Not a very dense week this week, but on the other hand, two of the most popular series overall got new releases this week, so... I guess there's not much sense in crowding this particular weeks new release list.
ANYHOW; while I normally stick with eShop releases, since that's easiest to reference and there's a lot of overlap, I'd be remiss not to mention the absolute SMORG released on Xbox yesterday; as the Live Store updated with another (and allegedly final, but they promised that before) update of new backwards compatible games; and while a lot of them aren't the kind of nonsense worth getting excited about, there's a number of long-standing omissions that are back (been wanting to revisit Gun Valkyrie and Timesplitters for yonks), and with FPS updates too.
Also, Halo Infinite came out, but only the multiplayer component, the full adventure of Doomguys little brother, Mr. Chef isn't out just yet. But now you can pretend to be him, and his many identical brothers and sisters as they shoot up one another, instead of those Bad Space Popes and weird bug creatures and stuff they normally fight so much.
On the subject of spinoffs of very popular multiplayer games, we have Hextech Mayhem, a League of Legends spinoff that, instead of being a MOBA, or a card game, or a cartoon on Netflix or whatever else League of Legends has been over the years, is an auto-scrolling platformer, starring some weird little steampunk cat thing that looks like it should have been a soda mascot in the early 90s.
One hundred percent of my knowledge of this series is "knowing it's pretty popular", "a generally positive opinion of the character design" and "intensely toxic fanbase" so... now I know there's an Endless Runner about it too.
And I just bet that The Wild At Heart is one of those video games that's actually about growing up or having emotions or whatever instead of chopping up skeletons to get the hidden Blue Key like a Video Game should be! The screenshots make it look like a Zeld-em-up with a neat art style but it's got Heart right in the name and it's got a couple of precocious children in it so they're probably spooky kid ghosts or on the verge of a big life change or whatever.
And watching the trailer, I was half right; it's actually Pikmin, not Zelda and... yeah... there may be chopping up skeleton creatures for blue keys. Everything else seems to hold true, though.
Also, no relation to the Nicholas Cage movie either.
Root is finally something I AM familiar with; because I've played it a bunch on my phone and deemed it "Adorable and Fun and Worth Playing". It's a Board-y style video game, that's kinda like Risk, except all the armies are critter-peeps and each kind of critter peep has a unique way to win the game, and it's just splendid all up and down the board.
Klang 2 is the Warlord of Time, he was originally born in the peaceful utopia of the 31st century, but grew bored and, after discovering a time machine in a ruined lab from his ancestor from one thousand years before (implied to be either Dr. Doom or Reed Richards) he set out on a campaign of conquest, using the technology of the future to conquer the world of the past.
...Wait, no, sorry that's *Kang*
This is a rhythm platformer, kind of looks like Sayonara Wild Hearts, but kinda Tron-y
And just because I only mentioned early 00's video game releases at the top of the thread and not since, that's no reason not to segue into it again now! Because Bloodrayne: Revamped and Bloodrayne 2: Revamped also came out! I ain't played these before; I can't imagine too many 3rd person shooter-platformers from that era aged great, but the premise of "Vampire Lady Kills Nazi Wizards" is evergreen.
And finally we have the OTHER top tier release of the week; Pokemon: Shining Pearl and Brilliant Diamond which are gussied up remakes of the fourth Pokemon games; which I feel like history has probably been the least kind to. Should be noted that apparently none of the expanded content from Platinum made the cut in these, so there's no Distortion World or Battle Towers or the like, but it's otherwise got a bunch of new stuff and tweaked old stuff; and also it's made with widdle polygons instead of sprites.
Anyway, this is the one with Turtwig as a started, which puts it head and shoulders above most Pokemon games for that alone.
LEAVE ME ALONE!
ANYHOW; while I normally stick with eShop releases, since that's easiest to reference and there's a lot of overlap, I'd be remiss not to mention the absolute SMORG released on Xbox yesterday; as the Live Store updated with another (and allegedly final, but they promised that before) update of new backwards compatible games; and while a lot of them aren't the kind of nonsense worth getting excited about, there's a number of long-standing omissions that are back (been wanting to revisit Gun Valkyrie and Timesplitters for yonks), and with FPS updates too.
Also, Halo Infinite came out, but only the multiplayer component, the full adventure of Doomguys little brother, Mr. Chef isn't out just yet. But now you can pretend to be him, and his many identical brothers and sisters as they shoot up one another, instead of those Bad Space Popes and weird bug creatures and stuff they normally fight so much.
On the subject of spinoffs of very popular multiplayer games, we have Hextech Mayhem, a League of Legends spinoff that, instead of being a MOBA, or a card game, or a cartoon on Netflix or whatever else League of Legends has been over the years, is an auto-scrolling platformer, starring some weird little steampunk cat thing that looks like it should have been a soda mascot in the early 90s.
One hundred percent of my knowledge of this series is "knowing it's pretty popular", "a generally positive opinion of the character design" and "intensely toxic fanbase" so... now I know there's an Endless Runner about it too.
And I just bet that The Wild At Heart is one of those video games that's actually about growing up or having emotions or whatever instead of chopping up skeletons to get the hidden Blue Key like a Video Game should be! The screenshots make it look like a Zeld-em-up with a neat art style but it's got Heart right in the name and it's got a couple of precocious children in it so they're probably spooky kid ghosts or on the verge of a big life change or whatever.
And watching the trailer, I was half right; it's actually Pikmin, not Zelda and... yeah... there may be chopping up skeleton creatures for blue keys. Everything else seems to hold true, though.
Also, no relation to the Nicholas Cage movie either.
Root is finally something I AM familiar with; because I've played it a bunch on my phone and deemed it "Adorable and Fun and Worth Playing". It's a Board-y style video game, that's kinda like Risk, except all the armies are critter-peeps and each kind of critter peep has a unique way to win the game, and it's just splendid all up and down the board.
Klang 2 is the Warlord of Time, he was originally born in the peaceful utopia of the 31st century, but grew bored and, after discovering a time machine in a ruined lab from his ancestor from one thousand years before (implied to be either Dr. Doom or Reed Richards) he set out on a campaign of conquest, using the technology of the future to conquer the world of the past.
...Wait, no, sorry that's *Kang*
This is a rhythm platformer, kind of looks like Sayonara Wild Hearts, but kinda Tron-y
And just because I only mentioned early 00's video game releases at the top of the thread and not since, that's no reason not to segue into it again now! Because Bloodrayne: Revamped and Bloodrayne 2: Revamped also came out! I ain't played these before; I can't imagine too many 3rd person shooter-platformers from that era aged great, but the premise of "Vampire Lady Kills Nazi Wizards" is evergreen.
And finally we have the OTHER top tier release of the week; Pokemon: Shining Pearl and Brilliant Diamond which are gussied up remakes of the fourth Pokemon games; which I feel like history has probably been the least kind to. Should be noted that apparently none of the expanded content from Platinum made the cut in these, so there's no Distortion World or Battle Towers or the like, but it's otherwise got a bunch of new stuff and tweaked old stuff; and also it's made with widdle polygons instead of sprites.
Anyway, this is the one with Turtwig as a started, which puts it head and shoulders above most Pokemon games for that alone.
LEAVE ME ALONE!
