SUMMARY
"Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls" is a solid action platformer with cartoony pixel graphics.


STORY
Evil pirates have stolen treasures from a peaceful little island, and Khimera, a powerful mutant girl created in a lab, is sent to set things right. It sounds super simple, but it’s told nicely through the characters, cutscenes, and comedic dialogue.


CONTROLS
The controls are super smooth, which makes moving around a lot of fun. You start off with the ability to punch sideways and downward, and perform a dashing punch. Defeating bosses grants you new abilities such as shooting projectiles, punching upward, and pounding the ground to crush enemies.


GAMEPLAY
As far as gameplay is concerned, this is both an action platformer and a beat-'em-up. You run forward, punch baddies, jump over hazards, collect shiny things, rescue hostages, and fight a boss at the end. The only major gameplay-related issue I experienced had to do with how the player reacts upon touching an enemy or a hazard. In most games of this type, you're knocked away, which gives you a chance to recover. In this game, however, you stay in place and continue taking damage until you move away. This makes the game more difficult than it needs to be.


LEVEL DESIGN
The main campaign consists of seven main levels and a final boss level. However, according to the overworld map, there are four additional locked levels. The levels are very linear and are split into a number of segments or rooms (like in Mega Man), with carefully placed enemies and traps. Sometimes, the path branches off into rooms containing items and caged hostages. The levels are set in a variety of environments: a snowy mountain, an oil rig in the ocean, an airship in the sky, a haunted castle, a pirate ship, to name a few. There are save points along the way, but I feel the game could have used a few more.


ENEMY AND BOSS DESIGNS
The enemy designs are nice, though IMO there could have been more variety as you keep seeing the same enemies from level 1 even in the later levels. The game's bosses (the "monster girls" mentioned in the title) are well-designed; they're not too difficult but still offer a good challenge for players.


VISUALS & SOUND
The graphics are decent. IMO, they would have looked a lot better with outlines, which tend to suit cartoony characters and large sprites like the ones in this game. The music and sound effects are fine. The music in the final level was quite catchy.


FINAL THOUGHTS
I had a few hours of fun with this one, and I'm glad to have it in my collection. I highly recommend it to fans of platformers.

Thanks for reading.

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Great game if you like wario :D
This game made me rage trying to 100% (beetles in first part of the DJ level keep hitting me)

This FREE game is far superior to many games i have paid for.