Wow, say what you will about the deodorant companies but they're right; this stuff smells *exactly* like sports.
So we're kicking off with nothing less than the first game listed in the eShop "Coming Soon" tab; Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S+! It's a picross game starring everyones favorite CG pop star, Hatsune Miku.
Well, favorite outside of the Gorillaz (and if you're a Canadian of a certain age; Prozzac). And Sharon Apple, of Macross Plus fame, of course.
Anyway, draw pixel art using numeric clues, why don't ya.
Now if chill, relaxing puzzle solving with Jpop tunes doens't do anything for you, how about spooky style puzzle solving while you're walkin' around an Scuba Resident Evil house grab you? SOMA, has that AND MORE! You're an Aquanaut who is at the bottom of the ocean in a Sealab trying to figure out why everyone else on board is a teensy bit more dead and mutilated than they were the last time anyone saw them. And also why there's more sea monsters and psychopathic robots around.
I don't want to point fingers but I suspect that the sea monsters and psychopathic robots might be the culprit behind the murders.
If you want your futuristic puzzle solving murder investigations in a Resident Evil house to be more trippy than scary, No Sleep for Kaname Date- from AI The Somnium Files is just what the doctor ordered! As half the title implies, it's a spinoff of the Somnium Files series, which I ain't played and can thus offer no further insight on. I think it's a spinoff of the Zero Escape series, so we're multiple levels deep here.
Regardless, you're both an internet streamer who was abducted by aliens (and... put into a sexy sheep costume?) trying to Escape Room your way through a puzzle filled alien ship AND ALSO a detective trying to Phoenix Wright his way into solving the mystery of why aliens would be abducting streamers and putting them in deathtrap puzzle gauntlets.
Moving on to games that are re-releases, we've got Wild Hearts S, a Switch port of the Koei/Tecmo attempt to do a Monster Hunter of their very own! Except it's set in Princess Mononoke Times instead of Marvels The Savage Land. And if instead of a little kitty who speaks in cat puns, you have the magical ability to create boxes out of thin air. I tried the demo and considered it *pretty dang fun*, and I've traditionally had a hard time gelling with Monster Hunter, so take that as you will with regard to issuing praise.
Visit scenic "Medieval Fantasy Japan" where the animals are WAY too big and kill them to make new pants.
A more technical re-release is Super Mario Party Jamboree Switch 2 Edition, which is also available as an paid upgrade if you have the Switch 1 version. It's the most recent Mario Party game but with an ENORMOUS amount of new content smushed into there; much of which makes use of Switch 2 features that I've never calibrated, let alone used, like the mouse controls and the microphone.
And bringing up the rear we've got this weeks old PC port that is still in Japanese courtesy of the good Egg Console: Hydlide 3, which I understand to be the Good One of the Hydlide series, adding in such features as an attack button and the ability to starve to death.
I do not know if this is one of those RPGs where you can play it just fine without being able to read Japanese, but the first two Hydlides were pretty okay on that front so WHO KNOWS?!?!
OKAY, GO TO BED
So we're kicking off with nothing less than the first game listed in the eShop "Coming Soon" tab; Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S+! It's a picross game starring everyones favorite CG pop star, Hatsune Miku.
Well, favorite outside of the Gorillaz (and if you're a Canadian of a certain age; Prozzac). And Sharon Apple, of Macross Plus fame, of course.
Anyway, draw pixel art using numeric clues, why don't ya.
Now if chill, relaxing puzzle solving with Jpop tunes doens't do anything for you, how about spooky style puzzle solving while you're walkin' around an Scuba Resident Evil house grab you? SOMA, has that AND MORE! You're an Aquanaut who is at the bottom of the ocean in a Sealab trying to figure out why everyone else on board is a teensy bit more dead and mutilated than they were the last time anyone saw them. And also why there's more sea monsters and psychopathic robots around.
I don't want to point fingers but I suspect that the sea monsters and psychopathic robots might be the culprit behind the murders.
If you want your futuristic puzzle solving murder investigations in a Resident Evil house to be more trippy than scary, No Sleep for Kaname Date- from AI The Somnium Files is just what the doctor ordered! As half the title implies, it's a spinoff of the Somnium Files series, which I ain't played and can thus offer no further insight on. I think it's a spinoff of the Zero Escape series, so we're multiple levels deep here.
Regardless, you're both an internet streamer who was abducted by aliens (and... put into a sexy sheep costume?) trying to Escape Room your way through a puzzle filled alien ship AND ALSO a detective trying to Phoenix Wright his way into solving the mystery of why aliens would be abducting streamers and putting them in deathtrap puzzle gauntlets.
Moving on to games that are re-releases, we've got Wild Hearts S, a Switch port of the Koei/Tecmo attempt to do a Monster Hunter of their very own! Except it's set in Princess Mononoke Times instead of Marvels The Savage Land. And if instead of a little kitty who speaks in cat puns, you have the magical ability to create boxes out of thin air. I tried the demo and considered it *pretty dang fun*, and I've traditionally had a hard time gelling with Monster Hunter, so take that as you will with regard to issuing praise.
Visit scenic "Medieval Fantasy Japan" where the animals are WAY too big and kill them to make new pants.
A more technical re-release is Super Mario Party Jamboree Switch 2 Edition, which is also available as an paid upgrade if you have the Switch 1 version. It's the most recent Mario Party game but with an ENORMOUS amount of new content smushed into there; much of which makes use of Switch 2 features that I've never calibrated, let alone used, like the mouse controls and the microphone.
And bringing up the rear we've got this weeks old PC port that is still in Japanese courtesy of the good Egg Console: Hydlide 3, which I understand to be the Good One of the Hydlide series, adding in such features as an attack button and the ability to starve to death.
I do not know if this is one of those RPGs where you can play it just fine without being able to read Japanese, but the first two Hydlides were pretty okay on that front so WHO KNOWS?!?!
OKAY, GO TO BED
