"Snake, have you ever heard of a *Super* Mario Brother?"
"Hrrrm, I heard rumor's that the Italian army was working on a means to double the size of their soldiers, but..."
"They aren't rumor's any more; after the Berlin Wall fell, the Italian army perfected the technology, and sold it to the highest bidder"
"What are you saying"
"I'm saying you could find a Mario Brother twenty, even thirty feet tall in that complex!"
So naturally, the diamond-dog this week is the series that walks right away from peace; Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection, a collection of not one, not two, but *eight* Metal Gear games; The original MSX and NES Metal gear, Metal Gear: Snakes Revenge, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions, Metal Gear Solid 2 The Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. That's a lot of Sneaking Missions! Barge into some place you aren't wanted and take everyones granola bars and bullets while hiding in a box! Get left out in the cold, master Close Quarters Combat (CQC) and punch a hole straight through a brick wall! Find some scissors and dream about climbing a ladder! Identify imposters by gazing at butts and Stop Higharolla Kockamammies wicked plans above all else!
These Metal Gears are *solid*
The MGS games are also available piecemeal, but the 8-Bit games are only available in the full bundle.
Also, this might be the video game that has the most possible options for Simpsons images
And far less significant to my heart, but... very important to I guess people who stream Japanese casual video games where it's *weirdly* popular we have Suika Game which is not actually related to Suikoden, but that's where my mind goes every time I see it referenced anywhere. It's a game about tapping on fruits; when the carnage and depravity of Fruit Ninja starts eroding your soul
Next up is Cry Machina, a third person chops-em-up from the same folks as what made Crystar, which it's a kind of semi-follow-up to. It's a bit of a combination of Nights of Azure and Nier Automata where you're a gal who wakes up and discovers that it's 1. Suddenly 2000 Years Later and 2. She's a Robot and reacts by saying "Hell yeah!" and smoochin' on other lady-robots and chopping the hell out of other, less lady-shaped robots. The demo was pretty enjoyable, but apparently the demo is also representative of, like, the entire experience, so while I'll eventually pick it up, I'll wait for a sale.
And speaking of games where I'm letting other people make my decisions about how to feel, we have recent indie darling Dave the Diver! It's a Scuba-em-up where, in order to get the freshest fish for your seafood restaraunt, you got to get you hands wet by deep-sea diving and wrangling up them critters by hand, then using the profits from your restaurant to get better gear to explore more of the ocean and battle stronger/tastier animals.
Like Steamworld Dig, except wet and also tastier
And speaking of indie games everyone else has already convinced me to be excited for, this week has the ACTUAL release date for World of Horror (it was delayed for a week at the last minute), it's a texty rogues-em-up where you've got to assemble a team of Mystery Solving Teens to figure out who really behind the towns kooky, Scoobariffic capers. And it turns out it's Junji Ito-esque cthulhu-cults.
And speaking of games that were delayed at the last minute, like... a bunch of times in this case, this is finally the week that Trip World DX comes out! Allegedly! It's a gussied all to hell and back re-release of one of the most rare and expensive games on the original Gameboy which, besides having a bunch of modern amenities (I haven't played it, but it's my understanding that Trip World isn't the sort of game to require a lot of help from save states and rewinds and the like, but nice that they're there) but also a Deluxe mode that gives it an extensive makeover with lots of colors, instead of Four Shades of Dark Green
Gordian Quest is a deck-building RPG, and saying that has cause half the people reading this thread to roll their eyes, and the other to roll their eyes over until they both read JACKPOT, and then a bunch of coins spill out of their mouth.
I'm in that latter camp, so I'm interested!
It's got some real Banner of Ruin / Roguebook vibes to it from the trailer, and I liked both of those! Hopefully I'll like this too!
I hope so!
Great Ambition of the Slimes is an SRPG where you play as a humble harmless slime monster who is tired of getting the crud kicked out of them and so aspires to be taken seriously for once by jamming yourself down peoples throats and puppeting them from the inside like a ghastly marionette. It's a sequel to the original Ambition of the Slimes, which I didn't play, but I like the concept and it's cheap enough for me to gamble on.
And finally a retro game collection full of... games I've never heard of before. The Visco Collection is a collection of Andro Dunos, Bang Bead, Captain Tomaday, Flipshot, Ganryu, GOAL GOAL GOAL! and Neo Driftout.
It's true! Those games are all in this collection!
"Hrrrm, I heard rumor's that the Italian army was working on a means to double the size of their soldiers, but..."
"They aren't rumor's any more; after the Berlin Wall fell, the Italian army perfected the technology, and sold it to the highest bidder"
"What are you saying"
"I'm saying you could find a Mario Brother twenty, even thirty feet tall in that complex!"
So naturally, the diamond-dog this week is the series that walks right away from peace; Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection, a collection of not one, not two, but *eight* Metal Gear games; The original MSX and NES Metal gear, Metal Gear: Snakes Revenge, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions, Metal Gear Solid 2 The Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. That's a lot of Sneaking Missions! Barge into some place you aren't wanted and take everyones granola bars and bullets while hiding in a box! Get left out in the cold, master Close Quarters Combat (CQC) and punch a hole straight through a brick wall! Find some scissors and dream about climbing a ladder! Identify imposters by gazing at butts and Stop Higharolla Kockamammies wicked plans above all else!
These Metal Gears are *solid*
The MGS games are also available piecemeal, but the 8-Bit games are only available in the full bundle.
Also, this might be the video game that has the most possible options for Simpsons images
And far less significant to my heart, but... very important to I guess people who stream Japanese casual video games where it's *weirdly* popular we have Suika Game which is not actually related to Suikoden, but that's where my mind goes every time I see it referenced anywhere. It's a game about tapping on fruits; when the carnage and depravity of Fruit Ninja starts eroding your soul
Next up is Cry Machina, a third person chops-em-up from the same folks as what made Crystar, which it's a kind of semi-follow-up to. It's a bit of a combination of Nights of Azure and Nier Automata where you're a gal who wakes up and discovers that it's 1. Suddenly 2000 Years Later and 2. She's a Robot and reacts by saying "Hell yeah!" and smoochin' on other lady-robots and chopping the hell out of other, less lady-shaped robots. The demo was pretty enjoyable, but apparently the demo is also representative of, like, the entire experience, so while I'll eventually pick it up, I'll wait for a sale.
And speaking of games where I'm letting other people make my decisions about how to feel, we have recent indie darling Dave the Diver! It's a Scuba-em-up where, in order to get the freshest fish for your seafood restaraunt, you got to get you hands wet by deep-sea diving and wrangling up them critters by hand, then using the profits from your restaurant to get better gear to explore more of the ocean and battle stronger/tastier animals.
Like Steamworld Dig, except wet and also tastier
And speaking of indie games everyone else has already convinced me to be excited for, this week has the ACTUAL release date for World of Horror (it was delayed for a week at the last minute), it's a texty rogues-em-up where you've got to assemble a team of Mystery Solving Teens to figure out who really behind the towns kooky, Scoobariffic capers. And it turns out it's Junji Ito-esque cthulhu-cults.
And speaking of games that were delayed at the last minute, like... a bunch of times in this case, this is finally the week that Trip World DX comes out! Allegedly! It's a gussied all to hell and back re-release of one of the most rare and expensive games on the original Gameboy which, besides having a bunch of modern amenities (I haven't played it, but it's my understanding that Trip World isn't the sort of game to require a lot of help from save states and rewinds and the like, but nice that they're there) but also a Deluxe mode that gives it an extensive makeover with lots of colors, instead of Four Shades of Dark Green
Gordian Quest is a deck-building RPG, and saying that has cause half the people reading this thread to roll their eyes, and the other to roll their eyes over until they both read JACKPOT, and then a bunch of coins spill out of their mouth.
I'm in that latter camp, so I'm interested!
It's got some real Banner of Ruin / Roguebook vibes to it from the trailer, and I liked both of those! Hopefully I'll like this too!
I hope so!
Great Ambition of the Slimes is an SRPG where you play as a humble harmless slime monster who is tired of getting the crud kicked out of them and so aspires to be taken seriously for once by jamming yourself down peoples throats and puppeting them from the inside like a ghastly marionette. It's a sequel to the original Ambition of the Slimes, which I didn't play, but I like the concept and it's cheap enough for me to gamble on.
And finally a retro game collection full of... games I've never heard of before. The Visco Collection is a collection of Andro Dunos, Bang Bead, Captain Tomaday, Flipshot, Ganryu, GOAL GOAL GOAL! and Neo Driftout.
It's true! Those games are all in this collection!
