Well, I've got a movie ticket for... 6 hours and 15 minutes from now. Let's try to get this thread written before then.
So we're kicking things off with what is a contender for the longest single title I've had to write for one of these threads; Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Volume 2: Makai Kingdom and ZHP Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman, the second of NIS's pretty barebones port compilations; this time featuring Makai Kingdom (about which I know nothing) and ZHP, which I HAVE played before, and deemed a pretty clever implementation of roguelike gameplay as you're a Power Ranger with the ability to swap out your limbs with those of defeated enemies, and also the final boss pops up to beat your ass into the ground constantly, and your base stats increase only when you receive aforesaid beatdowns, which is really the opposite of "Unlosing" if you think about it.
Eiuden Chronicle Rising is one of the games I was most jazzed for this week, except that it got usurped at the last moment by things I wound up being much more jazzed for. That's life for ya, always throwing curve-balls. In this case, we have a a prequel to the still-in-development following a Kickstarted success, Eiuden Chronicle, but while that is an RPG that is... Suikoden in all but name, this here is a Troid! A Troid with multiple playable characters no less. One of them is a Samurai Kangaroo, and once I learned that I immediately vowed to cease learning all other information about the game because I already know everything I need to know about it.
Wolfstride is one of those games I mentioned learning about and then becoming DEEPLY JAZZED a moment ago. This one is an RPG about a trio of down-on-their-luck crimesters who wind up inheriting a GIANT ROBOT and figure they could use it for back-alley giant robot fight clubs to get back on their feet. Like Real Steel, except with mob ties and people with names like "Knife Leopard" and "GODWORM". It looks bonkers and I want it RIGHT NOW instead of 4 hours from now when it gets properly released.
Vesper is also about robots, but smaller ones this time. It's a Puzzlatformer about a l'il robobuddy who wakes up one day and wants to figure out where all the peeps be at, and also why there's sentient shadows roaming around destroying everything they touch, and also how to survive when literally everything on the planet wants to murd' him up real good.
And speaking of doing murders real good, we have Centennial Case, which is about someone having done precisely that, and you've got to put on your Shelock Homeliest hat to figure out who dun did that murd what killed a peep. But this is also set in old timey Japan before anyone had any DNA, so you gotta use hunches and the like to figure out the murdermans. Also, you have to solve three other cold-cases simultaneously because this family had a BUNCH of murders in it, and they're quite sick of it.
And speaking of historical tragedies, we have Attendant 1942, which is about uncovering the history of a concentration camp victim in the Czech republic in World War 2.
Sounds like a fun time!
Following that up, we have something that is much more recognizable as a video game, as we have Dungeons of Dreadrock. It's got skeletons and keys and everything you need to instantly recognize it as being a video game. It looks to be more Lolo than Zelda, but still pretty Zelda; I'm reminded a bit of Rustbucket, which I loved on iOS.
Either way, I'm into this.
Aery A New Frontier is a Birds-em-up where you're one of them little flappy-guys what has to pump them wings to get through space and alien planets in order to... look at scenery and collect little glowy things that go "plink" and listen to soothing music. There's a story to it all too, but that story seems to be "Lookit this weird stuff. Wild, eh?"
And backing up the rear is a game I thought I was pre-ordering but it turns out I was just regular buying an early-adopter version of; Rogue Lords (the Day One edition is still available for a few more days as of this writing, then it's getting replaced with this; the only difference is some new outfits for your characters) and, I'm honestly going to go right ahead and call this an early pick for being my game of the year; I love this game! Assemble a team of Public Domain Monsters (like Dracula, Bloody Mary or Frankenstein) and help the devil purge the world of witch-hunters. It's got all the best bits of Slay the Spire and Star Renegades, but plays pretty differently from either. Also you can cheat to your hearts content because you're playing with the bad guys and that kind of behavior is encouraged.
And that's all I know about right now. And I was literally just informed that there's a Direct planned for tomorrow, so expect this list to be updated, I guess.
...okay, just 5 hours and 49 minutes for that movie.
So we're kicking things off with what is a contender for the longest single title I've had to write for one of these threads; Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Volume 2: Makai Kingdom and ZHP Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman, the second of NIS's pretty barebones port compilations; this time featuring Makai Kingdom (about which I know nothing) and ZHP, which I HAVE played before, and deemed a pretty clever implementation of roguelike gameplay as you're a Power Ranger with the ability to swap out your limbs with those of defeated enemies, and also the final boss pops up to beat your ass into the ground constantly, and your base stats increase only when you receive aforesaid beatdowns, which is really the opposite of "Unlosing" if you think about it.
Eiuden Chronicle Rising is one of the games I was most jazzed for this week, except that it got usurped at the last moment by things I wound up being much more jazzed for. That's life for ya, always throwing curve-balls. In this case, we have a a prequel to the still-in-development following a Kickstarted success, Eiuden Chronicle, but while that is an RPG that is... Suikoden in all but name, this here is a Troid! A Troid with multiple playable characters no less. One of them is a Samurai Kangaroo, and once I learned that I immediately vowed to cease learning all other information about the game because I already know everything I need to know about it.
Wolfstride is one of those games I mentioned learning about and then becoming DEEPLY JAZZED a moment ago. This one is an RPG about a trio of down-on-their-luck crimesters who wind up inheriting a GIANT ROBOT and figure they could use it for back-alley giant robot fight clubs to get back on their feet. Like Real Steel, except with mob ties and people with names like "Knife Leopard" and "GODWORM". It looks bonkers and I want it RIGHT NOW instead of 4 hours from now when it gets properly released.
Vesper is also about robots, but smaller ones this time. It's a Puzzlatformer about a l'il robobuddy who wakes up one day and wants to figure out where all the peeps be at, and also why there's sentient shadows roaming around destroying everything they touch, and also how to survive when literally everything on the planet wants to murd' him up real good.
And speaking of doing murders real good, we have Centennial Case, which is about someone having done precisely that, and you've got to put on your Shelock Homeliest hat to figure out who dun did that murd what killed a peep. But this is also set in old timey Japan before anyone had any DNA, so you gotta use hunches and the like to figure out the murdermans. Also, you have to solve three other cold-cases simultaneously because this family had a BUNCH of murders in it, and they're quite sick of it.
And speaking of historical tragedies, we have Attendant 1942, which is about uncovering the history of a concentration camp victim in the Czech republic in World War 2.
Sounds like a fun time!
Following that up, we have something that is much more recognizable as a video game, as we have Dungeons of Dreadrock. It's got skeletons and keys and everything you need to instantly recognize it as being a video game. It looks to be more Lolo than Zelda, but still pretty Zelda; I'm reminded a bit of Rustbucket, which I loved on iOS.
Either way, I'm into this.
Aery A New Frontier is a Birds-em-up where you're one of them little flappy-guys what has to pump them wings to get through space and alien planets in order to... look at scenery and collect little glowy things that go "plink" and listen to soothing music. There's a story to it all too, but that story seems to be "Lookit this weird stuff. Wild, eh?"
And backing up the rear is a game I thought I was pre-ordering but it turns out I was just regular buying an early-adopter version of; Rogue Lords (the Day One edition is still available for a few more days as of this writing, then it's getting replaced with this; the only difference is some new outfits for your characters) and, I'm honestly going to go right ahead and call this an early pick for being my game of the year; I love this game! Assemble a team of Public Domain Monsters (like Dracula, Bloody Mary or Frankenstein) and help the devil purge the world of witch-hunters. It's got all the best bits of Slay the Spire and Star Renegades, but plays pretty differently from either. Also you can cheat to your hearts content because you're playing with the bad guys and that kind of behavior is encouraged.
And that's all I know about right now. And I was literally just informed that there's a Direct planned for tomorrow, so expect this list to be updated, I guess.
...okay, just 5 hours and 49 minutes for that movie.
