A strange trend noted by several people in the community is that whenever a pony fangame comes out and is at least partially based off of another game, it almost always ends up being more difficult than the original. Oddly enough, this usually seems to be entirely unintentional on the developer's part, and it is often debatable as to whether or not the increased difficulty is really a good thing. MegaPony is already an infamous example of this, sure, but is the game's quality negatively affected by this?

The answer, along with the rest of the review, can be found beneath the break.

 Last year's Megapony game was pretty good, but even veterans of the Megaman series claimed that the level design was too difficult. Is the same the case with Episode 2? Yes. As one of our commenters put it, Megapony was "Made for robots by robots. Maybe the final version should be for humans?". It's still quite enjoyable for those of you who are looking for a challenge, but if you are a more laid-back gamer I would advise playing something else (the Daring Do Demo that we just posted about, for example). We'll save our review for Episode 3, which will add the rest of the content that is missing from this release and should hopefully come out before that other Episode 3.

 Oh, and speaking of difficult games I'm going to be posting a review later on today of another entry to a fairly well-known series of pony platformers by Mark Sprague. It was supposed to be an April Fools game, but it turned into something bigger...

Surprisingly enough adventure games are a rarity in this fandom, and until recently the only existing MLP adventure game was the stunning Cutie Mark Crusade: A Dash of Adventure (which has sadly been put on hold). Thankfully this one bloke and his sister decided to do something about it and created an adventure game titled Luna's Quest with the Adventure Game Studio engine. Together they managed to complete a decent portion of the game along with some rather impressive pixel art for the cutscenes, but it turns out that the workload is too great and apparently they could use a couple pixel artists to help with the level backgrounds and field sprites. If you are interested in helping then send  them an email over at mariobud@gmail.com.

Part of me wanted to include this in the last Lyra's List, but then I realized that it was far enough into development to warrant its own post. Have an outdated gameplay video after the break!