Yeah, news exciting games are out this week too, some of them look pretty cool, one is a highly anticipated new entry in a series I love but they're all tertiary; surplus to requirement. WE GOT FOLDERS ON THE SWITCH, BAY-BEE! FOLDERS! AT LAST!
Our long national nightmare is finally over!
Kicking in our front door and falling asleep on our couch this week is Rune Factory 5. A game which even the most jaded player would have to agree, is the fifth Rune Factory game. As with the rest of the series it's just as much dungeon crawling RPG as much as it is Yard Work Simulator, and then you convert the fruits of your labors into romance. Tell your sweety pie how much you love them by growing a real big pumpkin, and then defeating the skeleton boss. And for the first time (?) in the series, you can smooch on whoever you want regardless of gender. Take THAT, previous Rune Factory games, I think!
Tempest 4000 is also out! And it's... a Jeff Minter game, and that means it's a shooter somewhere between "Rush Concert at the Planetarium" and "chewing on random mushrooms and frogs in any one of several rainforests". Move a claw around a psychedelic spirograph drawing, shooting lasers at perplexing geometric antagonists.
From the trailer, I gleaned it has "BEAUTY", "LOVE" and "ELECTRIC DEATH", so... expect that.
Kraken Academy is a Groundshogs Days-em-up where you're the new kid in the weird school of Kraken Academy, tasked with saving it from weird apocalypse courtesy of a subterranean octo-god and making yourself the coolest kid in the school. It's half Majoras Mask, Half Social Deduction Game, and half Persona, and half Breakfast Club (but with more cthulhu cults).
Sky Gamblers Air Supremacy 2 is the sequel to Sky Gamblers Air Supremacy. I bet they didn't teach you THAT in that fancy pants book-learning school of yours, did they college boy? From context clues, it seems to be something in the Ace Combat vein, and they don't have any Ace Combat games on the Switch, so... there's your market!
I mean, there's Sky Rogue, which is basically AC without any kind of narrative attached to it, but that also doesn't have any realistic aircraft in it either.
Anyway; use airplanes to shoot other airplanes. Like our friend Goose always said; Peace was Never an Option
Speaking of shooting planes out of the sky, we also have an arcade game about that very subject; Andro Dunas 2, which is an SNK game from 1992. You know what else happened in 1992? I entered the Second Grade.
Yeah, think about it.
And speaking of new releases of old games, we... already had one for the Valis series a few months ago, but now its component parts are available individually! Valis: The Phantasm Soldier, Valis II and Valis III (which I think are all the PC Engine ports). Of them, I believe that the original is a full on remake made after the other two so it looks and plays much better, but you'd need to ask a True Doom Valishead to know for sure, and I am regrettably only a Passive Valis Afficianado.
In any case, put on your sparkliest bikini armor and stab the HELL out of every Dream Monster bold enough to think it's an okay decision to invade the human world.
And a game that would easily be the headliner if it weren't for the fact that I am just THAT EXCITED for bringing order to my Switch library at long last, Kirby and the Forgotten Land! It's a new Kirby game! Which normally is all that needs to be said before I fire off the Finger Guns and say "I'm in". BUT THIS TIME it also kind of looks like Mario Odyssey. And now I'm all like "Can you DO that?!?!?!"
And apparently you can, because here it is. The proof is in the pudding.
Take The Cure for Gods out and have him traipse around a post apocalyptic modern cityscape, and presumably bring ruin to it because someone who lives there interupted his nap or wouldn't give him ice cream or something.
Kirb is not to be trifled with, and you should respect him.
And this time he can get stuff stuck in his mouth!
Our long national nightmare is finally over!
Kicking in our front door and falling asleep on our couch this week is Rune Factory 5. A game which even the most jaded player would have to agree, is the fifth Rune Factory game. As with the rest of the series it's just as much dungeon crawling RPG as much as it is Yard Work Simulator, and then you convert the fruits of your labors into romance. Tell your sweety pie how much you love them by growing a real big pumpkin, and then defeating the skeleton boss. And for the first time (?) in the series, you can smooch on whoever you want regardless of gender. Take THAT, previous Rune Factory games, I think!
Tempest 4000 is also out! And it's... a Jeff Minter game, and that means it's a shooter somewhere between "Rush Concert at the Planetarium" and "chewing on random mushrooms and frogs in any one of several rainforests". Move a claw around a psychedelic spirograph drawing, shooting lasers at perplexing geometric antagonists.
From the trailer, I gleaned it has "BEAUTY", "LOVE" and "ELECTRIC DEATH", so... expect that.
Kraken Academy is a Groundshogs Days-em-up where you're the new kid in the weird school of Kraken Academy, tasked with saving it from weird apocalypse courtesy of a subterranean octo-god and making yourself the coolest kid in the school. It's half Majoras Mask, Half Social Deduction Game, and half Persona, and half Breakfast Club (but with more cthulhu cults).
Sky Gamblers Air Supremacy 2 is the sequel to Sky Gamblers Air Supremacy. I bet they didn't teach you THAT in that fancy pants book-learning school of yours, did they college boy? From context clues, it seems to be something in the Ace Combat vein, and they don't have any Ace Combat games on the Switch, so... there's your market!
I mean, there's Sky Rogue, which is basically AC without any kind of narrative attached to it, but that also doesn't have any realistic aircraft in it either.
Anyway; use airplanes to shoot other airplanes. Like our friend Goose always said; Peace was Never an Option
Speaking of shooting planes out of the sky, we also have an arcade game about that very subject; Andro Dunas 2, which is an SNK game from 1992. You know what else happened in 1992? I entered the Second Grade.
Yeah, think about it.
And speaking of new releases of old games, we... already had one for the Valis series a few months ago, but now its component parts are available individually! Valis: The Phantasm Soldier, Valis II and Valis III (which I think are all the PC Engine ports). Of them, I believe that the original is a full on remake made after the other two so it looks and plays much better, but you'd need to ask a True Doom Valishead to know for sure, and I am regrettably only a Passive Valis Afficianado.
In any case, put on your sparkliest bikini armor and stab the HELL out of every Dream Monster bold enough to think it's an okay decision to invade the human world.
And a game that would easily be the headliner if it weren't for the fact that I am just THAT EXCITED for bringing order to my Switch library at long last, Kirby and the Forgotten Land! It's a new Kirby game! Which normally is all that needs to be said before I fire off the Finger Guns and say "I'm in". BUT THIS TIME it also kind of looks like Mario Odyssey. And now I'm all like "Can you DO that?!?!?!"
And apparently you can, because here it is. The proof is in the pudding.
Take The Cure for Gods out and have him traipse around a post apocalyptic modern cityscape, and presumably bring ruin to it because someone who lives there interupted his nap or wouldn't give him ice cream or something.
Kirb is not to be trifled with, and you should respect him.
And this time he can get stuff stuck in his mouth!
