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Let's be honest: as far as I'm concerned, the first Medievil, released in 1998 and developed by SCEE is a masterpiece and is perfect. If I were to name a single game as a standard for all to follow, this would be it. Everything was well thought and beautifully crafted with the utmost care, from the simple gameplay that gradually evolves into something more intricate, levels that were neither too short nor too long, to a clever design that never holds your hand and lets you put all the pieces together, making every puzzle solved, every quest completed feel like a victory. That alone would be enough to make a hell of a game, but there was more: the plot was simple (You went down in history as a hero, but, in truth, you died in the very first seconds of a battle against your arch-enemy. Your army, however, managed to rout him and victory was yours. Now, some time later, this villain comes back, raises an army of zombies and mind-control the living, but also resurrects you