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Mythologies often paint the sun and the moon as complementary opposites, two sides of an enormous shiny coin, as it were. And rarely has this relationship been clearer than in Tales of Kenzera: Zau, inspired by the Bantu folklores of southern and central Africa, where solar heat and lunar cool together help you survive its Metroidvania challenges. In short, it’s the stuff legends are made of.

Indeed, most of the freshness in stems from its setting, given that African mythologies (ancient Egypt excepted) remain a largely untapped

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