Games released on April 12
Five games that still hold up, from Lunar Legend in 2002 to The Sexy Brutale in 2017
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Lunar Legend 2002
Turned 24 this year Game Boy Advance
The story of Lunar: The Silver Star retold on the Game Boy Advance, with a new Arts gauge for special attacks and a card collecting quest you can trade over a link cable.
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Painkiller 2004
Turned 22 this year
A shooter made in Poland, in which Daniel Garner, dead and in Purgatory, is offered a way into Heaven and back to his wife for destroying Lucifer's army.
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Jade Empire 2005
Turned 21 this year Xbox
The last surviving Spirit Monk sets out to save the tutor Master Li and defeat the dark forces behind his kidnapping, in a world inspired by Chinese mythology.
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Ratchet & Clank 2016
Turned 10 this year PlayStation 4
The 2002 original told again alongside the film of the same year, in which Captain Qwark narrates his own version of it from a prison cell.
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The Sexy Brutale 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A game set in a casino and mansion in the middle of a masked ball, in which Lafcadio Boone, a preacher, is caught in a time loop and can rewind to save the guests who are murdered as the night runs.
