Sparkler

Sparkler is a Mega Man/Mighty No. 9 spiritual successor developed by Dreams Inc. as a small side project. The game's mechanics take a lot of influence from Mighty No. 9 but set out to be better and fix the problems with them, as well as base the level design around them in order to make them work better.
==Story==
It's the year 22XX, and humanity lives peacefully alongside advanced machinery and gadgets in a futuristic world. All of this came about thanks to a massive breakthrough: the discovery of a brand new power source dubbed "EXtrinin", which could be easily mass produced and allowed the world's greatest minds to mass produce advanced technology. However, one day...everything's perfectly normal, especially for "Vee", a female robot that works as an EXtrinin regulator and analyzer, while she's uploaded into the EXtrinin mainframe, she detects an unplanned sudden surge of EXtrinin being pumped into almost every machine in the city, but she detects something off within this EXtrinin...
Soon after, 95% of the city's robots and technology start going haywire and rampaging all across the city, trying to destroy every human they see! This massive revolt forces all of the humans in the city to concentrate in the city's bunker, where hey find that Vee was unaffected by the event, along with a number of robots that do not depend on EXtrinin, this leads them to believe that the EXtrinin has something to do with it, and after analyzing the city's EXtrinin flow, they find out that the mysterious unplanned surge was actually a corrupted type of EXtrinin that messed with the robots!
Just as they begin to wonder who could've done something like this, a mysterious cloaked figure appears in every TV screen in the city, dubbing himself "Enoch". Enoch says he was the one to release the corrupted EXtrinin surge that allowed him to take control of the city's technology, and he threatens to overload the city's power plant with EXtrinin to the point where it would generate a massive explosion that would shut down every single technological item in the world unless he is given total control of the country's government and military.
With Vee seen as the last hope of humanity, the best minds upgrade Vee's systems to give her a new form suited for fighting so she can take down Enoch and return peace to the city, however, she will have to be careful, as though they could install a new battle body for her, they could not uninstall Vee's dependence on EXtrinin, meaning that through her journey she must mantain a constant supply of it or else she'll shut down.
With a new purpose and newfound determination, Vee sets out to stop Enoch, but first she'll have to take down the 8 "EX Generals", powerful robots who have taken over parts of the city, and along the way she'll meet strange rivals such as "Rubbert", a robot made out of rubber, and "Sunheat Optortuga", a turtle robot that uses solar energy.
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==Gameplay==
The game plays a lot like Mega Man X, though it also has many mechanics influenced by Mighty No. 9. You play as Vee, who can move around, jump and control her trajectory mid-air, dash, fire energy shots and dash, so a lot like Mega Man X, however, she also has the unique ability of having a physical move, Eleclaw, which can be used in order to strike enemies who are too close to hit properly with your shots and to block out projectiles heading your way.
===EXtrinin Charge===
Vee is heavily dependent on EXtrinin, this means that as you play the stages, Vee's EXtrinin charge is constantly running out, and if it hits 0%, Vee will shut down.
Vee starts every stage with 50% and in checkpoints she can plug herself to refill her energy, however, this only charges it up back to 50%, in order to go above 50% you must defeat enemies to make them go into a brief temporary Vulnerable State, and then dash into them, which causes them to explode and also allows you to absorb their energy.
Going above 50% can bring you many benefits, like increased defense or increased damage output, and it can be especially of help since many skills and abilities waste EXtrinin energy, however, you also have to be careful, as going too high can risk Vee overloading, and if she goes over 100% she will overload and shortcircuit, shutting off instantly.
===EX Skills===
As stated above, "EX Skills", which are obtained from defeating EX Generals and act as this game's "Copy Weapons", take up EXtrinin energy, however, in exchange they have no ammo bar like in Mega Man and Mega Man X. EX Skills are more reminiscent of Zero's abilities from Mega Man X4-X8 rather than Mega Man's Copy Weapons, in the sense that they act as extensions of Vee's moveset instead of being entirely new abilities.   
===EX Generals and Level Changers===
Just like in Mega Man X, after beating an intro stage you get sent to a Stage Select where you can pick one of 8 EX Generals to challenge to a duel, but besides 8 images of the EX Generals, the Stage Select also has a map in the center that changes as you beat bosses, giving you hints about the Level Changers.
Defeating a certain boss or doing specific actions in certain stages will trigger special events that affect other bosses' stages, either making them slightly easier or opening up new paths in order to find more collectibles. In order to make it less confusing, the map will change when you trigger these Level Changers and usually give you a hint as to what it changed, sometimes this can be subtle and other times it can be quite obvious.
For example, beating Makani Fakir will cause the volcano in his stage to erupt, launching firey rocks into the water that will heat it up and melt the ice in H-2-COld's stage, opening up new areas.
===E-Chips===
E-Chips are a very common collectible found in stages that works as the game's currency in a sense, E-Chips can be spent outside of stages in many different ways, such as buying items from the "EcoStore", paying "Chargurr" to charge up Batteries and purchasing upgrades from "Voltstream Labs".
===Power Extenders, Energenerators and Batteries===
Power Extenders, Energenerators and Batteries are the other collectibles found in the game, each one permanently upgrades Vee in some way, with each one having a different effect.
*Power Extenders increase Vee's maximum health, she starts with 30 HP but can increase up to 48 HP.
*Energenerators decrease the amount of EXtrinin EX Skills waste.
*Batteries, once they're collected, can be used at any point to up Vee's current EXtrinin, though after they're used they'll run out of charge and need to be charged up again through paying "Chargurr" with E-Chips.
===Rare Metals===
Rare Metals are collectibles that can be found throughout the game, there's one in every EX General stage but none in the final stages, and they are usually hidden in side paths that require the player to think cleverly, use their EX Skills, and sometimes both. When the player collects a Rare Metal, it is sent to the base, and once the stage is beaten the Rare Metal is given back to the player in the form of an upgrade, these upgrades can boost Vee's capabilities or give her new moves, but even though there are 8 (technically 9 counting the secret ninth one) she can only equip 4 at a time.
The game also has a secret ninth Rare Metal in the form of the "Aurum Metal", a shining gold metal obtained in the first of the final stages that can only be obtained by obtaining every single Power Extender, Energenerator and Battery in the game and getting to a secret room with a full health bar and no Rare Metals equipped, the Aurum Metal gives Vee the benefits of all of the Rare Metals at once, all 8, and also gives her a shiny armour coated in gold.
==Characters==
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==Stages==
===EX General Stages===
Name 	Description 	Rare Metal
Mareland (H-2-COld's Stage) 	<tabber>Description=Originally a grand 5-Star hotel connected to a massive water park known as Mareland, a tourist spot in the city that families from all over the world go to, H-2-COld has corrupted it and turned it into a cold land populated by ice robots. Make your way through the dangerous mazy halls of the hotel and explore the huge water park that has now become a frozen wasteland while climbing to high places and sliding from water slides. Be careful about the ice though, or you may slip and fall into a cold underwater grave!	
<tabber>Location=There's a section in the stage where you must climb up the hotel building in order to get to the top and then jump right in order to move forwards into the frozen water park, however, if you instead jump left and stick to the wall, you'll soon hit a cracked window and break it, entering one of the rooms. At the end of the room there's a drawer with something glowing inside, shoot the drawer and it will explode, revealing the Rare Metal.	 	
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