Good news for all you Tuesday fans; that's what today is!
So we're kicking things off with something I'm provisionally jazzed for, as the premise sounds right up my alley but the screenshots all make it look like it's kind of janky; City of Springs! It's a Sneaky tactical robot-em-up where yer a gal what Builds Robits Well and live in an oppressive regime where the queen says "You know what I love? Oppressing people with robots." So you've got to sneak around, foment rebellion and preventing robots from noticing you while also building up some robots of your own to beat their asses.
Speaking of using crime to improve things in your life in a robot-world, we've got Heistgeist, where the punks are cyber, instead of steam. It also appears to be a deckbuilding RPG that's giving some real Griftlands vibes. And I loved Griftlands so we automatically have some residual interest from this ol' hoss.
Anywya, it's the year: Cyber, you're a criminal whose entire Crime Team got killed on a job gone wrong, and now you've got to assemble a new crew and Shadowrun your way through a whole mess of corporate intrigue in order to avenge their deaths and appease the crime lords who would like you to also die because of aforesaid whoopsie-daisy viz-a-viz committing crimes.
If you like the idea of guiding around some beligerent types, but want ti to be a beautiful emotional journey instead of using trading cards to simulate commiting federal crimes, how about to give Herdling a look. This one has you as a shepherd with a whole flock of weird bison-y animals that you've got to steer across a weird landscape, while fending off wildlife and the elements.
It's from the peeps what made Far and also Firewatch, so you bet your ass it's gonna get melancholy!
For a different kind of meloncholy, how about an exciting video game reproduction of working a small town general store? This incredible flight of fancy can be attained only in Discounty, which is a Starman Farmgame deal where instead of growing vegetables, you sell them in a run down harbour town full of Weird Guys.
Cozy-RPG your way to the heights of love and oppulence as you barter for the best price on microwave popcorn and cans of beans!
And now we're on to the the Big Dog of this weeks releases; the long abandoned second Shantae game has finally been completed and released; Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution was originally supposed to come out on the GBA over 20 years ago, never found a publisher and was buried at the back of a closet at Wayforward ever since. But now it's back, and not only released but crammed with HEAPS of additional content that wouldn't have been in the game as originally pitched.
Anyway, this time around Risky Boots has borked things up by spinning the whole of Sequin Land around and since there's, like... one person around who ever thinks it's worthwhile to thwart her, that means you've got to troid your way around the place hunting down macguffins and giving monsters the ol' whackity-smack with the dedicated monster-thwapper attached to your scalp.
And speaking of long overdue ports of forgotten games, Egg Console is not to be outdone in that field and this week brings us Diable de Laplace, which I believe is a Wizardry-em-up with a Lovecrafty bend as you're a team of investigators exploring a cursed mansion full of sanity shredding monsters... who wants to sell pictures of them to the local newspaper. As always, it's an Egg Console release of an RPG so *good luck* playing it if you can't read Japanese. Especially since it's a dungeon crawler form the 80s; not a genre that's famous for being especially generous.
And finally we've got an NSO update for the Gamecube, and it's one of the games I was most excited for when the Switch 2 was revealed; Chibi Robo, a game which I always really wanted to play but never got a chance to try! Well *who's laughing now, society?* You're a little tiny machine man (a... chibi robo, if you will) who has a whole-ass house to clean and maintain. Which extends from "cleaning up small messes" to "helping various sentient toys with their neuroses" to "blasting apart alien monsters". It's kind of like if your roomba was also a therapist.
OKAY, GO TO BED
So we're kicking things off with something I'm provisionally jazzed for, as the premise sounds right up my alley but the screenshots all make it look like it's kind of janky; City of Springs! It's a Sneaky tactical robot-em-up where yer a gal what Builds Robits Well and live in an oppressive regime where the queen says "You know what I love? Oppressing people with robots." So you've got to sneak around, foment rebellion and preventing robots from noticing you while also building up some robots of your own to beat their asses.
Speaking of using crime to improve things in your life in a robot-world, we've got Heistgeist, where the punks are cyber, instead of steam. It also appears to be a deckbuilding RPG that's giving some real Griftlands vibes. And I loved Griftlands so we automatically have some residual interest from this ol' hoss.
Anywya, it's the year: Cyber, you're a criminal whose entire Crime Team got killed on a job gone wrong, and now you've got to assemble a new crew and Shadowrun your way through a whole mess of corporate intrigue in order to avenge their deaths and appease the crime lords who would like you to also die because of aforesaid whoopsie-daisy viz-a-viz committing crimes.
If you like the idea of guiding around some beligerent types, but want ti to be a beautiful emotional journey instead of using trading cards to simulate commiting federal crimes, how about to give Herdling a look. This one has you as a shepherd with a whole flock of weird bison-y animals that you've got to steer across a weird landscape, while fending off wildlife and the elements.
It's from the peeps what made Far and also Firewatch, so you bet your ass it's gonna get melancholy!
For a different kind of meloncholy, how about an exciting video game reproduction of working a small town general store? This incredible flight of fancy can be attained only in Discounty, which is a Starman Farmgame deal where instead of growing vegetables, you sell them in a run down harbour town full of Weird Guys.
Cozy-RPG your way to the heights of love and oppulence as you barter for the best price on microwave popcorn and cans of beans!
And now we're on to the the Big Dog of this weeks releases; the long abandoned second Shantae game has finally been completed and released; Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution was originally supposed to come out on the GBA over 20 years ago, never found a publisher and was buried at the back of a closet at Wayforward ever since. But now it's back, and not only released but crammed with HEAPS of additional content that wouldn't have been in the game as originally pitched.
Anyway, this time around Risky Boots has borked things up by spinning the whole of Sequin Land around and since there's, like... one person around who ever thinks it's worthwhile to thwart her, that means you've got to troid your way around the place hunting down macguffins and giving monsters the ol' whackity-smack with the dedicated monster-thwapper attached to your scalp.
And speaking of long overdue ports of forgotten games, Egg Console is not to be outdone in that field and this week brings us Diable de Laplace, which I believe is a Wizardry-em-up with a Lovecrafty bend as you're a team of investigators exploring a cursed mansion full of sanity shredding monsters... who wants to sell pictures of them to the local newspaper. As always, it's an Egg Console release of an RPG so *good luck* playing it if you can't read Japanese. Especially since it's a dungeon crawler form the 80s; not a genre that's famous for being especially generous.
And finally we've got an NSO update for the Gamecube, and it's one of the games I was most excited for when the Switch 2 was revealed; Chibi Robo, a game which I always really wanted to play but never got a chance to try! Well *who's laughing now, society?* You're a little tiny machine man (a... chibi robo, if you will) who has a whole-ass house to clean and maintain. Which extends from "cleaning up small messes" to "helping various sentient toys with their neuroses" to "blasting apart alien monsters". It's kind of like if your roomba was also a therapist.
OKAY, GO TO BED
