Other candidates for the thread title this week (courtesy of Wildcat, Hilene, Teg and Ixo);
<madhair voice> Jim Power!
Jim Power won't leave us alone
Jimothy Powerful, Esq.
Wonderboy in the Jim Power Dimension
Jim Power and the Soldiers of the Futute
The world looks at Jim Power and says "I want to conform to him"
Now You're Playing with Power (Jim!!! Power!!!)
Lower Your Standards: A Jim Power Memorial Thread
Hi, welcome to GameStop. Are you a member of our Jim Power Up Rewards?
Kicking open your front door and asking if you're ready to party this week is Silt, a puzzley game about some manner of scuba-buddy who is at the bottom of the ocean and would like to solve some navigational puzzles and figure out why the bottom of the ocean is so gal-darn spooky. It looks like Ecco the Dolphin, except you're a hominid and also it looks ten times creepier.
Are you menaced by a dead-eyed moray eel the size of ten busses? Of course you are.
Next up is a game where I'd be lying if I said I wasn't into it from the description, but I also would be lying if I didn't say that the visuals are a big turn off; Pinku Kult: Hex Mortis. Which is apparently a Persona game, without the Persona lisense. Also; I should specify that in this case I mean Persona 1 and 2. It's an RPG where You're an investigator on the trail of a series of bizarre supernatural murders across the city, which are all connected to a murderous apocalypse cult. Which is all well and good, and I'm totally into it, but visually I... do not like it. Got a kind of Early 2000s Flash Game by way of Bogleech look to everything.
Now it's the time of the thread where I mash all the adventure games together because there's a bunch and this way I don't have to write a whole paragraph for each! Kicking off with The Big Con which is a crimes-em-up (starring Erica Ishii) about a Cool Teen trying to con her way into paying off her moms mob debt through theft, manipulation and misdirection. Like if Louise Belcher was ten years older and did more skateboard tricks. Also up is Loopers, a visual novel about groundhogs day (the event, not the weather phenomena), Repentant and Lamplight City are both more traditional point and clicky games, and are both grim and gritty stories, one is about a Crimesguy who is very sad at what being a crimesguy has done to his life, and the other is a noir detective game set in Sherlock Holmes times.
Card Shark is... definitely not the sort of game you can easily slot into an existing genre. The most succinct summary, based on the eShop, is that it's like Phoenix Wright, if, instead of going to court and presenting evidence to a judge, you played poker. And also you had to cheat yourself in addition to checking the tells of when other people are cheating. And also the ultimate goal was to become King of France. And I'm fairly cognizant of the fact that 18th Century France had some governmental issues with its monarchy so... maybe this game is canon to history.
I ain't gonna tell you it's not! That's for those egghead college boys to do.
And speaking of... umm... fictionalized versions of existing places in the world, I think that's what's going on with Tokoyo: The Tower of Perpetuity, or else the name of the place you're in being allllllmost a real-world city is just a coincidence. In any case, it's a platformy rogue-ster where you've got a Tower of Perpetuity what gets scrambled up each time you beef it, and a desire to get to the top of it without beefing it, and yeah... that's what we got here. The dungeon only scrambles up once a day, so everyone playing it gets the same level layout. It's effectively a whole game made of the Daily Dungeon mode in most other Roguelikes.
Clan O'Conall is a troids-em-up that looks kind of like Guacamelee, except set in Fantasy Scotland, instead of Fantasy Mesoamerica, and also with a bit more Lost Vikingsy character swapping instead of just that one guy and also a Player 2 character.
Souldiers is another fantasy themed troids-em-up, but with a much more generic fantasy theme instead of being set in a Gloryhammer video. And while with a description like that, it can't help but disappoint, it's a MUCH nicer looking game. Also, I guess giving one a much more appealing description than the other is my fault, since I'm the one writing it. Well, can't help the past. Anyway, you're a knight and you went up to Knight Heaven, except you forgot to die first so you're causing a bit of a spiritual log jam and gotta figure out how to solve that issue. Presumably by hackin' up a bunch of monsters and finding some double jump boots or such like.
Ain't gonna lie, keeping a careful eyeball on this guy because it looks right up my alley.
Next up, of course, is the man of the hour, with the three-dimensional power, Jim Power: The Lost Dimension! As the eShop description says: "Defeat the greatest evil man has ever know to save our planet" and "Upgrade your weapons, jump carefully through platforms, eliminate the enemies and reach the peak of your skills to save the planet from the never knew evil". Among the game features are "Four Screen Filters", "3 Screen Types" and PIKO Interactive and Qubyte Interactive.
Not mentioned anywhere in the eShop is the fact that this includes the unreleased 8-bit port of Jim Power, which I can only assume isn't any less pleasurable an experience.
Powerful Jimmy will save us all from the alien menace of Vaprak. We believe in you, Jimby Strong!
And speaking of re-releasing universally beloved classic 2d platformers, we actually DO have an example of that this week with The Wonderboy Collection! Which, as is appropriate for the series, a really oddly curated selection of random-ass games, not all of which being Wonderboy Branded. I have no idea what a comprehensive collection of Wonderboy would even look like, but this at least gets you most of the highly regarded ones, and most of the other Very Good Ones are elsewhere in the eShop in some form or another often under wildly different names so... y'know... here we are. In any case, we've got Wonderboy (which you may know as Adventure Island, depending on what platformyou had growing up), Wonderboy in Monsterland (the arcade version, which was kind of RPG-y), Wonderboy in Monster World (the Genesis one) and Monster World 4 (which was also remade with polygons instead of pixels not too long ago).
In any case, take that wonderful boy (and one girl) out on a quest to hack up a bunch of BAD SHROOM GUYS and several dragons and a many-headed witch doctor in order to save the day.
And finally, another re-release of an old game, but one that I'm not very familiar with so I can't speak as to its authenticity; Gravitar Recharged, the latest of Ataris efforts to take their old 2600 games and make them look Geometry Warsier. In this case, it looks Solar Jetmannier, but there is no trailer in the eShop so that's more of a supposition than a confirmation. Fly a l'il triangle ship around some planets looking to complete a bunch of challenges and also each planet has Weird Gravity so... you know... that complicates things.
OKAY I guess that's enough. This was a big week.
<madhair voice> Jim Power!
Jim Power won't leave us alone
Jimothy Powerful, Esq.
Wonderboy in the Jim Power Dimension
Jim Power and the Soldiers of the Futute
The world looks at Jim Power and says "I want to conform to him"
Now You're Playing with Power (Jim!!! Power!!!)
Lower Your Standards: A Jim Power Memorial Thread
Hi, welcome to GameStop. Are you a member of our Jim Power Up Rewards?
Kicking open your front door and asking if you're ready to party this week is Silt, a puzzley game about some manner of scuba-buddy who is at the bottom of the ocean and would like to solve some navigational puzzles and figure out why the bottom of the ocean is so gal-darn spooky. It looks like Ecco the Dolphin, except you're a hominid and also it looks ten times creepier.
Are you menaced by a dead-eyed moray eel the size of ten busses? Of course you are.
Next up is a game where I'd be lying if I said I wasn't into it from the description, but I also would be lying if I didn't say that the visuals are a big turn off; Pinku Kult: Hex Mortis. Which is apparently a Persona game, without the Persona lisense. Also; I should specify that in this case I mean Persona 1 and 2. It's an RPG where You're an investigator on the trail of a series of bizarre supernatural murders across the city, which are all connected to a murderous apocalypse cult. Which is all well and good, and I'm totally into it, but visually I... do not like it. Got a kind of Early 2000s Flash Game by way of Bogleech look to everything.
Now it's the time of the thread where I mash all the adventure games together because there's a bunch and this way I don't have to write a whole paragraph for each! Kicking off with The Big Con which is a crimes-em-up (starring Erica Ishii) about a Cool Teen trying to con her way into paying off her moms mob debt through theft, manipulation and misdirection. Like if Louise Belcher was ten years older and did more skateboard tricks. Also up is Loopers, a visual novel about groundhogs day (the event, not the weather phenomena), Repentant and Lamplight City are both more traditional point and clicky games, and are both grim and gritty stories, one is about a Crimesguy who is very sad at what being a crimesguy has done to his life, and the other is a noir detective game set in Sherlock Holmes times.
Card Shark is... definitely not the sort of game you can easily slot into an existing genre. The most succinct summary, based on the eShop, is that it's like Phoenix Wright, if, instead of going to court and presenting evidence to a judge, you played poker. And also you had to cheat yourself in addition to checking the tells of when other people are cheating. And also the ultimate goal was to become King of France. And I'm fairly cognizant of the fact that 18th Century France had some governmental issues with its monarchy so... maybe this game is canon to history.
I ain't gonna tell you it's not! That's for those egghead college boys to do.
And speaking of... umm... fictionalized versions of existing places in the world, I think that's what's going on with Tokoyo: The Tower of Perpetuity, or else the name of the place you're in being allllllmost a real-world city is just a coincidence. In any case, it's a platformy rogue-ster where you've got a Tower of Perpetuity what gets scrambled up each time you beef it, and a desire to get to the top of it without beefing it, and yeah... that's what we got here. The dungeon only scrambles up once a day, so everyone playing it gets the same level layout. It's effectively a whole game made of the Daily Dungeon mode in most other Roguelikes.
Clan O'Conall is a troids-em-up that looks kind of like Guacamelee, except set in Fantasy Scotland, instead of Fantasy Mesoamerica, and also with a bit more Lost Vikingsy character swapping instead of just that one guy and also a Player 2 character.
Souldiers is another fantasy themed troids-em-up, but with a much more generic fantasy theme instead of being set in a Gloryhammer video. And while with a description like that, it can't help but disappoint, it's a MUCH nicer looking game. Also, I guess giving one a much more appealing description than the other is my fault, since I'm the one writing it. Well, can't help the past. Anyway, you're a knight and you went up to Knight Heaven, except you forgot to die first so you're causing a bit of a spiritual log jam and gotta figure out how to solve that issue. Presumably by hackin' up a bunch of monsters and finding some double jump boots or such like.
Ain't gonna lie, keeping a careful eyeball on this guy because it looks right up my alley.
Next up, of course, is the man of the hour, with the three-dimensional power, Jim Power: The Lost Dimension! As the eShop description says: "Defeat the greatest evil man has ever know to save our planet" and "Upgrade your weapons, jump carefully through platforms, eliminate the enemies and reach the peak of your skills to save the planet from the never knew evil". Among the game features are "Four Screen Filters", "3 Screen Types" and PIKO Interactive and Qubyte Interactive.
Not mentioned anywhere in the eShop is the fact that this includes the unreleased 8-bit port of Jim Power, which I can only assume isn't any less pleasurable an experience.
Powerful Jimmy will save us all from the alien menace of Vaprak. We believe in you, Jimby Strong!
And speaking of re-releasing universally beloved classic 2d platformers, we actually DO have an example of that this week with The Wonderboy Collection! Which, as is appropriate for the series, a really oddly curated selection of random-ass games, not all of which being Wonderboy Branded. I have no idea what a comprehensive collection of Wonderboy would even look like, but this at least gets you most of the highly regarded ones, and most of the other Very Good Ones are elsewhere in the eShop in some form or another often under wildly different names so... y'know... here we are. In any case, we've got Wonderboy (which you may know as Adventure Island, depending on what platformyou had growing up), Wonderboy in Monsterland (the arcade version, which was kind of RPG-y), Wonderboy in Monster World (the Genesis one) and Monster World 4 (which was also remade with polygons instead of pixels not too long ago).
In any case, take that wonderful boy (and one girl) out on a quest to hack up a bunch of BAD SHROOM GUYS and several dragons and a many-headed witch doctor in order to save the day.
And finally, another re-release of an old game, but one that I'm not very familiar with so I can't speak as to its authenticity; Gravitar Recharged, the latest of Ataris efforts to take their old 2600 games and make them look Geometry Warsier. In this case, it looks Solar Jetmannier, but there is no trailer in the eShop so that's more of a supposition than a confirmation. Fly a l'il triangle ship around some planets looking to complete a bunch of challenges and also each planet has Weird Gravity so... you know... that complicates things.
OKAY I guess that's enough. This was a big week.
