IGN's Best Platformer category is a celebration of games with a focus on fun and interesting methods of 2D or 3D traversal. Manipulating your world or character to avoid obstacles, find collectibles, defeat or dodge enemies, and solve puzzles are some of the elements that define this broad, genre-mashing category. Whether it’s through jumping, flying, flinging, rolling, dashing, or even rotating your environment to get from point A to point B, platformers combine the action and puzzling of other genres with the pure simple pleasure of just maneuvering a character through a game world. Some require skill. Some don't. But they're all just as fun.
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