Most of the combat is simple to pull off. To be honest, the combat is all about two buttons: one to supercharge Brave and one to mash for constant attacks. The combat here is very straightforward if you've ever played a game where mashing on one button is all you need to know. Instead of learning some new trick and then finding other ways to use it later in the game, it's simply forgotten. Some abilities are introduced and used just once or twice. At best, tricks are used to find hidden items just for the sake of finding them. The big, fat problem with all of this is that these extra features are barely given any time to develop. If only this stylized comfort lasted the entire way. Combined with an endearing art style, Brave creates a nice little reality for itself. There are other areas such as canoeing and ice climbing that shows plenty of potential. He can call out to animals and follow tracks along the ground, both of which are added nicely and help to flesh out the world. As Brave quickly grows into a warrior he learns some cool tricks. This power-up looks cool, but you won't use it much. Along the way, Brave will learn many skills such as possessing animals and shooting arrows, but none of them help him to control the wayward camera, more on that later. Some gigantic fire skeleton has taken over and started turning everyone into zombies, as they usually do, and it's up to Brave to go off to find Spirit Dancer to save the day. The title character, Brave, is a young Native American who must become a warrior in order to save his village. There are a few parts of the game that you almost want to love, but the overall feeling is definitely one of indifference. It relies way too heavily on jumping around and little else. While other platformers such as Jak and Daxter have realized that much more than jumping around is needed to be fun, Brave starts out with good intentions and then falls flat halfway through.

In a noble quest, Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer, tries to bring the platformer genre alive for again for young kids, but it doesn't quite go all the way.

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