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Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?
Prinny will be the most heart-pounding and challenging side-scrolling action game ever. Players will control an unlucky penguin dude called a Prinny and slash their way through various Netherworlds. For this tough-as-nails action game, you're given 1000 units to accomplish your mission, but even with those 1000 units you will have to use everything...
Details
- Released
- November 19, 2008
- Developer
- Engine Software, Nippon Ichi Software
- Genres
- Platform · Puzzle · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
- Publisher
- NIS America, Nippon Ichi Software
- Platforms
- Switch
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Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
If you think you can handle the absurd difficulty of Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, you'll have fun with it. The charming sprites and modest 3D backgrounds work well with the PSP and the music and voice acting is commendable. Especially when you consider the amount of unlockables in the game, this platformer is definitely worth it. Prinny, we love you, just don't explode!
As Nippon Ichi Software’s first pure action game, Prinny will be the most heartpounding and challenging sidescrolling action game ever. Players will control an unlucky penguin dude called a Prinny and slash their way through various Netherworlds.
It's not just Nippon Ichi fans who will love Prinny. Masochists will too. For them, the endless death and difficult platforming will taste as good as a vanilla milkshake on a summer's day.
There’s a sequel to Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? that comes packaged together with the first game if you go the physical route, but on the eShop the two are being sold separately. You couldn’t pay me enough to play through the second game (Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!), and that’s not because the first is bad. It’s just incredibly taxing, both mentally and physically. If you’re in the market for an enjoyable but sadistic action-platformer and you have health insurance, consider posing the question inward: Can I Really Be the Hero? Sure, you can, dood. But you might…