Yan Loong Legend 2

Choose one of three characters - two blokes and a girl. Fight your way from left to right, slicing and slashing simple ruffians, more complex ninja folks, less simple ruffians, and the odd boisterous boss.

You gather new fighting moves, characteristic points, and upgrades to your fireball as you go. This, coupled with regular new enemies, keeps the fighting from going stale. The graphics are cool too, and there's a two player mode to boot.

Player one moves with WASD, jumps with 'k' and attacks with 'j'. To pause you have to press 'i'. Player two can use the arrow keys to move, 'Num1' to attack, 'Num2' to jump and 'Num5' to pause.

Vary your attacks as much as possible from the off to get through the upgrades swiftly.