Man, Charles Dickens just ruined the name "Ebenezer" for everyone, didn't he?
We're leading with strength this week as we're kicking off with what isn't just the game I'm most jazzed for this month, it might be the game I'm most jazzed for this whole dang year; Dragon Quest III HD 2D Remake, which takes what is on my short-list of favorite entries in my favorite RPG series and gave it a real bad case of the ol' razzle dazzle so that it looks like Octopath Traveler except with all the colours of the rainbow instead of Grey, Brown and Lensflare. They've also added a veritable boatload of New Stuff to the game, including job classes and side quests but have been real cagey about all of what else.
Build a team of adventure folks because yer dad got Volcano'd real bad by a hadrosaur wizard and you think "Hey... that sucks!" and so decide to go all over the planet and give him the ol' one-two-shineola.
Speaking of video games form the 1980s that left an indeliable mark on the video game industry that can't be overstated and also occupy... at least 10% of my mental processes at any given time, next up is Tetris. Tetris Forever, to be exact! And I would normally say "That's entirely too much Tetris" but, well... clearly it's not since it's been 40+ years and nobodys gotten tired of it yet. Anyway, this isn't just *a* Tetris, that would be entirely too pedestrian for a Digital Eclipse re-release; so it's *sixteen* Tetrises. Which the eShop describes as "15+" which is accurate, I suppose. There's even a BRAND NEW Tetris that just has you playing multiple versions of the game competitively at the same time.
It's Tetris! Arrange blocks until you fail!
Speaking of winning one-sided games, we have Goblin Slayer: Another Adventurer: Nightmare Feast, an SRPG spinoff of the anime series which I enjoy, but would absolutely not recommend without a laundry list of content warnings. The game is rated T for "Mild Fantasy Violence and Suggestive Themes" so I'll assume they actually toned the content down to an acceptable level. As noted it's a spinoff, so the focus is on a new set of characters rather than the main cast, which is fine, but also every character is just named after what they do in an RPG party so... umm... kind of hard to tell.
Anyway, you inherit an RPG Party Management job from your dad and then a powerful macguffin falls into your lap and have to be all "Aww geez, now *this* is on my chore list".
There's an Easy mode for people who just want to enjoy the story and not be fussed too much by difficult combat which feels pretty antithetical to the whole, y'know... vibe.
Speaking of getting psychologically ruined by little monsters, we've got 49 Keys, a point and clicky books-em-up where you're a monk reading a creepy ol' dusty book back in the sucky-ages and then finds out that *whoops*, this is one of those cursed books and reading it is, like... very low on the lists of ways you should interact with it.
But if you didn't, there wouldn't be much of a game here, so whatareyagonnado?
Speaking of incomprehensible things that shouldn't be, the perhaps most baffling thing to show up in this history of these threads is probably Lego: Horizon Adventures, but here it is... absolutely defying reason. It's a Lego game, so no issue there, it's a fine bunch of open-world/beat-em-up/collectathon platformers, but it's tied in to the Horizon series, which is very definitely a Sony franchise, but here it is, on everything.
Hmm, if Horizon can be on Switch and Xbox, then... maybe there's hope for us all yet.
Explore the scenic Xenozoic era a world where The forces of nature have spun wildly out of control. Mighty cities have crumbled and the dinosaurs have returned to reclaim the Earth. In this savage land, one woman stands alone - Aloy, defending humanity in a world gone mad. A world where only the strong survive; a world of... Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
And... I don't really have a good segue here so next is VED (which is how you pronounce the letter V in Canadian). It's an RPG, it's got some nice looking art and some roguelite randomized plot progression stuff going on. Looks neat. Kind of got some Cobalt Core vibes, if it was based on Fantasy Novel cover art instead of Cartoon Space Varmints.
And now we're at the end of the thread so time for all the retro-re-releases, starting with Rage of the Dragons Neo, which is kind of a new game, but just in the incremental improvements to a fighting game sense; since it's mostly 2002s Rage of the Dragons; which I *believe* started as a Double Dragon spinoff turned into a pure fighting game. Where it falls on the overall hierarchy of DD games, I could not guess, but I'll assume "s'okay"
And speaking of games that have assuredly been re-released before now, and indeed, have already been re-released as part of the Egg Console series, we have Egg Console Ys, but it's specifically the MSX2 port of Ys. Which is fancier than the previous version they re-released but... like... it's Ys.
Ys is a good time, but I don't know how granular the changes between re-releases are. And I'm saying that in a week that has a game that's 15 versions of Tetris.
And clocking in late for work and clocking out early is Irem Collection Volume 2, a collection of the arcade versions of Air Duel, Gun Force and Gun Force 2. One is a shmup, the rest are Contras.Don't really have a heck of a lot else to say here...
OKAY, GO TO BED
We're leading with strength this week as we're kicking off with what isn't just the game I'm most jazzed for this month, it might be the game I'm most jazzed for this whole dang year; Dragon Quest III HD 2D Remake, which takes what is on my short-list of favorite entries in my favorite RPG series and gave it a real bad case of the ol' razzle dazzle so that it looks like Octopath Traveler except with all the colours of the rainbow instead of Grey, Brown and Lensflare. They've also added a veritable boatload of New Stuff to the game, including job classes and side quests but have been real cagey about all of what else.
Build a team of adventure folks because yer dad got Volcano'd real bad by a hadrosaur wizard and you think "Hey... that sucks!" and so decide to go all over the planet and give him the ol' one-two-shineola.
Speaking of video games form the 1980s that left an indeliable mark on the video game industry that can't be overstated and also occupy... at least 10% of my mental processes at any given time, next up is Tetris. Tetris Forever, to be exact! And I would normally say "That's entirely too much Tetris" but, well... clearly it's not since it's been 40+ years and nobodys gotten tired of it yet. Anyway, this isn't just *a* Tetris, that would be entirely too pedestrian for a Digital Eclipse re-release; so it's *sixteen* Tetrises. Which the eShop describes as "15+" which is accurate, I suppose. There's even a BRAND NEW Tetris that just has you playing multiple versions of the game competitively at the same time.
It's Tetris! Arrange blocks until you fail!
Speaking of winning one-sided games, we have Goblin Slayer: Another Adventurer: Nightmare Feast, an SRPG spinoff of the anime series which I enjoy, but would absolutely not recommend without a laundry list of content warnings. The game is rated T for "Mild Fantasy Violence and Suggestive Themes" so I'll assume they actually toned the content down to an acceptable level. As noted it's a spinoff, so the focus is on a new set of characters rather than the main cast, which is fine, but also every character is just named after what they do in an RPG party so... umm... kind of hard to tell.
Anyway, you inherit an RPG Party Management job from your dad and then a powerful macguffin falls into your lap and have to be all "Aww geez, now *this* is on my chore list".
There's an Easy mode for people who just want to enjoy the story and not be fussed too much by difficult combat which feels pretty antithetical to the whole, y'know... vibe.
Speaking of getting psychologically ruined by little monsters, we've got 49 Keys, a point and clicky books-em-up where you're a monk reading a creepy ol' dusty book back in the sucky-ages and then finds out that *whoops*, this is one of those cursed books and reading it is, like... very low on the lists of ways you should interact with it.
But if you didn't, there wouldn't be much of a game here, so whatareyagonnado?
Speaking of incomprehensible things that shouldn't be, the perhaps most baffling thing to show up in this history of these threads is probably Lego: Horizon Adventures, but here it is... absolutely defying reason. It's a Lego game, so no issue there, it's a fine bunch of open-world/beat-em-up/collectathon platformers, but it's tied in to the Horizon series, which is very definitely a Sony franchise, but here it is, on everything.
Hmm, if Horizon can be on Switch and Xbox, then... maybe there's hope for us all yet.
Explore the scenic Xenozoic era a world where The forces of nature have spun wildly out of control. Mighty cities have crumbled and the dinosaurs have returned to reclaim the Earth. In this savage land, one woman stands alone - Aloy, defending humanity in a world gone mad. A world where only the strong survive; a world of... Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
And... I don't really have a good segue here so next is VED (which is how you pronounce the letter V in Canadian). It's an RPG, it's got some nice looking art and some roguelite randomized plot progression stuff going on. Looks neat. Kind of got some Cobalt Core vibes, if it was based on Fantasy Novel cover art instead of Cartoon Space Varmints.
And now we're at the end of the thread so time for all the retro-re-releases, starting with Rage of the Dragons Neo, which is kind of a new game, but just in the incremental improvements to a fighting game sense; since it's mostly 2002s Rage of the Dragons; which I *believe* started as a Double Dragon spinoff turned into a pure fighting game. Where it falls on the overall hierarchy of DD games, I could not guess, but I'll assume "s'okay"
And speaking of games that have assuredly been re-released before now, and indeed, have already been re-released as part of the Egg Console series, we have Egg Console Ys, but it's specifically the MSX2 port of Ys. Which is fancier than the previous version they re-released but... like... it's Ys.
Ys is a good time, but I don't know how granular the changes between re-releases are. And I'm saying that in a week that has a game that's 15 versions of Tetris.
And clocking in late for work and clocking out early is Irem Collection Volume 2, a collection of the arcade versions of Air Duel, Gun Force and Gun Force 2. One is a shmup, the rest are Contras.Don't really have a heck of a lot else to say here...
OKAY, GO TO BED
