It's the last New Games Thread of the year, mainly out of a combination of new releases drying up around the holidays and also because I'm typically too busy to make new threads for the next couple of weeks. So whether you celebrate Squishmas, Candlenights, Festivus, Sumarian Solstice Festival, Just Specifically the Fifth Day of Hannukah, or one of those other trendy Holidays that the kids are all excited about, here's some new video games. Ho Ho Ho.
First up is the game I'm most excited for this month, and one of the things I'm most eager to tear the wrapper off of come Squishmas mornin' Collection of SaGa! A collection of the three Final Fantasy Legends' games! Assemble a team of... guys who have nothing better to do than climb up a tower and try to chop up God with a Chainsaw! After that, move on to Final Fantasy Legend 2, where a group of friends chop up... the central figures of several other religions with chainsaws. And, having used chainsaws to rewrite several bibles, hop into the third one and start taking down some Cthulhus with, you guessed it; Chainsaws.
I don't know how Santa feels about repeated chainsaw-themed deicide, but I don't *think* it earns you too many spots on the Nice List.
Now nothing makes people think of the coldest night of the year than the lonely life of a cow-poke, and also Bruce Willis saying "Yippee-kay-yay, Mother cusser, and so, we have Boot Hill Heroes, which is a JRPG set in Yeehaw times where you use your shootin' irons to plug some yella-bellies full of lead.
Space Invaders Forever is... perhaps the most eclectic collection of Space Invaders games there could be. For one thing, Regular Space Invaders is not included. But we do have an HD remaster of the just exceptional Space Invaders Extreme for the DS, and the implausible Taito retrospective that is Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders (which I believe has been slightly remixed to not be so demanding of IAPs as it was on mobile devices) and Space Invaders Gigamax 4SE, which is a multiplayer SI that I believe was originally designed to be projected onto the side of entire buildings.
I am extremely down with it, but this is a weird collection.
Synthetik Ultimate is a twin-stick shooter that is also a Roguelite, which I understand is a hard sell for most people, but this one is supposedly very good. Furthermore, it also looks a bit like Neon Chrome, a game which I am happy to go to bat for. However, it also looks like it was designed with mouse control in mind, and I don't know how well twin sticks works in that context; I'm assuming "poorly". Like a lightgun game without the lightgun.
And speaking of "Games that look like other games that I also like, but imagine probably aren't as good" we have the most recent entry in the Mercenaries series; Mercenaries Blaze: Dawn of the Twin Dragons, which I would describe as "Tactics Ogre, but made on a budget". And since it's a Circle Ent game, I'm assuming that budget is roughly half of what you assumed when I said that. It looks... identical to every other Mercenaries game I've played (which was... two of them) and the most distinctive thing I can say about it is "One of the characters looks like Android 18"
Unto the End looks like a side-scrolling Dark Souls, so I will assume it is precisely that until I am proven wrong! And if I am proven wrong, well... I'll probably forget about that and assume it's a 2D side-scrolling Dark Souls until the day I die. Or until I forget this game existed at all... in... like... 3 days.
Rounding off this weeks new releases, we have an update to Nintendo Online! Possible the flippin' *wildest* collection yet. And need I remind you that four paragraphs ago I talked about a game compilation that included one designed to be projected on the side of a building. In any case, we've got The Ignition Factor, (the Legend of Zelda, except with hostage rescue, and if the only monsters were fire) Tuff e Nuff (fighting game with a truly perfect title), Donkey Kong Country 3 (nothing fancy here, just a third DOnkey Kong Country where they were kind of running out of steam), and Super Valis 4 (Castlevania, with armored bikini ladies). and on the NES, Nightshade (legit fascinating beat-em-up/point and click hybrid about a burgeoning superhero, and fromt eh same developers as the SNES Shadowrun)
And moving on to some of next weeks stuff, we've got Override: Super Mech League 2, a sequel to the excellent fighting game that I would describe as being like a melee-focused Virtual On. This one looks to be in the "More of the Same, Please" mold, and that means I am already interested. It also has Ultraman in it, if that swings your interest any more than "Giant Robot Fighting Game" didn't do the job on its own.
And finally, we've got not one, but FOUR entries of the Bit.Trip series; Core/Void/Runner/Fate and Flux! I don't know if there's any difference between them, they didn't really light my fire any, but there's a WHOLE WHACK of them, and they've got Mario Himself doing the narration. I think!
And that's everything I know about! But there's also a Direct scheduled for, like, 4 hours from now, so I expect we'll set a new record for how quickly these threads can be made out of date. MERRY EVERYTHING!
First up is the game I'm most excited for this month, and one of the things I'm most eager to tear the wrapper off of come Squishmas mornin' Collection of SaGa! A collection of the three Final Fantasy Legends' games! Assemble a team of... guys who have nothing better to do than climb up a tower and try to chop up God with a Chainsaw! After that, move on to Final Fantasy Legend 2, where a group of friends chop up... the central figures of several other religions with chainsaws. And, having used chainsaws to rewrite several bibles, hop into the third one and start taking down some Cthulhus with, you guessed it; Chainsaws.
I don't know how Santa feels about repeated chainsaw-themed deicide, but I don't *think* it earns you too many spots on the Nice List.
Now nothing makes people think of the coldest night of the year than the lonely life of a cow-poke, and also Bruce Willis saying "Yippee-kay-yay, Mother cusser, and so, we have Boot Hill Heroes, which is a JRPG set in Yeehaw times where you use your shootin' irons to plug some yella-bellies full of lead.
Space Invaders Forever is... perhaps the most eclectic collection of Space Invaders games there could be. For one thing, Regular Space Invaders is not included. But we do have an HD remaster of the just exceptional Space Invaders Extreme for the DS, and the implausible Taito retrospective that is Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders (which I believe has been slightly remixed to not be so demanding of IAPs as it was on mobile devices) and Space Invaders Gigamax 4SE, which is a multiplayer SI that I believe was originally designed to be projected onto the side of entire buildings.
I am extremely down with it, but this is a weird collection.
Synthetik Ultimate is a twin-stick shooter that is also a Roguelite, which I understand is a hard sell for most people, but this one is supposedly very good. Furthermore, it also looks a bit like Neon Chrome, a game which I am happy to go to bat for. However, it also looks like it was designed with mouse control in mind, and I don't know how well twin sticks works in that context; I'm assuming "poorly". Like a lightgun game without the lightgun.
And speaking of "Games that look like other games that I also like, but imagine probably aren't as good" we have the most recent entry in the Mercenaries series; Mercenaries Blaze: Dawn of the Twin Dragons, which I would describe as "Tactics Ogre, but made on a budget". And since it's a Circle Ent game, I'm assuming that budget is roughly half of what you assumed when I said that. It looks... identical to every other Mercenaries game I've played (which was... two of them) and the most distinctive thing I can say about it is "One of the characters looks like Android 18"
Unto the End looks like a side-scrolling Dark Souls, so I will assume it is precisely that until I am proven wrong! And if I am proven wrong, well... I'll probably forget about that and assume it's a 2D side-scrolling Dark Souls until the day I die. Or until I forget this game existed at all... in... like... 3 days.
Rounding off this weeks new releases, we have an update to Nintendo Online! Possible the flippin' *wildest* collection yet. And need I remind you that four paragraphs ago I talked about a game compilation that included one designed to be projected on the side of a building. In any case, we've got The Ignition Factor, (the Legend of Zelda, except with hostage rescue, and if the only monsters were fire) Tuff e Nuff (fighting game with a truly perfect title), Donkey Kong Country 3 (nothing fancy here, just a third DOnkey Kong Country where they were kind of running out of steam), and Super Valis 4 (Castlevania, with armored bikini ladies). and on the NES, Nightshade (legit fascinating beat-em-up/point and click hybrid about a burgeoning superhero, and fromt eh same developers as the SNES Shadowrun)
And moving on to some of next weeks stuff, we've got Override: Super Mech League 2, a sequel to the excellent fighting game that I would describe as being like a melee-focused Virtual On. This one looks to be in the "More of the Same, Please" mold, and that means I am already interested. It also has Ultraman in it, if that swings your interest any more than "Giant Robot Fighting Game" didn't do the job on its own.
And finally, we've got not one, but FOUR entries of the Bit.Trip series; Core/Void/Runner/Fate and Flux! I don't know if there's any difference between them, they didn't really light my fire any, but there's a WHOLE WHACK of them, and they've got Mario Himself doing the narration. I think!
And that's everything I know about! But there's also a Direct scheduled for, like, 4 hours from now, so I expect we'll set a new record for how quickly these threads can be made out of date. MERRY EVERYTHING!
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