I’ve got half a mind to go down to the train yard, find an engine and just eat it, piece by piece
So, as noted in the thread title, there’s a tendency among this weeks games to focus on the conflict between the two colours with the most animosity towards each other, red and blue. And so, in the interest of brokering peace, I’m kicking things off with one of the rare video games where those colours are in perfect emotional balance. That’s right, it’s a video game about the spideriest superhero who has the hardest time sleeping; Insomniacs own Spider-Man 2! The last Insomniac Spidey game was easily the best of the Spider-Man games, and in the uppermost tier of superhero games in general, and this is more of that, but now it’s featuring Woody Harrselsons dad, and Patrick Stewarts son, the Ven-them!
Swing around the city so nice they named it “New York” like youre some kind of guy that does whatever spiders do while you hunt down Marvels stickiest supervillain! It’s enough to make me wish I had a PS5 to play it on! But I don’t so… I’unno, I guess I just skip this one.
No on to platformer, where the side of Blue is best represented by the worlds fastest rodent, Sonko the Fastdog himself; Sonic Superstars is out, and it’s one of the 2D Sonics which are, statistically speaking, one of the better choices of formats for the franchise! This one kind of seems to be going down the New Super Mario route of having 4-player co-op where all the characters handle sliiiiightly differently, which… I’m sure will work just incredibly well for a 2D Sonic game,
And speaking of games very similar to New Super Mario brothers, there’s a new one of them as well! Kinda! They dropped the “New” fro the title, and isn’t that wonderful? I bet it is because it’s called Super Mario Wonder In relation to that fact!
Shut up, you can’t prove that isn’t where the title comes from.
Anyway, it’s a new (but not New) Super Mario game and… Nintendo is *really* good at making those, so I’m confident it’s going to be just the bees knees.
This time you can turn into an elephant! Let’s see Call of Duty pull that off!
Now we’re on to Licensed games, which… I guess we were with Spider-Man as well, but that didn’t really fit with my theming as well to mention it alongside these. Well… that’s the universe for ya, always throwing you curveballs, and nobody gets thrown more curveballs than the worlds horniest detective, Hellboy! Hellboy: Web of the Wyrd, to be specific! This is a Roguelite beat-em-up where ol’ Red is stuck in a weird house where time is jacked up all funky so that at least justifies the nature of a Roguelite in a very Hellboy appropriate fashion.
It doesn’t sound like they got Ron Perlman to voice Hellboy, but they did get someone who is a convincing enough soundalike that it feels appropriate.
And the blue side of lisenced video games is, what else, Gargoyles Remastered, a gussied up re-release of the Sega Genesis game based on Gargoyles; a video game in which Keith David shoves a clawed fist through the sternum of the entire extended cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Except Patrick Stewart, weirdly enough. But we got two Brent Spiners, so it still balances out. Didn’t ever play the original game, but I have seen screenshots of it and it was one of those Genesis Disney games that looked flippin‘ amazing, and now it looks more like the cartoon than what aging Sega Genesis hardware could reasonably replicate of the cartoon.
Plus it’s got stuff like savestates and rewind, because, if every other Disney game of that era are standards to hold on to, it’s *way* too difficult.
And balancing out a licences game with a primarily red and blue main character is one with a whole damn Lisa Frank sticker book of colours; Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, which is an asymmetric competitive shooter, much like Dead by Daylight, except based on one (nominally) horror franchise instead of… like… all of them. Also, not really using the characters from the series so much, just Generic Busters of Ghosts and the Ghosts What Need Busting.
The eShop description can not stress enough that there’s SOME stuff from the series in here, like Ernie Hudson, and the Firehouse, so… umm… they got that much.
And why not abandon the flimsy pretext I’ve been using all this time because next is A Boy and His Blob Collection! Which collects the original NES A Blob, and his friend (a Boy), the Japanese version of that wonderful boy and his Blob friend Blobert (featuring a completely different Boy, and no English text, which… makes the game a LOT harder I would think) and also the Gameboy entry; A Boy and His Blob; Trouble on Blobolonia (which also has the Japanese version).
They’re kiiiinda puzzle-y semi-Troid em ups about how jellybeans can save the world!
You don’t want the world to not be saved, do you?
Obviously not, so buy the damn game!
Abandoning the theme of colour-based video games every farther is the thing I am most excited for this week (sorry, Mario and Spidey); World of Horror, which is, in truth, totally monochromatic! It’s a Roguelite Mystery-em-up where you’ve got the members of a Teen Sleuth Patrol trying to solve the mystery of MURDEROUS GHOULS AND APOCALYPSE CULTS trying to bring forth the end of all that is.
It’s basically a Macventure game, except as an RPG and also Everything gets scrambled up every time you play.
I am completely on board with this!
And speaking of… umm… guns in the hands of the undead we have (at long, long last) a brand new Gungrave game; GunGrave GORE, which did, in fact, come out on everything else about a year ago and was met with resounding indifference, since the simple joy of being an unstoppable zombie hitman with a bazillion bullets stuffed into a missile-coffin he lugs around was somehow lost in translation. This is a re-release where the developers said “Yeah… umm… sorry about that” and they gave it a *real* spit-shine.
Go through scenic “A city you are about to completely obliterate” and fill absolutely everything with enough lead that you run a real risk of triggering an environmental collapse from heavy metal toxicity.
So, as noted in the thread title, there’s a tendency among this weeks games to focus on the conflict between the two colours with the most animosity towards each other, red and blue. And so, in the interest of brokering peace, I’m kicking things off with one of the rare video games where those colours are in perfect emotional balance. That’s right, it’s a video game about the spideriest superhero who has the hardest time sleeping; Insomniacs own Spider-Man 2! The last Insomniac Spidey game was easily the best of the Spider-Man games, and in the uppermost tier of superhero games in general, and this is more of that, but now it’s featuring Woody Harrselsons dad, and Patrick Stewarts son, the Ven-them!
Swing around the city so nice they named it “New York” like youre some kind of guy that does whatever spiders do while you hunt down Marvels stickiest supervillain! It’s enough to make me wish I had a PS5 to play it on! But I don’t so… I’unno, I guess I just skip this one.
No on to platformer, where the side of Blue is best represented by the worlds fastest rodent, Sonko the Fastdog himself; Sonic Superstars is out, and it’s one of the 2D Sonics which are, statistically speaking, one of the better choices of formats for the franchise! This one kind of seems to be going down the New Super Mario route of having 4-player co-op where all the characters handle sliiiiightly differently, which… I’m sure will work just incredibly well for a 2D Sonic game,
And speaking of games very similar to New Super Mario brothers, there’s a new one of them as well! Kinda! They dropped the “New” fro the title, and isn’t that wonderful? I bet it is because it’s called Super Mario Wonder In relation to that fact!
Shut up, you can’t prove that isn’t where the title comes from.
Anyway, it’s a new (but not New) Super Mario game and… Nintendo is *really* good at making those, so I’m confident it’s going to be just the bees knees.
This time you can turn into an elephant! Let’s see Call of Duty pull that off!
Now we’re on to Licensed games, which… I guess we were with Spider-Man as well, but that didn’t really fit with my theming as well to mention it alongside these. Well… that’s the universe for ya, always throwing you curveballs, and nobody gets thrown more curveballs than the worlds horniest detective, Hellboy! Hellboy: Web of the Wyrd, to be specific! This is a Roguelite beat-em-up where ol’ Red is stuck in a weird house where time is jacked up all funky so that at least justifies the nature of a Roguelite in a very Hellboy appropriate fashion.
It doesn’t sound like they got Ron Perlman to voice Hellboy, but they did get someone who is a convincing enough soundalike that it feels appropriate.
And the blue side of lisenced video games is, what else, Gargoyles Remastered, a gussied up re-release of the Sega Genesis game based on Gargoyles; a video game in which Keith David shoves a clawed fist through the sternum of the entire extended cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Except Patrick Stewart, weirdly enough. But we got two Brent Spiners, so it still balances out. Didn’t ever play the original game, but I have seen screenshots of it and it was one of those Genesis Disney games that looked flippin‘ amazing, and now it looks more like the cartoon than what aging Sega Genesis hardware could reasonably replicate of the cartoon.
Plus it’s got stuff like savestates and rewind, because, if every other Disney game of that era are standards to hold on to, it’s *way* too difficult.
And balancing out a licences game with a primarily red and blue main character is one with a whole damn Lisa Frank sticker book of colours; Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, which is an asymmetric competitive shooter, much like Dead by Daylight, except based on one (nominally) horror franchise instead of… like… all of them. Also, not really using the characters from the series so much, just Generic Busters of Ghosts and the Ghosts What Need Busting.
The eShop description can not stress enough that there’s SOME stuff from the series in here, like Ernie Hudson, and the Firehouse, so… umm… they got that much.
And why not abandon the flimsy pretext I’ve been using all this time because next is A Boy and His Blob Collection! Which collects the original NES A Blob, and his friend (a Boy), the Japanese version of that wonderful boy and his Blob friend Blobert (featuring a completely different Boy, and no English text, which… makes the game a LOT harder I would think) and also the Gameboy entry; A Boy and His Blob; Trouble on Blobolonia (which also has the Japanese version).
They’re kiiiinda puzzle-y semi-Troid em ups about how jellybeans can save the world!
You don’t want the world to not be saved, do you?
Obviously not, so buy the damn game!
Abandoning the theme of colour-based video games every farther is the thing I am most excited for this week (sorry, Mario and Spidey); World of Horror, which is, in truth, totally monochromatic! It’s a Roguelite Mystery-em-up where you’ve got the members of a Teen Sleuth Patrol trying to solve the mystery of MURDEROUS GHOULS AND APOCALYPSE CULTS trying to bring forth the end of all that is.
It’s basically a Macventure game, except as an RPG and also Everything gets scrambled up every time you play.
I am completely on board with this!
And speaking of… umm… guns in the hands of the undead we have (at long, long last) a brand new Gungrave game; GunGrave GORE, which did, in fact, come out on everything else about a year ago and was met with resounding indifference, since the simple joy of being an unstoppable zombie hitman with a bazillion bullets stuffed into a missile-coffin he lugs around was somehow lost in translation. This is a re-release where the developers said “Yeah… umm… sorry about that” and they gave it a *real* spit-shine.
Go through scenic “A city you are about to completely obliterate” and fill absolutely everything with enough lead that you run a real risk of triggering an environmental collapse from heavy metal toxicity.
