Never let anyone tell you it's impossible to eat an entire skeleton
We're kicking things off this week in the latest game to try to trick me into thinking yard work is fun by putting cool monsters in it; Monster Harvest. Which appears to be one of your Starmoon Harvest Valley-em ups, but with the twist that instead of raising chickens and horses, you're raising weird onion-bugs and pumpkin dogs and whatever. It looks like it has some Pokemoning too, but nothing in the trailer indicated you could marry everyone.
And that's everything I can say about that!
Lamentium looks like a neat'un, like a 2d pixeled up spooks-em-up. Wall walking through a haunted up spookhouse all chock-full of them squiddy guys that racist guy who was scared of fish liked to write about. Like the criminally underappreciated Vivette, but with more monster chopping. The trailer made me stop and go "Oooh" loud enough that I immediately purchased it, as it was on sale as a preorder bonus. So... I'll go ahead and inform you of the wisdom of this transaction later!
Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Volume 1 may represent the largest amount of video game for a single retro compilation I've ever seen; it's only two games (Phantom Brave and Soul Nomad and the World Eaters), but NIS tends to really pack their stuff chock full of Video Game; and these are no exceptions. Unlike the previous re-releases of old NIS games, there's nothing new added to these versions, they're just straight ports (with a just *awful* filter) but it's still a stinkload of SRPG full of weird overly complicated mechanics.
I definitely played Phantom Brave before, but I retain no memories of it; Soul Nomad is something I am totally unaccustomed to, but it's in the same realm as the Disgaea games, so I expect that everyones stats become meaninglessly huge before long when playing it
Kitaria Fables is yet another Starmoon Harvest Valley game, but in this one everyone is critters and there seems to be a lot more focus on crawling through dungeons and BUSTIN MUNSTERS. You know, like a munster-bustin' game. Kind of reminded of Ever Oasis or Fantasy Life on the 3DS. Except everyone is cats.
Armed Emeth is another Kemco JRPG, and I normally skip over those because of the sheer saturation they have on digital storefronts (there are 36 on the Switch alone), but this one kind of looks like Metal Max or Robotrek, and that made me stop and go "Oh... okay!" which is more than just about any of the preceding three dozen could claim.
...maybe not Citizens Unite.
Apsulov: End of Gods is a spooky shooty game that looks kinda like Bioshock, if instead of dealing with a bunch of soggy Ayn Rands, you're dealing with a bunch of chilly Viking Ghosts- traipse through Scenic "A Spooky Lab Underground" and deal with a whole whack of norns and skalds and whatever other stuff showed up in Thor comics over the years.
Ego the Living Planets and Wreckers, maybe?
And speaking of "It's Fantasy Times and Everything Sucks", we have The Magister, the second game this week that made me stop and go "frick, that honestly looks pretty cool" when I watched the trailer. You're a Fantasy Detective in a fantasy world tasked with figuring out who in the town is a no good stinkin' *murderman* who committed the crime of *man-murder*, BUT ALSO, it's a deckbuilding RPG and as you head off to interrogate people about who dunn killed a fool, you also have to engage in tactical RPG combat. Kind of like Griftlands, but with murder most foul instead of casual misdirection and coercion.
And our final, and probably easiest to sell game this week is none other than Sonic Colors; a video game about everyones prickly pal, ol' Zippy Longstockings himself; Sonko the Fastdog! This is the one where he goes to a theme-park. But a very dangerous themepark designed to make sure you die on the premises. Like the opposite of Disneyworld. I ain't played Colors before, but I'm lead to understand it's one of the high-points of the 3D Sonic games, which explains why this is getting a remaster and Secret Rings is not.
We're kicking things off this week in the latest game to try to trick me into thinking yard work is fun by putting cool monsters in it; Monster Harvest. Which appears to be one of your Starmoon Harvest Valley-em ups, but with the twist that instead of raising chickens and horses, you're raising weird onion-bugs and pumpkin dogs and whatever. It looks like it has some Pokemoning too, but nothing in the trailer indicated you could marry everyone.
And that's everything I can say about that!
Lamentium looks like a neat'un, like a 2d pixeled up spooks-em-up. Wall walking through a haunted up spookhouse all chock-full of them squiddy guys that racist guy who was scared of fish liked to write about. Like the criminally underappreciated Vivette, but with more monster chopping. The trailer made me stop and go "Oooh" loud enough that I immediately purchased it, as it was on sale as a preorder bonus. So... I'll go ahead and inform you of the wisdom of this transaction later!
Prinny Presents: NIS Classics Volume 1 may represent the largest amount of video game for a single retro compilation I've ever seen; it's only two games (Phantom Brave and Soul Nomad and the World Eaters), but NIS tends to really pack their stuff chock full of Video Game; and these are no exceptions. Unlike the previous re-releases of old NIS games, there's nothing new added to these versions, they're just straight ports (with a just *awful* filter) but it's still a stinkload of SRPG full of weird overly complicated mechanics.
I definitely played Phantom Brave before, but I retain no memories of it; Soul Nomad is something I am totally unaccustomed to, but it's in the same realm as the Disgaea games, so I expect that everyones stats become meaninglessly huge before long when playing it
Kitaria Fables is yet another Starmoon Harvest Valley game, but in this one everyone is critters and there seems to be a lot more focus on crawling through dungeons and BUSTIN MUNSTERS. You know, like a munster-bustin' game. Kind of reminded of Ever Oasis or Fantasy Life on the 3DS. Except everyone is cats.
Armed Emeth is another Kemco JRPG, and I normally skip over those because of the sheer saturation they have on digital storefronts (there are 36 on the Switch alone), but this one kind of looks like Metal Max or Robotrek, and that made me stop and go "Oh... okay!" which is more than just about any of the preceding three dozen could claim.
...maybe not Citizens Unite.
Apsulov: End of Gods is a spooky shooty game that looks kinda like Bioshock, if instead of dealing with a bunch of soggy Ayn Rands, you're dealing with a bunch of chilly Viking Ghosts- traipse through Scenic "A Spooky Lab Underground" and deal with a whole whack of norns and skalds and whatever other stuff showed up in Thor comics over the years.
Ego the Living Planets and Wreckers, maybe?
And speaking of "It's Fantasy Times and Everything Sucks", we have The Magister, the second game this week that made me stop and go "frick, that honestly looks pretty cool" when I watched the trailer. You're a Fantasy Detective in a fantasy world tasked with figuring out who in the town is a no good stinkin' *murderman* who committed the crime of *man-murder*, BUT ALSO, it's a deckbuilding RPG and as you head off to interrogate people about who dunn killed a fool, you also have to engage in tactical RPG combat. Kind of like Griftlands, but with murder most foul instead of casual misdirection and coercion.
