I think the girl from Livin’ La Vida Loca has a bitter, passive-aggressive rivalry with the lady from Killer Queen.
The Serpent Rogue, first off, has a *pretty cool* title. And also, it’s got a *real slick* art style, so aesthetically, it’s hitting all the right buttons. What we’ve got here is a Zeld-em-up where you’re a plague doctor tasked with solving the lamentable issue of there being just too gosh darn many skellingtons in a medieval village and so you’re going to use Item Crafting and Science to solve that problem. Or else use violence to solve the problem. You know; whichever solution feels more valid at the moment.
I wound up buying it by strength of the trailer alone, so here’s hoping I backed the right horse!
Research & Destroy is a third person shooter about scientists fighting vampires And skellingtons. There’s, like, one screenshot which shows gameplay, and not a lot of the description explains things, so while I *think* it’s a Lootershooter, I can’t be sure. And if you think I’m going to research it, buddy, you came to the wrong thread.
I didn’t even like typing out the games name.
Now, if I asked you what one of the more highly regarded jokes-em-up games of recent years was, you’d probably say Portal. Or maybe you’d say Portal 2. BUT YOU MIGHT ALSO SAY The Stanley Parable. Well GOOD NEWS, you one-third of the average people, you, because The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe is also out this week! I’d a video game which I always conflated with Thomas Was Alone *up until this very moment, writing this sentence*! This one DOES have boxes, but they’re just, like, crates, not the playable cast.
Anyway, i know nothing about this, and am told that this is the best way to approach the game, and the trailer made me go “Oh… wellsir”, so *don’t nobody say nothin’ concrete here.
Next up we have the game I declared my lock of the week, based entirely on it’s existing pedigree; Transiruby! It’s a torrid-em-up from the same peeps as what made Fairune (my favorite Hydlide) and Kamiko (which I also loved, but wouldn’t deem “best in show”). As befits the fact that This’un is a troid-em-up, I expect there’s some double jumping to find a gun that can open a bespoke gun-door and the like. Perhaps a slide move, or the ability to turn into a ball?
Anything is possible when you’re a robot on a space planet!
As Far as the Eye is about as far from a game about a robot chopping up aliens as you can get while still being a video game! This’un is a 4X strategy game where you’ve got a flying city populated by varmint-folk what don’t know how to read or do taxes or make pots and you gotta get them to the middle of the world so as they can un-apocalypse the place before it gets too apocalypsed.
Parkasaurus is a sim game where you must populate a theme park with genetically cloned dinosaurs. And, once again, I am blessed with covering a game where the choice for what Simpson to use is not even up for debate;
Bugsnax is the other game that is greatly beloved by everyone who played it before, and which I am approaching with a complete and utter lack of foreknowledge. I’m *presuming* it’s like Viva Piñata, except with bugs, and more of an emphasis on hunting instead of gathering. It’s also deeply adorable, but that is something I can confirm without being told anything about the beeps and books of the video style entertainment game in question.
Anyway, I guess it’s a whole video game about the part in Lion King where the height of hedonistic pleasure is scratching your back and eating bugs.
Finally something I have no first hand experience with, but can speak freely regarding; Layer Section/Galactic Attack done got itself a re-release, and that there is good news for me despite my general apathy for the Shuma-em-up genre! Reason being that this games second sequel, Ray Crisis, ranks itself as being quite possibly my favorite game in the whole stupid field of shmups! Or at least the PS1 port was, I understand that was pretty extensively reworked. This is the first one which used nice looking pixels instead of nice looking polygons, and is apparently much more in the Xevious mold; what with you having bespoke weapons for aerial and ground based enemies. It’s from the same chaps as what made the Cotton re-releases a little while back, so… do as you will with that information.
And also what’s technically last weeks release, but those WISECRACKING JOKERS snuck it in after the thread was made and forgotten, we got three new Genesis games in the Switch Online Expansion Pass; one of which being a HUMDINGER, and the other two being simple Dingers; we’ve got Shining Force 2 (one of the best-in-show examples of SRPGs from the 16-bit era), Sonic Spinball (an interesting, at least, attempt to make the Casino Nightzone a whole bespoke video game) and Space Harrier 2 (a bless-em-they-tried attempt to make Space Harrier work on the Genesis, with new levels and bosses)
The Serpent Rogue, first off, has a *pretty cool* title. And also, it’s got a *real slick* art style, so aesthetically, it’s hitting all the right buttons. What we’ve got here is a Zeld-em-up where you’re a plague doctor tasked with solving the lamentable issue of there being just too gosh darn many skellingtons in a medieval village and so you’re going to use Item Crafting and Science to solve that problem. Or else use violence to solve the problem. You know; whichever solution feels more valid at the moment.
I wound up buying it by strength of the trailer alone, so here’s hoping I backed the right horse!
Research & Destroy is a third person shooter about scientists fighting vampires And skellingtons. There’s, like, one screenshot which shows gameplay, and not a lot of the description explains things, so while I *think* it’s a Lootershooter, I can’t be sure. And if you think I’m going to research it, buddy, you came to the wrong thread.
I didn’t even like typing out the games name.
Now, if I asked you what one of the more highly regarded jokes-em-up games of recent years was, you’d probably say Portal. Or maybe you’d say Portal 2. BUT YOU MIGHT ALSO SAY The Stanley Parable. Well GOOD NEWS, you one-third of the average people, you, because The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe is also out this week! I’d a video game which I always conflated with Thomas Was Alone *up until this very moment, writing this sentence*! This one DOES have boxes, but they’re just, like, crates, not the playable cast.
Anyway, i know nothing about this, and am told that this is the best way to approach the game, and the trailer made me go “Oh… wellsir”, so *don’t nobody say nothin’ concrete here.
Next up we have the game I declared my lock of the week, based entirely on it’s existing pedigree; Transiruby! It’s a torrid-em-up from the same peeps as what made Fairune (my favorite Hydlide) and Kamiko (which I also loved, but wouldn’t deem “best in show”). As befits the fact that This’un is a troid-em-up, I expect there’s some double jumping to find a gun that can open a bespoke gun-door and the like. Perhaps a slide move, or the ability to turn into a ball?
Anything is possible when you’re a robot on a space planet!
As Far as the Eye is about as far from a game about a robot chopping up aliens as you can get while still being a video game! This’un is a 4X strategy game where you’ve got a flying city populated by varmint-folk what don’t know how to read or do taxes or make pots and you gotta get them to the middle of the world so as they can un-apocalypse the place before it gets too apocalypsed.
Parkasaurus is a sim game where you must populate a theme park with genetically cloned dinosaurs. And, once again, I am blessed with covering a game where the choice for what Simpson to use is not even up for debate;
Bugsnax is the other game that is greatly beloved by everyone who played it before, and which I am approaching with a complete and utter lack of foreknowledge. I’m *presuming* it’s like Viva Piñata, except with bugs, and more of an emphasis on hunting instead of gathering. It’s also deeply adorable, but that is something I can confirm without being told anything about the beeps and books of the video style entertainment game in question.
Anyway, I guess it’s a whole video game about the part in Lion King where the height of hedonistic pleasure is scratching your back and eating bugs.
Finally something I have no first hand experience with, but can speak freely regarding; Layer Section/Galactic Attack done got itself a re-release, and that there is good news for me despite my general apathy for the Shuma-em-up genre! Reason being that this games second sequel, Ray Crisis, ranks itself as being quite possibly my favorite game in the whole stupid field of shmups! Or at least the PS1 port was, I understand that was pretty extensively reworked. This is the first one which used nice looking pixels instead of nice looking polygons, and is apparently much more in the Xevious mold; what with you having bespoke weapons for aerial and ground based enemies. It’s from the same chaps as what made the Cotton re-releases a little while back, so… do as you will with that information.
And also what’s technically last weeks release, but those WISECRACKING JOKERS snuck it in after the thread was made and forgotten, we got three new Genesis games in the Switch Online Expansion Pass; one of which being a HUMDINGER, and the other two being simple Dingers; we’ve got Shining Force 2 (one of the best-in-show examples of SRPGs from the 16-bit era), Sonic Spinball (an interesting, at least, attempt to make the Casino Nightzone a whole bespoke video game) and Space Harrier 2 (a bless-em-they-tried attempt to make Space Harrier work on the Genesis, with new levels and bosses)
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