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So we're kicking things off with a few things that escapedmy notice in recent weeks, partly because a bunch made me go "Oooooh" and because this weeks actual new releases are high in quality, not quantity. And that means we're kicking off with the latest in the I Can't Believe It's Not Smash Brothers ouvre; Slap City! Which, instead of pulling from Nintendos vast library for its playable rosters (or to a lesser extent, the extended cast of Space Jam 2), we have all the luminaries of games published by Ludosity! Which includes Ittle Dew and its sequel, HeroCore and some other stuff that are not Ittle Dew or HeroCore so I'm vastly less informed about.
But Ittle is in there, and she's whuppin' the hinders of other characters from Ittle Dew, and also Cruiser Tetron, and several others!
Speaking of the glorious returns of things; it's been a little while since the last time Skyrim got re-released, and I guess Bethesda didn't want to risk the copyright expiing, so here it is again; The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: Anniversary Edition, which is... umm... honestly, I'm not sure what exactly this adds over the Skyrim already on the Switch, despite having a $20 upgrade fee. There's a *bunch* of fanmods slapped into it, but none of the bonkers ones that turn the dragons into Macho Man Randy Savage or make Goku a playable race or the like.
Anyway, you can be a cat who yells so hard people fall off cliffs and make a potion out of crabs and acorns.
CARL is from the makers of beloved Roguetroidvania, A Robot Named FIGHT. And it, too, features a robot. But this robot is named Carl, and not FIGHT. However, the verbs it uses to navigate the world still consist of fighting, so don't be deceived; this Robot is not named Fight, but to Fight is its purpose in life. This is more of a 2D platformer that is very much in the Apogee vein; like your Commander Keens or Original Duke Nuke Thems.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is an RPG in the more Baldurs Gate-y vein. Or perhaps Divinity: Original Sin, as that's the mental association I made as soon as I saw the game. It's Cloud Based, so if you want to play a sprawling, open world top-down RPG on the go YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK, BUDDY! One of the playable races is "A Swarm That Walks" so... that's something.
Be the best sack of bugs you can as you explore a demon queens castle and say "Hey, quit it"
NieR: Automata: The End of Yorha Edition is arguably the biggest release of the week (I mean, I'm very excited for Wizorb, but I'm in the minority there), it is, by all accounts, a surprisingly good port of the existing Nier Automata, which I started to play, but didn't get too far into because it came out, like, a week before Breath of the Wild. But now BotW is in the past and here it is anew! And more to the point, apparently way more playable than before as it has a steady framerate and works on a slightly higher resolution. I presume this is because they no longer render any anuses and that freed up a lot of processing power.
Explore the scenic Post Apocalypse in a tiny dress and backflip your way through armies of robots. And it's a Yoko Taro game, so you can take it in good faith that ain't NOBODY walking out of this with a happy ending.
Wizorb, as I mentioned, is next, and it's one I was very excited to see show up in the Coming Soon tab! It's Arkanoid, except you are a Wizard with an orb you must ponder... and then huck at bricks and monsters in order to splode them up, and then use that sweet, sweet dosh you earn bust bricks and smackin' critters to rebuild a town and thereby unlock new abilities and upgrades to further facilitate BRICK AND CRITTER BUSTIN'!
BREAKOUT IS BACK, BABY! AND IT HAS MORE WEREWOLVES THAN EVER BEFORE!
No Mans Sky is the other "Well how the heck is this on the Switch and not a Cloud game" release this week; and while I did play a good sized chunk of the game before, that was all in its early version before they added... y'know... video game stuff to it. Like monsters to shoot and stuff. I understand it's completely unrecognizable from that state now.
Anyway, the entire damn universe is open to you, and you're free to explore it at your leisure, and explode bad aliens, or good aliens, or explore/rob ancient temples. There's a heap of a lot of video game in this sucker. Kind of hard to bullet-point it beyond "Big universe... do stuff in it".
And finally, Prodeus was supposed to come out last week, but it got delayed to this week. I ain't repeating myself, but it looks like Doom 2016, but if it was made in 1997, and was about 90% more METAL
So we're kicking things off with a few things that escapedmy notice in recent weeks, partly because a bunch made me go "Oooooh" and because this weeks actual new releases are high in quality, not quantity. And that means we're kicking off with the latest in the I Can't Believe It's Not Smash Brothers ouvre; Slap City! Which, instead of pulling from Nintendos vast library for its playable rosters (or to a lesser extent, the extended cast of Space Jam 2), we have all the luminaries of games published by Ludosity! Which includes Ittle Dew and its sequel, HeroCore and some other stuff that are not Ittle Dew or HeroCore so I'm vastly less informed about.
But Ittle is in there, and she's whuppin' the hinders of other characters from Ittle Dew, and also Cruiser Tetron, and several others!
Speaking of the glorious returns of things; it's been a little while since the last time Skyrim got re-released, and I guess Bethesda didn't want to risk the copyright expiing, so here it is again; The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: Anniversary Edition, which is... umm... honestly, I'm not sure what exactly this adds over the Skyrim already on the Switch, despite having a $20 upgrade fee. There's a *bunch* of fanmods slapped into it, but none of the bonkers ones that turn the dragons into Macho Man Randy Savage or make Goku a playable race or the like.
Anyway, you can be a cat who yells so hard people fall off cliffs and make a potion out of crabs and acorns.
CARL is from the makers of beloved Roguetroidvania, A Robot Named FIGHT. And it, too, features a robot. But this robot is named Carl, and not FIGHT. However, the verbs it uses to navigate the world still consist of fighting, so don't be deceived; this Robot is not named Fight, but to Fight is its purpose in life. This is more of a 2D platformer that is very much in the Apogee vein; like your Commander Keens or Original Duke Nuke Thems.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is an RPG in the more Baldurs Gate-y vein. Or perhaps Divinity: Original Sin, as that's the mental association I made as soon as I saw the game. It's Cloud Based, so if you want to play a sprawling, open world top-down RPG on the go YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK, BUDDY! One of the playable races is "A Swarm That Walks" so... that's something.
Be the best sack of bugs you can as you explore a demon queens castle and say "Hey, quit it"
NieR: Automata: The End of Yorha Edition is arguably the biggest release of the week (I mean, I'm very excited for Wizorb, but I'm in the minority there), it is, by all accounts, a surprisingly good port of the existing Nier Automata, which I started to play, but didn't get too far into because it came out, like, a week before Breath of the Wild. But now BotW is in the past and here it is anew! And more to the point, apparently way more playable than before as it has a steady framerate and works on a slightly higher resolution. I presume this is because they no longer render any anuses and that freed up a lot of processing power.
Explore the scenic Post Apocalypse in a tiny dress and backflip your way through armies of robots. And it's a Yoko Taro game, so you can take it in good faith that ain't NOBODY walking out of this with a happy ending.
Wizorb, as I mentioned, is next, and it's one I was very excited to see show up in the Coming Soon tab! It's Arkanoid, except you are a Wizard with an orb you must ponder... and then huck at bricks and monsters in order to splode them up, and then use that sweet, sweet dosh you earn bust bricks and smackin' critters to rebuild a town and thereby unlock new abilities and upgrades to further facilitate BRICK AND CRITTER BUSTIN'!
BREAKOUT IS BACK, BABY! AND IT HAS MORE WEREWOLVES THAN EVER BEFORE!
No Mans Sky is the other "Well how the heck is this on the Switch and not a Cloud game" release this week; and while I did play a good sized chunk of the game before, that was all in its early version before they added... y'know... video game stuff to it. Like monsters to shoot and stuff. I understand it's completely unrecognizable from that state now.
Anyway, the entire damn universe is open to you, and you're free to explore it at your leisure, and explode bad aliens, or good aliens, or explore/rob ancient temples. There's a heap of a lot of video game in this sucker. Kind of hard to bullet-point it beyond "Big universe... do stuff in it".
And finally, Prodeus was supposed to come out last week, but it got delayed to this week. I ain't repeating myself, but it looks like Doom 2016, but if it was made in 1997, and was about 90% more METAL
