If you rank the Ghostbusters movies based solely on the average height of the main cast in each, the results *may* surprise you.
So it's a small release schedule this week, but it's definitely leading with strength, as it's kicking off with a game I was completely all in on the moment it was announced; Freedom Planet 2! The original Freedom Planet is a game I'd rank highly, if not at the very top of the heap, of games in the Accelerated Varmint genre (that or Sonic Mania), and by all appearances, this is More of That. And that's all I want!
Though apparently you have to unlock the No Cutscenes options and... boy there's a lot of talking for a 2D platformer otherwise.
Tear-ass through the varmint world of Avalice and roundhouse-kick the hell out of any fool who made the terminal mistake of being made of metal.
And speaking of clever girls (which is, in fact, why I titled the thread that) we have Girl Genius: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne, the video game adaptation of the web comic that perhaps best lends itself to the medium of video style entertainment game! Weird that it took this long, tbh. It's also one of those comics that I really want to read through but there's, like... decades worth of it at this point and that's a lot of comic to read.
Mad Science Extraordinaire Agatha Heterodyne has herself her ancestral steampunk cyber-monster castle populated with robots and death traps courtesy of a long lineage of comparably mad scientists and she has a real hankerin' to Zeld her way from one side of it to the other.
Really looking forward to some impressions on this since, as said, Girl Genius is one of those things that it makes more sense for me to already be a fan of than not.
And the character is completely concealed in a cloak, so I can't definitively say it doesn't continue the trend set by the title, but next is Knowledge Keeper, which is appears to be much of the Adventures of Lolo mold, except without that wonderful little Kooshball Man everyone loves to call "Lolo". And I'm always in the mood for one of those, especially when it costs less than a coffee at Starbucks.
But I would need that Starbucks coffee to put the needed pep in my brain to solve the mind bending puzzles.
This is a conundrum, I wish I had a Knowledge Keeper to solve this puzzle for me. And you can get one... with Knowledge Keeper on the Nintendo Switch!
Now what if, instead of whimsically solving puzzles in a trap filled dungeon or... doing that from a top-down perspective, you were solving WEIRD SPOOKY MURDERS? Well you better get yourself down to The Gap, where, besides some fashionable slacks, you can find *weird spooky murders* what need solving! It's a point and clicky Spooky Style adventure game where you've got a whole Memento thing going on.
And finally, we've got a different game that clearly hearkens to an 8-bit game I love dearly, but I chose to make The Gap the segue between those two instead. Well... nothing to do to fix that now. Kudzu is the latest from 8 Bit Legit, the folks as what make new games for old consoles. In this case, the Gameboy, and it's a Zeld-em-up about gardening, after your back yard gets a little too... monster-dungeon-y for the Neighborhood Associations liking.
OKAY GO TO BED
So it's a small release schedule this week, but it's definitely leading with strength, as it's kicking off with a game I was completely all in on the moment it was announced; Freedom Planet 2! The original Freedom Planet is a game I'd rank highly, if not at the very top of the heap, of games in the Accelerated Varmint genre (that or Sonic Mania), and by all appearances, this is More of That. And that's all I want!
Though apparently you have to unlock the No Cutscenes options and... boy there's a lot of talking for a 2D platformer otherwise.
Tear-ass through the varmint world of Avalice and roundhouse-kick the hell out of any fool who made the terminal mistake of being made of metal.
And speaking of clever girls (which is, in fact, why I titled the thread that) we have Girl Genius: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne, the video game adaptation of the web comic that perhaps best lends itself to the medium of video style entertainment game! Weird that it took this long, tbh. It's also one of those comics that I really want to read through but there's, like... decades worth of it at this point and that's a lot of comic to read.
Mad Science Extraordinaire Agatha Heterodyne has herself her ancestral steampunk cyber-monster castle populated with robots and death traps courtesy of a long lineage of comparably mad scientists and she has a real hankerin' to Zeld her way from one side of it to the other.
Really looking forward to some impressions on this since, as said, Girl Genius is one of those things that it makes more sense for me to already be a fan of than not.
And the character is completely concealed in a cloak, so I can't definitively say it doesn't continue the trend set by the title, but next is Knowledge Keeper, which is appears to be much of the Adventures of Lolo mold, except without that wonderful little Kooshball Man everyone loves to call "Lolo". And I'm always in the mood for one of those, especially when it costs less than a coffee at Starbucks.
But I would need that Starbucks coffee to put the needed pep in my brain to solve the mind bending puzzles.
This is a conundrum, I wish I had a Knowledge Keeper to solve this puzzle for me. And you can get one... with Knowledge Keeper on the Nintendo Switch!
Now what if, instead of whimsically solving puzzles in a trap filled dungeon or... doing that from a top-down perspective, you were solving WEIRD SPOOKY MURDERS? Well you better get yourself down to The Gap, where, besides some fashionable slacks, you can find *weird spooky murders* what need solving! It's a point and clicky Spooky Style adventure game where you've got a whole Memento thing going on.
And finally, we've got a different game that clearly hearkens to an 8-bit game I love dearly, but I chose to make The Gap the segue between those two instead. Well... nothing to do to fix that now. Kudzu is the latest from 8 Bit Legit, the folks as what make new games for old consoles. In this case, the Gameboy, and it's a Zeld-em-up about gardening, after your back yard gets a little too... monster-dungeon-y for the Neighborhood Associations liking.
