Did you know that in many cultures, the same word is used for "Video Game" as is used for "Corn"! It's probably true!
Kicking off this week with a game that was surprise dumped into the eShop last night despite no forewarning of its existence; Lost Ruins! I'm not sure if it's in the same series (or vaguely related games sequence) as Momodora and Minoria, but it sure is in the same aesthetic ballpark. This one appears to skew a bit hornier for character design, which is one thing, but also a lot more of the non-boss monster characters than I'd like are also teenagers and gruesomely killed ones at that, so... let's not have that, eh?
Tone that particular content down a smidge.
Next up, and one of the things that made me go "Oh HECK! YES" when it was announced, scant weeks ago, is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, the less beloved of the Star Wars RPGs, but moreso because it was rushed to market and lacked the push of the original game in addition to having a lot of its content cut out. But time heals all wounds, and besides getting a routine gussying up to make the game look nicer on a 16:9 ratio TV, it also got all that cut out content put back into it. Also, it's got one of the more interesting Star Wars stories as, despite the title, its about everyone realizing that this whole "Jedi" or "Sith" thing is dumb as a sack of hammers and deciding to not do either.
Now if you love romance, reading, and supernatural horrors, (in ascending order of priority) we've got three options for you this week. First of which is My Lovely Wife, which is a sequel to My Lovely Daughter (which I would describe as "Princess Maker, by way of Frankenstein"), this one is more of a Dating Simulator by way of Hellraiser; you have to wine and dine a bunch of demon girls... then murder them and use their essences to rebuild your dead wifes soul. Personally, I think everyone in this could do better than your guy. Less grimdark, is Legend of Arcadieu, which is more of a standard visual novel, but, again everyone is monsters. Just the literal as opposed to metaphorical kind. Like draculas and the like. And less romantic and just as murder-y and full of monsters is Even if Tempest, which is about a gal trying to do a combination of Groundhogs Day and Ace Attorney into figuring out why are All of them Witches Being Witchy, and also can one of them be smooched instead of burned alive?
And speaking of animes, (we kind of were), we've got a video game based on one! Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles! I watched one episode of this and said "Eh, not for me". Every single screenshot of the game is of someone posing dramatically while wielding a sword. Or a piece of bamboo in one case. I'm going to assume it's a beat-em-up game. It takes place in the Unwavering Resolve arc, apparently. If that's a point of the series you feel like revisiting and expanding over.
All I remember is that the kid has a quilt for a shirt and also doesn't want to chop his sister into pieces.
Valuable life lesson, that.
And speaking of taking valuable life lessons from video games, we have "Don't make broad assumptions based on cover-art" because I thought One Last Memory was going to be a Myst-like game, by merit of the cover-art looking like Myst... but it's not. Well, it kind of is, because it's an adventure game about exploring an island and solving puzzles, but one where you run around and jump on stuff and hack up monsters, not the kind where you click on buttons to make pneumatic tubes work or whatever.
It's one of those games where the monsters are all things that make the main character sad, and also he kind of looks like Seanbaby, if either of those details sweeten the pot for you any.
And tonally as far from dang near everything else in this list as one can be, we have Mario Strikers: Battle League, the Soccer One of the Mario Sports games. As with most Mario Sports games, it's a pretty fast paced and fun interpretation of a sports, with Mario Characters in place of Pelee or David Beckham. It is also quite possibly the Nintendo series with my favorite art style over all. That's not enough to get past my indifference to SportsGames in general, or soccer in particular, but it sure helps.
This is the game where there's a ball, and you can bounce it, but you can't touch it with your fingees, only your trotters.
And finally, what if you don't want to play sports? What if you're tired of being nice and want to go TANK-NUTS?!? But you also want to play an RPG, and use numbers to determine your strength and capabilities? Well, then have I got the game for you! Metal Max Xeno: Reborn! This is a pretty hale and hearty re-release of one of the few Metal Max games to be released in English (I have no familiarity with the series, but our own Loki sings its praises to high heaven), and in addition to getting a whole whack of QoL and gameplay improvements that I couldn't really quantify, it also replaced all the character models and art as the original designs were apparently all just south of Too Horny.
Build and customize a tank, then use that tank to head out into a sandy wasteland and explode the hell out of giant monsters and evil enemy ZOIDS.
That's all I'm going to tell you about! Go away!
Kicking off this week with a game that was surprise dumped into the eShop last night despite no forewarning of its existence; Lost Ruins! I'm not sure if it's in the same series (or vaguely related games sequence) as Momodora and Minoria, but it sure is in the same aesthetic ballpark. This one appears to skew a bit hornier for character design, which is one thing, but also a lot more of the non-boss monster characters than I'd like are also teenagers and gruesomely killed ones at that, so... let's not have that, eh?
Tone that particular content down a smidge.
Next up, and one of the things that made me go "Oh HECK! YES" when it was announced, scant weeks ago, is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, the less beloved of the Star Wars RPGs, but moreso because it was rushed to market and lacked the push of the original game in addition to having a lot of its content cut out. But time heals all wounds, and besides getting a routine gussying up to make the game look nicer on a 16:9 ratio TV, it also got all that cut out content put back into it. Also, it's got one of the more interesting Star Wars stories as, despite the title, its about everyone realizing that this whole "Jedi" or "Sith" thing is dumb as a sack of hammers and deciding to not do either.
Now if you love romance, reading, and supernatural horrors, (in ascending order of priority) we've got three options for you this week. First of which is My Lovely Wife, which is a sequel to My Lovely Daughter (which I would describe as "Princess Maker, by way of Frankenstein"), this one is more of a Dating Simulator by way of Hellraiser; you have to wine and dine a bunch of demon girls... then murder them and use their essences to rebuild your dead wifes soul. Personally, I think everyone in this could do better than your guy. Less grimdark, is Legend of Arcadieu, which is more of a standard visual novel, but, again everyone is monsters. Just the literal as opposed to metaphorical kind. Like draculas and the like. And less romantic and just as murder-y and full of monsters is Even if Tempest, which is about a gal trying to do a combination of Groundhogs Day and Ace Attorney into figuring out why are All of them Witches Being Witchy, and also can one of them be smooched instead of burned alive?
And speaking of animes, (we kind of were), we've got a video game based on one! Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles! I watched one episode of this and said "Eh, not for me". Every single screenshot of the game is of someone posing dramatically while wielding a sword. Or a piece of bamboo in one case. I'm going to assume it's a beat-em-up game. It takes place in the Unwavering Resolve arc, apparently. If that's a point of the series you feel like revisiting and expanding over.
All I remember is that the kid has a quilt for a shirt and also doesn't want to chop his sister into pieces.
Valuable life lesson, that.
And speaking of taking valuable life lessons from video games, we have "Don't make broad assumptions based on cover-art" because I thought One Last Memory was going to be a Myst-like game, by merit of the cover-art looking like Myst... but it's not. Well, it kind of is, because it's an adventure game about exploring an island and solving puzzles, but one where you run around and jump on stuff and hack up monsters, not the kind where you click on buttons to make pneumatic tubes work or whatever.
It's one of those games where the monsters are all things that make the main character sad, and also he kind of looks like Seanbaby, if either of those details sweeten the pot for you any.
And tonally as far from dang near everything else in this list as one can be, we have Mario Strikers: Battle League, the Soccer One of the Mario Sports games. As with most Mario Sports games, it's a pretty fast paced and fun interpretation of a sports, with Mario Characters in place of Pelee or David Beckham. It is also quite possibly the Nintendo series with my favorite art style over all. That's not enough to get past my indifference to SportsGames in general, or soccer in particular, but it sure helps.
This is the game where there's a ball, and you can bounce it, but you can't touch it with your fingees, only your trotters.
And finally, what if you don't want to play sports? What if you're tired of being nice and want to go TANK-NUTS?!? But you also want to play an RPG, and use numbers to determine your strength and capabilities? Well, then have I got the game for you! Metal Max Xeno: Reborn! This is a pretty hale and hearty re-release of one of the few Metal Max games to be released in English (I have no familiarity with the series, but our own Loki sings its praises to high heaven), and in addition to getting a whole whack of QoL and gameplay improvements that I couldn't really quantify, it also replaced all the character models and art as the original designs were apparently all just south of Too Horny.
Build and customize a tank, then use that tank to head out into a sandy wasteland and explode the hell out of giant monsters and evil enemy ZOIDS.
That's all I'm going to tell you about! Go away!
