There are two kinds of people in the world; people who want to eat spiders, and "Other".
We've got a surprising abundance of card based games this week, and what better way to commemorate that than by starting the thread with the most expensive of them; Shadowverse: Champions Battle. I don't know much about the game itself, but from the screenshots, it looks kind of like Hearthstone, except not made by Blizzard and also with FAR more anime slapped into it as window dressing. The art style between the cards and the characters clashes INCREDIBLY sharply!
Black Book, too, is a game about those wonderful stacks of paper we call cards! But this one is more of a deck builder story-heavy game about a bunch of witchy types who figured they should h*ck off and smite some demons using other demons because it's set in witch times and there's demons abound. It's got a pretty cool spooky art style and I slapped that sucker right in the ol' wishlist as soon as the trailer finished.
Foreclosed is a sneaky stealthy shooty comic-book of a game that is based on everyone's favorite kind of punk; cyber! It, too, looks *real spiffy* and you can upgrade how cyber your punk is by making them telekinetic or have x-ray eyes and the like, and its the future so everything is electric pink.
FHTAGN! is a video game where the number one thing listed in the bullet-points is that is has 93,000 words! It's a multi-player couch-co-op book! And it's specifically designed for when you're bored waiting in lines for something! This is... a weird niche that I love exists!
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is a video game about looking through Britains favorite science-weirdos phone, looking at pictures of creepy statues that are actually Boo Buddies. The description in the eShop kind of implies that the title character is *barely* in this (it's the Jodie Whittaker Doctor, at least) and that it otherwise takes place immediately after the episode Blink. So if you KNOW Doctor Who even passively, you'd say "Oh, I think I know that one!" and if you don't you'll just shrug and wonder why everyone is spooked out by statues.
One Deck Dungeon is a video game I've played before, and it's on my phone, in fact! And DESPITE the fact that a full one third of the title is "Deck" it is NOT actually a card game! Not really, at least, it's more of a Yahtzee RPG! But there is still some cards being shuffled, but it's not like a big *thing*. In it, you get a deck of cards to represent a dungeon; then you roll a WHOLE BUNCH of dice to determine your stats and hope you get enough matching rolls to bypass obstacles and varmints. It's a really good way to kill some time waiting for a movie to start AND ALSO, it's connected to Sentinels of the Multiverse (some of the DLC are Sentinels characters), and I know some peeps here like that.
Fort Triumph is one of the contenders for being the game I'm most excited for this week, and in fact, I bought it already since it had a pretty hefty pre-order discount. Here's hoping I was not proven a fool! It's an RPG of the Strategyier bend BUT ALSO it's got a good chunk of XCOM DNA smacked in there AND YET ALSO there's a heavier focus on buggerin' up the environment in order to better facilitate monster-choppery.
It also has a "witty, parody fantasy plot" which is... always alarming to see in a product description, but I'm mainly here for the other stuff I mentioned.
Cardaclysm is the other game contending for the title of "Most Exciting for me, Octo, personally", and it makes far fewer promises about being hilarious; it's another deck-building RPG, this time about a Bad Guy Wizard (that's you) who did magic bad and wound up summoning the Four Horsemen; so now you've got to assemble an arsenal of magic spells and summoned monsters in order to beat them dang ol' horse guys at cards so badly they die.
That's all I know about as of Tuesday Morning. Wow, what a long strange trip it's been.
We've got a surprising abundance of card based games this week, and what better way to commemorate that than by starting the thread with the most expensive of them; Shadowverse: Champions Battle. I don't know much about the game itself, but from the screenshots, it looks kind of like Hearthstone, except not made by Blizzard and also with FAR more anime slapped into it as window dressing. The art style between the cards and the characters clashes INCREDIBLY sharply!
Black Book, too, is a game about those wonderful stacks of paper we call cards! But this one is more of a deck builder story-heavy game about a bunch of witchy types who figured they should h*ck off and smite some demons using other demons because it's set in witch times and there's demons abound. It's got a pretty cool spooky art style and I slapped that sucker right in the ol' wishlist as soon as the trailer finished.
Foreclosed is a sneaky stealthy shooty comic-book of a game that is based on everyone's favorite kind of punk; cyber! It, too, looks *real spiffy* and you can upgrade how cyber your punk is by making them telekinetic or have x-ray eyes and the like, and its the future so everything is electric pink.
FHTAGN! is a video game where the number one thing listed in the bullet-points is that is has 93,000 words! It's a multi-player couch-co-op book! And it's specifically designed for when you're bored waiting in lines for something! This is... a weird niche that I love exists!
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is a video game about looking through Britains favorite science-weirdos phone, looking at pictures of creepy statues that are actually Boo Buddies. The description in the eShop kind of implies that the title character is *barely* in this (it's the Jodie Whittaker Doctor, at least) and that it otherwise takes place immediately after the episode Blink. So if you KNOW Doctor Who even passively, you'd say "Oh, I think I know that one!" and if you don't you'll just shrug and wonder why everyone is spooked out by statues.
One Deck Dungeon is a video game I've played before, and it's on my phone, in fact! And DESPITE the fact that a full one third of the title is "Deck" it is NOT actually a card game! Not really, at least, it's more of a Yahtzee RPG! But there is still some cards being shuffled, but it's not like a big *thing*. In it, you get a deck of cards to represent a dungeon; then you roll a WHOLE BUNCH of dice to determine your stats and hope you get enough matching rolls to bypass obstacles and varmints. It's a really good way to kill some time waiting for a movie to start AND ALSO, it's connected to Sentinels of the Multiverse (some of the DLC are Sentinels characters), and I know some peeps here like that.
Fort Triumph is one of the contenders for being the game I'm most excited for this week, and in fact, I bought it already since it had a pretty hefty pre-order discount. Here's hoping I was not proven a fool! It's an RPG of the Strategyier bend BUT ALSO it's got a good chunk of XCOM DNA smacked in there AND YET ALSO there's a heavier focus on buggerin' up the environment in order to better facilitate monster-choppery.
It also has a "witty, parody fantasy plot" which is... always alarming to see in a product description, but I'm mainly here for the other stuff I mentioned.
Cardaclysm is the other game contending for the title of "Most Exciting for me, Octo, personally", and it makes far fewer promises about being hilarious; it's another deck-building RPG, this time about a Bad Guy Wizard (that's you) who did magic bad and wound up summoning the Four Horsemen; so now you've got to assemble an arsenal of magic spells and summoned monsters in order to beat them dang ol' horse guys at cards so badly they die.
That's all I know about as of Tuesday Morning. Wow, what a long strange trip it's been.
