I think we can all agree that some video games would go down nice on a rainy cold day like this
Kicking things off this week with Poison Control, a frantic-looking action RPG from the good chaps at NIS. The screenshots are difficult to parse, the eshop description is reluctant to explain things, so man... I dunno. The tagline is "Purge poison and RAISE HELL" if that helps you any.
Doesn't mean much to me, personally.
Vastly more compelling, and one of the games I'm most jazzed for this month, is SaGa Frontier Remastered, which isn't just one of the games I've most wanted to see re-released in general (missed my chance to play is on PS1 and always regretted that), but it's a re-release thats more thorough than I dared hope; re-integrating all the content that wound up cut from the final game AS WELL AS having a bunch of minor QoL improvements like a fast forward and NG+ options. The game itself is kinda like getting 7 small RPGs with distinct mechanics that all overlap for one big overarching story; kind of like Dragon Quest 4, to an extent.
Deiland is one of them chorse-em-ups where you've got a tiny planet what needs farmin' 'pon, and also some varmints on that tiny planet farm what need thumpin'. It's like The Little Prince, except with more agriculture, and fewer life lessons about friendship.
Rain on Your Parade is a Whimsical Jackass Simulator where it's a lovely day in the neighborhood, and you're terrible cloud. Travel the town and unleash frustration on all the durn fools who think they have the right to plan for nice weather! It looks extremely charming and fun and who doesn't want to poop lightning bolts?
NOBODY, THAT'S WHO! IT'S THE UNIVERSAL DREAM!
Dragon Audit is... a weird'un, kind of feels like a lost Dreamcast or early PS2 game that fell through a time-hole and landed in the now-a-days. You're an accountant in a JRPG world who winds up romantically entangled with a dragon (read: anime girl) who mishears you say "Audit" and thinks you want to date her. Hijinx ensue. It's also only about 90 minutes long, according to the eShop description, so it won't be adding to the backlog any!
Myastere: Ruins of Deazniff appears to be a Bionic Commantroidvania, which sounds great on its own! I'm less confident about the rather clunky description in the eShop page, but Grappling Hooks and Troidin' are great tastes that taste great together!
Godstrike is a twin-sticky, boss-rushy, time-attacky bullet-hell shooter. It looks competently made and all, but I can't really expand on things past the baseline here.
It's one of those games!
Relicta is a ifrst person puzz-em-all-and-let-God-sort-em-out game where you're the only one left in a Weird Science Base and have to squirrel up gravity and magnetism (the two grabbiest sciences) to figure out how to get your butt from one spot to another without getting space-killed by a computer.
And finally, we have The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, the sequel to the original Darkside Detective, which was a jokey point-and-clikcy game about a wizard gumshoe tasked with using lateral thinking to solve GHOST CRIME. The original was a series of fun, brief mini-mysteries, and this appears to be More of Those, so I'd say it's an easy recommendation if that's your bag.
I guess that's all, go home.
Kicking things off this week with Poison Control, a frantic-looking action RPG from the good chaps at NIS. The screenshots are difficult to parse, the eshop description is reluctant to explain things, so man... I dunno. The tagline is "Purge poison and RAISE HELL" if that helps you any.
Doesn't mean much to me, personally.
Vastly more compelling, and one of the games I'm most jazzed for this month, is SaGa Frontier Remastered, which isn't just one of the games I've most wanted to see re-released in general (missed my chance to play is on PS1 and always regretted that), but it's a re-release thats more thorough than I dared hope; re-integrating all the content that wound up cut from the final game AS WELL AS having a bunch of minor QoL improvements like a fast forward and NG+ options. The game itself is kinda like getting 7 small RPGs with distinct mechanics that all overlap for one big overarching story; kind of like Dragon Quest 4, to an extent.
Deiland is one of them chorse-em-ups where you've got a tiny planet what needs farmin' 'pon, and also some varmints on that tiny planet farm what need thumpin'. It's like The Little Prince, except with more agriculture, and fewer life lessons about friendship.
Rain on Your Parade is a Whimsical Jackass Simulator where it's a lovely day in the neighborhood, and you're terrible cloud. Travel the town and unleash frustration on all the durn fools who think they have the right to plan for nice weather! It looks extremely charming and fun and who doesn't want to poop lightning bolts?
NOBODY, THAT'S WHO! IT'S THE UNIVERSAL DREAM!
Dragon Audit is... a weird'un, kind of feels like a lost Dreamcast or early PS2 game that fell through a time-hole and landed in the now-a-days. You're an accountant in a JRPG world who winds up romantically entangled with a dragon (read: anime girl) who mishears you say "Audit" and thinks you want to date her. Hijinx ensue. It's also only about 90 minutes long, according to the eShop description, so it won't be adding to the backlog any!
Myastere: Ruins of Deazniff appears to be a Bionic Commantroidvania, which sounds great on its own! I'm less confident about the rather clunky description in the eShop page, but Grappling Hooks and Troidin' are great tastes that taste great together!
Godstrike is a twin-sticky, boss-rushy, time-attacky bullet-hell shooter. It looks competently made and all, but I can't really expand on things past the baseline here.
It's one of those games!
Relicta is a ifrst person puzz-em-all-and-let-God-sort-em-out game where you're the only one left in a Weird Science Base and have to squirrel up gravity and magnetism (the two grabbiest sciences) to figure out how to get your butt from one spot to another without getting space-killed by a computer.
And finally, we have The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, the sequel to the original Darkside Detective, which was a jokey point-and-clikcy game about a wizard gumshoe tasked with using lateral thinking to solve GHOST CRIME. The original was a series of fun, brief mini-mysteries, and this appears to be More of Those, so I'd say it's an easy recommendation if that's your bag.
I guess that's all, go home.
