Well, the calender has flipped over to "Summer" which means it's so friggin' hot that you may well turn to ash if you so much as look out a window, so why not instead stay inside and enjoy some new games for the Video Fan in your life?
And speaking of not wanting to go outside and over-relying on people delivering stuff to you, this weeks Big Deal release is Death Stranding 2. I still haven't played the first game, but I understand that it was kind of Metal Gear, if Solid Snake worked for DoorDash, or perhaps like a Post Apocalyptic Dominos commercial starring Norman Reedus fighting the Noid.
...I think I just sold myself on the game more effectively than Hideo Kojima did.
Moving right along we have Arisen Force: Life Devotee, which I infer is part of a series called "Arisen Force", but if so, I have never heard of it before. A quick glance suggests that this here is an Octopath-em-up with the same style of fancy looking HD2D visuals but this is a clever trick, as the truth is that it's actually a Star Ocean with real time battles and running around a battlefield all with real nice looking sprite work!
It's also based on Journey to the West, as so many things are, and the few screenshots that show text kind of suggest that perhaps the localization efforts were... below the standards of JttW adaptions that Dragonball established.
Speaking of critters waging a desperate battle to prove their superiority over the forces of nature and the universe, we have Against the Storm, a Sim City-em-up where you've got a bunch of beavers and birds and lizards and the like who have been tasked with rebuilding society after a magical super-storm blew it up. And... another magical superstorm is coming to blow it up again. And so on and so on since this here is a Roguelike Simly Citier and every time you start doing reasonably well the entire planet gets the kibosh.
Now if macromanaging your continued survival via the antic of weird critters ain't to your liking, about about micromanaging one guy who is bedeviled by evil cartoons? Poppy Playtime 4 is out and it's the fourth Poppys Playtime game and I don't know what those are. I assume they're the new Five Nights at Freddys? A Cartoons But They Do Murders To You kind of thing? A Spooky Walks-em-up where you're in a toy factor that really sucks.
Honestly, the trailer looked pretty neat
Speaking of Puppets and Them Sucking, we have Once Upon a Puppet, which is a puzzle platformer with a kind of Limbo-y vibe, except your a dang ol' Pinnochio, scampering about like you own the place.
Well, you don't own the place; in fact, the place is going to kill you because NO PUPPETS ARE ALLOWED!
And now we move on to the rereleases of old games and that means the game I'm most interested in this week; Front Mission 3: Remastered; a gussied up remake of the third Front Mission game, which was also the first one to come out in English and which I *believe* is the most highly regarded entry in the series. It's certainly the one I enjoyed the most so that means 100% of the people polled agree it was the best of the series.
It's the year: Gundam and you *kinda sorta* got involved in a deadly web of murder and intrigue involving a secret army and an experimental weapon of mass destruction, and that means a bunch of SRPG battles in giant mecha and then do it again with a different cast of characters since the game has two different storylines AND it has a weird Fake Internet you can browse in order to unlock gear ot expand the sotry or just marvel at because it's a really expansive thing to include as a bonus in an already overstuffed SRPG.
And finally, we have this weeks Egg Console release, and this time it's one that kind of bugs me because it's absolutely something I want to play, but since Egg Console doesn't translate anything beyond the manual and it's a text heavy RPG, that doesn't do me a lick of good. In any case, it's Mado Monogatari 1-2-3, the first person dungeon crawling spinoff of the Puyo Pop series, starring series protagonist Arle as she goes from Witch kindergarten to Witch College, a process which involves dungeon crawling and monster whacking.
I am not sure if this is the port that opted to include a ridiculous amount of graphic violence in the game about the cute anime girl attending Witch School, but one of them did and that is weird as heck,
Okay, go to bed.
And speaking of not wanting to go outside and over-relying on people delivering stuff to you, this weeks Big Deal release is Death Stranding 2. I still haven't played the first game, but I understand that it was kind of Metal Gear, if Solid Snake worked for DoorDash, or perhaps like a Post Apocalyptic Dominos commercial starring Norman Reedus fighting the Noid.
...I think I just sold myself on the game more effectively than Hideo Kojima did.
Moving right along we have Arisen Force: Life Devotee, which I infer is part of a series called "Arisen Force", but if so, I have never heard of it before. A quick glance suggests that this here is an Octopath-em-up with the same style of fancy looking HD2D visuals but this is a clever trick, as the truth is that it's actually a Star Ocean with real time battles and running around a battlefield all with real nice looking sprite work!
It's also based on Journey to the West, as so many things are, and the few screenshots that show text kind of suggest that perhaps the localization efforts were... below the standards of JttW adaptions that Dragonball established.
Speaking of critters waging a desperate battle to prove their superiority over the forces of nature and the universe, we have Against the Storm, a Sim City-em-up where you've got a bunch of beavers and birds and lizards and the like who have been tasked with rebuilding society after a magical super-storm blew it up. And... another magical superstorm is coming to blow it up again. And so on and so on since this here is a Roguelike Simly Citier and every time you start doing reasonably well the entire planet gets the kibosh.
Now if macromanaging your continued survival via the antic of weird critters ain't to your liking, about about micromanaging one guy who is bedeviled by evil cartoons? Poppy Playtime 4 is out and it's the fourth Poppys Playtime game and I don't know what those are. I assume they're the new Five Nights at Freddys? A Cartoons But They Do Murders To You kind of thing? A Spooky Walks-em-up where you're in a toy factor that really sucks.
Honestly, the trailer looked pretty neat
Speaking of Puppets and Them Sucking, we have Once Upon a Puppet, which is a puzzle platformer with a kind of Limbo-y vibe, except your a dang ol' Pinnochio, scampering about like you own the place.
Well, you don't own the place; in fact, the place is going to kill you because NO PUPPETS ARE ALLOWED!
And now we move on to the rereleases of old games and that means the game I'm most interested in this week; Front Mission 3: Remastered; a gussied up remake of the third Front Mission game, which was also the first one to come out in English and which I *believe* is the most highly regarded entry in the series. It's certainly the one I enjoyed the most so that means 100% of the people polled agree it was the best of the series.
It's the year: Gundam and you *kinda sorta* got involved in a deadly web of murder and intrigue involving a secret army and an experimental weapon of mass destruction, and that means a bunch of SRPG battles in giant mecha and then do it again with a different cast of characters since the game has two different storylines AND it has a weird Fake Internet you can browse in order to unlock gear ot expand the sotry or just marvel at because it's a really expansive thing to include as a bonus in an already overstuffed SRPG.
And finally, we have this weeks Egg Console release, and this time it's one that kind of bugs me because it's absolutely something I want to play, but since Egg Console doesn't translate anything beyond the manual and it's a text heavy RPG, that doesn't do me a lick of good. In any case, it's Mado Monogatari 1-2-3, the first person dungeon crawling spinoff of the Puyo Pop series, starring series protagonist Arle as she goes from Witch kindergarten to Witch College, a process which involves dungeon crawling and monster whacking.
I am not sure if this is the port that opted to include a ridiculous amount of graphic violence in the game about the cute anime girl attending Witch School, but one of them did and that is weird as heck,
Okay, go to bed.
