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Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?

Prinny will be the most heart-pounding and challenging side-scrolling action game ever. Players will control an unlucky penguin dude called a Prinny and slash their way through various Netherworlds. For this…

82 20 November 2008

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? is an adventure developed by Engine Software, released 20 November 2008 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation Portable.

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What Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? is

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? is an adventure game developed by Engine Software and released in 2008. It was published by Nippon Ichi Software. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation Portable.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? is a 2D side-scrolling comedy platform video game for the PlayStation Portable, developed by Nippon Ichi Software. It is a spin-off title in the Disgaea series.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Disgaea series

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? is the eighth of 27 entries we hold in the Disgaea series. The next entry was Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days in 2009. Its critic score of 82 is 4 points above the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Disgaea: Hour of Darkness at 90.

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How it was received

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 17 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? launched on 20 November 2008, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War.

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Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? was released on 20 November 2008 for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation Portable.

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