Got to be real careful putting blots of mustard on your fragments of potato this time of year, otherwise Bob Marleys ghost will show up and tell you how wonderful your life is by giving you a watch made of hair.
So naturally, we're going to kick off the first DDL thread of the Squishmas Season with a game designed for the *other* Ween, the Spookier one; Paper Cut Mansion. Which appears to be Paper Mario in a haunted house, by way of Diablo. Not to be confused wioth last-weeks The Outbound Ghost, which was Paper Mario by way of Paper Mario, set in a series of haunted houses. As you might expect from the description of "by way of Diablo", it's a roguelite, so the SPPOKY HOUSE changes up every time you play, and new bits of the storyline get revealed each time you die, like Hades. But UNLIKE those games, it's got a neat paper-craft art style. Comparable number of skeletons, however.
Similarly designed for multiple quick sessions, we have out next game; Sword Ship. Which kind of reminds me of The Next Penelope, but without the racing, but instead... a BOAT game! And not just a Boat game... but a Boats game that is also a Bullet Hell Shooter where you have no weapons, just the ability to dodge and trick enemies into exploding one another!
Truly, the only wages of sin are death.
Rumble Fish 2 is... *presumably* not related to the 1983 Mickey Rourke movie, but this could be a Goonies 2 kind of situation. In any case, this is a port of a 2005 fighting game I'd never heard of, now on modern consoles. And one of the guys is some kind of frankenstein man named "Bazoo". Most of the trailer was dedicated to explaining that there were TWO kinds of super move bars.
Chained Echoes is certainly the game I was most jazzed for this week, which is surprising as there's a new entry in one of my absolute favorite series this week as well. What we got here, based ont eh trailers and general descriptions, appears to be something more akin to Chrono Trigger, mixed with Xenogears, but with the science-fictiony stuff turned way down.
So maybe the FoxKids dub of Vision of Escaflowne is a better point of comparison?
In any case; there's a sprawling world, dual techs, sixteen entire bits worth of graphics and the ability to hop into a big robot to beat down equally big monsters, and that's basically what I look for in an RPG
Samurai Maiden is another game that, honestly... looks really solid? Not exceptional, but definitely the kind of thing I'd wait for a sale on at least. It's a 3D beat-em up, it looks spiffy, and the entire playable cast are made up of gals who are good pals. From the trailer, I kind of got some Nights of Azure vibes, but with the horny dialed *way* down.
And finally, we have Dragon Quest Treasures, a DQ spinoff starring possibly my least favorite character from DQ11; Erik! And his Sister Mia to whom I am generally indifferent. This being a DQ spinoff, it doesn't play like the mainline games and is instead an action RPG where you've got a whole whack of PRECIOUS LOOT and FILTHY LUCRE to hunt down, and a whole bunch of monsters to befriend in order to better facilitate that goal.
Visit scenic "A place that's shaped like a big dragons head" and plunder it of all its riches, like a big stupid jerk.
You know, Erik, I know another guy who was all about stealing from everyone in a kingdom on Christmas...
So naturally, we're going to kick off the first DDL thread of the Squishmas Season with a game designed for the *other* Ween, the Spookier one; Paper Cut Mansion. Which appears to be Paper Mario in a haunted house, by way of Diablo. Not to be confused wioth last-weeks The Outbound Ghost, which was Paper Mario by way of Paper Mario, set in a series of haunted houses. As you might expect from the description of "by way of Diablo", it's a roguelite, so the SPPOKY HOUSE changes up every time you play, and new bits of the storyline get revealed each time you die, like Hades. But UNLIKE those games, it's got a neat paper-craft art style. Comparable number of skeletons, however.
Similarly designed for multiple quick sessions, we have out next game; Sword Ship. Which kind of reminds me of The Next Penelope, but without the racing, but instead... a BOAT game! And not just a Boat game... but a Boats game that is also a Bullet Hell Shooter where you have no weapons, just the ability to dodge and trick enemies into exploding one another!
Truly, the only wages of sin are death.
Rumble Fish 2 is... *presumably* not related to the 1983 Mickey Rourke movie, but this could be a Goonies 2 kind of situation. In any case, this is a port of a 2005 fighting game I'd never heard of, now on modern consoles. And one of the guys is some kind of frankenstein man named "Bazoo". Most of the trailer was dedicated to explaining that there were TWO kinds of super move bars.
Chained Echoes is certainly the game I was most jazzed for this week, which is surprising as there's a new entry in one of my absolute favorite series this week as well. What we got here, based ont eh trailers and general descriptions, appears to be something more akin to Chrono Trigger, mixed with Xenogears, but with the science-fictiony stuff turned way down.
So maybe the FoxKids dub of Vision of Escaflowne is a better point of comparison?
In any case; there's a sprawling world, dual techs, sixteen entire bits worth of graphics and the ability to hop into a big robot to beat down equally big monsters, and that's basically what I look for in an RPG
Samurai Maiden is another game that, honestly... looks really solid? Not exceptional, but definitely the kind of thing I'd wait for a sale on at least. It's a 3D beat-em up, it looks spiffy, and the entire playable cast are made up of gals who are good pals. From the trailer, I kind of got some Nights of Azure vibes, but with the horny dialed *way* down.
And finally, we have Dragon Quest Treasures, a DQ spinoff starring possibly my least favorite character from DQ11; Erik! And his Sister Mia to whom I am generally indifferent. This being a DQ spinoff, it doesn't play like the mainline games and is instead an action RPG where you've got a whole whack of PRECIOUS LOOT and FILTHY LUCRE to hunt down, and a whole bunch of monsters to befriend in order to better facilitate that goal.
Visit scenic "A place that's shaped like a big dragons head" and plunder it of all its riches, like a big stupid jerk.
You know, Erik, I know another guy who was all about stealing from everyone in a kingdom on Christmas...
