Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara

Koa & the 5 Pirates is what happens when you take Adventure Island, Mario Sunshine, & Sonic Adventure and blend them all together! It's close to flawless except the only real negative (water can kill you) Why this was added into the game mechanics makes no plausible sense (You are a Pirates you should be able get wet without losing a life bar/dying. Maybe the developers will patch this in the future!? Besides this odd added feature.. This is a HQ top tier modern action/adventure platformer masterpiece! Lots of bright colors that pop, plenty of charm (You'd see something like this on the Dreamcast or GameCube!) MS has never understood how to market the action/platformer genre on there brand, which is a shame & also a missed opportunity to grow. Koa has so much going on for the low asking price! Hopefully it finds some mainstream success.

Great game. Reminds me of zelda phantom hourglass.

I was anticipating this game a lot but it has fallen short of the mark. Biggest issue is the controls. They are broken, and when the game is focused on speed and precision it renders the experience awful. Summer in Mara was better (in graphics also)

Had fun playin the game. Only small problem I had was that if you die a few times in a level there would be a menu that would pop up that lets you switch to relax mode where once in a while it would freeze had to reset the game. The speed runs were easy except the last one. Controls were good just have to learn how to roll and jump to beat the speed runs.

Controls were smooth to me. Get good.