Emotionally, I don't think I could ever bounce back from someone calling me a "silly goose"
Starting off with a SNEAKY SECRET release last week, and one that was kind of buried down the list of New Releases, crowded out by the requisitite bundles of RedDeer Games releases like bundles of Fake Gameboy Harvest Moon games and... umm... Hentai World, we have Protodroid DELTA. A game I've been kicking over trash cans and yelling "GIMME!" about since I first learned of its existence. It's a Mega Man game, but it takes place in the mysterious and alluring *third dimension*. But not like Mega Man Legends, which was more like Legend of Zelda, except Mega Man and it's more like Mega Man X7, except Fun and Good instead of Awful and Bad. Word of forewarning if you're playing it on the Switch, however, it's one of those games that looks and runs *way* better in handheld mode than it does Docked. Just a colossal difference.
Experimental Robot Super Hero DELTA must dash, circle strafe and EXPLODE her way through an gauntlet of moving platforms and attack robots in order to defeat FOUR EVIL VYPER MASTERS.
Next up, and headlining the week, because how could it not, is Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection (also available piecemeal, if you so prefer), a gussied up collection of the three Etrian Odyssey games on the original DS. Outside of some uprezzed graphics, it doesn't really seem to be doing a heck of a lot to reinvent the wheel here gameplay wise (especially compared to the existing remakes of EO 1 and 2), but seeing as how the original trilogy of games was *so good* that it single handedly restored the First Person Dungeon Crawler genre to a prominence it hadn't experienced since the heyday of Wizardry and Might & Magic, it's hard to find fault with an "If it ain't broke" approach.
Find a real big tree, and then get a team of Fightin' and Healin' peeps together to get to the top/bottom of it. Then do that again, except you're in the sunny tropics and there are pirates about.
If you want a game about exploring a treacherous climate, but want it to be more about chatting with folks and trying to get to the bottom of an organ smuggling operation instead of hacking giant frogs to pieces, how's about To Hell With the Ugly which, besides a delightful title, is a walky-style adventure game set in the rip roarin'... LA of the 1950s where you're a very vain and handsome man who woke up without his nards courtesy of an illegal organ harvest and decides that Punches and Direct Questioning is the order of the day now.
We've all had days like that.
And everything else is a Puzzle Adventure Game with a Spooky Bend in Old Timey-Times; Mythargia is a side scrolling adventure horror game much in the vein of Lone Survivor where you're a reporter investigating a shut down insane asylum in a Spooky Abandoned Town, The Tartarus Key is a PS1-y sort of game where you find yourself in a Saw/Nonary Games style MURDER MANSION chock full of deadly puzzles, Decarnation is a bit more of a Zelda-ish spooky game where you've got to contend with the real nuisance of cenobites trying to horn in on the 1990s French Cabaret scene, and Killer Frequency, a horror-comedy where you're the local radio host for a small town who has to contend with the towns eccentric weirdos and help them survive a no-good murderman who is plying his trade. Like Nightvale, but with a knife guy instead of a glow cloud.
And that's about it for this week. Welp; back to Zelda.
Starting off with a SNEAKY SECRET release last week, and one that was kind of buried down the list of New Releases, crowded out by the requisitite bundles of RedDeer Games releases like bundles of Fake Gameboy Harvest Moon games and... umm... Hentai World, we have Protodroid DELTA. A game I've been kicking over trash cans and yelling "GIMME!" about since I first learned of its existence. It's a Mega Man game, but it takes place in the mysterious and alluring *third dimension*. But not like Mega Man Legends, which was more like Legend of Zelda, except Mega Man and it's more like Mega Man X7, except Fun and Good instead of Awful and Bad. Word of forewarning if you're playing it on the Switch, however, it's one of those games that looks and runs *way* better in handheld mode than it does Docked. Just a colossal difference.
Experimental Robot Super Hero DELTA must dash, circle strafe and EXPLODE her way through an gauntlet of moving platforms and attack robots in order to defeat FOUR EVIL VYPER MASTERS.
Next up, and headlining the week, because how could it not, is Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection (also available piecemeal, if you so prefer), a gussied up collection of the three Etrian Odyssey games on the original DS. Outside of some uprezzed graphics, it doesn't really seem to be doing a heck of a lot to reinvent the wheel here gameplay wise (especially compared to the existing remakes of EO 1 and 2), but seeing as how the original trilogy of games was *so good* that it single handedly restored the First Person Dungeon Crawler genre to a prominence it hadn't experienced since the heyday of Wizardry and Might & Magic, it's hard to find fault with an "If it ain't broke" approach.
Find a real big tree, and then get a team of Fightin' and Healin' peeps together to get to the top/bottom of it. Then do that again, except you're in the sunny tropics and there are pirates about.
If you want a game about exploring a treacherous climate, but want it to be more about chatting with folks and trying to get to the bottom of an organ smuggling operation instead of hacking giant frogs to pieces, how's about To Hell With the Ugly which, besides a delightful title, is a walky-style adventure game set in the rip roarin'... LA of the 1950s where you're a very vain and handsome man who woke up without his nards courtesy of an illegal organ harvest and decides that Punches and Direct Questioning is the order of the day now.
We've all had days like that.
And everything else is a Puzzle Adventure Game with a Spooky Bend in Old Timey-Times; Mythargia is a side scrolling adventure horror game much in the vein of Lone Survivor where you're a reporter investigating a shut down insane asylum in a Spooky Abandoned Town, The Tartarus Key is a PS1-y sort of game where you find yourself in a Saw/Nonary Games style MURDER MANSION chock full of deadly puzzles, Decarnation is a bit more of a Zelda-ish spooky game where you've got to contend with the real nuisance of cenobites trying to horn in on the 1990s French Cabaret scene, and Killer Frequency, a horror-comedy where you're the local radio host for a small town who has to contend with the towns eccentric weirdos and help them survive a no-good murderman who is plying his trade. Like Nightvale, but with a knife guy instead of a glow cloud.
And that's about it for this week. Welp; back to Zelda.