Sorry to all the "haters" out there but, uh yeah, this is a week with some new video games.
Starting off with one of the more surprising re-releases of recent days, we have El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, a gussying up of the PS3/360 era Bayonetta-em-up of the same name! It's one of the more visually wild examples of the genre, but the eShop description is not particularly forthcoming with description beyond implying it's a Devil May Cry-kind of deal, but filtered through someone who had English as a second language.
I'm aware it had some narrative connection to The Lost Child, and I did enjoy that very much as an SMT game. So... umm... if you were fortunate enough to snatch that up before it was delisted and wish it was a 3rd person beat-em-up instead of a first person dungeon crawler, I guess... technically... here you go?
Now what if you don't want to deal with angels fighting for supremacy. You want the opposite of that! Well, let's go step by step; an angel is a guy with wings like a bird. A fish is the opposite of a bird, and a guy who acts all fish-like is a deep sea diver. Therefor; a Scuba diver is the opposite of an angel. Furthermore, fighting stuff is a very active, aggressive action, so the opposite is "looking at a thing"; arguably the most passive activity short of being fully asleep. Therefor, the exact opposite point of El Shaddai is our next game; Endless Ocean: Luminous.
Explore the Briny deep and say "Huh... so that's a fish, eh?" a bunch!
Speaking of transitioning from break-neck paced action games to slow paced, languid life sims, we have Touhou Mystias Izakaya which is a Touhou game that eschews the series traditional "spirographs worth of bullets to dodge and weave around while blasting a hellaciously massive fusilade of your own" game play in favor of running a shop where you deal in izakaya. The eShop does not specify what that is, I infer "a restaurant".
Order up a small business catering to witches and monsters and the like, why don't you?
If you're bummed out that there's a Touhou game that isn't at least tangentially a shmup or at least built around creating "colossal arsenal barrage", maybe you could be mollified by knowing that Triggerheart Excelica is out! It, too, got its start in the PS3/360 era and is a regula-ol bullet hell Shmup; but it's more specifically the kind where cute anime girls wear pieces of spaceships in place of clothing; like a bunch of Bikini Iron Mans.
And wrapping things up, we've got yet another old game re-release, but this one goes back to the Turbo Grafx days of yore with Cyber Citizen Shockman 3, which was never released in English before, so this is BRAND NEW to most people. In any case, it's a side-scroller that appears to be much in the Wonderboy/Valis vein, except more robot-y.
Taht's everything I know about, so that's all you're getting!
Starting off with one of the more surprising re-releases of recent days, we have El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, a gussying up of the PS3/360 era Bayonetta-em-up of the same name! It's one of the more visually wild examples of the genre, but the eShop description is not particularly forthcoming with description beyond implying it's a Devil May Cry-kind of deal, but filtered through someone who had English as a second language.
I'm aware it had some narrative connection to The Lost Child, and I did enjoy that very much as an SMT game. So... umm... if you were fortunate enough to snatch that up before it was delisted and wish it was a 3rd person beat-em-up instead of a first person dungeon crawler, I guess... technically... here you go?
Now what if you don't want to deal with angels fighting for supremacy. You want the opposite of that! Well, let's go step by step; an angel is a guy with wings like a bird. A fish is the opposite of a bird, and a guy who acts all fish-like is a deep sea diver. Therefor; a Scuba diver is the opposite of an angel. Furthermore, fighting stuff is a very active, aggressive action, so the opposite is "looking at a thing"; arguably the most passive activity short of being fully asleep. Therefor, the exact opposite point of El Shaddai is our next game; Endless Ocean: Luminous.
Explore the Briny deep and say "Huh... so that's a fish, eh?" a bunch!
Speaking of transitioning from break-neck paced action games to slow paced, languid life sims, we have Touhou Mystias Izakaya which is a Touhou game that eschews the series traditional "spirographs worth of bullets to dodge and weave around while blasting a hellaciously massive fusilade of your own" game play in favor of running a shop where you deal in izakaya. The eShop does not specify what that is, I infer "a restaurant".
Order up a small business catering to witches and monsters and the like, why don't you?
If you're bummed out that there's a Touhou game that isn't at least tangentially a shmup or at least built around creating "colossal arsenal barrage", maybe you could be mollified by knowing that Triggerheart Excelica is out! It, too, got its start in the PS3/360 era and is a regula-ol bullet hell Shmup; but it's more specifically the kind where cute anime girls wear pieces of spaceships in place of clothing; like a bunch of Bikini Iron Mans.
And wrapping things up, we've got yet another old game re-release, but this one goes back to the Turbo Grafx days of yore with Cyber Citizen Shockman 3, which was never released in English before, so this is BRAND NEW to most people. In any case, it's a side-scroller that appears to be much in the Wonderboy/Valis vein, except more robot-y.
