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Kicking things off with a game that would normally be the headliner, but, this MY school bus, and I'M driving it, so instead, Psychonauts 2 will have to content itself with mere;y being the first game I mention. Deal with it, good people at Doublefine! Even by my relaxed standards of not doing research, I'm kind of at a loss here, since I dind't think Psychonauts 2 was ever coming out, but here it is; defying me with its existence. Presuming it's the same as the first game, you get Dagget from Angry Beavers (or perhaps Invader Zim, if you prefer) playing a precocious acrobat child with intensely powerful BRAIN POWERS and are tasked with hopping and bopping your way through various weird peoples psychosis while jokes are being chucked at you willy nilly.
So get yourself a cold glass of delicious milk and get your brain problems in order by beating the hell out of them and collecting geegaws.
Kings Bounty 2 is an easier sell, as "Strategy RPG in a Fantasy Kingdom" is a far easier concept to wrap my describing mind around. In fact; I already did, in that previous sentence! I didn't play the first Kings Field, but the dim and dusty recollections backbins of my noggin' seem to recall everyone thinking it was the cats pajamas at the time. Presumably this one is too? I don't know. But YOU can know if you dare brave the challenge... of Kings Bounty 2!
On the opposite side of fighting in medieval fantasy war or dealing with brain problems, we have Hoa, a puzz-latformer about a little... wizard gnome... thingy walking through some forests, solving puzzles and emoting some feelings. Just having a chill time making critter-buddies. You know... be pals and solve puzzies and the like.
One of them games!
So OF COURSE the perfect follow up to that is Murder Mystery Machine. Which is basically exactly what it says on the tin. There's a bunch of murders committed by the fine murderers of the fair city and now you've got to use CRIME SOLVING to solve the crimes. A bunch of screenshots show you putting together sociograms! Everyone loves seeing sociograms in MURDER STORIES! Especially people who build them!
ON THE SUBJECT OF SECRET MURDERS, Secret Neighbor is another video game all about that oldest of professions; Murderer. And also, yes, they're *still* trying to make Hello Neighbor a thing. This time by also making it a knock off of the much more popular indie game murder-sneak-em-up Among Us.
Anyway, break into a known deadly criminals house and look around and all the while be unaware that one of your friends is "sus" as the cool teens all say.
And a VASTLY more suucessful indie darling, and a game I've been expecting to show up since the Switch was naught but a twinkle in Nintendos collective eye is Spelunky and not only that but also its "Basically the Same But Much more Expansive, in a Way that Makes the Original Obsolete" sequel, Spelunky 2. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that Spelunky is the reason a full third of all lower-budget games are Roguelites, and few of their number have ever matched it in terms of sheer quality. Go explore a Deep Hole, and Die in that Hole! And then do it again and again forever because you keep finding brand new hither-yet-unseen holes to poke around in and wind up meeting a tragic fate inside because, hey, guess what, trap-filled holes are hard to survive!
They are among the least enjoyable place to spend a vacation, the bottom of those holes!
Pivoting sharply in terms of tone and content again, we have Inked: A Tale of Love, which is a spiffy lookin' Lolo-y puzz-em-up where you're some kinda hat-guy tasked with solving lateral thinking problems in order to get a-romancin' his lady pal. It will both move and shake you to your core, and when they say stuff like that right in the press release, I feel like I can make some pretty accurate deductions about where the plots going to wind up going.
And pivoting real hard YET AGAIN, we have No More Heroes 3, which is the other thing that really should have gotten Thread Title position, but did not. Sometimes, three video games I'm deeply invested in are released in the same week, and I have to use the thread title I'd been sitting on for years instead. I regret nothing.
But I'll tell you who DOES regret some things; the no good stinkin' space mans who decided to land in flippin' Santa Destroy, that's who, because now they've got to deal with the worlds #1 assassin and Americas Premier Murder Dork, Travis Touchdown! This time, you're fighting to prove you're the murderest kill-guy in the whole universe instead of just one measely country or planet.
And backing up the rear is Baldo and the Guardian Owls an absolutely gorgerous Zeld-em-up that looks like a Ghibli film that I didn't ever hear about before sitting down to make this thread and MAN, this looks incredible. Holy heck. Typing this blurb up as I watch the trailer and... man... yeah.
Heck with "Putting it on my wishlist and waiting for a sale" this looks amazing and I will buy it the moment it actually becomes possible to do so.
Kicking things off with a game that would normally be the headliner, but, this MY school bus, and I'M driving it, so instead, Psychonauts 2 will have to content itself with mere;y being the first game I mention. Deal with it, good people at Doublefine! Even by my relaxed standards of not doing research, I'm kind of at a loss here, since I dind't think Psychonauts 2 was ever coming out, but here it is; defying me with its existence. Presuming it's the same as the first game, you get Dagget from Angry Beavers (or perhaps Invader Zim, if you prefer) playing a precocious acrobat child with intensely powerful BRAIN POWERS and are tasked with hopping and bopping your way through various weird peoples psychosis while jokes are being chucked at you willy nilly.
So get yourself a cold glass of delicious milk and get your brain problems in order by beating the hell out of them and collecting geegaws.
Kings Bounty 2 is an easier sell, as "Strategy RPG in a Fantasy Kingdom" is a far easier concept to wrap my describing mind around. In fact; I already did, in that previous sentence! I didn't play the first Kings Field, but the dim and dusty recollections backbins of my noggin' seem to recall everyone thinking it was the cats pajamas at the time. Presumably this one is too? I don't know. But YOU can know if you dare brave the challenge... of Kings Bounty 2!
On the opposite side of fighting in medieval fantasy war or dealing with brain problems, we have Hoa, a puzz-latformer about a little... wizard gnome... thingy walking through some forests, solving puzzles and emoting some feelings. Just having a chill time making critter-buddies. You know... be pals and solve puzzies and the like.
One of them games!
So OF COURSE the perfect follow up to that is Murder Mystery Machine. Which is basically exactly what it says on the tin. There's a bunch of murders committed by the fine murderers of the fair city and now you've got to use CRIME SOLVING to solve the crimes. A bunch of screenshots show you putting together sociograms! Everyone loves seeing sociograms in MURDER STORIES! Especially people who build them!
ON THE SUBJECT OF SECRET MURDERS, Secret Neighbor is another video game all about that oldest of professions; Murderer. And also, yes, they're *still* trying to make Hello Neighbor a thing. This time by also making it a knock off of the much more popular indie game murder-sneak-em-up Among Us.
Anyway, break into a known deadly criminals house and look around and all the while be unaware that one of your friends is "sus" as the cool teens all say.
And a VASTLY more suucessful indie darling, and a game I've been expecting to show up since the Switch was naught but a twinkle in Nintendos collective eye is Spelunky and not only that but also its "Basically the Same But Much more Expansive, in a Way that Makes the Original Obsolete" sequel, Spelunky 2. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that Spelunky is the reason a full third of all lower-budget games are Roguelites, and few of their number have ever matched it in terms of sheer quality. Go explore a Deep Hole, and Die in that Hole! And then do it again and again forever because you keep finding brand new hither-yet-unseen holes to poke around in and wind up meeting a tragic fate inside because, hey, guess what, trap-filled holes are hard to survive!
They are among the least enjoyable place to spend a vacation, the bottom of those holes!
Pivoting sharply in terms of tone and content again, we have Inked: A Tale of Love, which is a spiffy lookin' Lolo-y puzz-em-up where you're some kinda hat-guy tasked with solving lateral thinking problems in order to get a-romancin' his lady pal. It will both move and shake you to your core, and when they say stuff like that right in the press release, I feel like I can make some pretty accurate deductions about where the plots going to wind up going.
And pivoting real hard YET AGAIN, we have No More Heroes 3, which is the other thing that really should have gotten Thread Title position, but did not. Sometimes, three video games I'm deeply invested in are released in the same week, and I have to use the thread title I'd been sitting on for years instead. I regret nothing.
But I'll tell you who DOES regret some things; the no good stinkin' space mans who decided to land in flippin' Santa Destroy, that's who, because now they've got to deal with the worlds #1 assassin and Americas Premier Murder Dork, Travis Touchdown! This time, you're fighting to prove you're the murderest kill-guy in the whole universe instead of just one measely country or planet.
And backing up the rear is Baldo and the Guardian Owls an absolutely gorgerous Zeld-em-up that looks like a Ghibli film that I didn't ever hear about before sitting down to make this thread and MAN, this looks incredible. Holy heck. Typing this blurb up as I watch the trailer and... man... yeah.
Heck with "Putting it on my wishlist and waiting for a sale" this looks amazing and I will buy it the moment it actually becomes possible to do so.
