Du-Wop-bop-a-doo-wop-do-wop-bam-boom
Skittering out from under your cupboard to snatch a few crumbs from a cookie jar this week is a surprise release from last week! Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, a gussied up and slightly re-squiggled up remaster of, you guessed it, Turok 3: Shadows of Oblivion! This time the focus is a little less on dinosaur hunting and a little more on Weird Alien Creature Blastin' as the main villain has moved to the brother of the bad guy form the first two games and he likes Space Monsters more than Dinosaurs. And the Son of Stone has to up and solve that problem via cerebral bores and bows and arrows. The other Nightdive remasters of Turok were dramatically improved over the originals, and I can't imagine they half-assed this one.
Quite distant from Turok 3 is a game that is not a re-release of an old game, nor a violent shooter, nor is it even a game starring the Son of Stone, Turok the Dinosaur Hunter; A Highland Song is, incontrovertibly, none of those things, in fact! It's a musical, narrative-heavy platformer set in Scotland about a gal jumping over rocks and glens in order to reach the ocean.
Now, my main reference point for Music and Scotland is the band Gloryhammer, so maybe it is, in fact, full of blasting dinosaurs with missiles. There's simply no way to know unless you play A Highland Song today!
Now if you DID want something that is more clearly based on a well regarded N64 game instead, how about Born of Bread, which looks more than a little like Paper Mario. In fact, I would say it looks "tremendously similar" to Paper Mario. No foolin', that's exactly what I said! But instead of a wonderful jumping man, you're a guy made of bread. And instead of characters from the Super Mario Brothers franchise, it's all original characters who have a kiiiiiinda Neo Pets-y vibe to themselves. Then use all manner of timed hits to solve interpersonal problems by hitting them very hard in and about the head and body!
Fourth, and certainly not least, we finally have Outer Wilds! Which is seasonally appropriate as it's a video game all about a star getting much brighter very abruptly one night. The issue being that it get's much brighter because it's just exploded and took the entire solar system with it and now you're Groundhogs Daying the same half hour over and over again until you can figure out whycome that is and maybe calm down that exploding star just a smidge so everyone *doesn't* explode into a nuclear conflagration.
Just to avoid the inevitable confusion; no, this wasn't released on Switch before, that was Outer Worlds, the Fallout Except Capitalism Instead of Nuclear War game. This is the Groundhogs Day Except Rockets game.
Now, do you like Having Friends and also the web... comic (?) Homestruck? Well, BUCKLE THE DANG H*CK UP, CHUCKLEBUTT, because there's a pair of visual novels based on it out this week; Pester Quest and Hiveswap Friendsim (or collected together as PESTERSIM). I don't know a damn thing about Homestruck beyond "I think I read a bit of Problem Sleuth a long time ago?" but... I unno.
It's got Trolls. I know that?
And we're slamming the brakes on the thread this week with Fearmonium a troid-em-up that looks like one of those cartoons that Babadooks like to watch, but written by a master of psychology! The eShop doesn't mention what their name is, but I don't think they'd lie!
Skittering out from under your cupboard to snatch a few crumbs from a cookie jar this week is a surprise release from last week! Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, a gussied up and slightly re-squiggled up remaster of, you guessed it, Turok 3: Shadows of Oblivion! This time the focus is a little less on dinosaur hunting and a little more on Weird Alien Creature Blastin' as the main villain has moved to the brother of the bad guy form the first two games and he likes Space Monsters more than Dinosaurs. And the Son of Stone has to up and solve that problem via cerebral bores and bows and arrows. The other Nightdive remasters of Turok were dramatically improved over the originals, and I can't imagine they half-assed this one.
Quite distant from Turok 3 is a game that is not a re-release of an old game, nor a violent shooter, nor is it even a game starring the Son of Stone, Turok the Dinosaur Hunter; A Highland Song is, incontrovertibly, none of those things, in fact! It's a musical, narrative-heavy platformer set in Scotland about a gal jumping over rocks and glens in order to reach the ocean.
Now, my main reference point for Music and Scotland is the band Gloryhammer, so maybe it is, in fact, full of blasting dinosaurs with missiles. There's simply no way to know unless you play A Highland Song today!
Now if you DID want something that is more clearly based on a well regarded N64 game instead, how about Born of Bread, which looks more than a little like Paper Mario. In fact, I would say it looks "tremendously similar" to Paper Mario. No foolin', that's exactly what I said! But instead of a wonderful jumping man, you're a guy made of bread. And instead of characters from the Super Mario Brothers franchise, it's all original characters who have a kiiiiiinda Neo Pets-y vibe to themselves. Then use all manner of timed hits to solve interpersonal problems by hitting them very hard in and about the head and body!
Fourth, and certainly not least, we finally have Outer Wilds! Which is seasonally appropriate as it's a video game all about a star getting much brighter very abruptly one night. The issue being that it get's much brighter because it's just exploded and took the entire solar system with it and now you're Groundhogs Daying the same half hour over and over again until you can figure out whycome that is and maybe calm down that exploding star just a smidge so everyone *doesn't* explode into a nuclear conflagration.
Just to avoid the inevitable confusion; no, this wasn't released on Switch before, that was Outer Worlds, the Fallout Except Capitalism Instead of Nuclear War game. This is the Groundhogs Day Except Rockets game.
Now, do you like Having Friends and also the web... comic (?) Homestruck? Well, BUCKLE THE DANG H*CK UP, CHUCKLEBUTT, because there's a pair of visual novels based on it out this week; Pester Quest and Hiveswap Friendsim (or collected together as PESTERSIM). I don't know a damn thing about Homestruck beyond "I think I read a bit of Problem Sleuth a long time ago?" but... I unno.
It's got Trolls. I know that?
And we're slamming the brakes on the thread this week with Fearmonium a troid-em-up that looks like one of those cartoons that Babadooks like to watch, but written by a master of psychology! The eShop doesn't mention what their name is, but I don't think they'd lie!
