Well, you COULD start doomscrolling on social media today, or you could read this list of the weeks fun new video games and then play fun video games. I know which one I'm enabling!
So we're kicking off with something I've been excited for since it was originally announced several years ago... and then never mentioned again so I assumed it was quietly cancelled; Metal Slug: Tactics, a game which finally married the fast paced twitchy side-scroller action of Metal Slug with the methodical and knock-guys-into-guys SRPG gameplay of Into the Breach! That combination sounds less like getting Peanut Butter in your Chocolate and more like getting a pencil in your Fish, but I like Metal Slug, and I love ItB so... dangit, I'm all in!
Sit yourself down on a rocket lawnchair and inform a bunch of marsmen, mummies and ethnic stereotypes that you have personal concerns with their tendency to build impractically designed war machines.
Speaking of multiple people coming to together to reach a common goal, that's the very definition of partnership. Or, if you want to gender it, Brotherhood. I can't decide which of those two words best describes it, so lets call it Brothership; Mario & Luigi: Brothership, that is! It's the first new Mario & Luigi game in nearly a decade (give or take a couple of remakes that... I think most people forgot existed), and the first one to be made by the Octopath peeps instead of AlphaDream.
As per the rest of the series, it's an RPG with a bit more of a focus on Timed Hits than usual since every single action you take results in a tiny minigame and every monster has its own whole... deal... to work around as you guide the worlds two most famous jumping men, The Great Gonzalez and Green Mario as they... y'know... do RPG stuff
Speaking of creations of Miyamoto, we have Miyamoto! It's a deckbuilding strategy game set in feudal. It looks, y'know, fine for what it is, but I just wanted to mention it because it's called Miyamoto and it's released the same day as a Mario game.
I'm sorry, my hands are tied.
Speaking of Feudal Japan, let's look a few hundred miles to the east and see what China was up to hundreds of years ago. Sounds like that's a place with some trouble. That's right trouble. And that starts with a T, and that rhymes with C, and that stands for Cao-Cao! River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next, naturally, is the sequel to the original River City Saga: Three Kingdoms, wherein Nekketsu Highs most popular face-breaking juvenile delinquent dunn got himself Back to the Futured to Three Kingdoms era China and decided to... beat the absolute bajeepers out of the countries entire population. Just straight up staring history in the eye and flipping it off with both hands.
Anyway, you have a motorcycle and no particular inclination to NOT pursue Lu Bu, so rewrite history by punching an entire country inside out.
Speaking of seminal works in the canon of Asian literature, chances are pretty good that The Alchemist of Ars Magna ain't one, but it IS a visual novel, so... partial credit. While I usually don't cover VNs, this one is only half of a VN and the other half is dungeon crawler (albeit a fairly limited looking one) so... here we are.
Anyway, it's a magic school, there's a dungeon nearby, so some guy and his assorted hangers on figure "Well, let's become romantincally entangled to various degree and bash some critters". It's also weirdly expensive to such a degree that I think there may have been a typo in the eShop?
And we're wrapping things up this week with our weekly Old PC Game That I Don't Think Is Playable Unless You Can Read Japanese; Egg Console: XAK 2. From the screenshots, it appears to be a more action-y Zelda, but the Egg Console games also tend to focus on screenshots that don't have text on them so WHO KNOWS?!?
Okay that's all you're getting out of me, go to bed.
So we're kicking off with something I've been excited for since it was originally announced several years ago... and then never mentioned again so I assumed it was quietly cancelled; Metal Slug: Tactics, a game which finally married the fast paced twitchy side-scroller action of Metal Slug with the methodical and knock-guys-into-guys SRPG gameplay of Into the Breach! That combination sounds less like getting Peanut Butter in your Chocolate and more like getting a pencil in your Fish, but I like Metal Slug, and I love ItB so... dangit, I'm all in!
Sit yourself down on a rocket lawnchair and inform a bunch of marsmen, mummies and ethnic stereotypes that you have personal concerns with their tendency to build impractically designed war machines.
Speaking of multiple people coming to together to reach a common goal, that's the very definition of partnership. Or, if you want to gender it, Brotherhood. I can't decide which of those two words best describes it, so lets call it Brothership; Mario & Luigi: Brothership, that is! It's the first new Mario & Luigi game in nearly a decade (give or take a couple of remakes that... I think most people forgot existed), and the first one to be made by the Octopath peeps instead of AlphaDream.
As per the rest of the series, it's an RPG with a bit more of a focus on Timed Hits than usual since every single action you take results in a tiny minigame and every monster has its own whole... deal... to work around as you guide the worlds two most famous jumping men, The Great Gonzalez and Green Mario as they... y'know... do RPG stuff
Speaking of creations of Miyamoto, we have Miyamoto! It's a deckbuilding strategy game set in feudal. It looks, y'know, fine for what it is, but I just wanted to mention it because it's called Miyamoto and it's released the same day as a Mario game.
I'm sorry, my hands are tied.
Speaking of Feudal Japan, let's look a few hundred miles to the east and see what China was up to hundreds of years ago. Sounds like that's a place with some trouble. That's right trouble. And that starts with a T, and that rhymes with C, and that stands for Cao-Cao! River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next, naturally, is the sequel to the original River City Saga: Three Kingdoms, wherein Nekketsu Highs most popular face-breaking juvenile delinquent dunn got himself Back to the Futured to Three Kingdoms era China and decided to... beat the absolute bajeepers out of the countries entire population. Just straight up staring history in the eye and flipping it off with both hands.
Anyway, you have a motorcycle and no particular inclination to NOT pursue Lu Bu, so rewrite history by punching an entire country inside out.
Speaking of seminal works in the canon of Asian literature, chances are pretty good that The Alchemist of Ars Magna ain't one, but it IS a visual novel, so... partial credit. While I usually don't cover VNs, this one is only half of a VN and the other half is dungeon crawler (albeit a fairly limited looking one) so... here we are.
Anyway, it's a magic school, there's a dungeon nearby, so some guy and his assorted hangers on figure "Well, let's become romantincally entangled to various degree and bash some critters". It's also weirdly expensive to such a degree that I think there may have been a typo in the eShop?
And we're wrapping things up this week with our weekly Old PC Game That I Don't Think Is Playable Unless You Can Read Japanese; Egg Console: XAK 2. From the screenshots, it appears to be a more action-y Zelda, but the Egg Console games also tend to focus on screenshots that don't have text on them so WHO KNOWS?!?
