Talk to your kids about the importance of eating batteries.
So the first thing worth commenting on this week is the sequel to an oft-forgot and *pretty slick* Zeld-em-up that slipped through the cracks. AND NOW IT HAS A SEQUEL! Take THAT, Haters! It's Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince. From the trailer, it doesn't look appreciably different from the original Blossom Tails, but seeing as how the original game was really fun, that is only to the games credit.
Go and explore some dungeons to get some widgets because you dunn woke up a cow-guy. Then chop the hell out of monsters.
Two Point Campus is the game to make all of your Jim Rash dreams come true, as you're given the keys to your very own university. And because this is in the mileu of Rollercoaster Tycoon and the like, immediately run it into the ground because you can't afford toilets because of all the money you're spending on weird statues or whatever and all the professors are, like... frankensteins or whatever. Also it's a weird school so your acumen is for jousting or ghost busting or whatever.
Next up is Kirbys Dream Buffet, a game where Kirby Dreamland finally fulfils his lifes dream and becomes a *cannibal cake* who must eat other cakes to survive. Like a combination of Tilt n Tumble and Katamari Damacy; you gotta(you just GOTTA) roll that dang ol' Kirb around giant confectionary obstacles courses in order to eat the most cake so that you, in turn ARE the biggest cake who is a Kirby. Then you get the greatest prize of all; a sense of personal accomplishment.
And some bonus points.
Next up is definitely the Most Neat game this week, and also the one hardest to easily describe; RPG Time: The Legend of Wright, which is... umm... half RPG design document and half activity book but also a full fledged RPG that you are playing as designed by a bored kid scribbling in his notebook; and it swaps up, like... every component of itself all the time as the bored kid wants to mix things up.
Next is We Are OFK a sads-em-up walky biopic game about an indie pop-band. It's got lots of texting in it, and it stars Sad Gay Musicians. I do not know if OFK is a real band, because if it's a band that doesn't sing either heavy metal anthems about robots, beating up dragons with hammers, or things that could double as cartoon themesongs, they have escaped my notice.
I'm sorry but I know my lane.
Speaking of games about sad people recently out of a rocky relationship, we have My Divorce Story, which... perhaps the game that has made me say "Uhhh?" the most of any game I've covered in these threads for... a while at least. And that it brags of being made by an experienced divorce lawyer and couples counselor makes me go "Uhhh?" even harder.
It's a point and click adventure game where you have to uncover your spouses infidelity so you can up and successfully divorce them. By playing fun minigames like "guessing your spouses computer password to snoop through their files".
Literally every word of the description makes me go "Uhh?"
Thymesia I'm on far firmer ground with; it's a 3rd person action game where you're a magic doctor what has to hack-and-slash your way through a cursed town turning sicked-up monster peeps into giblets in order to find a cure for WIZARD GERMS.
It's a Cloud game, despite how much dirt and grime are present in it.
Cursed to Golf is next and it looks... incredible. While it is, as the title implies, a golf game, it's not the sort that's terribly concerned with securing likeness rights; and there's a lot more teleporter mazes and ghostly champions to overcome. Much more in the vein of Kirbys Dream Course than Tiger Woods Golf.
Get the heck out Heck by proving you're the very best darn golfo that the netherworld has ever seen, and prove that fact by defeating the ghosts of histories greatest linksmen. And women. And spooky ghosts.
And finally, this week has another add-on to the N64 part of Nintendo Switch Online; Wave Race 64, which I have not ever played so can offer no input on save the knowledge that it's a highly regarded jetski racing game and that it has enough branding in the original release that re-releases are always kind of dicey.
So the first thing worth commenting on this week is the sequel to an oft-forgot and *pretty slick* Zeld-em-up that slipped through the cracks. AND NOW IT HAS A SEQUEL! Take THAT, Haters! It's Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince. From the trailer, it doesn't look appreciably different from the original Blossom Tails, but seeing as how the original game was really fun, that is only to the games credit.
Go and explore some dungeons to get some widgets because you dunn woke up a cow-guy. Then chop the hell out of monsters.
Two Point Campus is the game to make all of your Jim Rash dreams come true, as you're given the keys to your very own university. And because this is in the mileu of Rollercoaster Tycoon and the like, immediately run it into the ground because you can't afford toilets because of all the money you're spending on weird statues or whatever and all the professors are, like... frankensteins or whatever. Also it's a weird school so your acumen is for jousting or ghost busting or whatever.
Next up is Kirbys Dream Buffet, a game where Kirby Dreamland finally fulfils his lifes dream and becomes a *cannibal cake* who must eat other cakes to survive. Like a combination of Tilt n Tumble and Katamari Damacy; you gotta(you just GOTTA) roll that dang ol' Kirb around giant confectionary obstacles courses in order to eat the most cake so that you, in turn ARE the biggest cake who is a Kirby. Then you get the greatest prize of all; a sense of personal accomplishment.
And some bonus points.
Next up is definitely the Most Neat game this week, and also the one hardest to easily describe; RPG Time: The Legend of Wright, which is... umm... half RPG design document and half activity book but also a full fledged RPG that you are playing as designed by a bored kid scribbling in his notebook; and it swaps up, like... every component of itself all the time as the bored kid wants to mix things up.
Next is We Are OFK a sads-em-up walky biopic game about an indie pop-band. It's got lots of texting in it, and it stars Sad Gay Musicians. I do not know if OFK is a real band, because if it's a band that doesn't sing either heavy metal anthems about robots, beating up dragons with hammers, or things that could double as cartoon themesongs, they have escaped my notice.
I'm sorry but I know my lane.
Speaking of games about sad people recently out of a rocky relationship, we have My Divorce Story, which... perhaps the game that has made me say "Uhhh?" the most of any game I've covered in these threads for... a while at least. And that it brags of being made by an experienced divorce lawyer and couples counselor makes me go "Uhhh?" even harder.
It's a point and click adventure game where you have to uncover your spouses infidelity so you can up and successfully divorce them. By playing fun minigames like "guessing your spouses computer password to snoop through their files".
Literally every word of the description makes me go "Uhh?"
Thymesia I'm on far firmer ground with; it's a 3rd person action game where you're a magic doctor what has to hack-and-slash your way through a cursed town turning sicked-up monster peeps into giblets in order to find a cure for WIZARD GERMS.
It's a Cloud game, despite how much dirt and grime are present in it.
Cursed to Golf is next and it looks... incredible. While it is, as the title implies, a golf game, it's not the sort that's terribly concerned with securing likeness rights; and there's a lot more teleporter mazes and ghostly champions to overcome. Much more in the vein of Kirbys Dream Course than Tiger Woods Golf.
Get the heck out Heck by proving you're the very best darn golfo that the netherworld has ever seen, and prove that fact by defeating the ghosts of histories greatest linksmen. And women. And spooky ghosts.
And finally, this week has another add-on to the N64 part of Nintendo Switch Online; Wave Race 64, which I have not ever played so can offer no input on save the knowledge that it's a highly regarded jetski racing game and that it has enough branding in the original release that re-releases are always kind of dicey.
