Who is ready to learn all about some brand new Video Style Entertainment Games?
Sneaking into your pantry and eating all the middles out of your Oreos this week is Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure, the direct sequel to the earlier released Legend of Heroes: Trials from Zero, which I understand to be one of the better entry points for the LoH series, and one that's structured more like a PS1-era RPG, but also one of those RPGs where *boy howdy* was the writer getting paid by the word because there is yammerin' for days.
Take a bunch of Anime Teens out from Gun School and teach them all about life and love in scenic Magitek Fantasy Kingdom
Next up is the... like... sixth Troid-em-up released in the last month; and one of the ones that made me go "Ooooooooh" the hardest; Vernal Edge. Doesn't look to be reinventing the wheel in any way, but it looks TREMENDOUSLY snazzy (the trailer alone had me going "Oh my!" several times).
You're some kinda sword lady in a bunch of floating islands what wants to find her poppa. You accomplish this by chopping the crap out of monsters and exploring to find stuff to augment your platforming proficiencies, then explore farther!
That's TROID, BABY!
Next up we have brand new Very Old game; Terminal Velocity Reboosted. A 3D space-shippy pew-pew-em-up from an authentic 1995 vintage. Much in the X-Wing or Descent mold (I am about 40% sure I played its semi-sequel, Fury3). You've got a spaceship, a bunch of Planets (or Weird Places, at least) and a hankerin' to contribute to help various objects on their personal journeys to be exploded.
Zip around the Astro Zone and make the void of space just a little bit emptier.
And speaking of blasting the hell out of everything you see; sometimes the things you see are anime girls in powered armor. And to that end we have Alice Gear Aegis CS. Which combines the THRILLS of talking to anime girls with the CHILLS of using customized power armor to turn those anime girls into murderous gladiators in a Tron-esque battle dome.
From the screenshots on display, I can only assume that the content is deeply questionable for reasons divorced from the "Anime Girl Blood Sport" thing.
And speaking of shooting the hell out of everything that exists, we next have Post Void, which... defies simple explanation. It KIND OF seems like Hotline Miami, but first person, and also from the viewpoint of the Masked Guy, and if the general aesthetic style was Ed Roth instead of Mid-Era NES Game.
Now if hyper-violent, epilepsy-inducing murder-shooters ain't your particular cup of tea, how about a board game instead? An asymetrical board-game structured like a Tactical RPG? Well, GOOD NEWS, BUDDY, because Unmatched is such a thing! You've got a bunch of Fantasy Peeps who want to play cards as a means of beating one another senseless! The description makes it look pretty straightforward, but is it straightfoward?
Probably not! Wouldn't be a great board game if it didn't have mechanical swerves to keep you on your toes.
Well... Candy lands pretty consistently popular, I guess, and it's got no mechanical swerves whatsoever.
And speaking of things with swerves, we have an... actual family-friendly Bayonetta game; Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, a prequel to Bayonetta that takes place before she was a Bible thumping (in that she thumps things from the bible) sexy dancin' murder witch and was just a widdle scamp. Instead of being Devil May Cry, it's Legend of Zelda (or, more accurately, Okamiden) where Tweenage Witch Cereza and her pet demon Chesire need to work in tandem to navigate a haunted Magic Murder Forest before they dunn get GOT.
Given that Cereza grows up to be the most powerful witch in existence, who personally murdered multiple deities by punching them through multiple planets, I feel like her chances of getting through a haunted forest are at least above average.
Flame Keeper is a top-down style rogues-em-up Action-RPG. Don't really got a lot else to say; you're a fireball guy and the levels get scrambled every time you beef it. But when you DO beef it, you get to unlock new upgrades so you don't suck so bad next time. You know; one of them games.
And finally, we've got something that looks a hell of a lot like Star Fox, which is one of those things that's an immediate means to get me to pay attention to it; Fur Squadron. You're flying down some tubes, dodging obstacles and blasting the HELL out of Bad Guys, and it looks Very Tronny so, you know... Like Star Fox. And also all the characters are varmints and are dressed like Star Fox characters and have largely the same personalities as those from Star Fox so... I don't think the similarities to that wonderful fox from the stars are entirely coincidental.
But perhaps they are!
Sneaking into your pantry and eating all the middles out of your Oreos this week is Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure, the direct sequel to the earlier released Legend of Heroes: Trials from Zero, which I understand to be one of the better entry points for the LoH series, and one that's structured more like a PS1-era RPG, but also one of those RPGs where *boy howdy* was the writer getting paid by the word because there is yammerin' for days.
Take a bunch of Anime Teens out from Gun School and teach them all about life and love in scenic Magitek Fantasy Kingdom
Next up is the... like... sixth Troid-em-up released in the last month; and one of the ones that made me go "Ooooooooh" the hardest; Vernal Edge. Doesn't look to be reinventing the wheel in any way, but it looks TREMENDOUSLY snazzy (the trailer alone had me going "Oh my!" several times).
You're some kinda sword lady in a bunch of floating islands what wants to find her poppa. You accomplish this by chopping the crap out of monsters and exploring to find stuff to augment your platforming proficiencies, then explore farther!
That's TROID, BABY!
Next up we have brand new Very Old game; Terminal Velocity Reboosted. A 3D space-shippy pew-pew-em-up from an authentic 1995 vintage. Much in the X-Wing or Descent mold (I am about 40% sure I played its semi-sequel, Fury3). You've got a spaceship, a bunch of Planets (or Weird Places, at least) and a hankerin' to contribute to help various objects on their personal journeys to be exploded.
Zip around the Astro Zone and make the void of space just a little bit emptier.
And speaking of blasting the hell out of everything you see; sometimes the things you see are anime girls in powered armor. And to that end we have Alice Gear Aegis CS. Which combines the THRILLS of talking to anime girls with the CHILLS of using customized power armor to turn those anime girls into murderous gladiators in a Tron-esque battle dome.
From the screenshots on display, I can only assume that the content is deeply questionable for reasons divorced from the "Anime Girl Blood Sport" thing.
And speaking of shooting the hell out of everything that exists, we next have Post Void, which... defies simple explanation. It KIND OF seems like Hotline Miami, but first person, and also from the viewpoint of the Masked Guy, and if the general aesthetic style was Ed Roth instead of Mid-Era NES Game.
Now if hyper-violent, epilepsy-inducing murder-shooters ain't your particular cup of tea, how about a board game instead? An asymetrical board-game structured like a Tactical RPG? Well, GOOD NEWS, BUDDY, because Unmatched is such a thing! You've got a bunch of Fantasy Peeps who want to play cards as a means of beating one another senseless! The description makes it look pretty straightforward, but is it straightfoward?
Probably not! Wouldn't be a great board game if it didn't have mechanical swerves to keep you on your toes.
Well... Candy lands pretty consistently popular, I guess, and it's got no mechanical swerves whatsoever.
And speaking of things with swerves, we have an... actual family-friendly Bayonetta game; Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, a prequel to Bayonetta that takes place before she was a Bible thumping (in that she thumps things from the bible) sexy dancin' murder witch and was just a widdle scamp. Instead of being Devil May Cry, it's Legend of Zelda (or, more accurately, Okamiden) where Tweenage Witch Cereza and her pet demon Chesire need to work in tandem to navigate a haunted Magic Murder Forest before they dunn get GOT.
Given that Cereza grows up to be the most powerful witch in existence, who personally murdered multiple deities by punching them through multiple planets, I feel like her chances of getting through a haunted forest are at least above average.
Flame Keeper is a top-down style rogues-em-up Action-RPG. Don't really got a lot else to say; you're a fireball guy and the levels get scrambled every time you beef it. But when you DO beef it, you get to unlock new upgrades so you don't suck so bad next time. You know; one of them games.
And finally, we've got something that looks a hell of a lot like Star Fox, which is one of those things that's an immediate means to get me to pay attention to it; Fur Squadron. You're flying down some tubes, dodging obstacles and blasting the HELL out of Bad Guys, and it looks Very Tronny so, you know... Like Star Fox. And also all the characters are varmints and are dressed like Star Fox characters and have largely the same personalities as those from Star Fox so... I don't think the similarities to that wonderful fox from the stars are entirely coincidental.
But perhaps they are!
