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Digital Down-Low for 03/03/23: You Are Already Healthy

Octopus Prime

Jingle Engine
(He/Him)
I want all of you to take a look to your left, and take a look to the right. Everyone you just looked at will fail this class, because I am not qualified to teach it.

Blearily crawling out of bed and going to iHop for breakfast this week is Void Terrarium 2, (or void* tRrLM2( );, if you go by the contents of the games logo) a video game that is... difficult to casually summarize based on available data! Fom the context clues I was able to figure out, you're a little robot tasked with feeding and caring for a l'il anime girl in a fishbowl on an otherwise dead planet. This takes the form of Mystery Dungeon style Rogue-liking in order to get food and fish bowl maintenance supplies in order to keep the l'il anime girl from dying of Space Germs.

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And speaking of using violence to protect the sanctity of life, we have Brok the Investigator, which is one part click-em-up and one part beat-em-up as the Adventure and Fighting genres collide in the mean streets of... some city where everyone is a varmint person, and most crimes can be solved party through logical lateral thinking puzzles and partly by punching the ever-loving hell out of people with your giant crocodile-fists.

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And speaking of the many myraid problems that be solved by shoving your entire arm directly out the back side of someones sternum, we have Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star, the health and fitness themed exercise videogame where anime character/human Pulverization Machine Kenshiro helps you get fit and healthy by teaching you the secret to proper fitness training until you too will be throwing punches like you've got kegs of nuclear dynamite strapped to each fist.

It's not the *most* bonkers kind of video game to tie to an anime.

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Speaking of stuff based on extant stuff, but now in video game form, we have Ken Follets The Pillars of the Earth (which I could have sworn was already on Switch, but maybe it's one of those "it has a new publisher" things). This one is based on some fiction novels that I ain't never read, because why would I ever read a fictitious novel? Every word of it is a DAMN LIE!

Anyway, it's Old Timey Times and there's a church what needs building and so you've got some conspiracies and wars and the like which stymy your church building.

I bet it's narratively gripping.

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Speaking of video games tailor made to give you all kinds of emotions (beyond "Endorphin high from punch-training and "desire to build a church) we have Megs Monster, which, at its simpliest is an Undertalier take on Monsters Inc, where you're a big burly monster what has to take care of a wee l'il scamp what fell into the Monster World. And also has to keep the kid at an even emotional keel, because if she gets upset things immediately get a lot more apocalyptic than you'd otherwise prefer.

It looks charming as all h*ck and also emotionally harrowing.

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Void Scrappers is pretty much Vampire Survivors, but with the difference that it's sapceships instead of Castlevania bad guys, and also uses a different set of words with the same initials.

There are no other discernable changes from what I could ascertain.

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And finally we have Disaster Detective: Saigas, a jokesy detectives-em-up starring a gumshoe on the prowl for clues to his next big case; tracking down a friggin' cthulhu and bringing him to justice. Like Chinatown, if John Huston was playing a 300 foot tall Octozilla

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Violentvixen

(She/Her)
And speaking of the many myraid problems that be solved by shoving your entire arm directly out the back side of someones sternum, we have Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star, the health and fitness themed exercise videogame where anime character/human Pulverization Machine Kenshiro helps you get fit and healthy by teaching you the secret to proper fitness training until you too will be throwing punches like you've got kegs of nuclear dynamite strapped to each fist.

It's not the *most* bonkers kind of video game to tie to an anime.
We played the demo of this tonight and honestly? Pretty fun. Two player mode is available in the demo fairly quickly, you just have to do the tutorial and the daily workout.

Also when I was prompted to add a stamp for doing the daily workout I discovered the stamp is done by punching/pressure pointing some jerk? Good times.
 
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