Teacher! Teacher! Billys doing MATH instead of reading about video games! Give him more homework!
We're kicking off with a game I HAVE played and can speak at length about; Maneater! Furthermore, it should come as no surprise at all that I *love* Maneater! What we have here is *quite possibly* the finest Shark-em-up to ever grace these games we call "video". Be a shark, and do sharkly things (like eat predators, crush targets with 10,000 PSI jaws, consume beach-goers, eat license plates) and use the precious protein and bio-genetic goop to grow from a little doo-doo-doo shark into a bigger MORE APEX predator with the goal of tracking down the jerk what kill your shark-mom.
All the while, Chris Parnell offers spurious shark facts like a badly researched nature documentary.
The game was also kind of... clunky on bigger stronger platforms and I can not possibly imagine that the Switch port is any stronger, but I challenge you to find a game that is More Shark.
And speaking of THE KING OF THE SEAS, we also have King of Seas. A completely unrelated oceanic open-world action-rpg. This one is a roguelite about pirates with a big focus on sailing and exploding the British navy for the precious swag they so jealously guard. I presume it's like Sid Meiers Pirates, and nothing in the eShop is telling me I'm wrong for making the assumption. Either way, it's full of making scurvy dogs walk the plank
Knockout City is one of them fortnites all the kids are talking about. Except without building stuff, and instead of shooting guns, you've got some open-world city wide dodgeball going on. It don't look too bad, honestly, particularly if you like them fortnites.
Mutazione its an artsy lookin' emote-em-up about a kid who has to take care of her sick granny, and making friends with the FIVE HUNDRED FREAKS OF THE MUTANT CITY. I immediately associate it with Night in the Woods, just with blobby guys and hulks instead of critters.
Pathway appears to be something of the Oregon Trail by way of Indiana Jones, from the trailers. Assemble a team of adventurin' heroes and chuck 'em out over Europe and Africa to hunt down some magical brick-a-brack before the ratzis get their crummy fingers all over it. This looks... pretty dang rad, honestly, and it went right into my wishlist in the middle of writing this blurb.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground is a tactical RPG based on the board game of the same name! The one where in the grim darkness of the PAST there's only war. If I'm interpretting the trailer correctly, this here is kind of more like Kings Bounty than, say... I dunno, X-Com.
o---o is the kind of game I normally skip right over on general principle (it's a low-fi twin-stick shooter), but I would be remiss if I didn't bring it up just to say "Oh, that's my favorite Caravan Palace album".
Good job, Octo. You made a joke for you, and you alone.
And the NON SHARK game I'm most excited for this week, and indeed, Month, is Earth Defense Force: WORLD BROTHERS, the latest EDF game, the first one that uses nice looking Voxels instead of clunky looking polygons, and a WAY BIGGER variety of characters. Assemble a team of EDF specialists and use them to obliterate hundreds of giant bugs and robots HEEDLESS OF ALL COLLATERAL DAMAGE!
Games seldom get More Video than the entire Earth Defense Force series, and BY GEORGE, this here is another one!
And hey, do you like Fallout? Specically, Fallout 1 or 2? But do you wish it took place in a post technopocalyptic Africa instead of during Mad Max times? Beautiful Desolation has you covered! Because it looks like that! Except it's got a soundtrack by Mick Gordon, which Fallout does not have!
Worlds End Club is, I THINK, a spinoff of Danganronpa that takes a more visual novel and less Ace Attorney-y approach to things, as you've got a schoolbus full of little anime tykes who get stuck in a haunted carnival by a supernatural critter and now everyone has to play a sadistic murder game because of it.
Wonderboy: Asha in Monster World is a remake of the Genesis (well, Mega Drive) release of the same name. Or nearly the same name; wouldn't be Wonderboy if the titles were straightforward. It's not a particularly DARING remake, as other than the visuals it's as close to the original game as they could reasonably manage. and it's got that hard to define visual unpleasantness you sometimes get with polygonal characters in a 2d game. It's still in the upper tier of Wonderboy games, so I don't think that's going to hurt it too badly, but the Dragons Trap remake set such a high bar, y'know?
This weeks arcade game is Time Pilot '84! The sequel to the beloved (by me and... several others) free-roaming shmup-em-up, Time Pilot! Did you know Time Pilot had a sequel? I sure as hell didn't! It's FUN TO LEARN!
And speaking of new releases of old games, we've got our quarterly update to S/NESflix: Ninja Jaja Maru-kun (a single screen murd-em-up about a little Ninja guy tasked with saving a Princess and hopping between floors to smash monsters), Joe & Mac (co-op platformer from the golden age of Caveman games), Baseball Simulator 1000 (a baseball game where everyone has superpowers, like every other Chris CLaremont issue of X-Men), Spankys Quest (another single screen murder-em-up, this time about a Monkey named Spanky, LIKE THE SIN OF ONAN), Magical Drop 2 (excellent match-em-up puzzle game that I'm a little bitter about because I spent good money on the arcade port already)
We're kicking off with a game I HAVE played and can speak at length about; Maneater! Furthermore, it should come as no surprise at all that I *love* Maneater! What we have here is *quite possibly* the finest Shark-em-up to ever grace these games we call "video". Be a shark, and do sharkly things (like eat predators, crush targets with 10,000 PSI jaws, consume beach-goers, eat license plates) and use the precious protein and bio-genetic goop to grow from a little doo-doo-doo shark into a bigger MORE APEX predator with the goal of tracking down the jerk what kill your shark-mom.
All the while, Chris Parnell offers spurious shark facts like a badly researched nature documentary.
The game was also kind of... clunky on bigger stronger platforms and I can not possibly imagine that the Switch port is any stronger, but I challenge you to find a game that is More Shark.
And speaking of THE KING OF THE SEAS, we also have King of Seas. A completely unrelated oceanic open-world action-rpg. This one is a roguelite about pirates with a big focus on sailing and exploding the British navy for the precious swag they so jealously guard. I presume it's like Sid Meiers Pirates, and nothing in the eShop is telling me I'm wrong for making the assumption. Either way, it's full of making scurvy dogs walk the plank
Knockout City is one of them fortnites all the kids are talking about. Except without building stuff, and instead of shooting guns, you've got some open-world city wide dodgeball going on. It don't look too bad, honestly, particularly if you like them fortnites.
Mutazione its an artsy lookin' emote-em-up about a kid who has to take care of her sick granny, and making friends with the FIVE HUNDRED FREAKS OF THE MUTANT CITY. I immediately associate it with Night in the Woods, just with blobby guys and hulks instead of critters.
Pathway appears to be something of the Oregon Trail by way of Indiana Jones, from the trailers. Assemble a team of adventurin' heroes and chuck 'em out over Europe and Africa to hunt down some magical brick-a-brack before the ratzis get their crummy fingers all over it. This looks... pretty dang rad, honestly, and it went right into my wishlist in the middle of writing this blurb.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground is a tactical RPG based on the board game of the same name! The one where in the grim darkness of the PAST there's only war. If I'm interpretting the trailer correctly, this here is kind of more like Kings Bounty than, say... I dunno, X-Com.
o---o is the kind of game I normally skip right over on general principle (it's a low-fi twin-stick shooter), but I would be remiss if I didn't bring it up just to say "Oh, that's my favorite Caravan Palace album".
Good job, Octo. You made a joke for you, and you alone.
And the NON SHARK game I'm most excited for this week, and indeed, Month, is Earth Defense Force: WORLD BROTHERS, the latest EDF game, the first one that uses nice looking Voxels instead of clunky looking polygons, and a WAY BIGGER variety of characters. Assemble a team of EDF specialists and use them to obliterate hundreds of giant bugs and robots HEEDLESS OF ALL COLLATERAL DAMAGE!
Games seldom get More Video than the entire Earth Defense Force series, and BY GEORGE, this here is another one!
And hey, do you like Fallout? Specically, Fallout 1 or 2? But do you wish it took place in a post technopocalyptic Africa instead of during Mad Max times? Beautiful Desolation has you covered! Because it looks like that! Except it's got a soundtrack by Mick Gordon, which Fallout does not have!
Worlds End Club is, I THINK, a spinoff of Danganronpa that takes a more visual novel and less Ace Attorney-y approach to things, as you've got a schoolbus full of little anime tykes who get stuck in a haunted carnival by a supernatural critter and now everyone has to play a sadistic murder game because of it.
Wonderboy: Asha in Monster World is a remake of the Genesis (well, Mega Drive) release of the same name. Or nearly the same name; wouldn't be Wonderboy if the titles were straightforward. It's not a particularly DARING remake, as other than the visuals it's as close to the original game as they could reasonably manage. and it's got that hard to define visual unpleasantness you sometimes get with polygonal characters in a 2d game. It's still in the upper tier of Wonderboy games, so I don't think that's going to hurt it too badly, but the Dragons Trap remake set such a high bar, y'know?
This weeks arcade game is Time Pilot '84! The sequel to the beloved (by me and... several others) free-roaming shmup-em-up, Time Pilot! Did you know Time Pilot had a sequel? I sure as hell didn't! It's FUN TO LEARN!
And speaking of new releases of old games, we've got our quarterly update to S/NESflix: Ninja Jaja Maru-kun (a single screen murd-em-up about a little Ninja guy tasked with saving a Princess and hopping between floors to smash monsters), Joe & Mac (co-op platformer from the golden age of Caveman games), Baseball Simulator 1000 (a baseball game where everyone has superpowers, like every other Chris CLaremont issue of X-Men), Spankys Quest (another single screen murder-em-up, this time about a Monkey named Spanky, LIKE THE SIN OF ONAN), Magical Drop 2 (excellent match-em-up puzzle game that I'm a little bitter about because I spent good money on the arcade port already)
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