I have no access to my laptop and so have to make due tippy- tapping this thread on just my iPad. But it’s a big week, so I couldn’t in good faith leave it to the wayside.
So let’s kick things off with the most known property in this weeks new releases. Which is kind of odd as it’s a new release, and there are two full on remakes coming up, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga! Which is… another Lego Star Wars game, this time focusing on I guess all the main Star Wars movies. I really don’t know if there’s a non Main Nine Movies Lego Star Wars game, but… well… this one is 9 movies instead of three, so… there you go. Anticipate some pretty casual beat-‘em-up action alongside some slapstick goof-‘em-ups.
Live Long and Prosper with some of your favorite Star Warriors, like that guy with the scarf And Edward James Olmos
Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers Edition is next, and easily the thing I’m most excited for. And probably the thing the Talking anime collective is most excited for. Or at least it’s the number one choice from my gala poll. It’s a deeply gussied up rerelease of Chrono Cross, the Chrono Trigger sequel, and possibly the game I’ve had the greatest number of Hot and Cold takes about over the years. Instead of Back to the Future, its Sliders. And “Deeply gussied up release of one of the nicest looking PS1 games” is enough of a perk, even setting aside all the QoL improvements like a fast forward option and remastered music (and the ability to turn those things off for more vermilissitude) BUT there’s also a finally localized release of the visual novel the game was based of of, Radical Dreamers!
And it’s all coming out in the middle of my vacation, maximizing the amount of time I can play it! Nice!
The House of the Dead Remake is… perhaps the most on the nose title for a video game since New Super Mario Brothers Wii. It’s a remake of The House of the Dead. And it looks pretty spiffy, certainly spiffier than the original as modern consoles are, on average, a great deal more powerful than the Sega Saturn.
Anway, railshoot your way through a house and kersplode all the zomboys you see inside. I can only presume that the joycons can be used as light guns, otherwise what are we even doing here?
Sherlock Holmes: The Devils Daughter is a sleuth ‘em up about Britains favourite opioid addict, ol’ Sherly himself. he’s Dunn going to find out which murderer locked a room and was afoot!
Chinatown Detective Agency is also about detectives in another time and place! But in this case it’s a futuristic China Town in the year CYBER CRIMES. Like Johnny Mnemonics and Shadowruns, and not, like… I unno… stealing credit card info and pretending to be foreign royalty.
Astro Dogs is the non Chrono Cross game I’m most excited for this week, by merit of it looking a fair bit like Star Fox, and thats a recipe for getting right to the centre of my heart. Fly a dog down a tube and do an explosion on all the bad spaceships and big monsters that are inside it. Einstein would roll like a barrel if he ever heard of such a thing As a dog flying an airplane!
The Last Friend is the OTHER dog-centric futuristic shooter this week! But instead of being like a Star Fox, it’s like a Plants vs. Zombies! Or maybe a beat-em-up. You know, depends on how you look at things. I choose to look at it as being like a video game where a guy puts a dog into a gun turret to explode encroaching monster hoards.
You know, one of those kinda games.
So let’s kick things off with the most known property in this weeks new releases. Which is kind of odd as it’s a new release, and there are two full on remakes coming up, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga! Which is… another Lego Star Wars game, this time focusing on I guess all the main Star Wars movies. I really don’t know if there’s a non Main Nine Movies Lego Star Wars game, but… well… this one is 9 movies instead of three, so… there you go. Anticipate some pretty casual beat-‘em-up action alongside some slapstick goof-‘em-ups.
Live Long and Prosper with some of your favorite Star Warriors, like that guy with the scarf And Edward James Olmos
Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers Edition is next, and easily the thing I’m most excited for. And probably the thing the Talking anime collective is most excited for. Or at least it’s the number one choice from my gala poll. It’s a deeply gussied up rerelease of Chrono Cross, the Chrono Trigger sequel, and possibly the game I’ve had the greatest number of Hot and Cold takes about over the years. Instead of Back to the Future, its Sliders. And “Deeply gussied up release of one of the nicest looking PS1 games” is enough of a perk, even setting aside all the QoL improvements like a fast forward option and remastered music (and the ability to turn those things off for more vermilissitude) BUT there’s also a finally localized release of the visual novel the game was based of of, Radical Dreamers!
And it’s all coming out in the middle of my vacation, maximizing the amount of time I can play it! Nice!
The House of the Dead Remake is… perhaps the most on the nose title for a video game since New Super Mario Brothers Wii. It’s a remake of The House of the Dead. And it looks pretty spiffy, certainly spiffier than the original as modern consoles are, on average, a great deal more powerful than the Sega Saturn.
Anway, railshoot your way through a house and kersplode all the zomboys you see inside. I can only presume that the joycons can be used as light guns, otherwise what are we even doing here?
Sherlock Holmes: The Devils Daughter is a sleuth ‘em up about Britains favourite opioid addict, ol’ Sherly himself. he’s Dunn going to find out which murderer locked a room and was afoot!
Chinatown Detective Agency is also about detectives in another time and place! But in this case it’s a futuristic China Town in the year CYBER CRIMES. Like Johnny Mnemonics and Shadowruns, and not, like… I unno… stealing credit card info and pretending to be foreign royalty.
Astro Dogs is the non Chrono Cross game I’m most excited for this week, by merit of it looking a fair bit like Star Fox, and thats a recipe for getting right to the centre of my heart. Fly a dog down a tube and do an explosion on all the bad spaceships and big monsters that are inside it. Einstein would roll like a barrel if he ever heard of such a thing As a dog flying an airplane!
The Last Friend is the OTHER dog-centric futuristic shooter this week! But instead of being like a Star Fox, it’s like a Plants vs. Zombies! Or maybe a beat-em-up. You know, depends on how you look at things. I choose to look at it as being like a video game where a guy puts a dog into a gun turret to explode encroaching monster hoards.
You know, one of those kinda games.