Did you hear about all the sports games last night? It was a nail-biter!
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim leads the list this week, both alphabetically and in the sense that it’s the first thing I see in the eShop AND in the sense of being a part of this weeks apparent “protect a thing” theme! It came out on the PlayStation family of products a little while ago where it made a bunch of people say “Huh, that’s pretty neat” for being half of an SRPG about big robots saying the day, and a visual novel about Teen Romance and the somewhat unexpected ways in which those genres overlap. It was also noteworthy because it’s a vanilla ware game, and therefore these teens could, *perhaps* stand to wear a bit more clothing sometimes, please and thanks.
Blast Brigade Is a troid-em-up that *claims* to be inspired by the action movies of the 1980s. Nothing in the screenshots or trailer suggests that beyond “people have guns” which isn’t really a trope exclusive to action movies of the 1980s. I can think of as many as several action movies from other decades with guns, in fact. Anyway; it’s a torrid, so… you know… use a gun to open a special door, then get a double jump to find a new gun that can open a third type of door. I bet there’s a Dracula in there of some stripe.
Nobody Saves the World is a serious contender for being the game I’m most jazzed for this week, as it’s something I HAVE played before, and liked, but also felt out of place on anything but the Switch. Luckily; that’s not an issue anymore, because HERE IT IS! It’s the latest from Drinkbox (the Guacamelee/Severed folks), and this one is a rogue lite ARPG, like Zelda but with level design that gets squirrelled up real weird every time you beef it! You’re a non-descript nobody what can turn into critters, and it’s got a *real neat* way of handling character progression and it’s just grand.
Hooray for Nobody!
And speaking both of “games from developers where I’ve loved basically their entire output” and “games about saving a thing”, we have Defend the Rook, which comes to us from the same peeps what made (or at least published) Banner of Ruin and Legend of Keepers. And definitely at least a few other games I’ve really liked that they’re listed as developers for, but which aren’t in the eShop listing. Goblinz makes stuff I like, that much I can confirm, and therefor, I bought this already. This one is an SRPG that doesn’t actually have a chess theme, despite the name, as you’ve got a big floating castle that can summon peeps, and you have to use those peeps to smoosh all the bad peeps. I kind of think it’s supposed to be a MOBA, except turn based, but that’s a guess based on the description I myself just wrote, so it’s not very reliable. I’ll let you know after it’s actually released and I can play it a bit!
And heck, one more “thing I’m predisposed to like based on pedigree that’s about protecting a thing”, why not? We’ve got the long-awaited sequel to the unsung hero of the 3DS eShop; Gotta Protectors with Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness; which takes a “if it ain’t broke” approach to things as it maintains the winning combination of Gauntlet, Musou and Rampart that made the original Gotta Protectors (and also Protect Me Knight before it). This time there’s more Stuff to Do, as there’s a bunch of Fake NES games to track down! I… don’t know what they do besides offer pun titles, but… you know… anything that gets the kids out there protecting like they gotta is A-OK in my book!
Urban Cards is also out! But after a three hit combo like that, it’s harder to get deeply invested. It looks like it’s deckbuilder monopoly mixed with a bit, just a Wendy skootch, of Cookie Clicker. Get more money than other peeps by using cards to get money and keep other people from earning as much money because whoever is richest is the winner. You know, like reality.
Cat Cafe Manager is an altogether more wholesome kind of business management sim, as you’ve inherited from a cafe from your granny and figure “Heck, I’m going to stuff this place full of cats!”. But also paying customers. But mainly cats.
It’s right there in the name; it’s not called “Paying Coffee-House Patron Manager”
And at the end of the list that Tuesday Octo acknowledges is worth talking about, we have Taito Milestones Collection; which is the sad little brother to the recently released (and amazing) Taito Egret mini-console. Or the Taito Memories Collections from the PS2 era. Or the Darius collections. We’ve got 8 games which run the gamut of “Kinda fun” to “historical curio” to “I… don’t know why this is here”. I guess this collection is cheaper than buying the games piece-meal as they’ve almost all been released individually, but on the other hand, I don’t… know who this collection is for and I LOVE weird old arcade compilations.
I mean, yes, Darius and Space Invaders have their own bespoke collections, but offer me something more appealing than Chack‘n Pop!
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim leads the list this week, both alphabetically and in the sense that it’s the first thing I see in the eShop AND in the sense of being a part of this weeks apparent “protect a thing” theme! It came out on the PlayStation family of products a little while ago where it made a bunch of people say “Huh, that’s pretty neat” for being half of an SRPG about big robots saying the day, and a visual novel about Teen Romance and the somewhat unexpected ways in which those genres overlap. It was also noteworthy because it’s a vanilla ware game, and therefore these teens could, *perhaps* stand to wear a bit more clothing sometimes, please and thanks.
Blast Brigade Is a troid-em-up that *claims* to be inspired by the action movies of the 1980s. Nothing in the screenshots or trailer suggests that beyond “people have guns” which isn’t really a trope exclusive to action movies of the 1980s. I can think of as many as several action movies from other decades with guns, in fact. Anyway; it’s a torrid, so… you know… use a gun to open a special door, then get a double jump to find a new gun that can open a third type of door. I bet there’s a Dracula in there of some stripe.
Nobody Saves the World is a serious contender for being the game I’m most jazzed for this week, as it’s something I HAVE played before, and liked, but also felt out of place on anything but the Switch. Luckily; that’s not an issue anymore, because HERE IT IS! It’s the latest from Drinkbox (the Guacamelee/Severed folks), and this one is a rogue lite ARPG, like Zelda but with level design that gets squirrelled up real weird every time you beef it! You’re a non-descript nobody what can turn into critters, and it’s got a *real neat* way of handling character progression and it’s just grand.
Hooray for Nobody!
And speaking both of “games from developers where I’ve loved basically their entire output” and “games about saving a thing”, we have Defend the Rook, which comes to us from the same peeps what made (or at least published) Banner of Ruin and Legend of Keepers. And definitely at least a few other games I’ve really liked that they’re listed as developers for, but which aren’t in the eShop listing. Goblinz makes stuff I like, that much I can confirm, and therefor, I bought this already. This one is an SRPG that doesn’t actually have a chess theme, despite the name, as you’ve got a big floating castle that can summon peeps, and you have to use those peeps to smoosh all the bad peeps. I kind of think it’s supposed to be a MOBA, except turn based, but that’s a guess based on the description I myself just wrote, so it’s not very reliable. I’ll let you know after it’s actually released and I can play it a bit!
And heck, one more “thing I’m predisposed to like based on pedigree that’s about protecting a thing”, why not? We’ve got the long-awaited sequel to the unsung hero of the 3DS eShop; Gotta Protectors with Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness; which takes a “if it ain’t broke” approach to things as it maintains the winning combination of Gauntlet, Musou and Rampart that made the original Gotta Protectors (and also Protect Me Knight before it). This time there’s more Stuff to Do, as there’s a bunch of Fake NES games to track down! I… don’t know what they do besides offer pun titles, but… you know… anything that gets the kids out there protecting like they gotta is A-OK in my book!
Urban Cards is also out! But after a three hit combo like that, it’s harder to get deeply invested. It looks like it’s deckbuilder monopoly mixed with a bit, just a Wendy skootch, of Cookie Clicker. Get more money than other peeps by using cards to get money and keep other people from earning as much money because whoever is richest is the winner. You know, like reality.
Cat Cafe Manager is an altogether more wholesome kind of business management sim, as you’ve inherited from a cafe from your granny and figure “Heck, I’m going to stuff this place full of cats!”. But also paying customers. But mainly cats.
It’s right there in the name; it’s not called “Paying Coffee-House Patron Manager”
And at the end of the list that Tuesday Octo acknowledges is worth talking about, we have Taito Milestones Collection; which is the sad little brother to the recently released (and amazing) Taito Egret mini-console. Or the Taito Memories Collections from the PS2 era. Or the Darius collections. We’ve got 8 games which run the gamut of “Kinda fun” to “historical curio” to “I… don’t know why this is here”. I guess this collection is cheaper than buying the games piece-meal as they’ve almost all been released individually, but on the other hand, I don’t… know who this collection is for and I LOVE weird old arcade compilations.
I mean, yes, Darius and Space Invaders have their own bespoke collections, but offer me something more appealing than Chack‘n Pop!
