I don't want to paint with too broad a brush but, speaking personally, I've enjoyed every song titled "Closing Time" I've ever heard.
So one of the games listed for this week that I was looking forward to, Anton Blast, was delayed at the last minute, so even though it's tempting me from the eShop Coming Soon tab, we're scooting right past it and into what is arguably the biggest name release of the week, and perhaps month! Fantasian: Neo Dimension, a gussied up console port of the Apple Arcade game that made everyone say "So... why isn't this on a video game console? Like with buttons?". In any case, it's from Hironobu Sakaguchi, y'know, the guy who said "What if we didn't do any fantasies after this one?" And it's about a bunch of RPG peeps who say "Hey... kind of sucks that there's a CYBERVIRUS turning people into robots... we should... probably... go on a quest and stop that?".
Anyway, the eShop doens't have a trailer and all the screenshots are from cinematics so all I can say for certain is "From the Final Fantasy guy" and "the main character looks like a gender-swapped 2B.
And hey, you know what's the best part of RPGs? Watch your numbers go up. This is because "watching things go up" is the great unifying delight for all mankind. SO what if they amde a video game that was *entirely* about things going up?!? Well, good news, someone else had that idea too and that's why we have Savant Ascent Remix! This here is a twitchy-pew-pew style arcadey looking game that, for one thing, has some absolutely gorgeous spritework and for a second thing, looks kind of like Downwell. Just... in the other direction. You're a Mecha Guy Fawkes who has to jump between multiple elevators that are climbing up a huge tower while A MILLION BILLION CYBER FREAKS AND MECHA MONSTERS come down to smush you real good. Got some real Downwell-by-way-of-Alien Soldier vibes to it and BY GOLLY, that's how you pitch a video game to this rusty ol' so-and-so.
Speaking of games similar to things I already like; we have the latest from Unepic Team, a developer that makes some very fun video games with a sense of humor that I would describe as "makes me regret being able to understand the English language". To that end we have Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons, which appears to be their take on Knightmare 2 or perhaps Maze of Galious. You've got two peeps, a Swords Guy and a Wands Girl, a big ol' 8 Bit Troid of a Castle and a bunch of ancient demon lords what need a solid whacking. And it's even got co-op since... I mean... there's two peeps what be Troidin'
Troid a Castle, why don't you?
Now what if you want to be trapped in an enclosed area with mythical figures, but you're less inclined to smite them with magic and swords and more want to chat them up and maybe *spark romance* and/orsolve some puzzles? Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island has you covered! You're on a hike and accidentally find the Gods of Olympus...'s summer vacation spot on Ambrosia Island, and they're all kind of sad. So you might as well solve a bunch of logic puzzles and walk around and chat with them a bunch to see if you can't relight their fire a bit.
I'm inferring that there's some *smoocheroos* in the offing, but I'm mainly inferring that because a lot of the character art seems to skew towards "beach-hunk"
And finally, we have this weeks Old PC game, which I normally would group together with the olther reasonable facsimiles of old video games, but that's not how the segway train worked this week. Oh well. This time it's the good eggs at Egg Console brought us Riglas, which appears to be an early RPG. after games had actual graphics but before they had, like... *nice* graphics. Like many of Egg Consoles releases, it has no English translation, but having lots and lots of text was one of its selling points so... umm...
Well, can't say Egg Console is in it to rake in the big bucks with these releases, they're just in it for the love of the game.
So one of the games listed for this week that I was looking forward to, Anton Blast, was delayed at the last minute, so even though it's tempting me from the eShop Coming Soon tab, we're scooting right past it and into what is arguably the biggest name release of the week, and perhaps month! Fantasian: Neo Dimension, a gussied up console port of the Apple Arcade game that made everyone say "So... why isn't this on a video game console? Like with buttons?". In any case, it's from Hironobu Sakaguchi, y'know, the guy who said "What if we didn't do any fantasies after this one?" And it's about a bunch of RPG peeps who say "Hey... kind of sucks that there's a CYBERVIRUS turning people into robots... we should... probably... go on a quest and stop that?".
Anyway, the eShop doens't have a trailer and all the screenshots are from cinematics so all I can say for certain is "From the Final Fantasy guy" and "the main character looks like a gender-swapped 2B.
And hey, you know what's the best part of RPGs? Watch your numbers go up. This is because "watching things go up" is the great unifying delight for all mankind. SO what if they amde a video game that was *entirely* about things going up?!? Well, good news, someone else had that idea too and that's why we have Savant Ascent Remix! This here is a twitchy-pew-pew style arcadey looking game that, for one thing, has some absolutely gorgeous spritework and for a second thing, looks kind of like Downwell. Just... in the other direction. You're a Mecha Guy Fawkes who has to jump between multiple elevators that are climbing up a huge tower while A MILLION BILLION CYBER FREAKS AND MECHA MONSTERS come down to smush you real good. Got some real Downwell-by-way-of-Alien Soldier vibes to it and BY GOLLY, that's how you pitch a video game to this rusty ol' so-and-so.
Speaking of games similar to things I already like; we have the latest from Unepic Team, a developer that makes some very fun video games with a sense of humor that I would describe as "makes me regret being able to understand the English language". To that end we have Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons, which appears to be their take on Knightmare 2 or perhaps Maze of Galious. You've got two peeps, a Swords Guy and a Wands Girl, a big ol' 8 Bit Troid of a Castle and a bunch of ancient demon lords what need a solid whacking. And it's even got co-op since... I mean... there's two peeps what be Troidin'
Troid a Castle, why don't you?
Now what if you want to be trapped in an enclosed area with mythical figures, but you're less inclined to smite them with magic and swords and more want to chat them up and maybe *spark romance* and/orsolve some puzzles? Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island has you covered! You're on a hike and accidentally find the Gods of Olympus...'s summer vacation spot on Ambrosia Island, and they're all kind of sad. So you might as well solve a bunch of logic puzzles and walk around and chat with them a bunch to see if you can't relight their fire a bit.
I'm inferring that there's some *smoocheroos* in the offing, but I'm mainly inferring that because a lot of the character art seems to skew towards "beach-hunk"
And finally, we have this weeks Old PC game, which I normally would group together with the olther reasonable facsimiles of old video games, but that's not how the segway train worked this week. Oh well. This time it's the good eggs at Egg Console brought us Riglas, which appears to be an early RPG. after games had actual graphics but before they had, like... *nice* graphics. Like many of Egg Consoles releases, it has no English translation, but having lots and lots of text was one of its selling points so... umm...
Well, can't say Egg Console is in it to rake in the big bucks with these releases, they're just in it for the love of the game.
