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Valis came out for the Sega Genesis in 1991, developed and published by Riot. It was part of that wave of action platformers that defined the 16-bit era, a time when developers were pushing the hardware to create more detailed worlds and faster gameplay. The game is actually an adaptation of a Japanese anime series, which was a fairly common practice at the time, bringing those kinds of stories to a new interactive format.

You control Yuko, a high school girl who becomes the warrior of Valis, and your goal is to stop the dark world from invading the human realm. The gameplay is a side-scrolling action platformer where you move through levels screen by screen, using your sword to slash at enemies and a projectile attack for longer range. You explore different environments, from castles to caverns, and the game is known for its challenging difficulty with precise jumps and aggressive enemy patterns. It feels like a direct, demanding test of your reflexes and pattern recognition from start to finish.