When all you've got is a Forklift, all your problems look like forks that need to be lifted.
Alwa's Legacy is the sequel to the excellent, and underappreciated Alwas' Awakening, an explore-em-up that, for one thing, played less like Metroid or Castlevania and more like Solomons Key or Castle Excellent. For a second thing, it was also a way more authentic attempt at making a game that faked being an NES game than the vast majority of Fake Retro (or Retfaux) games. This time around, the bit size has doubled as this looks convincingly like an SNES game! I didn't beat the original because it's really hard (the boss in the tower is... unkind), but I sitll snapped this sucker up the instant I saw it in the eShop because of pure enthusiasm!
Enthusiasm that has resulted in a sale for the good people at Elden Pixels!
Projection is one of them puzzle platformers where the whole thing is to weird up the camera in order to advance; in this case, everythings got a neat shadow puppet aesthetic and you've got to move the light source to make platforms out of shadows.
Ys Origin has been ported to everything else, so now it's Switchs turn! As is typical for the series, it's an action RPG where you've got One Big Tower chock-a-block with monsters to chop your way through, and some amazing music. What sets this one apart from every other Ys game, however, is that the red-haired Adol Cristin is nowhere to be seen (since the game takes place centuries before he was born), instead you've got several NON Adol characters to pick from, and watch as they romance Goddesses and beat the ever-cussin' mustard out of the local satan and/or cthulhu.
And speaking of beating the hell out of Cthulhus, we've got Warsaw, which looks an awful lot like Darkest Dungeon. Biggest difference is that, instead of a monster house chock full of squiddy badguys, you're in Poland in the 1940s, and dealing with an occupied city chock full of nazis; which are precisely as okay to treat with those exact same standards. Raise a platoon of resistence fighters, scrounge for supplies and for gods sake, Kill Hitler
Orange Blood is another weird RPG mash-up, but one with far fewer nazis and way more hip-hop obsessed anime moeblobs. Trailer did not explain things sufficiently beyond what I just said so... no idea what to expect from this'un. It's got JRPG Gunkata, so... that ain't nothin'
Todays soundtrack while I wrote the thread:
Look What You've Done by The Megas
If I Die in Battle by Van Canto
King of Pain by Sting
Close But No Cigar by Weird Al Yankovic
Mr. Roboto covered by The Protomen
Every TIme Your Look Around by Miracle of Sound
Alwa's Legacy is the sequel to the excellent, and underappreciated Alwas' Awakening, an explore-em-up that, for one thing, played less like Metroid or Castlevania and more like Solomons Key or Castle Excellent. For a second thing, it was also a way more authentic attempt at making a game that faked being an NES game than the vast majority of Fake Retro (or Retfaux) games. This time around, the bit size has doubled as this looks convincingly like an SNES game! I didn't beat the original because it's really hard (the boss in the tower is... unkind), but I sitll snapped this sucker up the instant I saw it in the eShop because of pure enthusiasm!
Enthusiasm that has resulted in a sale for the good people at Elden Pixels!
Projection is one of them puzzle platformers where the whole thing is to weird up the camera in order to advance; in this case, everythings got a neat shadow puppet aesthetic and you've got to move the light source to make platforms out of shadows.
Ys Origin has been ported to everything else, so now it's Switchs turn! As is typical for the series, it's an action RPG where you've got One Big Tower chock-a-block with monsters to chop your way through, and some amazing music. What sets this one apart from every other Ys game, however, is that the red-haired Adol Cristin is nowhere to be seen (since the game takes place centuries before he was born), instead you've got several NON Adol characters to pick from, and watch as they romance Goddesses and beat the ever-cussin' mustard out of the local satan and/or cthulhu.
And speaking of beating the hell out of Cthulhus, we've got Warsaw, which looks an awful lot like Darkest Dungeon. Biggest difference is that, instead of a monster house chock full of squiddy badguys, you're in Poland in the 1940s, and dealing with an occupied city chock full of nazis; which are precisely as okay to treat with those exact same standards. Raise a platoon of resistence fighters, scrounge for supplies and for gods sake, Kill Hitler
Orange Blood is another weird RPG mash-up, but one with far fewer nazis and way more hip-hop obsessed anime moeblobs. Trailer did not explain things sufficiently beyond what I just said so... no idea what to expect from this'un. It's got JRPG Gunkata, so... that ain't nothin'
Todays soundtrack while I wrote the thread:
Look What You've Done by The Megas
If I Die in Battle by Van Canto
King of Pain by Sting
Close But No Cigar by Weird Al Yankovic
Mr. Roboto covered by The Protomen
Every TIme Your Look Around by Miracle of Sound
