You ask a girl who you really like into a relationship, and she says yes! However her father catches wind of it and outright refuses the relationship for the sole reason being, “You lack honour!" In order to appease her father you must seek out the 5 warrior samurai of the downtown hood and defeat them in combat.
The entire game world is traversed as a brawler, where you must defeat the enemies onscreen before being able to progress, backtracking through already completed areas won't have this requirement. Your objective is to find each of the 5 warriors in the hood and defeat them, each giving you much honour. Lesser enemies also provide a small amount of honour as well as some cash, because learning new skills also costs honour. Money is then used to purchase equipment and consumables to help you along the way.
Once enough honour is acquired you must then face the greatest enemy of all, the girl's father.
-Game play Style, Side-Scrolling, Brawler, Action, RPG
-Reference image from the game, River City Ransom
Beat the sickness is a side-scrolling brawler game where you play as an assortment of characters based on medication and vitamins and enter a human body in order to combat viruses and diseases, by literally beating the stuffing out of them. Progressing through levels requires you to defeat enemies onscreen before continuing to the next area/group of the level. At the end of each level you will have a boss like encounter that varies between, a swarm of weaker boss like enemies, one large and powerful boss and an in-between or 'normal' type.
After completion of a level you are then tallied your score which you can then spend on additional combat abilities, or upgrading existing ones. These 'upgrade' segments play out as a small shopping area that the player can explore somewhat before going to the next stage, and yes this is still inside the human body and is kind of a humour thing.
Once beating a certain amount of levels the player is given a 'final boss' fight against a virus that would give a more serious challenge not unlike those in an arcade fighting game. Upon defeating this final boss the player wins the game, and may unlock the final boss if the player already has beaten it with all other characters.
-Game play Genre, Side-Scrolling, Fighting, Brawler, Action
-Target Audience, Teen
-Reference image from the animated movie/series, Osmosis Jones