You can really tell how close the Beastie Boys are from the way they finish each others sentences.
Showing up, like, a half hour before you expected them to come and just sitting on your couch eating your snacks while you're in the bathroom this week is Gothic II: Complete Classic, and would you at all be surprised if I were to imply that this is a gussied up sequel to the gussied up re-release of Gothic? Well hold on to yer friggin' hats, because that's exactly the information I wish to convey! According to the eShop, it's the kind of sequel that "improves on the original in every way"! From the Screenshots, I can safely determine it looks like Skyrim, but if it was ported to the PS2.
Explore scenic "Generalized Fantasy Land" and bash up some orcs and dragons and like.
You know, whatever has a healthbar.
Speaking of beating up monsters in a familiar looking fantasy world, Arcadian Atlas is next and it looks to be leaning on Tactics Ogre instead. Or Final Fantasy Tactics, if you *insist*, but I'm pretty sure Tactics Ogre is the better source of comparison. And it does, indeed, look like a real good SRPG from what I;m seeing here. And I'm not just saying that because one of the characters focused on in the screenshots is a raccoon. I'm absolutely keeping an eye on this.
And speaking of things I've been keeping an eye on, Trip World DX is something I've been watching carefully as it glides over homeplate and is batted over the bleachers! It's Going... going GONE! HOME RUN! THE PHILLIES WIN THE WORLD SERIES! THE CROWD IS GOING WILD!
By which I mean it's been delayed by a month a few days before release twice already and I'd say I'm expecting a hat trick, but that's a different sport, and I don't use more than one analogy per subject.
It's a hard rule, but one that I live by that's kept me out of some tight scrapes.
Next up is a new entry in a series I'm quite fond of; but it's also a WILDLY DIFFERENT entry in that series and they can't really keep to the same genre more than twice; Steamworld: Build, which instead of being a Mr. Driller, or an SRPG, or a Troid, or a Tower Defense game, or a Deckbuilding RPG, it's a Simcity. But also a Pikmin! Build yourself up a scenic frontier Gold Rush town to entice robots to move in... then put them to work hollowing out the mines underneath that town for precious resources needed to build defenses against angry indigenous life and to build a rocket ship to get off the planet since the very Earth is about to explode thanks to... all the other stuff in the Steamworld series.
Similar to Steamworld (at least Dig and Dig 2) we have Wall World! You've got yourself a giant robo-spider that digs into the side of a planet-sized chasm and mines precious junk out of it and uses that precious junk to upgrade your space miner, tank, and automated defenses since, again, local wildlife does *not* enjoy you breaking apart their biomes for wealth.
Quit being so greedy, local biomes! Share your stuff!
A local biome that is much more obliging to work WITH you instead of against you is present in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, the first DQM game in a surprisingly while, and the first released in North America in longer than that. And, surprisingly, a spinoff of DQ4, starring that games villain Psaro the Manslayer, prior to him going all coo-coo-for-manslaying.
Anyway, ol' Mr. P ain't gonna go ahead and smack down monsters (he's very upfront about what species he wants slain), but he sure can convince them to fight other monsters on his behalf and that means it's a Pokemon, but with a different intellectual property in use!
And speaking of litigious intellectual properties; we're closing this week out with Batman: Arkham Trilogy, a re-release of the Arkham games on the... last system to not have any Arkham games, I guess. They are to Superhero video games as Batman was to superhero cartoons, so they're pretty darn good (Citys iffy writing, and Knight deciding that stunt-driving counts as a riddle not withstanding) and they're games I've already bought on three separate occasions. Will I buy them a fourth for the sake of portability?!?! Who can say!
Visit Scenic: A City I Can't Imagine Anyone Wanting To Live In For Any Reason and step into the shoes of the worlds richest man as he throws sharp pieces of metal at the mentally ill!
THAT'S ALL YOURE GETTING OUT OF ME, COPPER!
Showing up, like, a half hour before you expected them to come and just sitting on your couch eating your snacks while you're in the bathroom this week is Gothic II: Complete Classic, and would you at all be surprised if I were to imply that this is a gussied up sequel to the gussied up re-release of Gothic? Well hold on to yer friggin' hats, because that's exactly the information I wish to convey! According to the eShop, it's the kind of sequel that "improves on the original in every way"! From the Screenshots, I can safely determine it looks like Skyrim, but if it was ported to the PS2.
Explore scenic "Generalized Fantasy Land" and bash up some orcs and dragons and like.
You know, whatever has a healthbar.
Speaking of beating up monsters in a familiar looking fantasy world, Arcadian Atlas is next and it looks to be leaning on Tactics Ogre instead. Or Final Fantasy Tactics, if you *insist*, but I'm pretty sure Tactics Ogre is the better source of comparison. And it does, indeed, look like a real good SRPG from what I;m seeing here. And I'm not just saying that because one of the characters focused on in the screenshots is a raccoon. I'm absolutely keeping an eye on this.
And speaking of things I've been keeping an eye on, Trip World DX is something I've been watching carefully as it glides over homeplate and is batted over the bleachers! It's Going... going GONE! HOME RUN! THE PHILLIES WIN THE WORLD SERIES! THE CROWD IS GOING WILD!
By which I mean it's been delayed by a month a few days before release twice already and I'd say I'm expecting a hat trick, but that's a different sport, and I don't use more than one analogy per subject.
It's a hard rule, but one that I live by that's kept me out of some tight scrapes.
Next up is a new entry in a series I'm quite fond of; but it's also a WILDLY DIFFERENT entry in that series and they can't really keep to the same genre more than twice; Steamworld: Build, which instead of being a Mr. Driller, or an SRPG, or a Troid, or a Tower Defense game, or a Deckbuilding RPG, it's a Simcity. But also a Pikmin! Build yourself up a scenic frontier Gold Rush town to entice robots to move in... then put them to work hollowing out the mines underneath that town for precious resources needed to build defenses against angry indigenous life and to build a rocket ship to get off the planet since the very Earth is about to explode thanks to... all the other stuff in the Steamworld series.
Similar to Steamworld (at least Dig and Dig 2) we have Wall World! You've got yourself a giant robo-spider that digs into the side of a planet-sized chasm and mines precious junk out of it and uses that precious junk to upgrade your space miner, tank, and automated defenses since, again, local wildlife does *not* enjoy you breaking apart their biomes for wealth.
Quit being so greedy, local biomes! Share your stuff!
A local biome that is much more obliging to work WITH you instead of against you is present in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, the first DQM game in a surprisingly while, and the first released in North America in longer than that. And, surprisingly, a spinoff of DQ4, starring that games villain Psaro the Manslayer, prior to him going all coo-coo-for-manslaying.
Anyway, ol' Mr. P ain't gonna go ahead and smack down monsters (he's very upfront about what species he wants slain), but he sure can convince them to fight other monsters on his behalf and that means it's a Pokemon, but with a different intellectual property in use!
And speaking of litigious intellectual properties; we're closing this week out with Batman: Arkham Trilogy, a re-release of the Arkham games on the... last system to not have any Arkham games, I guess. They are to Superhero video games as Batman was to superhero cartoons, so they're pretty darn good (Citys iffy writing, and Knight deciding that stunt-driving counts as a riddle not withstanding) and they're games I've already bought on three separate occasions. Will I buy them a fourth for the sake of portability?!?! Who can say!
Visit Scenic: A City I Can't Imagine Anyone Wanting To Live In For Any Reason and step into the shoes of the worlds richest man as he throws sharp pieces of metal at the mentally ill!
THAT'S ALL YOURE GETTING OUT OF ME, COPPER!
