GBA - Drill Dozer

In-game logo of "Drill Dozer"

A nice pretty game I played many years ago on my emulator. This game is made by Game Freak (who also make Pokémon games).
The game is called "Drill Dozer" in English, and "Screw Breaker" (スクリューブレイカー 轟振どりるれろ, Sukuryūbureikā Gōshin Dorirurero) in Japanese.

North American Boxart

As all can see, it is a Nintendo Game Boy Advance platformer. It released in 2005 in Japan, and later on 2006 in North America.

The in-game screenshot shows "Jill" falls down a cave.

The player is "Jill"  (ドリ・くるり Dori Kururi ^?). She is the daughter of "Doug", the the leader of a bandit gang known as "The Red Dozers".

Screen-Shot shows drilling with "L" button.

Screen-Shot shows drilling with "R" button.

The drill is activated by simply pushing one of the shoulder buttons. The "R" button spins the drill forward and the"L" button spins it backwards.

The red-coloured box with a triangle holds a gear.

Red-gear in the box, here it is 2nd Gear.

2nd Gear, obtained.

Game tutorial showing how to use gears. "Right...now!, Press the "R" button!"

Some stages require you to use gears.

Each stage also contains two red gears that allow Jill to shift her Drill Dozer to the second and third gears. The higher the gear, the more powerful the Drill Dozer's drill is and the longer it spins.

Screen-shot showing that these enemies can be felled in one shot.

In each world, there is a mini-boss and a boss. All of the bosses can be defeated by using your drill in various ways. The only boss where the drill isn't used is in the final battle with "Croog". Your Drill Dozer falls apart, and Jill's only method of attack (and defense at that) is her fists. This final battle is the only battle where the boss does not have a health meter, as only one successful hit is required to defeat him.
When Jill's Drill Dozer runs out of health, the player receives a game over. He or she can resume the game at the beginning of the room the Drill Dozer was destroyed in by paying the shopkeeper fifty chips.

Drill Dozer was nominated as GBA Game of the Year by Nintendo Power, as well as Overall Game of the Year, and Best New Character (Jill) and Best Platformer throughout all systems for 2006. Of these, it won GBA Game of the Year as "NP's Pick". It was also runner-up for GameSpot's Game Boy Advance Game of the Year^.

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