It's crazy how many games are video these days!
Starting off with The Avengers, a game that I wasn't aware was out this week until TheSL pointed it out one post below this one! It's a co-opy Aciton RPG kind of thingy that's not so much like the Ultimate Alliance games as much as it is like A 3D Beat-Em Up, in perhaps a God of War-ish mold. Also, none of the characters sound *quite* right, neither using soundalikes for whoever played them in the movies, nor hiring the actors who provide voices for them in every other Marvel thing, so there's this weird disconnect. On the other hand; Kamala is one of the main characters.
So it's an emotional wash for me.
Ary: Secret of Seasons is a game that I presumed, based on the title and screenshots to be a slow paced non-combat-y adventure game with some puzzle elements, like Zelda with the monsters removed, then I watched a trailer and, well, I was half right; it's Zelda with monsters-a-plenty. And WEATHER CONTROL! It's like Oracle of Seasons but with one more dimension. They got a Z-axis in there, now!
Piffle is also a game that looks like another game, but this time it's Bust a Move, or Puzzle Bobble, depending on where you grew up. I grew up in Canada, so it was that first name. However, it's also kind of like Arkanoid. Also also, instead of Bubbles or spheres, you're huckin' cats all over the place.
Yeet them kitties to save the day.
Connection Haunted is a First Person Shooter of the Quake/Counterstrike-y vibe, EXCEPT it's also a creepypasta, because THIS particular late-90s FPS is also chock full of spooky ghosts that want to haunt you to death, and all the in game chats are warning you about the video game Samara that wants to murd you up fierce! Dang ol' plate of SPOOKATONI, here!
Here Be Dragons is a kiiiinda boardy, kinda strategy-y, somewhat RPG-y take on the ol' Boat Em Up Genre where you're in command of the special monster-hunting fleet who made it a point to wipe out every dang ghost ship, leviathan, kraken and siren on the high seas so that glory-hounding racist Christopher Columbus could cross the ocean and do his whole dirty business without so much as a thank-you. It looks pretty slick, and I am into this.
Lair of the Clockwork God is another neat'un, it's a platformer with point-and-click adventure elements. Or else its an Adventure game with Platforming. When, in fact, it is both; you alternate between a guy who likes jumpin' and blastin' aliens and also a smarty pants who likes to USE CAT on DOORKNOB to get past obstacles and have to use their bespoke gameplay preferences to get past obstacles in each others levels all in service of stopping a computer that's causing too many apocalypses.
Paradise Killer is the headliner, and the game I was most interested in... prior to watching some trailers and realizing that there's actually a bunch of games out this week that make me go "Oh... huh... OKAY!"; it's a talky-based murd-em-up where someone has KILLED PARADISE! Which is a futuristic resort island. And also, it's open world and has multiple endings, so quite literally anyone could be the culprit. Also, characters include Lead Investigator Lady Love Dies, a skeleton in a nautical uniform named Sam Day Break and, of course, the hunky Dr. Doomjazz.
It's a heck of a thing, this game.
Atom RPG is an open world RPG that is "inspired by classic RPGs and gamebooks". And, specifically, it's Fallout (or perhaps Fallout 2), just without the isometric camera. Just a borin' ol' top down camera. And also in Russia instead of California. And, sure, Wasteland exists if you want something that is ALMOST Fallout, but I'm lead to understand that the Switch port of Wasteland stinks, so where else are you going to go?
Well... Outer Worlds, I guess. That port is compromised, but functional.
Starting off with The Avengers, a game that I wasn't aware was out this week until TheSL pointed it out one post below this one! It's a co-opy Aciton RPG kind of thingy that's not so much like the Ultimate Alliance games as much as it is like A 3D Beat-Em Up, in perhaps a God of War-ish mold. Also, none of the characters sound *quite* right, neither using soundalikes for whoever played them in the movies, nor hiring the actors who provide voices for them in every other Marvel thing, so there's this weird disconnect. On the other hand; Kamala is one of the main characters.
So it's an emotional wash for me.
Ary: Secret of Seasons is a game that I presumed, based on the title and screenshots to be a slow paced non-combat-y adventure game with some puzzle elements, like Zelda with the monsters removed, then I watched a trailer and, well, I was half right; it's Zelda with monsters-a-plenty. And WEATHER CONTROL! It's like Oracle of Seasons but with one more dimension. They got a Z-axis in there, now!
Piffle is also a game that looks like another game, but this time it's Bust a Move, or Puzzle Bobble, depending on where you grew up. I grew up in Canada, so it was that first name. However, it's also kind of like Arkanoid. Also also, instead of Bubbles or spheres, you're huckin' cats all over the place.
Yeet them kitties to save the day.
Connection Haunted is a First Person Shooter of the Quake/Counterstrike-y vibe, EXCEPT it's also a creepypasta, because THIS particular late-90s FPS is also chock full of spooky ghosts that want to haunt you to death, and all the in game chats are warning you about the video game Samara that wants to murd you up fierce! Dang ol' plate of SPOOKATONI, here!
Here Be Dragons is a kiiiinda boardy, kinda strategy-y, somewhat RPG-y take on the ol' Boat Em Up Genre where you're in command of the special monster-hunting fleet who made it a point to wipe out every dang ghost ship, leviathan, kraken and siren on the high seas so that glory-hounding racist Christopher Columbus could cross the ocean and do his whole dirty business without so much as a thank-you. It looks pretty slick, and I am into this.
Lair of the Clockwork God is another neat'un, it's a platformer with point-and-click adventure elements. Or else its an Adventure game with Platforming. When, in fact, it is both; you alternate between a guy who likes jumpin' and blastin' aliens and also a smarty pants who likes to USE CAT on DOORKNOB to get past obstacles and have to use their bespoke gameplay preferences to get past obstacles in each others levels all in service of stopping a computer that's causing too many apocalypses.
Paradise Killer is the headliner, and the game I was most interested in... prior to watching some trailers and realizing that there's actually a bunch of games out this week that make me go "Oh... huh... OKAY!"; it's a talky-based murd-em-up where someone has KILLED PARADISE! Which is a futuristic resort island. And also, it's open world and has multiple endings, so quite literally anyone could be the culprit. Also, characters include Lead Investigator Lady Love Dies, a skeleton in a nautical uniform named Sam Day Break and, of course, the hunky Dr. Doomjazz.
It's a heck of a thing, this game.
Atom RPG is an open world RPG that is "inspired by classic RPGs and gamebooks". And, specifically, it's Fallout (or perhaps Fallout 2), just without the isometric camera. Just a borin' ol' top down camera. And also in Russia instead of California. And, sure, Wasteland exists if you want something that is ALMOST Fallout, but I'm lead to understand that the Switch port of Wasteland stinks, so where else are you going to go?
Well... Outer Worlds, I guess. That port is compromised, but functional.
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