Well, it's been about a month, let's see if any new video games happened in that time.
Starting off with the last couple weeks' arcade games, we've got two! One is Rodland, a single-screen murd-em-up in the Bubble Bobble or Snow Bros vein that I understand to have been unexpectedly popular in Europe, and Mahjong 3 which... well... it's right there in the title, ain't it? Seems rude not to mention it is all.
Now if you're big on reading instea dof playing video games, and prefer to do your reading on a big TV instead of in the form of an actual book, well, like, eight hundred things like that came out over the last couple weeks; but the ones that I'm talking about include Spice and Wolf VR, which seems to be a full episode of the anime of the same name, except from the first person perspective. I'm lead to understand that this is NOT the kind of anime with lasers, swords or laser-swords so... a first-person recreation of it is a hard sell for me, but maybe it's not for you! I don't know your opinions on the anime Spice and Wolf! Also up is Choices That Matter And Their Souls Were Eaten, and if you paid me a million dollars I couldn't think of a video game title that screams "Indie Game Art Project" more than that. This'un is a choose-em-up adventure book. And finally, The Innsmouth Case is that, but with more squiddy guys.
I Sense- A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is, as the title suggests, a haunted spook-house story that is in fact set in the neon-soaked streets of the year: Future starring a detective lady who has to contend with some dang ol' haints and boogems in Future Hong Kong that. Based on the trailer, it's also far less horny than the cover art leads you to assume, so ONE PIECE of the games advertising is lying to me! But "Cyberpunk Neo City" and "Ghost Story" are two genres that usually don't overlap, so I am at least that interested.
Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom is another Kemco RPG, and I usually don't mention them except to acknowledge that, yep, there's another one (Kemco is the "Sunday Afternoon at Blockbuster" of the JRPG genre), but this one actually looks kind of appealing as the focus is entirely on crafting new gear; rummaging through dungeons and monster-giblets to get materials for better gear to go forth and rummage further. It's a gameplay loop I've always been a fan of. Looks similar to Adventure Bar Story, but with metal instead of hotdogs.
Escapio looks fascinating and I have absolutely no other meaningful statements to add to a description of the game. None. The trailer told me nothing, the screenshots are impossible to parse and the description says nothing. It's all just bewildering enough that I'm tempting to gamble five bucks to figure things out.
Epitaph is another neat'un, what we have here is a competitive RPG where you and your BITTER RIVAL assemble a team of abstract looking Grim Reapers in order to beat down a rival team of Grim Reapers in order to be the Biggest Baddest Psychopomp on the block. Or don't play with your friends/rivals and enjoy some good ol' RPG Combat Puzzles in single player mode.
And finally, what is arguably the most significant release of the month (definitely in my top three, at least), we have Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game: Definitive Edition, the triumphant return of the long-delisted beat-em-up that represents one of the best entries in the beat-em-up genre from before its glorious resurrection a few years ago. Take Oblivious Fool Scott Pilgrim, or his friends, out on a Toronto-wide quest to beat down all of his girlfriends evil exes so that they may continue to date. Now that I am stopping to consider it, I have no real idea why two-thirds of the playable cast are involved at all. In any case, it's a really fun example of the beat-em-up genre, it's got an amazing soundtrack and great visuals, and now you can play as Knives and Wallace Wells without paying extra for DLC! Also, you literally can not play this game otherwise.
Ordinarily, I'd suggest waiting on Ubisoft games, as they go on sale quickly and often, but I can't make that suggestion this time; we lost Scott once, and I don't want to risk losing it again!
And just in case you still want new games, but don't want to PAY for new games, but have previously bought a video game, this week also has the Classic Mode DLC for Bloodstained, which turns it into a more traditional Castlevania-styled adventure. But not like the Curse of the Moon games, regular Bloodstained, structured like regular CV.
Starting off with the last couple weeks' arcade games, we've got two! One is Rodland, a single-screen murd-em-up in the Bubble Bobble or Snow Bros vein that I understand to have been unexpectedly popular in Europe, and Mahjong 3 which... well... it's right there in the title, ain't it? Seems rude not to mention it is all.
Now if you're big on reading instea dof playing video games, and prefer to do your reading on a big TV instead of in the form of an actual book, well, like, eight hundred things like that came out over the last couple weeks; but the ones that I'm talking about include Spice and Wolf VR, which seems to be a full episode of the anime of the same name, except from the first person perspective. I'm lead to understand that this is NOT the kind of anime with lasers, swords or laser-swords so... a first-person recreation of it is a hard sell for me, but maybe it's not for you! I don't know your opinions on the anime Spice and Wolf! Also up is Choices That Matter And Their Souls Were Eaten, and if you paid me a million dollars I couldn't think of a video game title that screams "Indie Game Art Project" more than that. This'un is a choose-em-up adventure book. And finally, The Innsmouth Case is that, but with more squiddy guys.
I Sense- A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is, as the title suggests, a haunted spook-house story that is in fact set in the neon-soaked streets of the year: Future starring a detective lady who has to contend with some dang ol' haints and boogems in Future Hong Kong that. Based on the trailer, it's also far less horny than the cover art leads you to assume, so ONE PIECE of the games advertising is lying to me! But "Cyberpunk Neo City" and "Ghost Story" are two genres that usually don't overlap, so I am at least that interested.
Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom is another Kemco RPG, and I usually don't mention them except to acknowledge that, yep, there's another one (Kemco is the "Sunday Afternoon at Blockbuster" of the JRPG genre), but this one actually looks kind of appealing as the focus is entirely on crafting new gear; rummaging through dungeons and monster-giblets to get materials for better gear to go forth and rummage further. It's a gameplay loop I've always been a fan of. Looks similar to Adventure Bar Story, but with metal instead of hotdogs.
Escapio looks fascinating and I have absolutely no other meaningful statements to add to a description of the game. None. The trailer told me nothing, the screenshots are impossible to parse and the description says nothing. It's all just bewildering enough that I'm tempting to gamble five bucks to figure things out.
Epitaph is another neat'un, what we have here is a competitive RPG where you and your BITTER RIVAL assemble a team of abstract looking Grim Reapers in order to beat down a rival team of Grim Reapers in order to be the Biggest Baddest Psychopomp on the block. Or don't play with your friends/rivals and enjoy some good ol' RPG Combat Puzzles in single player mode.
And finally, what is arguably the most significant release of the month (definitely in my top three, at least), we have Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game: Definitive Edition, the triumphant return of the long-delisted beat-em-up that represents one of the best entries in the beat-em-up genre from before its glorious resurrection a few years ago. Take Oblivious Fool Scott Pilgrim, or his friends, out on a Toronto-wide quest to beat down all of his girlfriends evil exes so that they may continue to date. Now that I am stopping to consider it, I have no real idea why two-thirds of the playable cast are involved at all. In any case, it's a really fun example of the beat-em-up genre, it's got an amazing soundtrack and great visuals, and now you can play as Knives and Wallace Wells without paying extra for DLC! Also, you literally can not play this game otherwise.
Ordinarily, I'd suggest waiting on Ubisoft games, as they go on sale quickly and often, but I can't make that suggestion this time; we lost Scott once, and I don't want to risk losing it again!
And just in case you still want new games, but don't want to PAY for new games, but have previously bought a video game, this week also has the Classic Mode DLC for Bloodstained, which turns it into a more traditional Castlevania-styled adventure. But not like the Curse of the Moon games, regular Bloodstained, structured like regular CV.
