Super Cane Magic ZERO

Super Cane Magic Zero - Legend of The Cane Cane, or simply Super Cane Magic ZERO, is an action-RPG game created and published on May 30 of 2019 by Studio Evil, as an idea by italian comic artist Sio, and available on Steam, Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch. The game takes place in the imaginary world of Planetoid WOFT, where after Cake The Wizard dies, causing his magic dog AAAH! to lose control of its powers, the main characters travels to find the six wizards of Poptarts, in order to save the world.

Why it Rocks

 * 1) The game features four characters to use at the start of the game, but more can be unlocked during the story.
 * 2) Every characters has their own stats, special powers and, for the unlockable characters, passive abilities that can give some advantages. Some examples includes Dr. Buttdog, who can eat electronic stuff and create a barrier at the cost of taking damage from water, and Missy Talia, who can recover health and mana from gathering salami, and has a mozzarella beam as special ability that can stun enemies at long distances.
 * 3) You can change your character in the map, incentivizing experimentations on how you can play the levels.
 * 4) You can also give different equipment to your characters, allowing you to find different ways on how to defeat enemies.
 * 5) The game's artstyle is very neat and colorful, which fits with the entire game's premise.
 * 6) The story, while very weird, has many comedic moments into it. Even the dialogue has many funny moments into it.
 * 7) The game plays like a sort of Diablo on a top-down prospective, but also has its parts:
 * 8) The game loot and enemies scales everytime you obtained 10 levels, with the max level for equipment being 10. This encourages the player to find improved equipment with better stats, while making sure that your enemies still poses a challenge, even at level 100.
 * 9) When levelling up, finding special televisions or helping the museum to gather equipment and throwable items spread across the planetoid, you can spend points into skill trees, each one with their focus on specific parts, such as improving damage from thrown items, increasing your healh and mana, and boosting your defenses.
 * 10) After saving one of the wizards of Poptarts, you can choose one of the skill trees that you find yourself well-suited, giving the incentive of focusing yourself on boosting certain types of defenses.
 * 11) The skill trees also features special perks that allows your character to do more stuff, such as walking on lava after eating a special item, being able to eat almost every type of throwable items, destroy chocolate barriers, have a free purchase from dispensers that aren't extra lives ones, or even have a chance to leave an extra life after dying.
 * 12) One NPC in Poptarts has the ability to reset your points, which gives the incentive to try new builds that suits you.
 * 13) The equipment you find can have a rarity level, with the green and blue items boosting more stats, and the purple and orange loot giving a passive ability on top of their stat boost. Orange loot is also unique, as it showcases special items that you can't find anywhere else.
 * 14) You can wield two weapons in your hands, with the second one in the offhand giving you the ability to use its special ability (like parrying an attack, or jumping and creating a blast after landing).
 * 15) Some emphasis on puzzles and exploration, which rewards you with loot, new characters to unlock and new areas.
 * 16) Repairing the buildings on Poptarts rewards you with merchants that sells a specific type of loot, a bank to store items, and a way to unlock new areas.
 * 17) In some levels, there are special teleporters that when unlocked, allows the player to fast-travel into another location, which can be helpful when you need to go to a specific area.
 * 18) The game features 4-Coop play, along a battle arena to play with your friends.
 * 19) The soundtrack is neat, with examples such as "Moon Dance Explosion" and the instrumental and metal remixes of the main menu theme.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While funny, some parts can fall flat, unless you're familiar with Sio's comics and videos.
 * 2) While the sound part is decent, is also repetitive (an example being the explosion sound, which is shared with some other sounds).
 * 3) Dog treats, one of the currencies you can gather, is only used for restoring builds or unlocking specific characters, and becomes useless once you purchased everything available with them.
 * 4) The game's loading times for entering a level are long.
 * 5) Some parts are very difficult to reach, unless you check a guide or a walkthrought.
 * 6) * Some of them are also thought for a coop play, and becomes difficult as a result.