I don't know if there's enough publicly known Randy Savages to warrant needing to specify that this one is "The Macho Man"
So there was a Nintendo Direct last week, and, as usual, that means there was some shadow drops, and the first of those was Storm Lancers, which appears to be a Dead Cells if, instead of a little guy with a fireball for a head, you were a Flash Gordon. Or a Flash Gordon and a Dale Arden, since it's a co-op-y type of deal.
Visit scenic: "a planet that sucks" and die on it a whole bunch and then play it again but everything is all scrambled up.
Now if you want your sci-fi roguelite action games to be top down instead of side-scrolling, and to have a bit more cozy faffing about, how about you put Lynked in your pipe and smoke it? Explore a robot-infested Sucky planet and use their smashed up ro-bits to rebuild a village. It's one of them type of deals!
Speaking of using smashed up pieces of guys to rebuild society, we've got Lego Voyagers, which is an artsy Walks-em-up starring a couple of disembodied lego bricks who figure that rebuilding a crashed spaceship is a worthy task to embark on a poetic, thoughtful journey about.
I bet it's rife with emotions!
Now, if a game with basically no text or dialogue doesn't do it for you, how about a game with *all the text and dialogue in the world?* That's right, it's Legend of Heroes time, folks, and what more, it's a *real fancy* remake of the first game in the series; Trails in the Sky: 1st Chapter now looking like a modern style RPG instead of like a PS1 era game. While my knowledge of the series is pretty slight (I've picked up Trails from Zero and have so far... gotten through the tutorial dungeon) I'm told that this is probably the best of the lot and best place to start for the Legend of Heroes curious among you.
I'm also aware that the female lead absolutely steals the show and is everyones favorite character. Good for her.
Speaking of RPGs where the female lead steals the show (though I don't know if the series even has any male characters) we have a new Touhou game; Marisa of Liartop Mountain, which is one of the Touhou games that opts to do something completely different and really weird with the genre. In this case, it's going for a Gamebook kind of deal; as implied by the title being a Fighting Fantasy reference. From the screenshots it looks a hell of a lot like Crimson Shroud and you KNOW I loved me the hell out of Crimson Shroud and have wanted a sequel or remake or port or *anything* of that for, like, a decade now.
Visit scenic: "A Book" and visit a truly outrageously massive fusillade of magic bullets upon it, since that's how this series treats most inconveniences.
Next up is certainly the thing I'm most interested in this week; Wander Stars, an 80s Shonen anime inspired RPG that is entirely based around combat and, more importantly, that combat is based around coming up with ridiculous names for shonen anime attacks to *beat ass* with you finding new verbs and adjectives in place of new weapons and armor. It stars a fiesty anime red haired girl who solves problems by inflicting tremendous violence and her BFF a werewolf who is a jerk.
So, look. I know when I'm being pandered to, and frankly... I appreciate it. Keep it up, everyone.
Speaking of critters and violence, we've also got Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree, which appears to be a Hades-em-up set in Medieval Fantasy Japan where you're a shrine maiden what has herself a bit of a problem with a resurrected demon lord who is making a pest of itself. I'm sure it's a grand ol' time on its own but it's *real* lucky that it came out this week instead of next week when Hades 2 will suck up all the oxygen in the room in terms of top-down action RPG roguelites.
And now we're going to segue into re-releases of old games, by starting with a *brand new* old game; Earthion, a Sega Genesis shmup that went so far to recapture the feeling of games of that era that they went ahead and got Yuzo Koshiro and Ancient Corporation to make it.
It looks enough like Thunder Force that I assumed it was one. Which I believe is lofty praise.
A game that has a more authentic claim to being an old game re-release but which is nonetheless new to most people is Class of Heroes 3, since the original version was planned for localization on the PSP but never showed up owing to that platform being discontinued. Well, it's been 15 years and now it's actually out and... now it has to contend with the likes of Wizardry and Etrian Odyssey and Stranger of Sword City and oodles of other highly regarded first person dungeon crawlers on the same platform.
I feel for ya, son.
Now a PSP-era rerelease I'm vastly more interested in, and also sunk an *outrageous* amount of time into playing over the years, is the first, *the best* Puzzle Quest game. And now it's back and with a *massive* amount of Bonus Stuff added in to sweeten the pot; Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition which has the original Puzzle Ques: Challenge of the Warlords, as well as the Plague Lord and Legend Returns DLC added. The product description does NOT say whether or not the fact that the RNG really, *really* seems to like making sure that your enemies seem to get precisely the board layouts that let them steamroll you every round, but that's also a fundamental part of the game.
Go to Generalized Fantasy Kingdom and play Bejeweled so hard that a skeleton dies
And finally, what's a new games thread without a re-release of an old Japanese PC game? Well, Egg Console done did it again and this time what it done did was Daidassou, which appears to be a military themed isometric Pac-Man. It looks like one fo the Egg Console games without any required localization so that's nice in and of itself.
OKAY, GO TO BED
So there was a Nintendo Direct last week, and, as usual, that means there was some shadow drops, and the first of those was Storm Lancers, which appears to be a Dead Cells if, instead of a little guy with a fireball for a head, you were a Flash Gordon. Or a Flash Gordon and a Dale Arden, since it's a co-op-y type of deal.
Visit scenic: "a planet that sucks" and die on it a whole bunch and then play it again but everything is all scrambled up.
Now if you want your sci-fi roguelite action games to be top down instead of side-scrolling, and to have a bit more cozy faffing about, how about you put Lynked in your pipe and smoke it? Explore a robot-infested Sucky planet and use their smashed up ro-bits to rebuild a village. It's one of them type of deals!
Speaking of using smashed up pieces of guys to rebuild society, we've got Lego Voyagers, which is an artsy Walks-em-up starring a couple of disembodied lego bricks who figure that rebuilding a crashed spaceship is a worthy task to embark on a poetic, thoughtful journey about.
I bet it's rife with emotions!
Now, if a game with basically no text or dialogue doesn't do it for you, how about a game with *all the text and dialogue in the world?* That's right, it's Legend of Heroes time, folks, and what more, it's a *real fancy* remake of the first game in the series; Trails in the Sky: 1st Chapter now looking like a modern style RPG instead of like a PS1 era game. While my knowledge of the series is pretty slight (I've picked up Trails from Zero and have so far... gotten through the tutorial dungeon) I'm told that this is probably the best of the lot and best place to start for the Legend of Heroes curious among you.
I'm also aware that the female lead absolutely steals the show and is everyones favorite character. Good for her.
Speaking of RPGs where the female lead steals the show (though I don't know if the series even has any male characters) we have a new Touhou game; Marisa of Liartop Mountain, which is one of the Touhou games that opts to do something completely different and really weird with the genre. In this case, it's going for a Gamebook kind of deal; as implied by the title being a Fighting Fantasy reference. From the screenshots it looks a hell of a lot like Crimson Shroud and you KNOW I loved me the hell out of Crimson Shroud and have wanted a sequel or remake or port or *anything* of that for, like, a decade now.
Visit scenic: "A Book" and visit a truly outrageously massive fusillade of magic bullets upon it, since that's how this series treats most inconveniences.
Next up is certainly the thing I'm most interested in this week; Wander Stars, an 80s Shonen anime inspired RPG that is entirely based around combat and, more importantly, that combat is based around coming up with ridiculous names for shonen anime attacks to *beat ass* with you finding new verbs and adjectives in place of new weapons and armor. It stars a fiesty anime red haired girl who solves problems by inflicting tremendous violence and her BFF a werewolf who is a jerk.
So, look. I know when I'm being pandered to, and frankly... I appreciate it. Keep it up, everyone.
Speaking of critters and violence, we've also got Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree, which appears to be a Hades-em-up set in Medieval Fantasy Japan where you're a shrine maiden what has herself a bit of a problem with a resurrected demon lord who is making a pest of itself. I'm sure it's a grand ol' time on its own but it's *real* lucky that it came out this week instead of next week when Hades 2 will suck up all the oxygen in the room in terms of top-down action RPG roguelites.
And now we're going to segue into re-releases of old games, by starting with a *brand new* old game; Earthion, a Sega Genesis shmup that went so far to recapture the feeling of games of that era that they went ahead and got Yuzo Koshiro and Ancient Corporation to make it.
It looks enough like Thunder Force that I assumed it was one. Which I believe is lofty praise.
A game that has a more authentic claim to being an old game re-release but which is nonetheless new to most people is Class of Heroes 3, since the original version was planned for localization on the PSP but never showed up owing to that platform being discontinued. Well, it's been 15 years and now it's actually out and... now it has to contend with the likes of Wizardry and Etrian Odyssey and Stranger of Sword City and oodles of other highly regarded first person dungeon crawlers on the same platform.
I feel for ya, son.
Now a PSP-era rerelease I'm vastly more interested in, and also sunk an *outrageous* amount of time into playing over the years, is the first, *the best* Puzzle Quest game. And now it's back and with a *massive* amount of Bonus Stuff added in to sweeten the pot; Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition which has the original Puzzle Ques: Challenge of the Warlords, as well as the Plague Lord and Legend Returns DLC added. The product description does NOT say whether or not the fact that the RNG really, *really* seems to like making sure that your enemies seem to get precisely the board layouts that let them steamroll you every round, but that's also a fundamental part of the game.
Go to Generalized Fantasy Kingdom and play Bejeweled so hard that a skeleton dies
And finally, what's a new games thread without a re-release of an old Japanese PC game? Well, Egg Console done did it again and this time what it done did was Daidassou, which appears to be a military themed isometric Pac-Man. It looks like one fo the Egg Console games without any required localization so that's nice in and of itself.
