Hell BOILS, GHOULS, and Non-BOOnary people! It's your old pal Octopus SLIME here to tell you all about this Halloweens scariest crop of AAAH new releases! Make sure you have your MUMMY check all this weeks new video games before you eat them! All these new Treats might be TRICKS!
Well, first thing listed isn't necessarily the first thing to rise to the top of my list of things to be enthusiastic about this week but, honestly, pretty far up the list; Guardians of the Galaxy. Seemingly based more on the comics than the movies (so nary a Chris Pratt to offend the eye); it's a Mass Effect-em-up starring Marvels top shelf of Outer Space Weirdos and Misfits trying to make a buck and cause unprompted detonations. GotG is both pretty high up the list for both MCU films, and comics (the current Al Ewing book particularly), and all the early reviews have been positive, so... yeah, I'm on board, even if you're stuck playing my least favorite member of the team.
ROCKET IS RIGHT THERE, C'MON!
Also, if you're on Switch, it's a Cloud based game, if that affects things any.
Much farther up the list in terms of clout this week is the espansion pass for Switch Online; meaning that the portmanteau of "NESflix" is increasingly inaccurate; it now supports Sega Genesis and Nintendo 64 games! As expected, these new libraries have some gimmies (Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Sonic 2, Ecco the Dolphin), pleasant surprises (Sin & Punishment, MUSHA) and some utterly baffling choices (Winback, Strider). Also some Animal Crossing DLC, if that floats your boat.
Whether the price is justified is not a choice I can make, but the N64 games have an utterly baffling forced control scheme and I've also discovered that you can't show me Shining Force and Phantasy Star 4 and I will buy them every time.
Negative Nancy is a talky-based adventure game. But it's a talky based Adventure game where you can only say nothing, or scream "NO!". So it's not a very complicated game, but it's mainly there as a means for joke delivery so that's fine! Laughter is the best medicine! You'll never be sick a day in your life!
Mainframe Defender came out last week, adn based on the title and the cover art, I'd have presumed it's a Tower Defense game, written it off, and proceeded with my day. But then I accidentally left the screenshots on it scrolling and I said "WELL, WAIT A TICK!" and quickly became deeply interested!
These exciting true-to-life stories are what sets Octo-brand new release threads apart from The Rest!
This here is a sprite-y looking stratactical RPG where you're the bad guy from TRON moving a bunch of CYBERBOTS around a digi-grid in order to destroy Enemy Virus Programs and everything is all pixel-y like an old timey computer and... it just looks real cool, y'know?
Next up, we finally have a Yoko Taro game for the Switch! And no, it's not Nier, or a port of Drakengard or anything like that; it's something BRAND NEW; Voice of Cards: The Island Dragon Roars is the name, and being an RPG with a vague tarot aesthetic is its game! Looks pretty similar to Hand of Fate, but the RPG is appended with a J instead of an A. I'm keeping an eye on it, but it looks *spiffy* and at least a little like my dearly neglected Crimson Shroud.
And it's about high time we had some SPOOKY GAMES in this weeks thread, since PumpkinDay is nearly upon us; and therefor; Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water dunn got itself a gussied up re-release! I am barely aware of the content of the Fatal Frame series, outside of "It Scary" and "Take Pictures of Ghosts" like a spooky fashion shoot. And speaking of Spooky Fashion, it's also got a bunch of costume DLC now so you can turn your haute couture into FATAL coutoure!
That was a weak pun but I apologize for nothing.
Next up is Dusk, a fake retro throwback shooter that looks like a rough draft of Quake as you're... some kinda. gun-guy tasked with exploding the cripes out of a spooky backwoods monster cult. And if that's not ENOUGH of a retro throwback for ya, you also get access to a *demake* of this fake retro game in the form of Dusk '82, which is a Sokoban/Chip Challenge inspired action puzzle game using EVEN OLDER graphics.
Honestly... that kind of hustle I respect and adore.
And if that's not enough Sokoban for you, there's also The Official Sokoban. Just felt like mentioning that for the sake of it being an amusing coincidence. And it's about time we got a Sokoban that wasn't just some cheap knock-off
Push them boxes until they're arranged correctly.
Black Widow: Recharged is a twin-stick bugzapper that's the latest neat looking neon-y Atari remake. But unlike Centipede or Missile COmmand, I ain't never heard of Black Widow before. Doesn't look too obtuse, from the 30 second trailer attached to the game, however. You're a spider; you're shooting other bugs as they approach your web; and you can fire out screen filling super-webs to get bonus points.
Pretty sure I saw a zefrank video about that.
Virtuaverse is a point and clicky cyberpunk game. However, INSTEAD of being Blade Runner in all but name, this one looks like it's actually Snowcrash and also The Matrix in all but name. Except with fewer jokes and less parkour. Also probably fewer allegories.
Okinawa Rush is another game that is designed to trick you into thinking it's older than it really is! In this case, I could see it as a forgotten Genesis game in the Kid Chameleon or Decap Attack vein. You're a punchman in Japan back in Monster Times, tasked with clobbering and hadoukening your way through them all and sometimes taking detours through levels to find a bunch of things that go *pling*.
Not often you see "beat 'em up" and "euro-platformer" collide, that's for sure.
Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi is a first person dungeon crawler which, from the screenshots, reminds me a fair bit of Stranger in Sword City, and that was a GOOD first person dungeon crawler. But to be fair, at a glance, it's kind of hard to distinguish one dungeon crawler from another.
One of the monsters is apparently a dragon mounting a tank, so that's something.
And while the NES app didn't get updated this week, we nevertheless got a new NES game and *boy* is it unexpected; a dual pack of Abarenbo Tengu and Zombie Nation. One of the most buckwild shmups to grace the NES and its precisely as buckwild Japanese counterpart; both are about severed heads from Japan taking it upon themselves to save the US from a hostile otherworldly power because everyone started praying to it.
Video games are weird, sometimes.
Vastly more conventional is Mario Party Superstars; because if you've played a Mario Party before, chances are you've played this one; particularly if you played the N64 ones, as this is largely a remake of those games. And also some of the Gamecube ones, because why not, we're all friends here?
And backing up the rear are two more Cotton re-releases; Panorama Cotton (which appears to be Space Harrier, but with cute witches) and Cotton 100% (which is a horizontal shmup with cute witches).
Any way you slice it, cute witches are about to explode the h*ck and cripes out of equally adorable critters
And that's everything Octo knows and cares about for this week, as of Tuesday morning![/CENTER]
Well, first thing listed isn't necessarily the first thing to rise to the top of my list of things to be enthusiastic about this week but, honestly, pretty far up the list; Guardians of the Galaxy. Seemingly based more on the comics than the movies (so nary a Chris Pratt to offend the eye); it's a Mass Effect-em-up starring Marvels top shelf of Outer Space Weirdos and Misfits trying to make a buck and cause unprompted detonations. GotG is both pretty high up the list for both MCU films, and comics (the current Al Ewing book particularly), and all the early reviews have been positive, so... yeah, I'm on board, even if you're stuck playing my least favorite member of the team.
ROCKET IS RIGHT THERE, C'MON!
Also, if you're on Switch, it's a Cloud based game, if that affects things any.
Much farther up the list in terms of clout this week is the espansion pass for Switch Online; meaning that the portmanteau of "NESflix" is increasingly inaccurate; it now supports Sega Genesis and Nintendo 64 games! As expected, these new libraries have some gimmies (Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Sonic 2, Ecco the Dolphin), pleasant surprises (Sin & Punishment, MUSHA) and some utterly baffling choices (Winback, Strider). Also some Animal Crossing DLC, if that floats your boat.
Whether the price is justified is not a choice I can make, but the N64 games have an utterly baffling forced control scheme and I've also discovered that you can't show me Shining Force and Phantasy Star 4 and I will buy them every time.
Negative Nancy is a talky-based adventure game. But it's a talky based Adventure game where you can only say nothing, or scream "NO!". So it's not a very complicated game, but it's mainly there as a means for joke delivery so that's fine! Laughter is the best medicine! You'll never be sick a day in your life!
Mainframe Defender came out last week, adn based on the title and the cover art, I'd have presumed it's a Tower Defense game, written it off, and proceeded with my day. But then I accidentally left the screenshots on it scrolling and I said "WELL, WAIT A TICK!" and quickly became deeply interested!
These exciting true-to-life stories are what sets Octo-brand new release threads apart from The Rest!
This here is a sprite-y looking stratactical RPG where you're the bad guy from TRON moving a bunch of CYBERBOTS around a digi-grid in order to destroy Enemy Virus Programs and everything is all pixel-y like an old timey computer and... it just looks real cool, y'know?
Next up, we finally have a Yoko Taro game for the Switch! And no, it's not Nier, or a port of Drakengard or anything like that; it's something BRAND NEW; Voice of Cards: The Island Dragon Roars is the name, and being an RPG with a vague tarot aesthetic is its game! Looks pretty similar to Hand of Fate, but the RPG is appended with a J instead of an A. I'm keeping an eye on it, but it looks *spiffy* and at least a little like my dearly neglected Crimson Shroud.
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And it's about high time we had some SPOOKY GAMES in this weeks thread, since PumpkinDay is nearly upon us; and therefor; Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water dunn got itself a gussied up re-release! I am barely aware of the content of the Fatal Frame series, outside of "It Scary" and "Take Pictures of Ghosts" like a spooky fashion shoot. And speaking of Spooky Fashion, it's also got a bunch of costume DLC now so you can turn your haute couture into FATAL coutoure!
That was a weak pun but I apologize for nothing.
Next up is Dusk, a fake retro throwback shooter that looks like a rough draft of Quake as you're... some kinda. gun-guy tasked with exploding the cripes out of a spooky backwoods monster cult. And if that's not ENOUGH of a retro throwback for ya, you also get access to a *demake* of this fake retro game in the form of Dusk '82, which is a Sokoban/Chip Challenge inspired action puzzle game using EVEN OLDER graphics.
Honestly... that kind of hustle I respect and adore.
And if that's not enough Sokoban for you, there's also The Official Sokoban. Just felt like mentioning that for the sake of it being an amusing coincidence. And it's about time we got a Sokoban that wasn't just some cheap knock-off
Push them boxes until they're arranged correctly.
Black Widow: Recharged is a twin-stick bugzapper that's the latest neat looking neon-y Atari remake. But unlike Centipede or Missile COmmand, I ain't never heard of Black Widow before. Doesn't look too obtuse, from the 30 second trailer attached to the game, however. You're a spider; you're shooting other bugs as they approach your web; and you can fire out screen filling super-webs to get bonus points.
Pretty sure I saw a zefrank video about that.
Virtuaverse is a point and clicky cyberpunk game. However, INSTEAD of being Blade Runner in all but name, this one looks like it's actually Snowcrash and also The Matrix in all but name. Except with fewer jokes and less parkour. Also probably fewer allegories.
Okinawa Rush is another game that is designed to trick you into thinking it's older than it really is! In this case, I could see it as a forgotten Genesis game in the Kid Chameleon or Decap Attack vein. You're a punchman in Japan back in Monster Times, tasked with clobbering and hadoukening your way through them all and sometimes taking detours through levels to find a bunch of things that go *pling*.
Not often you see "beat 'em up" and "euro-platformer" collide, that's for sure.
Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi is a first person dungeon crawler which, from the screenshots, reminds me a fair bit of Stranger in Sword City, and that was a GOOD first person dungeon crawler. But to be fair, at a glance, it's kind of hard to distinguish one dungeon crawler from another.
One of the monsters is apparently a dragon mounting a tank, so that's something.
And while the NES app didn't get updated this week, we nevertheless got a new NES game and *boy* is it unexpected; a dual pack of Abarenbo Tengu and Zombie Nation. One of the most buckwild shmups to grace the NES and its precisely as buckwild Japanese counterpart; both are about severed heads from Japan taking it upon themselves to save the US from a hostile otherworldly power because everyone started praying to it.
Video games are weird, sometimes.
Vastly more conventional is Mario Party Superstars; because if you've played a Mario Party before, chances are you've played this one; particularly if you played the N64 ones, as this is largely a remake of those games. And also some of the Gamecube ones, because why not, we're all friends here?
And backing up the rear are two more Cotton re-releases; Panorama Cotton (which appears to be Space Harrier, but with cute witches) and Cotton 100% (which is a horizontal shmup with cute witches).
Any way you slice it, cute witches are about to explode the h*ck and cripes out of equally adorable critters
And that's everything Octo knows and cares about for this week, as of Tuesday morning![/CENTER]
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