I remember it was a stick figure style app where a guy was given a special sword by an old man, the game was a sort of platformer that used up, down, left, and right buttons. You had to click the correct button on the beat or you'd die. I remember playing it on the ipad in 2012, and it was very rhythm based. The goal was to defeat a big creativity stealing monster at the end.
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