Well, if you're reading this thread today, that means you weren't eaten by a Dracula or Frankenstein last night. Good on ya!
So we're starting off with games that escaped my notice last week, and which DEFINITELY should have gotten mentioned because they were perfect for Pumpkin Day, but... well... they weren't mentioned in the eShop. So... I don't know, blame Super Mario. Anyway the first one is Needy Streamer Overload. Which is a Sims-em-up game, vaguely in the Princess Maker vein, about a gal who wants to be Popular on the Internet, badly. Like... very badly. Alarmingly badly. Full-on Swim Fan/Black Swan badly.
And the other release that would have been great for that most Hallow'd of Weens, we've got the CLoud Releases of not one, not two, but three Resident Evil games; Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and Resident Evil Village. Of those three, I've only played 2, and the first little bit of Village, but I REALLY liked 2, and deemed it my Third Favorite of the whole series, so if you don't have access to one of the more recent Playstation or XBoxs, and have a fairly stable internet connection, that's got my vote!
Visit Scenic Mid-Mutant Apocalypse Raccoon City (or Scenic Castlevania) and side-step/gun down hordes of post-human monsters (depending on your chosen difficulty level) at the command of an evil pharmacy or a Very Tall Lady (depending on personal ethos).
And speaking of things that came out on other things a while ago, next is Shattered! Which I have played before and deemed "pretty neat, for what it is!" and what it is... is Arkanoid. Except the geometry is all weird and you have the ability to funk-up the way gravity works; changing the trajectory of the ball as you plonk it off stuff.
Unlike Arkanoid, the main villain is not named "Doh". So you can just put the word "Doh" and any connections to the word "Doh" right out of your mind.
And another "Old Game But Gussied Up" is Missile Command Recharged, which is I believe the only "Recharged" game I have played before, as it felt like a good match for smart phones. And... y'know... it was fine at it. Not a *lot* you can do to zazz up Missile Command without making a new video game out of it; so it plays things simple; adds in some new weapon types and enemy targets, and it looks kind of Geometry Wars-y.
Shoot down every missile before the entire human race is exploded... and it will be because this is one of those games with no win screen. It was used as a metaphor for the inevitability of the future in Terminator 2!
Well, that game is grim, how about we go in the opposite direction with Lonesome Village, which I believe is a Cozy No-fightin' Zeldo, where you're some manner of critter-feller what has to get all the peeps what be stuck in a Puzzle-filled Dungeon out of aforesaid Puzzle Dungeon so they can resume being charming as h*ck in their quaint cozy little town. Not one screenshot shows a health bar, or a skeleton boss or nothin', but it LOOKS like a Zeldo so it's THAT kind of video game.
And two more games both of the "Quaint Village Life and Farming Simulation" genre, but with... drastically different implementations of it, we have Doraemon: Story of Seasons, which stars Japans favorite big blue space (?) cat, and his friends; Some Kid with Glasses and A Girl doing all they Mooning they can during a Harvest. And on the opposite side of the Gentle Farming SIm coin, we have Harvestella, which is a dungeon crawler, where your capacity to farm and make friends is entirely predicated on your ability to battle supernatural evil that has benighted the land and threatens the extinction of all life.
Which *really* doesn't feel like should be under a farmers bailiwick; they've got other concerns to tend to.
Anyway; go plant a cow or marry a potato. It's HARVEST MOON, BABY!
TABS: Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is a video game about making Wobblers and watching them fight.
What, you need more information than that?
TOO BAD, that's what the eShop is giving me, so that's all I'm giving you!
Ghost Song, however, I feel much more confident in making guesses about, because it's a Troid-em-up, and you KNOWS I likes me a Troid-em-up! You're a fancy Iron Man suit what woke up with no memories in your noodle, and a dead guy inside you, on a weird spooky moon chock-a-block with corpsed up peeps and weird, weird space munsters. It looks *really neat* and it went into my Wishlist immediately.
Another example of Metroidvania is Aeterna Noctis, but this one veres more towards the Castlevania than the Metroid, as it's about traversing a spooky gothic landscape and whackin' spooky monsters, as opposed to a space planet full of Astro-Terror. You're some kind of a swords guy, and you want to get new abilities to explore the place better... so... you know... Metroidvania stuff. The eShop says that there's more going on with the story than you'd think and I'd hate to think they're liars.
It Takes Two is an explore-y adventures-em-up that's all about giving you feelings, down in your emotions. But not regular feelings like "Hungry" or "Sleepy", but other emotions! The premium stuff you'd normally have to pay for, like "Sad" or "Chuckling". You got two peeps what have been turned into shabby little dolls, and now have to get around the House in a Honey I Shrunk the Kids-style adventure.
Is this the triumphant return of Harleys Humongous Adventure we've all been clamoring for?
Probably!
And speaking of Harleys Humongus Adventure, it was a long forgotten Euro-style platformer from 1991. As was The First Samurai, which represents half the content in the latest Piko release; The Samurai Collection! Which also includes The Second Samurai, which I didn't know existed, but I didn't have an Amiga growing up, so my knowledge of that platforms library is limited. It does not include the seminal Tom Cruise film, The Last Samurai. Anyway... it's two platformers from the early 90s, and one of them stars a very buff shirtless samurai, and they both feature "Beautiful Pixel Graphics, Incredible Levels and Prehistoric and Futuristic Settings", and that's basically all you need for a good time playing video games, if you ask me.
And bringing up the rear is NSOs next two Nintendo 64 games; Mario Party and Mario Party 2. Two video games which are... basically identical to one another, and which annihilated the hands of any child who dared play them back in the day. And now they're back, on a console that is notorious for its controllers breaking down if you move the analog sticks too much.
Anyway, these are board games which are frequently interrupted by minigames that largely consist of rotating the analog stick until your hand was bleeding, or rhythmically mashing buttons, starring all your favorite Mario characters, like the Carpenter, Shrek, Girl, Evil Eddie and Dumbledore
So we're starting off with games that escaped my notice last week, and which DEFINITELY should have gotten mentioned because they were perfect for Pumpkin Day, but... well... they weren't mentioned in the eShop. So... I don't know, blame Super Mario. Anyway the first one is Needy Streamer Overload. Which is a Sims-em-up game, vaguely in the Princess Maker vein, about a gal who wants to be Popular on the Internet, badly. Like... very badly. Alarmingly badly. Full-on Swim Fan/Black Swan badly.
And the other release that would have been great for that most Hallow'd of Weens, we've got the CLoud Releases of not one, not two, but three Resident Evil games; Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and Resident Evil Village. Of those three, I've only played 2, and the first little bit of Village, but I REALLY liked 2, and deemed it my Third Favorite of the whole series, so if you don't have access to one of the more recent Playstation or XBoxs, and have a fairly stable internet connection, that's got my vote!
Visit Scenic Mid-Mutant Apocalypse Raccoon City (or Scenic Castlevania) and side-step/gun down hordes of post-human monsters (depending on your chosen difficulty level) at the command of an evil pharmacy or a Very Tall Lady (depending on personal ethos).
And speaking of things that came out on other things a while ago, next is Shattered! Which I have played before and deemed "pretty neat, for what it is!" and what it is... is Arkanoid. Except the geometry is all weird and you have the ability to funk-up the way gravity works; changing the trajectory of the ball as you plonk it off stuff.
Unlike Arkanoid, the main villain is not named "Doh". So you can just put the word "Doh" and any connections to the word "Doh" right out of your mind.
And another "Old Game But Gussied Up" is Missile Command Recharged, which is I believe the only "Recharged" game I have played before, as it felt like a good match for smart phones. And... y'know... it was fine at it. Not a *lot* you can do to zazz up Missile Command without making a new video game out of it; so it plays things simple; adds in some new weapon types and enemy targets, and it looks kind of Geometry Wars-y.
Shoot down every missile before the entire human race is exploded... and it will be because this is one of those games with no win screen. It was used as a metaphor for the inevitability of the future in Terminator 2!
Well, that game is grim, how about we go in the opposite direction with Lonesome Village, which I believe is a Cozy No-fightin' Zeldo, where you're some manner of critter-feller what has to get all the peeps what be stuck in a Puzzle-filled Dungeon out of aforesaid Puzzle Dungeon so they can resume being charming as h*ck in their quaint cozy little town. Not one screenshot shows a health bar, or a skeleton boss or nothin', but it LOOKS like a Zeldo so it's THAT kind of video game.
And two more games both of the "Quaint Village Life and Farming Simulation" genre, but with... drastically different implementations of it, we have Doraemon: Story of Seasons, which stars Japans favorite big blue space (?) cat, and his friends; Some Kid with Glasses and A Girl doing all they Mooning they can during a Harvest. And on the opposite side of the Gentle Farming SIm coin, we have Harvestella, which is a dungeon crawler, where your capacity to farm and make friends is entirely predicated on your ability to battle supernatural evil that has benighted the land and threatens the extinction of all life.
Which *really* doesn't feel like should be under a farmers bailiwick; they've got other concerns to tend to.
Anyway; go plant a cow or marry a potato. It's HARVEST MOON, BABY!
TABS: Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is a video game about making Wobblers and watching them fight.
What, you need more information than that?
TOO BAD, that's what the eShop is giving me, so that's all I'm giving you!
Ghost Song, however, I feel much more confident in making guesses about, because it's a Troid-em-up, and you KNOWS I likes me a Troid-em-up! You're a fancy Iron Man suit what woke up with no memories in your noodle, and a dead guy inside you, on a weird spooky moon chock-a-block with corpsed up peeps and weird, weird space munsters. It looks *really neat* and it went into my Wishlist immediately.
Another example of Metroidvania is Aeterna Noctis, but this one veres more towards the Castlevania than the Metroid, as it's about traversing a spooky gothic landscape and whackin' spooky monsters, as opposed to a space planet full of Astro-Terror. You're some kind of a swords guy, and you want to get new abilities to explore the place better... so... you know... Metroidvania stuff. The eShop says that there's more going on with the story than you'd think and I'd hate to think they're liars.
It Takes Two is an explore-y adventures-em-up that's all about giving you feelings, down in your emotions. But not regular feelings like "Hungry" or "Sleepy", but other emotions! The premium stuff you'd normally have to pay for, like "Sad" or "Chuckling". You got two peeps what have been turned into shabby little dolls, and now have to get around the House in a Honey I Shrunk the Kids-style adventure.
Is this the triumphant return of Harleys Humongous Adventure we've all been clamoring for?
Probably!
And speaking of Harleys Humongus Adventure, it was a long forgotten Euro-style platformer from 1991. As was The First Samurai, which represents half the content in the latest Piko release; The Samurai Collection! Which also includes The Second Samurai, which I didn't know existed, but I didn't have an Amiga growing up, so my knowledge of that platforms library is limited. It does not include the seminal Tom Cruise film, The Last Samurai. Anyway... it's two platformers from the early 90s, and one of them stars a very buff shirtless samurai, and they both feature "Beautiful Pixel Graphics, Incredible Levels and Prehistoric and Futuristic Settings", and that's basically all you need for a good time playing video games, if you ask me.
And bringing up the rear is NSOs next two Nintendo 64 games; Mario Party and Mario Party 2. Two video games which are... basically identical to one another, and which annihilated the hands of any child who dared play them back in the day. And now they're back, on a console that is notorious for its controllers breaking down if you move the analog sticks too much.
Anyway, these are board games which are frequently interrupted by minigames that largely consist of rotating the analog stick until your hand was bleeding, or rhythmically mashing buttons, starring all your favorite Mario characters, like the Carpenter, Shrek, Girl, Evil Eddie and Dumbledore
