoid turbo-obsessed shitposter that haunts the Castlevania threads, he will do literally anything to stir up drama.

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Rainbow Islands

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Half-Life

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Castlevania.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Suoer Mario 2 Japan

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