Hey, do the other stooges even *like* Moe? Why did they hang out with him?
Normally I stick with eShop releases for raw convenience sake (there's a lot of overlap regardless), but I'd be doing myself a disservice if I didn't mention what is arguably the biggest release of the week; one with eyes blazing with crimson fire and great boronic wings. Armor wrought of Power Steel ; BEHOLD THE MECHA KING. By which I mean Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon. Which is FromSoft going back to their roots (give or take) of Semi-Realistic Giant Mecha Customization Action Games.
Daemon ex Machina kept the seat warm but the BIG DOG IS BACK.
Build your ass a Cool Robot and kit it out as granularly as possible and get a job in the lucrative field of freelance ballistic peacekeeping and maaaaaaybe take apart a malevolent AI or military coup or whatever the big bad is in this one.
Next up, it's a new week in a thread where the focus tends to skew towards lower profile video games and that means Metroidvanias are a certainty. And in this case, it's a sequel to a pretty highly regarded one; Blasphemous 2; once again the man with the dumbest hat in Troid has to wander through a severely severely jacked up city cursed by Bad Miracles in order to shove a fist through the faces of Hieronymus Boschs and Clive Barkers entire artistic portfolio.
The first Blasphemous was a good time, and this appears to be More of That, so I'm on board.
And speaking of Metroidvanias, we also have one that opts for Weird Space Stuff instead of Creepy Gothic Stuff with Ginsha! Kind of feels like they were tossing everything at the wall in terms fo Gameplay Stuff with this'un; it's a Troid (a "versatile platformer core" as per the eShop) it's got crafting, it's got some Souls-y stuff (which usually means somersaults and corpse runs) and about four or five bulletpoints that say "it's a metroidvania!" using different words.
Why not Ginsha, shan't you?
Going from Metroidvania to Wrestlemania, we have Wrestlequest, a game that bridges the (admittedly short) bridge between professional wrestling and Fantasy RPG as you assemble a team of the greatest prospective wrasslers in the great sport of RASL. Surprisingly, it's got a fair number of actual likenesses used, so it must have had clearance from the WWE, but also the villain is even to me, a guy what knows basically nothing about the sport, an obviously thinly veiled stand in for Vince McMahon so... maybe they weren't paying THAT close of attention?
Anyway, it's got Macho Man Randy Savage as a magical summon so clearly it's doing everything right by me.
Operating on a pretty different general aesthetic, we have the game I'm most excited for this week; Virgo vs. The Zodiac, which ain't from the Ikenfell peeps, but boy do I get some Ikenfell vibes from it. You're a deposed Goddess Queen who has a real bug in her craw about being dethroned by your former generals and decides to fix the universe by re-establishing exactly why you ruled the universe previously. You know; correctly, without all those pesky "opposing viewpoints" that make things messy.
And you know who else was a monarch that held roughly equal footing to a queen? A king. And you know what really helps establish a kings divine right to rule? Guns. AND SO, we close out this week with Shotgun King. It's a Roguelite SRPG where you're playing chess, but the only piece you have is the King.
And, unlike in regular chess, the King also has a shotgun.
Prove once and for all how the Queen Gambit stands up to several rounds of buckshot.
And on a different social strata than queens and kings is acrobats; and that's why we're closing out this week with Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils, a fake GBC game that looks, for all the world, like some kind of mishmash of Shantae and Warioland, and you KNOW that's basically exactly the target you're looking to hit when it comes to GBC-inspired platformers. You've got some expansive worlds to backfip around, multiple exits, secret... stuff... to find, all that great stuff.
Normally I stick with eShop releases for raw convenience sake (there's a lot of overlap regardless), but I'd be doing myself a disservice if I didn't mention what is arguably the biggest release of the week; one with eyes blazing with crimson fire and great boronic wings. Armor wrought of Power Steel ; BEHOLD THE MECHA KING. By which I mean Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon. Which is FromSoft going back to their roots (give or take) of Semi-Realistic Giant Mecha Customization Action Games.
Daemon ex Machina kept the seat warm but the BIG DOG IS BACK.
Build your ass a Cool Robot and kit it out as granularly as possible and get a job in the lucrative field of freelance ballistic peacekeeping and maaaaaaybe take apart a malevolent AI or military coup or whatever the big bad is in this one.
Next up, it's a new week in a thread where the focus tends to skew towards lower profile video games and that means Metroidvanias are a certainty. And in this case, it's a sequel to a pretty highly regarded one; Blasphemous 2; once again the man with the dumbest hat in Troid has to wander through a severely severely jacked up city cursed by Bad Miracles in order to shove a fist through the faces of Hieronymus Boschs and Clive Barkers entire artistic portfolio.
The first Blasphemous was a good time, and this appears to be More of That, so I'm on board.
And speaking of Metroidvanias, we also have one that opts for Weird Space Stuff instead of Creepy Gothic Stuff with Ginsha! Kind of feels like they were tossing everything at the wall in terms fo Gameplay Stuff with this'un; it's a Troid (a "versatile platformer core" as per the eShop) it's got crafting, it's got some Souls-y stuff (which usually means somersaults and corpse runs) and about four or five bulletpoints that say "it's a metroidvania!" using different words.
Why not Ginsha, shan't you?
Going from Metroidvania to Wrestlemania, we have Wrestlequest, a game that bridges the (admittedly short) bridge between professional wrestling and Fantasy RPG as you assemble a team of the greatest prospective wrasslers in the great sport of RASL. Surprisingly, it's got a fair number of actual likenesses used, so it must have had clearance from the WWE, but also the villain is even to me, a guy what knows basically nothing about the sport, an obviously thinly veiled stand in for Vince McMahon so... maybe they weren't paying THAT close of attention?
Anyway, it's got Macho Man Randy Savage as a magical summon so clearly it's doing everything right by me.
Operating on a pretty different general aesthetic, we have the game I'm most excited for this week; Virgo vs. The Zodiac, which ain't from the Ikenfell peeps, but boy do I get some Ikenfell vibes from it. You're a deposed Goddess Queen who has a real bug in her craw about being dethroned by your former generals and decides to fix the universe by re-establishing exactly why you ruled the universe previously. You know; correctly, without all those pesky "opposing viewpoints" that make things messy.
And you know who else was a monarch that held roughly equal footing to a queen? A king. And you know what really helps establish a kings divine right to rule? Guns. AND SO, we close out this week with Shotgun King. It's a Roguelite SRPG where you're playing chess, but the only piece you have is the King.
And, unlike in regular chess, the King also has a shotgun.
Prove once and for all how the Queen Gambit stands up to several rounds of buckshot.
And on a different social strata than queens and kings is acrobats; and that's why we're closing out this week with Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils, a fake GBC game that looks, for all the world, like some kind of mishmash of Shantae and Warioland, and you KNOW that's basically exactly the target you're looking to hit when it comes to GBC-inspired platformers. You've got some expansive worlds to backfip around, multiple exits, secret... stuff... to find, all that great stuff.
Hurrah for the Mecha King!
