Re-Emergence of a Fallen Kingdom (Pitch)

Taking heavy inspiration from fluid adventure platformers like Shovel Knight, adventure-style games such as Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and the tight combat of Hollow Knight, progress through a JRPG-like story of an endangered world and gradually build your player's artillery through battling monsters, completing quests, and discovering the mysteries of the protagonist through a variety of flashbacks and interactions with seemingly familiar adversaries. Can you unravel the mysteries of the past as you work to change the future?

Gameplay loops:

- Explore through an overworld map to discover explorable levels and NPC settlements, and in entering such areas continue to grow your map through completing levels and getting directions from townsfolk

- Explore layered levels that grow in size as your player uncovers new maneuvering abilities. Players will get access to a completion percentage for each level's collectible contents once hitting a certain point of the game, and the overworld will visually indicate completed areas

- Battle slews of small-fry enemies along the way, and take down camps brimming with challenging foes and exhilarating boss fights.