Derek. Derek! No! Take that video game out of your mouth, Derek! You don't know where it's been! Derek! DEREK!! NO!
Naturally, the big news today is the final Smash Brothers reveal (in one hour from this writing), but what if you're impatient and want your new Smash Brothers game NOW, as opposed to when you're reading this thread, likely minutes before that reveal. Well, GOOD NEWS, the good folks at the house that Pete and Pete built have a solution for you; Nickelodeon All Star Brawl has been released, which is Smash Brothers, but with a lot of 90s and 2000s Nicktoons instead of stodgy old video game characters. Enjoy beating the crud and dumpsters out of the entire Clasky Csupo library of characters with Invader Zim and Korra! Allow Stimpy to finally avenge himself on Ren! Will As Told By Gingers Ginger finally cave-in the face of Alex Mack?
Probably!
And speaking of... umm... video Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is also something in that medium! My segue game is going strong this morning! As you may infer from the title, this is the latest Super Monkey Ball game; which carries with it certain expectations; such as there being monkeys in lucite balls you have to guide into holes, and collect little knick-knacks. In fact, it SHOULD feel familiar to you, as this here is a vertiable WHOSE WHO of established Super Monkey Content; continaing 300 levels and a smorgasbord of minigames from a bunch of previous games in the series.
The greatest assemblage of video game chimps ever witnessed!
Rainbow Billy: Curse of the Leviathan is a game I didn't know existed until I sat down to write this thread. From the screens, it looks to be an equal mix of the later Paper Mario games and Undertale, but with far less problem solving via Monster-thumping. Maybe a squidge of Cuphead for aesthetic flavor. Take a colourful 2D child out into a 3D monochrome world and have him restore everything to a beautiful Roy G. Biv standard via lateral thinking problem-solving!
Looks pleasant, I'll say that!
What isn't pleasant, however, is MURDER! You know who said that? Agatha Christie, probably! And so, we take ol' Aggies favorite Belgium man out for another task of giving no-good stinkin' murdermans a piece of his mind in Hercule Poirot: The First Case. A game about murderers, the murders they do, and the fussy mustache man who doesn't like them for their hobbies.
The Light Bringer is one of them zeld-em-ups that all the kids are talking about. Y'gotta get through a murder-trap filled island chock full of monsters and deadly puzzles in order to fill in for your sister whose dead, or missing, or not doing her job of Light-Bringering or whatever she's doing that's so important she can't be bothered to bring any light. I don't know, I haven't played the game.
But YOU can on October 7th! When Lightbringer is available for all your light bringing needs!
Infinite Corp is a card game set in the year "cyber" where punks rule the streets where you're apparently one of the people usually cast as the bad guys in cyberpunk stories, making all your decisions based on whatever an RNG tosses into your lap. Neither the screenshots nor the description explain things past that so I'm assuming it's like Reigns but with more cyborgs with mohawks and neon everywhere.
Gang Beasts I assume to be a Power Stone-y multiplayer brawler but with customizable characters and none of that high budget razzle-dazzle that a company like Capcom brings to the table; this isn't me editorializing, one of the bullet points is that this is made by a small independent company that makes experimental games.
So this is therefor, one of them.
Enjoy the quirkiness, why don't you?
Metroid: DREAD is also out this week, I guess. Go punch some jellyfish and look for morph balls or whatever.
And finally, there's only one REAL AAA release this week, and it's AAA Clock. Never again will you not know what the current time is when playing on your Switch! The agony of being unaware if it's 1 AM or 1 PM will forever be silenced! I was going to be factitious here, but the product page is doing all the heavy lifting for me;
That sounds like one hell of a clock to me!
Naturally, the big news today is the final Smash Brothers reveal (in one hour from this writing), but what if you're impatient and want your new Smash Brothers game NOW, as opposed to when you're reading this thread, likely minutes before that reveal. Well, GOOD NEWS, the good folks at the house that Pete and Pete built have a solution for you; Nickelodeon All Star Brawl has been released, which is Smash Brothers, but with a lot of 90s and 2000s Nicktoons instead of stodgy old video game characters. Enjoy beating the crud and dumpsters out of the entire Clasky Csupo library of characters with Invader Zim and Korra! Allow Stimpy to finally avenge himself on Ren! Will As Told By Gingers Ginger finally cave-in the face of Alex Mack?
Probably!
And speaking of... umm... video Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is also something in that medium! My segue game is going strong this morning! As you may infer from the title, this is the latest Super Monkey Ball game; which carries with it certain expectations; such as there being monkeys in lucite balls you have to guide into holes, and collect little knick-knacks. In fact, it SHOULD feel familiar to you, as this here is a vertiable WHOSE WHO of established Super Monkey Content; continaing 300 levels and a smorgasbord of minigames from a bunch of previous games in the series.
The greatest assemblage of video game chimps ever witnessed!
Rainbow Billy: Curse of the Leviathan is a game I didn't know existed until I sat down to write this thread. From the screens, it looks to be an equal mix of the later Paper Mario games and Undertale, but with far less problem solving via Monster-thumping. Maybe a squidge of Cuphead for aesthetic flavor. Take a colourful 2D child out into a 3D monochrome world and have him restore everything to a beautiful Roy G. Biv standard via lateral thinking problem-solving!
Looks pleasant, I'll say that!
What isn't pleasant, however, is MURDER! You know who said that? Agatha Christie, probably! And so, we take ol' Aggies favorite Belgium man out for another task of giving no-good stinkin' murdermans a piece of his mind in Hercule Poirot: The First Case. A game about murderers, the murders they do, and the fussy mustache man who doesn't like them for their hobbies.
The Light Bringer is one of them zeld-em-ups that all the kids are talking about. Y'gotta get through a murder-trap filled island chock full of monsters and deadly puzzles in order to fill in for your sister whose dead, or missing, or not doing her job of Light-Bringering or whatever she's doing that's so important she can't be bothered to bring any light. I don't know, I haven't played the game.
But YOU can on October 7th! When Lightbringer is available for all your light bringing needs!
Infinite Corp is a card game set in the year "cyber" where punks rule the streets where you're apparently one of the people usually cast as the bad guys in cyberpunk stories, making all your decisions based on whatever an RNG tosses into your lap. Neither the screenshots nor the description explain things past that so I'm assuming it's like Reigns but with more cyborgs with mohawks and neon everywhere.
Gang Beasts I assume to be a Power Stone-y multiplayer brawler but with customizable characters and none of that high budget razzle-dazzle that a company like Capcom brings to the table; this isn't me editorializing, one of the bullet points is that this is made by a small independent company that makes experimental games.
So this is therefor, one of them.
Enjoy the quirkiness, why don't you?
Metroid: DREAD is also out this week, I guess. Go punch some jellyfish and look for morph balls or whatever.
And finally, there's only one REAL AAA release this week, and it's AAA Clock. Never again will you not know what the current time is when playing on your Switch! The agony of being unaware if it's 1 AM or 1 PM will forever be silenced! I was going to be factitious here, but the product page is doing all the heavy lifting for me;
That sounds like one hell of a clock to me!
