My Little Pony: Peril in Equestria

My Little Pony: Peril in Equestria is an Action/Adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and other studios and published by Hasbro. It is based off the very popular cartoon show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which has gained a cult following from both children and adults.

Story
"A long time ago, in the peaceful land of Equestria; there was chaos. This chaos was brought upon by a scourge known as the Smooze. The Smooze was created by Discord during his reign, but he never had a chance to release it, for he was trapped in his stone prison by the princesses before he could unleash it. The Smooze is a cursed sludge that feeds off evil and "bad vibes". For the longest time the Smooze accumulated in the chamber that held it, until the chamber could hold it no longer and the Smooze was released upon Equestria. The Smooze corrupted all it touched, creating evil and destruction wherever it flowed. The more it corrupted, the more evil appeared, and the Smooze gained a mind of its own. The brain came in the form of Morpheus, a being made of pure Smooze, that controlled where it went. During the chaos, Morpheus targeted key heavily populated locations, corrupting all he could, until the Princesses used their magic to drive Morpheus and the Smooze away. They had no way of destroying it, but they could repel it. They banished Morpheus and the Smooze to a large chamber deep, deep underground where they hoped that nobody would find it. It would eventually collapse the chamber again, they knew, but not for millennia. The Smooze began doing what it did best, growing for years and years. Unfortunately, a few drops managed to stay out of the chamber, yet were consumed by Luna, the princess of the moon, and she was corrupted, and transformed into Night Mare Moon. That aside, after Luna's "episode" the Smooze continued to build, and Morpheus waits for his revenge to this day."

That was the backstory of this game told through dramatic reading. In current time, a team of miners accidentally tunneled into the Smooze chamber, which caused Morpheus and his unholy sludge to leap out of their chamber, and through the mines to the exit. Morpheus laughs once he gets out before saying in a deep voice: "The day of my vengeance...is...NIGH." Morpheus quickly gains knowledge of how Equestria has changed using his powers of knowing what everyone's darkest desires are, as well as general mind-reading. He learns that Discord has turned good, and makes him his first target. He slithers to his location, and covers Discord in Smooze, corrupting him, and turning him back into his old self. Discord casts a curse on the land that turns its inhabitants from ponies to humans. Discord and Morpheus figure that it will slow their defenses down, as they need to get used to these new bodies. Morpheus continues his assault, corrupting key victims in an attempt to wipe all serious resistance to his expansion. However, the forces of good still have an ace in the hole, as the Elements of Harmony and Princess Celestia have managed to escape from the Smooze into a hidden chamber below the castle, which is protected by Celestia's magic, and is the only safe haven from Morpheus and the Smooze. Celestia explains the situation to the Mane 6, and tells that they need to stop Morpheus. Twilight Sparkle is the only one with experience in a human body, and therefore is the obvious choice to go on more missions. And that's where our game begins.

Gameplay
In this game, you play as Twilight Sparkle, now a human, as you travel throughout Equestria in order to stop the Smooze. The game plays similar to Uncharted with 3D platforming, as well as using magic spells in a third-person shooter style of combat with a wand replacing Twi's horn. For close-range combat you use a sword made of magic energy. Using experience you can upgrade your magic, learn new spells, and also upgrade your stats (health, defense, attack strength etc.) Spells include the standard magic bolt, fire, ice, spears, lightning, boulders, teleportation, levitation, explosions, and an interchangable super attack. Your blade can be upgraded into a claymore, sledgehammer, crowbar, machete, and other such weapons. The platforming involves climbing, puzzle-solving, running, and occasionally flying. You traverse across various locations from the lore, and eventually fight bosses.

Locations/Bosses
There are several locations traversed across the game, and each boss is given the Legend of Zelda treatment, with a little description given above the name. Many of the bosses are corrupted villains and/or good guys from the show.

1. Ponyville, Boss: Corrupted Griffon, Gilda.

Twilight is sent to Ponyville because of suspicious activity detected. The small town is being heavily guarded by everyone who previously lived there, as well as Gilda, who remains unchanged for some reason. Either way, the Smooze uses its corrupted minions to attampt to stop Twilight from reaching her library, where something strange is going on. Nevertheless, Twi makes it, but is stopped by Gilda, who has turned vicious and feral by the Smooze. Gilda fights by flying arlund quickly, using claws and her beak, and summoning minion to attack Twilight. Eventually, Gilda is beaten, but a giant purple-and-green dragon erupts from Twilight's library, and stomps off into the distance. Twilight watches in horror and utters "S-s-Spike!??"

TO BE CONTINUED

Collectable Super Attacks
The Super Attacks you use summon other characters to attack all enemies onscreen. Here are them.

Rainbow Dash: Rainbow performs a Sonic Rainboom, and the force blows all enemies away.

Rarity: Rarity uses her magic to make diamonds shoot out of the ground, slicing the enemies up.

Pinkie Pie: Pinkie grabs your health meter and spins around with it in hand, bashing all enemies.

Applejack: Somehow makes apple trees burst from the ground, smacking the enemies with force.

Fluttershy: Uses "The Stare" on the enemies and that causes them to cower and run away.

Derpy Hooves/Ditzy Doo: Drops miscellanious heavy objects on the enemies. (Pianos, safes, etc,)

Vinyl Scratch/DJ PON-3: Uses her DJ turntable to blast the enemy with a wave of solid sound.

Celestia: Uses solar rays to burn all enemies.

Ending
I myself am not a full-fledged brony, but I respect bronys. I OWN NOTHING.