I don’t care how comfortable little cartoon mice look when they’re doing it, sleeping in a little sardine can using the rolled up top like a blanket is not a good way to rest.
So most of this weeks stuff is rereleases of old stuff, so let’s start with the one that technically isn’t, but clearly might as well be. In the grand tradition of saying “Well, Konami ain’t doing nothing with this property… let’s make our own!” set by Eiyuden Chronicle, and Bloodstained, and Blazing Chrome, and Super Hydroah and… probably some others I’m forgetting, we have Bakeru! Which is about as close as you’re going to get to a new Goemon game… probably ever again. Zeld your way through scenic Futuristic Medieval Japan and whack the heck and bajeepers out of all the dang ol’ Yokai what be making a dang hassle out of themselves.
Ann’s speaking of games that aren’t technically retro releases but, like… are clearly supposed to be; we have Gimmick 2! The sequel to one of the most expensive NES cartridges ever produced. It’s a Kirb-ish kind of deal only instead of eating and copying powers from enemies, you huck bouncy balls at them, and they got their own weird physics you have to deal with. Also, unlike Kirby which is friendly and approachable, it’s *bonkers-ass* difficult.
Also it was made without the knowledge of any of the people who made the original, which is *kinda weird*
Now, do you hate being arraigned for a crime you didn’t commit? Sure you do, we all do. Luckily there’s someone who can do something about that, and his name is Miles Edgeworth! And that brings us to Ace Attorney Investigations Collection! The Ace Attorney spinoff starring the rival prosecutor and his various coworkers and groupies who is presented with a dang ol’ murder-man who up and killed themselves up a corpse and then said “Well… I’d like to make sure we actually have the right guy before we arrest them for this.” which means *Point and click Adventure Time, Baby*
It also kind of runs contrary to the main Ace Attorney games where Miles has, like, a 100% rate of prosecuting innocent people while overlooking the actual murderers.
Anyway, besides finally localizing the second game in the series, the collection lets you toggle between original DS sprites and fancy new ones.
And speaking of retro game collections that are only now getting localized, I have good news for anyone wondering if Sunsoft was back, and they said “We’re so back!” because Sunsoft is Back! This is a collection of three Famicom games that never got localized before; the Troid that predates Troids, Wings of Madoola, point and clicky text based adventure game Ripple Island and the wordily titled Platformer “Firework Thrower Kantaros 53 Stations of the Tokaido”.
All three have finally gotten English translations (helpful for Ripple Island more than the others) and stuff like savestates and rewind (less helpful for Ripple Island).
Less “previously unlocalized” and more “generally forgotten by society” is Aero the Acrobat 2, which is nothing less than the sequel to Aero the Acrobat! As with the first one it’s a platformer in the “Accelerated Varmint” genre. I never played any of the games in this series so I have no idea where it slots in to the hierarchy of the genre; but presumably above Mohawk and Headphone Jack.
And we’re wrapping things up this week with another 80s PC RPG, Egg Console Hydlide, which, yes, *did* come out as an Egg Console release previously, but this time it’s the MSX port, not the PC98 one! I… have no idea how that affects things beyond looking a fair bit more like the NES version we got originally in the 80s.
Okay, that’s all for this week. Next week you can kiss your wallets ass goodbye.
So most of this weeks stuff is rereleases of old stuff, so let’s start with the one that technically isn’t, but clearly might as well be. In the grand tradition of saying “Well, Konami ain’t doing nothing with this property… let’s make our own!” set by Eiyuden Chronicle, and Bloodstained, and Blazing Chrome, and Super Hydroah and… probably some others I’m forgetting, we have Bakeru! Which is about as close as you’re going to get to a new Goemon game… probably ever again. Zeld your way through scenic Futuristic Medieval Japan and whack the heck and bajeepers out of all the dang ol’ Yokai what be making a dang hassle out of themselves.
Also it was made without the knowledge of any of the people who made the original, which is *kinda weird*
It also kind of runs contrary to the main Ace Attorney games where Miles has, like, a 100% rate of prosecuting innocent people while overlooking the actual murderers.
Anyway, besides finally localizing the second game in the series, the collection lets you toggle between original DS sprites and fancy new ones.
And speaking of retro game collections that are only now getting localized, I have good news for anyone wondering if Sunsoft was back, and they said “We’re so back!” because Sunsoft is Back! This is a collection of three Famicom games that never got localized before; the Troid that predates Troids, Wings of Madoola, point and clicky text based adventure game Ripple Island and the wordily titled Platformer “Firework Thrower Kantaros 53 Stations of the Tokaido”.
All three have finally gotten English translations (helpful for Ripple Island more than the others) and stuff like savestates and rewind (less helpful for Ripple Island).
Less “previously unlocalized” and more “generally forgotten by society” is Aero the Acrobat 2, which is nothing less than the sequel to Aero the Acrobat! As with the first one it’s a platformer in the “Accelerated Varmint” genre. I never played any of the games in this series so I have no idea where it slots in to the hierarchy of the genre; but presumably above Mohawk and Headphone Jack.
And we’re wrapping things up this week with another 80s PC RPG, Egg Console Hydlide, which, yes, *did* come out as an Egg Console release previously, but this time it’s the MSX port, not the PC98 one! I… have no idea how that affects things beyond looking a fair bit more like the NES version we got originally in the 80s.
Okay, that’s all for this week. Next week you can kiss your wallets ass goodbye.
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