Drill Dozer

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Drill Dozer is a platformer video game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance (GBA). Directed by Ken Sugimori, the game stars Jill and her mech Drill Dozer, which has a drill that the player can rotate in both directions to fight enemies, drill into certain surfaces, and screw objects. Sugimori aimed to make an action game that does not use traditional types of combat, and was inspired by the concept of a tokusatsu monster who could drill through anything. He also wished to make the drill not just pushing a button, but instead using one of two buttons to activate the drill (either drilling forward or in reverse). When drilling, the built-in rumble pack will activate, a feature suggested by Nintendo. Sugimori wanted to make the protagonist a little girl, as he felt it would be more unusual than a larger male character piloting the mech. Artist Hironobu Yoshida, who struggled when drawing female characters, found her difficult to design, but managed to...

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