Welcome back to another award-winning* installment of the Digital Down-Low Thread
Kicking things off with an unexpected, and delightful surprise of a re-release; Snow Bros: Nick & Tom Special; a remake of one of the better examples of the Single Screen Murd-em-up genre. Sure, Bubble Bobble is the one that has all the fame and glory, but Snow Bros was a close second in my heart. And it's also the one with the smallest historical footprint, as I don't think it got any ports outside of the NES.
WELL NOW IT DID!
Anyway, as befits the Single Screen Murd-em-up genre; you have an inefficient means to dispatch enemies (in this case; encasing them in snowballs and then shoving them into other enemies) and a hankering to do that to score as many points as possible. This version, besides a (questionable) graphical touch-up has a bunch of new levels and enemy editors and bonus modes and the like; so it's pretty darn robust as far as remakes go.
Deadcraft, as you might expect from the title, is a zombo game, HOWEVER, it's a game that seems to make "zombie" synonymous with "Cronenbergy flesh-monster" so that helps with my intense apathy to that genre of monster. More to the point, you can frankenstein together giblets to make weapons and farming supplies, thus explaining the "craft" part of the title. Also you've got a monster arm, so that's pretty cool.
Frankly, my interest went from nil to "oooh" just watching the trailer.
Guild of Dungeneering is something I HAVE played before, as it is also a mobile game (and possibly a PC game, but my phone is where I played it), and I deem it Pretty Good! It's a dungeon crawly RPG where you have to build the dungeons yourself, as you collect cards from defeated enemies, and also build yourself a proper adventuring guild between runs to access more dungeons and characters. According to the eShop, this version is more of a remaster than a port as they tweaked the bajeezus out of it, but it was a fine enough thing to play when I was stuck waiting in a long line for something.
They Always Run is probably the thing I'm most interested in this week; a stylish, cinematic 2D platformer where you're a multi-limbed mutant bounty hunter looking to... umm... do... that bounty hunting thing. Looks pretty solid; got some Dead Cells or Mark of the Ninja vibes from it. I liked those things. Chances are I'd like this thing. These are the facts I have to share about it.
Finally we have Cotton Fantasy; a brand new Cotton game. And I want to say it's the first *new* new one since the turn of the century, but I don't have the familiarity with the series to say for sure whether or not that's true or just something I'm making up to sound cool.
You have to admit, it sounds *very* cool to make claims like that.
Anyway, you're a witch tasked with unleashing, and dodging around, what can only be described as HELLA BULLETS, all on a quest to get some candy from a Fairy Queen. And also characters and mechanics from other shmups like Psyvariar and Sanvein are around, making things a bit more complicated for the activity of scoring more points.
I have even less familiarity with those games, but the eShop mentions them, so I figured I should too.
*you can just give yourself an award.
Kicking things off with an unexpected, and delightful surprise of a re-release; Snow Bros: Nick & Tom Special; a remake of one of the better examples of the Single Screen Murd-em-up genre. Sure, Bubble Bobble is the one that has all the fame and glory, but Snow Bros was a close second in my heart. And it's also the one with the smallest historical footprint, as I don't think it got any ports outside of the NES.
WELL NOW IT DID!
Anyway, as befits the Single Screen Murd-em-up genre; you have an inefficient means to dispatch enemies (in this case; encasing them in snowballs and then shoving them into other enemies) and a hankering to do that to score as many points as possible. This version, besides a (questionable) graphical touch-up has a bunch of new levels and enemy editors and bonus modes and the like; so it's pretty darn robust as far as remakes go.
Deadcraft, as you might expect from the title, is a zombo game, HOWEVER, it's a game that seems to make "zombie" synonymous with "Cronenbergy flesh-monster" so that helps with my intense apathy to that genre of monster. More to the point, you can frankenstein together giblets to make weapons and farming supplies, thus explaining the "craft" part of the title. Also you've got a monster arm, so that's pretty cool.
Frankly, my interest went from nil to "oooh" just watching the trailer.
Guild of Dungeneering is something I HAVE played before, as it is also a mobile game (and possibly a PC game, but my phone is where I played it), and I deem it Pretty Good! It's a dungeon crawly RPG where you have to build the dungeons yourself, as you collect cards from defeated enemies, and also build yourself a proper adventuring guild between runs to access more dungeons and characters. According to the eShop, this version is more of a remaster than a port as they tweaked the bajeezus out of it, but it was a fine enough thing to play when I was stuck waiting in a long line for something.
They Always Run is probably the thing I'm most interested in this week; a stylish, cinematic 2D platformer where you're a multi-limbed mutant bounty hunter looking to... umm... do... that bounty hunting thing. Looks pretty solid; got some Dead Cells or Mark of the Ninja vibes from it. I liked those things. Chances are I'd like this thing. These are the facts I have to share about it.
Finally we have Cotton Fantasy; a brand new Cotton game. And I want to say it's the first *new* new one since the turn of the century, but I don't have the familiarity with the series to say for sure whether or not that's true or just something I'm making up to sound cool.
You have to admit, it sounds *very* cool to make claims like that.
Anyway, you're a witch tasked with unleashing, and dodging around, what can only be described as HELLA BULLETS, all on a quest to get some candy from a Fairy Queen. And also characters and mechanics from other shmups like Psyvariar and Sanvein are around, making things a bit more complicated for the activity of scoring more points.
I have even less familiarity with those games, but the eShop mentions them, so I figured I should too.
*you can just give yourself an award.
