The creation myth you never learnt about.
Exorcist Fairy is a 2D Platformer published by Medusa Games.
Shortly after creation of the world, when humans and demons are segregated with humans living on earth while demons resides in the heavens atop the Mountain of Spirits, an army of rogue demons decide to invade the mortal realm. And it's up to Jiutian Xuannü, the Chinese creation Goddess, to enter the world of mortals, explore six interconnected worlds and restore peace.
To save the people of Earth, Xuannu descends from the Heavens...
- Background Boss: There's a giant animated Buddha statue boss who stays in the background, and it's sole attack is by sending it's giant floating hands to the foreground and repeatedly pound on Xuannu.
- Badass Adorable: The game's incarnation of Xuannu, due to the chibi-graphics, looks more like a fox-eared human plushie. And she can kick all sorts of ass and destroy monsters several times her size.
- Beneath the Earth: The entire game is set underground, with Xuannu exploring caverns and tunnels. It's likely earth is a Hollow World since the game is set around the dawn of time.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Giant bugs, hornets and flying grubs appears abound in several areas, ranging from slightly larger than Xuannu to taking up an entire tunnel.
- Bioluminescence Is Cool: The slightly brighter-lit areas are illuminated by crystals or fungi, of various colours.
- Blackout Basement: The deepest, darkest underground caverns have it's visibility limited to a circle around Xuannu. Annoyingly these areas are quite prone to having platforming elements, and more often than not Xuannu can't even see the pits until she fell into one.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: The hooded, humanoid enemies with blades for hands uses them for slashing and stabbing.
- Defeat Equals Explosion: Most of the bosses, including the Stone Lion Head (despite being... well, stone), the giant eyeball, Grub mother, will explode harmlessly when killed.
- Double Jump: Xuannu can jump twice in mid-air to scale platforms too high to reach with a normal leap.
- Faceless Eye: There's a giant eye growing in the middle of a cavern's wall as one of the bosses. Who doesn't have any attacks of it's own, but can periodically summon smaller eyeballs on it's left and right which can shoot even more exploding eyes.
- Foul Flower: The early stages has giant blue flowers who can spit acidic pus at Xuannu from a distance.
- Harping on About Harpies: Harpies are another enemy Xuannu encounters, resembling hairless humanoids with bat-like wings.
- King Mook: A few of the bosses:
- False Knight, for instance, is a beefed-up version of the shielded Cube-Heads.
- The Traitor Lord is the boss equivalent of the fast-moving, blade-handed hooded humanoids, even having an identical Slide Attack.
- Grub mother is the queen of the common grubs. And a Mook Maker when fought as a boss, constantly spewing smaller grubs as backup.
- Lethal Lava Land: Inevitably, since the game is set entirely underground, Xuannu enters an area which is essentially the earth's core. Cue a platform-heavy level with plenty of jumping on rocks atop lava rivers.
- Little Bit Beastly: Xuannu in the game is portrayed as a humanoid hulijing, who looks entirely human save for having fox-ears.
- Money Spider: Slain enemies will drop coins for Xuannu to collect, even if they're animals or plants. Even those meat sacs growing on walls spill coins when sliced apart.
- Rock Monster: Enraged Guardian is a rock giant that towers well above Xuannu, though with disproportionally spindly legs.
- Rolling Attack: One of the bosses is a giant stone lion head whose main attacks are rolling around the arena trying to flatten Xuannu under it's body. But damage it enough and it starts bouncing.
- Sequential Boss: The last boss, the Inner Demon, is a clone of Xuannu, clad in green instead of red and needs to be killed thrice.
- Her first phase sees her attacks being exact duplicates of Xuannu's (Slide Attack, slashing and kicking) until she's defeated the first time - at which point the Inner Demon starts regenrating herself.
- In her second form she gains a Sword Beam upgrade and the ability to Teleport Spam, besides turning the whole area dark where visibility is limited. Defeated again...
- Inner Demon's third phase sees her seemingly dying... and coming back as a fifty-foot version of herself, and a Background Boss at that. If defeated again the game ends for real.
- Shield-Bearing Mook: The shielded Cube-Head naturally carries one, alongside a sword, where their shields can deflect Xuannu's sliding slash. There's an early boss who's a King Mook version of said enemy type.
- Slide Attack: Xuannu can combine her dash with a forward slash, allowing her to perform one of these. The hooded, blade-handed enemies (and their King Mook version, the Traitor Lord) can pull this off too.
- Super-Deformed: The game runs on these graphics. In fact, the Jiutian Xuannü - the Chinese goddess of creation, a noble motherly-looking figure in the myths - is now re-imagined as a chibi-fied hulijing.
- Unrobotic Reveal: The giant Buddha statue appears to be mechanical, attacking Xuannu by pounding it's fists in the foreground while sending projectile attacks, and Xuannu can damage it by slashing it's face repeatedly. After taking enough damage, the face suddenly splits open to reveal it's interior to be quite organic. And skinless...
