What's the statute of limitations on Hamburgling? Can he finally reveal his identity without risking persecution?
And speaking of Hamburgling, our first game this week is about its closest neighbor in terms of larceny; Regular Burgling! And that means Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief! Which is a tactical stealth action game set in Old Timey Japan! You're a Master Thief what wants to own some stuff without buying it, and figures the best way to facilitate that is by sneaking up on peeps when their backs and turned and CQCing them into oblivion.
Can't say it doesn't work.
Next up is a Switch port of a Mobile game! And it's one I have played so I can make first hand evaluations rather than educated guesses! The Battle of Polytopia, which I would describe as a stripped down Civilization, except with little Playmobile-looking guys. The base game has a bunch of the mobile versions DLC built in, but there's also a deluxe edition with even more DLC built in; which includes slightly less conventional civilizations like Mermaids and Symbiotic Bugs.
Lego Brick Tales is next and it is a neat-un. It's one of them puzzlebox diorama games where you're a Minifig what's got to use a bunch of pieces of Denmarks chief cultural export to solve lateral thinking puzzles in order to get a theme-park back up and running. Got some Scribblenauts vibes from it, but with more Megabloxx
And just in time for that most Hallowed of weens, Samhain, we have not one, but FOUR Spooky Adjacent games this week! Starting with Unusual Findings (a point and Click-y Kids & Bikes adventure game set in Stranger Things times), moving on to In Sound Mind (a first person shooter Weirds-em-up where you're stuck in your own brains after you go bugnuts from being exposed to Weird Slime), Witchcrafty (a platformer about a witch... umm... still... seasonally appropriate) and The Witches House MV, (which is one of them Spooky Style RPG Maker games, that now has a fancy pants remaster. Enjoy scenic A Witches House and die inside it).
Trifox isn't very Spooky at all, so what's it doing in the October release window? It's a top-down shooter/platformer starring, as the title implies, one of three foxes with bespoke weapon sets. Kind of got some Ratchet & Clank vibes from it, but with a different camera angle.
Atari Mania is another one that makes me stop and go "...huh, kind of weird there aren't more things like this." I mean, there are, as this is effectively Warioware tied to a different license, but there should be more than two, right? As implied; this is a collection of narratively-connected Atari-themed minigames when something goes *askance* with the very premise of video game preservation and the whole breadth of the Atari 2600 library gets mashed up weird.
The eShop description assures me I'll never think of Bentley Bear the same way again, and I trust them, since I do not think of Bentley Bear in general.
And speaking of beloved retro video game figureheads like Bentley Bear, and I would argue just as prominent in the forefront of my mind as Bentley Bear, we have Pikos latest... game they acquired the rights to for at an estate sale; Tinhead! The eShop description is hesitant to offer much in terms of historical context here; but it appears to be a 16 bit platformer. From the general aesthetic I'd say European in origin, so probably a Mega Drive/Amiga release.
I don't do research, but that doesn't mean I can't scrutinize.
And bringin up the rear we have a Dragonball game, but one with a twist; as Dragonball: The Breakers is not about Goku and his buds grunting a lot and punchin' jokers until they can safely determine who can glow just the right colour to be the punchiest joker of all. Quite the opposite! It's an asymmetrical multi-player game where one team consists of one of the major Dragonball villains (like your Friezas or your Cells or your Buus), and everyone else is a fleeing terrified Normal Person (like Bulma, Oolong, or That Farmer Raditz Shot) who have to work together to survive, escape and, if possible, destroy them.
It's Dragonball Dead by Daylight, and that is an amazing concept.
And speaking of Hamburgling, our first game this week is about its closest neighbor in terms of larceny; Regular Burgling! And that means Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief! Which is a tactical stealth action game set in Old Timey Japan! You're a Master Thief what wants to own some stuff without buying it, and figures the best way to facilitate that is by sneaking up on peeps when their backs and turned and CQCing them into oblivion.
Can't say it doesn't work.
Next up is a Switch port of a Mobile game! And it's one I have played so I can make first hand evaluations rather than educated guesses! The Battle of Polytopia, which I would describe as a stripped down Civilization, except with little Playmobile-looking guys. The base game has a bunch of the mobile versions DLC built in, but there's also a deluxe edition with even more DLC built in; which includes slightly less conventional civilizations like Mermaids and Symbiotic Bugs.
Lego Brick Tales is next and it is a neat-un. It's one of them puzzlebox diorama games where you're a Minifig what's got to use a bunch of pieces of Denmarks chief cultural export to solve lateral thinking puzzles in order to get a theme-park back up and running. Got some Scribblenauts vibes from it, but with more Megabloxx
And just in time for that most Hallowed of weens, Samhain, we have not one, but FOUR Spooky Adjacent games this week! Starting with Unusual Findings (a point and Click-y Kids & Bikes adventure game set in Stranger Things times), moving on to In Sound Mind (a first person shooter Weirds-em-up where you're stuck in your own brains after you go bugnuts from being exposed to Weird Slime), Witchcrafty (a platformer about a witch... umm... still... seasonally appropriate) and The Witches House MV, (which is one of them Spooky Style RPG Maker games, that now has a fancy pants remaster. Enjoy scenic A Witches House and die inside it).
Trifox isn't very Spooky at all, so what's it doing in the October release window? It's a top-down shooter/platformer starring, as the title implies, one of three foxes with bespoke weapon sets. Kind of got some Ratchet & Clank vibes from it, but with a different camera angle.
Atari Mania is another one that makes me stop and go "...huh, kind of weird there aren't more things like this." I mean, there are, as this is effectively Warioware tied to a different license, but there should be more than two, right? As implied; this is a collection of narratively-connected Atari-themed minigames when something goes *askance* with the very premise of video game preservation and the whole breadth of the Atari 2600 library gets mashed up weird.
The eShop description assures me I'll never think of Bentley Bear the same way again, and I trust them, since I do not think of Bentley Bear in general.
And speaking of beloved retro video game figureheads like Bentley Bear, and I would argue just as prominent in the forefront of my mind as Bentley Bear, we have Pikos latest... game they acquired the rights to for at an estate sale; Tinhead! The eShop description is hesitant to offer much in terms of historical context here; but it appears to be a 16 bit platformer. From the general aesthetic I'd say European in origin, so probably a Mega Drive/Amiga release.
I don't do research, but that doesn't mean I can't scrutinize.
And bringin up the rear we have a Dragonball game, but one with a twist; as Dragonball: The Breakers is not about Goku and his buds grunting a lot and punchin' jokers until they can safely determine who can glow just the right colour to be the punchiest joker of all. Quite the opposite! It's an asymmetrical multi-player game where one team consists of one of the major Dragonball villains (like your Friezas or your Cells or your Buus), and everyone else is a fleeing terrified Normal Person (like Bulma, Oolong, or That Farmer Raditz Shot) who have to work together to survive, escape and, if possible, destroy them.
It's Dragonball Dead by Daylight, and that is an amazing concept.
