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Yaoxi Dao nails that feeling of dusting off some forgotten GBA cart—chunky jumps, grainy music, and pixel art that looks like it's bleeding through an old CRT. Not sure if it's brilliant or broken, but it's got that weird magic.
Yaoxi Dao is a Game Boy Advance title from an unknown developer, released in 2000. It fits right in with the platform's library of action-adventure games from that period, offering a compact, self-contained experience without much fanfare or promotion.
You control a lone explorer navigating a series of interconnected caves and ruins. Your main goal is to recover a set of scattered artifacts by solving environmental puzzles and fighting off creatures. The game uses screen-by-screen exploration, where each new area loads separately, and combat relies on timing your strikes with a short blade while managing a limited inventory of throwable items. The pacing is deliberate, sometimes slow, and the difficulty can spike unexpectedly in later areas. It feels like carefully picking your way through a place that doesn't want you there.
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