Sister Lumina and the Hypnosis Cult

Picking the best sidearms in Mina the Hollower gives you an extra advantage in some of the toughest fights.

Although Mina the Hollower doesn't feature a manual save button, you can trigger autosave instead.

Stealing Pinky's ladder in Mina the Hollower involves opening a secret path, but the reward is worth the hassle if you want all the collectibles.

My favourite moment in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening happens in a library. You're wandering between the stacks, trying to learn more about this strange island you've washed up on, when you spy a book that's hidden up high, stuck at the top of a book shelf, and well out of range of your grasping hands. Read more

Here is a game that feels like an adventure. And it feels like it was an adventure to make, too. Mina the Hollower took six years to design and build, six years that took it from what sounds like a kind of coding doodle to a panoramic journey across a richly imagined island, taking in platforming and combat, puzzle-solving, and sheer immersion in the world building. It's Zelda and it's Bloodborne. It's smacking bosses and reading the in-game newspaper. All of which is to say that those six years of design work are apparent throughout, in the complexity of the landscapes you travel, in the dens