I don't want to tell you how to do your business, but I think this weeks new games might work better if they were video.
Unpacking is a reverse Tetris about generally tidying up your home after you move into it. It's one of those video games about doing chores, which makes me look around my presently messy rec room and think "But... I should do this for real instead".
You can take pictures of your clean room in order to slap stickers on it too, so... hey... that's something!
Amazing Princess Sarah is also a video game about picking up and moving household furnishings, but in this case it's so you can throw them at monsters, becasue this is a Mario 2, baby! Take a dang ol princess through a goblinned-up monster castle and THROW ALL MONSTERS AT ALL OTHER MONSTERS! I'm assuming it has RPG elements, as there's an experience gauge in the trailer.
Tunche is a beating them up set in the Amazon jungle, and with more shamanistic witchcraft than you might reasonably expect from that setting! Also, the kid from A Hat in Time is in it, and she ain't especially known for beating them up to the best of my recollection; she was more of a "Find the widget in the place" kind of video game hero! Games got some real nice looking art too!
If you want your beating up of them to be a bit more realistic and visceral than whimsical and animated, we have Legend of Tian-Ding for you! It's set during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, where you're a fictionalized take on the outlaw hero Tianding, just beating the ever cussin' mustard out of the entire police force, and it TOO has some mild RPG elements. But this time it seems to be more like what Double Dragon Neon offered in that regard.
World War Z is a shoot the mans game, where all the mans you shoot are already dead, so it's okay to shoot them, you don't need to feel bad. Based on the book by Max Brooks; everyones favorite writer named Brooks, I think.
If you can't decide if you should watch a movie or play a video game, why not do both with Blood Shore, which obfuscates theline between those two activities by being an interactive movie about the most dangerous game;the friends we made along the way televised blood-sports! It has eight hours of FMV footage, which the eShop assures me is the most FMV for any video game. Certainly more FMV than I've seen at one time!
And speaking of chewing the scenary, we have A Boy and his Blob! The Wayforward one originally released on the Wii, like a decade ago, not the David Crane one from three decades ago!
Oh GOD that sentence hurts to type.
Anyway, puzzle-platform your way through obstacle leaden DEATH ZONES with nothing but a candy-eating goo-buddy to aid you. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, you can also hug him whenever you want because there's a button dedicated to that purpose.
Magic Potion Millionaire is a platforming-based pharmacy-em-up where you're tasked with plonking down into monster and treasure infested catacombs in order to get the junk you need to make potions and the like; then sell that crap for COLD HARD CASH; like if the Atelier series were roguelite platformer.
Demon Turf is one of the more interesting games out this week, and it's something I now have my peepers on; being a 3D platformer where all the characters are 2D sprites shown from different angles, kind of like Doom. Also like Doom, its set in Hell and you're trying to overthrow the leader; a demon lord named Beez. UNLIKE Doom, you don't rip and tear so much as hop and bop, and aesthetically, it's got a kind of Heck-punk Splatoon thing going on.
...I'm not sure that this kind of aesthetic has a name, but BY GOD, "Heckpunk" works for it.
Popeye is the latest game from Sabec; the publishers of all the crap I never bother to mention (like Calculator or Piano or Air Hockey, or Bowling, or you get the idea) and normally I would completely disregard this too as it slides off my eyeballs like Vaseline on ice. But this time; they've got their hands on something that... you know... exists. And moreover, it's a 3d remake of the Nintendo Popeye arcade game from the 80s; the one that begat Donkey Kong.
It looks awful, and I'm honestly a bit mystified that it exists. But exists it does! A tiny little yes in the dark of the night
Where Cards Fall is another puzzlatformer, but this'un looks more like Monument Valley, if all the monuments you're valleying around were made of cards. Like regular cards, not Magic the Gathering cards. The boring kind.
Also, literally every frame of the trailer tells me this is a game about being sad and it's a mediation on sorrow and loss or some such.
Encodya is a point-and-clicky game about a gal and her big ro-buddy tasked with solving puzzles and undermining a corrupt governmental oligarchy in a cyberpunk dystopia.
As opposed to those awesome cyberpunk utopias you hear so much about.
Unpacking is a reverse Tetris about generally tidying up your home after you move into it. It's one of those video games about doing chores, which makes me look around my presently messy rec room and think "But... I should do this for real instead".
You can take pictures of your clean room in order to slap stickers on it too, so... hey... that's something!
Amazing Princess Sarah is also a video game about picking up and moving household furnishings, but in this case it's so you can throw them at monsters, becasue this is a Mario 2, baby! Take a dang ol princess through a goblinned-up monster castle and THROW ALL MONSTERS AT ALL OTHER MONSTERS! I'm assuming it has RPG elements, as there's an experience gauge in the trailer.
Tunche is a beating them up set in the Amazon jungle, and with more shamanistic witchcraft than you might reasonably expect from that setting! Also, the kid from A Hat in Time is in it, and she ain't especially known for beating them up to the best of my recollection; she was more of a "Find the widget in the place" kind of video game hero! Games got some real nice looking art too!
If you want your beating up of them to be a bit more realistic and visceral than whimsical and animated, we have Legend of Tian-Ding for you! It's set during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, where you're a fictionalized take on the outlaw hero Tianding, just beating the ever cussin' mustard out of the entire police force, and it TOO has some mild RPG elements. But this time it seems to be more like what Double Dragon Neon offered in that regard.
World War Z is a shoot the mans game, where all the mans you shoot are already dead, so it's okay to shoot them, you don't need to feel bad. Based on the book by Max Brooks; everyones favorite writer named Brooks, I think.
If you can't decide if you should watch a movie or play a video game, why not do both with Blood Shore, which obfuscates theline between those two activities by being an interactive movie about the most dangerous game;
And speaking of chewing the scenary, we have A Boy and his Blob! The Wayforward one originally released on the Wii, like a decade ago, not the David Crane one from three decades ago!
Oh GOD that sentence hurts to type.
Anyway, puzzle-platform your way through obstacle leaden DEATH ZONES with nothing but a candy-eating goo-buddy to aid you. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, you can also hug him whenever you want because there's a button dedicated to that purpose.
Magic Potion Millionaire is a platforming-based pharmacy-em-up where you're tasked with plonking down into monster and treasure infested catacombs in order to get the junk you need to make potions and the like; then sell that crap for COLD HARD CASH; like if the Atelier series were roguelite platformer.
Demon Turf is one of the more interesting games out this week, and it's something I now have my peepers on; being a 3D platformer where all the characters are 2D sprites shown from different angles, kind of like Doom. Also like Doom, its set in Hell and you're trying to overthrow the leader; a demon lord named Beez. UNLIKE Doom, you don't rip and tear so much as hop and bop, and aesthetically, it's got a kind of Heck-punk Splatoon thing going on.
...I'm not sure that this kind of aesthetic has a name, but BY GOD, "Heckpunk" works for it.
Popeye is the latest game from Sabec; the publishers of all the crap I never bother to mention (like Calculator or Piano or Air Hockey, or Bowling, or you get the idea) and normally I would completely disregard this too as it slides off my eyeballs like Vaseline on ice. But this time; they've got their hands on something that... you know... exists. And moreover, it's a 3d remake of the Nintendo Popeye arcade game from the 80s; the one that begat Donkey Kong.
It looks awful, and I'm honestly a bit mystified that it exists. But exists it does! A tiny little yes in the dark of the night
Where Cards Fall is another puzzlatformer, but this'un looks more like Monument Valley, if all the monuments you're valleying around were made of cards. Like regular cards, not Magic the Gathering cards. The boring kind.
Also, literally every frame of the trailer tells me this is a game about being sad and it's a mediation on sorrow and loss or some such.
Encodya is a point-and-clicky game about a gal and her big ro-buddy tasked with solving puzzles and undermining a corrupt governmental oligarchy in a cyberpunk dystopia.
As opposed to those awesome cyberpunk utopias you hear so much about.
