All but one of this weeks video games are based on a true story. Bet you'll be surprised which!
Descending to the earth from a meteor of UNKNOWN ORIGIN this week is Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, which is not only a sequel to Oxenfree (as helpfully indicated by the roman numeral 2 in the title), but is also the first video game on the Switch published by Netflix. Welcome to the fold, Netflix; you are a helpful purveyor of Seinfeld reruns when I need them. As in the original, this here is a Spooky Based Walks Em Up where a game of hide and seek accidentally wound up causing WEIRD STUFF to crop up. Now, it's five years later and Weird Stuff didn't stop.
Walk around and solve narratively driven puzzles, why don't you, and see if you can't plug a hole in this Weird Stuff problem for a bit. We're all counting on you!
Speaking of video games about exploring and CREEPY WEIRD STUFF, we have a Dead Cells-em-up that's set in Halloweeny Times; Death or Treat. You're a ghost what has to save the Spookylands from some... absolute Z-grade puns about contemporary brands that would make the Cryptkeeper himself sigh and say "Guys, c'mon, I take my job seriously and you're making a mockery of it".
Anyway, join the fight to stop Faceboo at the behest of Joe Bite-them.
Next is a brand new Brand Old game; Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg, a remake of the very first Atelier game which I believe was never localized before. WELL IT HAS NOW, BABY! And furthermore, the original UNREMADE version of the game is also included as DLC. It's a cozy RPG where you've got to work on building up proper adventure party gear like swords and healing potions and whatever for other people to use because you're the support staff!
Now if you want a video game that is brand new and merely LOOKS brand old, we have what is BY FAR the video I am most excited to Game this week; Gravity Circuit. Which is sadly being released four months almost to the day BEFORE Megamas. Shaking my damn head over here. It's a VERY Mega Man-y looking platformer where you're a people-sized Megazord-y looking robot tasked with using METALLIKATO to completely demolish an army of EVIL ROBOT MASTERS.
Clench your naked fist and release a trillion newtons of CYBORG JUSTICE directly through the sternum of any damn fool who wags their tongue to spite your journey.
And if you want a video game that looks old because it IS old, QuByte is up to their ol' chicanery and released another long forgotten game, Risky Woods, which I am reasonably sure I had a Shareware copy of on a 100-in-one demo disc back in the day. And, if so, my memories are "Well, this is sure a Europlatformer Ghost n Goblins knockoff". I probably didn't use those exact terms since I would have been about twelve years old at the time, but that's my modern day language augmenting my adolescent opinions.
Strange the turn of years, no?
Anyway, the levels are big and maze like and you shoot bullets at skeletons and you die super easily.
And speaking of shooting a massive amount of artillery there's Touhou New World, which I infer to be a Dungeon Crawl-y action RPG-ier take on those wonderful toes and the hold they perform. I kind of get some Diablo 3-y vibes, albeit much more colourful and with the knowledge that every character build I've ever used in D3 focused on filling the screen with as vast a fusillade as possible.
Descending to the earth from a meteor of UNKNOWN ORIGIN this week is Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, which is not only a sequel to Oxenfree (as helpfully indicated by the roman numeral 2 in the title), but is also the first video game on the Switch published by Netflix. Welcome to the fold, Netflix; you are a helpful purveyor of Seinfeld reruns when I need them. As in the original, this here is a Spooky Based Walks Em Up where a game of hide and seek accidentally wound up causing WEIRD STUFF to crop up. Now, it's five years later and Weird Stuff didn't stop.
Walk around and solve narratively driven puzzles, why don't you, and see if you can't plug a hole in this Weird Stuff problem for a bit. We're all counting on you!
Speaking of video games about exploring and CREEPY WEIRD STUFF, we have a Dead Cells-em-up that's set in Halloweeny Times; Death or Treat. You're a ghost what has to save the Spookylands from some... absolute Z-grade puns about contemporary brands that would make the Cryptkeeper himself sigh and say "Guys, c'mon, I take my job seriously and you're making a mockery of it".
Anyway, join the fight to stop Faceboo at the behest of Joe Bite-them.
Next is a brand new Brand Old game; Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg, a remake of the very first Atelier game which I believe was never localized before. WELL IT HAS NOW, BABY! And furthermore, the original UNREMADE version of the game is also included as DLC. It's a cozy RPG where you've got to work on building up proper adventure party gear like swords and healing potions and whatever for other people to use because you're the support staff!
Now if you want a video game that is brand new and merely LOOKS brand old, we have what is BY FAR the video I am most excited to Game this week; Gravity Circuit. Which is sadly being released four months almost to the day BEFORE Megamas. Shaking my damn head over here. It's a VERY Mega Man-y looking platformer where you're a people-sized Megazord-y looking robot tasked with using METALLIKATO to completely demolish an army of EVIL ROBOT MASTERS.
Clench your naked fist and release a trillion newtons of CYBORG JUSTICE directly through the sternum of any damn fool who wags their tongue to spite your journey.
And if you want a video game that looks old because it IS old, QuByte is up to their ol' chicanery and released another long forgotten game, Risky Woods, which I am reasonably sure I had a Shareware copy of on a 100-in-one demo disc back in the day. And, if so, my memories are "Well, this is sure a Europlatformer Ghost n Goblins knockoff". I probably didn't use those exact terms since I would have been about twelve years old at the time, but that's my modern day language augmenting my adolescent opinions.
Strange the turn of years, no?
Anyway, the levels are big and maze like and you shoot bullets at skeletons and you die super easily.
And speaking of shooting a massive amount of artillery there's Touhou New World, which I infer to be a Dungeon Crawl-y action RPG-ier take on those wonderful toes and the hold they perform. I kind of get some Diablo 3-y vibes, albeit much more colourful and with the knowledge that every character build I've ever used in D3 focused on filling the screen with as vast a fusillade as possible.
