Well... this is certainly one of those wallet-obliterating weeks.
So we're kicking things off with what is *probably* the biggest release of the week, if not month, Resident Evil: Requiem, the ninth mainline Resident Evil game (though it does not have a 9 anywhere in its logo); as series regular Action movie Lunkhead Leon Kennedy and a brand new protagonist Grace (who is seemingly unaware of the global spread of bio-engineered monster-men) return to Raccoon City since... well... that place has a bit of a recurring problem viz-a-viz mutated horrors. But THAT'S NOT ALL, since we've also got Switch 2 ports of Resident Evil VII: Biohazard (the first person one horror-focused one that... actually takes place in an evil residence) and Resident Evil VIII: Village (the other First Person one that is more shoot-y focused, and takes place in Castlevania and includes an incredibly tall vampire lady)! And they're all bundled together!
Well, you can buy them separately if you prefer, but that's WAY more expensive.
Now if that's not enough blasting monsters in a Racoon City, GOOD NEWS, since we also have Fur Squadron: Phoenix, a game that, well... its Star Fox. Straight up, barrel-rolling, "I'm afraid I can't let you do that", Brains of the Lylat System, tube-flying Star Fox. It's got a Roguelite progression so the levels shuffle up each time, and there's a persistent upgrade screen.
I am absolutely down for this.
Sands of Aura is a bit harder to parse since the eShop description, trailer and screenshots are mostly dedicated to explaining the backstory, but it seems to be a top-down Souls-em-up; so lots of somersaults and finding your corpse so you don't go broke and the like. It's certainly a very spiffy looking game, so it's got its looks going for it.
Traipse on down to a crappy desert-ocean where nothing is dying right and chop up monsters until things are fine, why don't you?
Speaking of action-RPGs about being stuck in a sucky undead world where nothing dies right we've got Hunt the Night, which is a bit more Zeld-y than Soulsish, thought he trailer made it also look to be a bit more boss rush than exploration focused. Either way, it went right into my wishlist.
Visit scenic "A Vaguely Medieval Europe-inspired Fantasy Land" and then get to monster-chopping because HOO NELLY, there's a LOT of monsters and they're all huge and have names like "The Abyssal Maw" and "The Nightmare of One Hundred Eyes".
Now what if you don't WANT to hunt monsters; you want to hunt *cities*? Well... that's a weird request and I don't know how you'd accomplish that, but nevertheless, the good people at Clouded Leopard have you covered as we have City Hunter, the only video game based on the anime series of that same name! Which was released "on home-consoles" in 1990 (I'm... *thinking* PC-Engine based on the screenshots, but they don't say for sure).
I have no familiarity with the source material, but this looks to be a side-scrolling shooter/platformer, of the Contra vein. Maybe Rolling Thunder if you want my inferences to get more specific.
Next, Bethesda has thrown a bit of a curveball and done something *besides* re-release Skyrim. They've instead done the impossible and unexpected and instead re-released Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition, which is Fallout 4 but with all the DLC included as well as a decent sized chunk of fan-mod stuff added in. While I *certainly* sunk a lot of time into Fallout 4, can't say I'm as jazzed as I would be if they re-released Morrowind or New Vegas or some such.
Anyway, get yourself on down to Nuclear Boston and find your baby after he was kidnapped by robots. Maybe see if you can't find Zombie Walton Goggins.
Now of the RPGs released on PS4 that I've sunk a lot of time into and liked quite a bit, we next have the *only* Tales game I played and enjoyed; Tales of Berseria! But now it's remastered! It's a big ol' JRPG where yer the Angriest Lady in the World who has one big Werewolf Arm and a real hankerin' to use it to punch the absolute hell out of the dingleberry what betrayed her.
Unlike every other Tales game, the combat is fun and fluid and, as noted, you've got a gigantic werewolf arm to induce Monster Clobbering with while screaming things like "I AM A MONSTER!" and "VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE!" so... you know...
That's how you sell a video game to me.
And speaking of games that should have been readily available on the Switch about a decade ago, and the fact that it hasn't been is... just absolutely mystifying, we have the OTHER major Capcom release this week; The Disney Afternoon Collection, a collection of no fewer than 8 of Capcoms Disney licensed games from the early 90s! Altogether we've got Ducktales and its sequel (two of the best platformers on the system), Rescue Rangers and its sequel (ditto), Darkwing Duck (Mega Man, except brutally difficult), Talespin (which... uh... wasn't great, but being a combination of Section Z and Forgotten World was novel) and two NEW games that weren't in the original release, Goof Troop (both a spiritual sequel to Higemaru AND, apocryphally, the basis for Resident Evil) and... umm... Bonkers (which... apparently had an SNES game).
Now that's of course, a great release full of childhood mainstays. But what if you weren't born in the mid-80s but *still* wanted a re-release of a video game from your childhood. And furthermore, what if you insisted it was weirdly overpriced and only one language was included with it so you had to be careful to make sure you bought a copy that was in a language you could read, and also there weren't even the hint of any kind of modern QoL or rudimentary emulation features. Well GOOD NEWS, we've got Pokémon: Fire Red/Leaf Green, which are both barebones ports of those two respective games, which were, themselves, remakes of the original Pokémon Red and Blue
Now, to be fair, the GBA era Pokémon games were very good, (one of the highpoints of the series as far as I'm concerned) and Fire and Leaf are arguably the best versions of the Kanto games, but... like... c'mon.
Also up as weirdly expensive Old Game Re-release we've got Tiger Heli: The Toaplan Collection, which includes Tiger Heli, as well as its sequel Twin Cobra, and, less explicably, the early fighting game, Get Star. As well as every port of those three games. The former two are essentially Star Soldier with a helicopter, but this version also spruces things up with heaps of new support functions and on-screen widgets, since M2 does not half-ass things, no matter how niche their audience is.
And finally, we've got Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix, which I did not play but I certainly remember the incredibly thirsty magazine ads for the game. From context clues, it's a cyberpunk Resident Evil set in CYBER HONG KONG, and also bosoms are present and you can see most of them on each of the several playable female characters.
OKAY, GO TO BED
So we're kicking things off with what is *probably* the biggest release of the week, if not month, Resident Evil: Requiem, the ninth mainline Resident Evil game (though it does not have a 9 anywhere in its logo); as series regular Action movie Lunkhead Leon Kennedy and a brand new protagonist Grace (who is seemingly unaware of the global spread of bio-engineered monster-men) return to Raccoon City since... well... that place has a bit of a recurring problem viz-a-viz mutated horrors. But THAT'S NOT ALL, since we've also got Switch 2 ports of Resident Evil VII: Biohazard (the first person one horror-focused one that... actually takes place in an evil residence) and Resident Evil VIII: Village (the other First Person one that is more shoot-y focused, and takes place in Castlevania and includes an incredibly tall vampire lady)! And they're all bundled together!
Well, you can buy them separately if you prefer, but that's WAY more expensive.
Now if that's not enough blasting monsters in a Racoon City, GOOD NEWS, since we also have Fur Squadron: Phoenix, a game that, well... its Star Fox. Straight up, barrel-rolling, "I'm afraid I can't let you do that", Brains of the Lylat System, tube-flying Star Fox. It's got a Roguelite progression so the levels shuffle up each time, and there's a persistent upgrade screen.
I am absolutely down for this.
Sands of Aura is a bit harder to parse since the eShop description, trailer and screenshots are mostly dedicated to explaining the backstory, but it seems to be a top-down Souls-em-up; so lots of somersaults and finding your corpse so you don't go broke and the like. It's certainly a very spiffy looking game, so it's got its looks going for it.
Traipse on down to a crappy desert-ocean where nothing is dying right and chop up monsters until things are fine, why don't you?
Speaking of action-RPGs about being stuck in a sucky undead world where nothing dies right we've got Hunt the Night, which is a bit more Zeld-y than Soulsish, thought he trailer made it also look to be a bit more boss rush than exploration focused. Either way, it went right into my wishlist.
Visit scenic "A Vaguely Medieval Europe-inspired Fantasy Land" and then get to monster-chopping because HOO NELLY, there's a LOT of monsters and they're all huge and have names like "The Abyssal Maw" and "The Nightmare of One Hundred Eyes".
Now what if you don't WANT to hunt monsters; you want to hunt *cities*? Well... that's a weird request and I don't know how you'd accomplish that, but nevertheless, the good people at Clouded Leopard have you covered as we have City Hunter, the only video game based on the anime series of that same name! Which was released "on home-consoles" in 1990 (I'm... *thinking* PC-Engine based on the screenshots, but they don't say for sure).
I have no familiarity with the source material, but this looks to be a side-scrolling shooter/platformer, of the Contra vein. Maybe Rolling Thunder if you want my inferences to get more specific.
Next, Bethesda has thrown a bit of a curveball and done something *besides* re-release Skyrim. They've instead done the impossible and unexpected and instead re-released Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition, which is Fallout 4 but with all the DLC included as well as a decent sized chunk of fan-mod stuff added in. While I *certainly* sunk a lot of time into Fallout 4, can't say I'm as jazzed as I would be if they re-released Morrowind or New Vegas or some such.
Anyway, get yourself on down to Nuclear Boston and find your baby after he was kidnapped by robots. Maybe see if you can't find Zombie Walton Goggins.
Now of the RPGs released on PS4 that I've sunk a lot of time into and liked quite a bit, we next have the *only* Tales game I played and enjoyed; Tales of Berseria! But now it's remastered! It's a big ol' JRPG where yer the Angriest Lady in the World who has one big Werewolf Arm and a real hankerin' to use it to punch the absolute hell out of the dingleberry what betrayed her.
Unlike every other Tales game, the combat is fun and fluid and, as noted, you've got a gigantic werewolf arm to induce Monster Clobbering with while screaming things like "I AM A MONSTER!" and "VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE!" so... you know...
That's how you sell a video game to me.
And speaking of games that should have been readily available on the Switch about a decade ago, and the fact that it hasn't been is... just absolutely mystifying, we have the OTHER major Capcom release this week; The Disney Afternoon Collection, a collection of no fewer than 8 of Capcoms Disney licensed games from the early 90s! Altogether we've got Ducktales and its sequel (two of the best platformers on the system), Rescue Rangers and its sequel (ditto), Darkwing Duck (Mega Man, except brutally difficult), Talespin (which... uh... wasn't great, but being a combination of Section Z and Forgotten World was novel) and two NEW games that weren't in the original release, Goof Troop (both a spiritual sequel to Higemaru AND, apocryphally, the basis for Resident Evil) and... umm... Bonkers (which... apparently had an SNES game).
Now that's of course, a great release full of childhood mainstays. But what if you weren't born in the mid-80s but *still* wanted a re-release of a video game from your childhood. And furthermore, what if you insisted it was weirdly overpriced and only one language was included with it so you had to be careful to make sure you bought a copy that was in a language you could read, and also there weren't even the hint of any kind of modern QoL or rudimentary emulation features. Well GOOD NEWS, we've got Pokémon: Fire Red/Leaf Green, which are both barebones ports of those two respective games, which were, themselves, remakes of the original Pokémon Red and Blue
Now, to be fair, the GBA era Pokémon games were very good, (one of the highpoints of the series as far as I'm concerned) and Fire and Leaf are arguably the best versions of the Kanto games, but... like... c'mon.
Also up as weirdly expensive Old Game Re-release we've got Tiger Heli: The Toaplan Collection, which includes Tiger Heli, as well as its sequel Twin Cobra, and, less explicably, the early fighting game, Get Star. As well as every port of those three games. The former two are essentially Star Soldier with a helicopter, but this version also spruces things up with heaps of new support functions and on-screen widgets, since M2 does not half-ass things, no matter how niche their audience is.
And finally, we've got Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix, which I did not play but I certainly remember the incredibly thirsty magazine ads for the game. From context clues, it's a cyberpunk Resident Evil set in CYBER HONG KONG, and also bosoms are present and you can see most of them on each of the several playable female characters.
OKAY, GO TO BED
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