La-Mulana EX (2014)

La-Mulana EX is an enhanced port of the PC remake for the PlayStation Vita. It adds a bestiary, reworks some item locations, rewords hints, changes puzzles slightly, moves hint tablets closer to the puzzles, and changes some graphics to make environmental clues more noticeable. "A combination of classic 2D platforming, Metroidvania-style adventuring and challenging action gameplay, La-Mulana EX takes you deep into the ancient ruins of La-Mulana on a quest to discover not just valuable treasure, but the secret to life itself! Fight monsters, uncover clues, collect items and weapons to enhance your abilities, spring traps and battle huge bosses as you try to solve the mystery of La-Mulana. But watch out! No-one who's entered the ruins before has come out alive… can you succeed where others have failed?"

Storyline

"My name is Lemeza Kosugi. Teaching archaeology at a university. Actually, not a proffessor but an assistant. While lecturing at a university, as long as I’m on vacation, I fly around the world to seek undiscovered ancient ruins. One day, back from a lecture, I found a somewhat dirty envelope on my desk. “Eventually, I found it. I’ve won!” The familiar hand writing on the offcut of the familiar datebook seems like ridiculing me. A poetry titled “Legend of Ancient Times” is written on the back of it. A gold coin with never seen pattern is in the bottom of the envelope. But I do know well the writing on this. I suppose my dad finally did it. Unknown ancient ruins which had become the beginning of whole the civilizations. My dad’s lifelong-work seems became bearing. This short triumph childish letter is always the sign to go. He’s telling me to come.He intends to hold the treasure by using me again, that will be over. My ambition for overreaching him is about to be gone before such a wonderful research object whom i can’t see, even if I lived for 500 years. I packed my beloved laptop for exclusive use of Archaeology research for a start, usefull brother lash and gun, and also every kind of bad stuff and headed to the airport. The destination is “La-Mulana“, the legend land said as The beginning of whole the civilizations and Anthropo-origin. Though all the stuff without the laptop and the lash which I whined as souvenirs were confiscated at the airport… I’ll be back with lots more stuff, then, that’s not much trouble."