June 2022 New Games Thread

[Violentvixen]

A thread for examining the new games of June! Share your personal picks, interesting curios, and not quite there possibles...

Did you discover some small game that not everyone knows about?
Share that and let us know what it is about!

Already know a thing or two that interests you?
Make a list of your interests and/or possibles!

Don't know what's so great about an upcoming game you keep hearing about?
Ask here!

Don't follow gaming news that closely and just want to passively see what BigGames™ people care about?
This is the place!

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Thread concept:
The basic idea is to list new games that you are interested in, as well as games you are potentially curious about or want to give wider attention to. You can briefly describe them or ask other people to help fill you in. The hope is that regular threads like these can act as a collective filter/discovery mechanism to help people decide what is worth checking out.

"New games" means any new title that is being released or ported this month in any capacity (not "backlogs/what you are playing this month"). The angle here is sharing your anticipation and promoting game discovery (as opposed to sharing comments about a first playthrough in progress - that belongs elsewhere).

• If you want a handy list that covers most of the major upcoming games of the month, here's a few text lists of upcoming games:
  • Giant Bomb
  • Game Informer
  • Wikipedia
• Feel free to post other lists or list videos that you find useful.
• If there is already a thread on TT about a game, please add a link to it
• Final request: If you are the first person to mention a game please provide (at minimum) a short sentence description. (If it is a very big AAA release though, then don't worry about it.) This is a good convention that makes the thread more useful as a discovery mechanism, and especially helps out anyone who doesn't follow the news as closely as you.

 

[Violentvixen]

Starting a little early due to the holiday weekend a couple June-related eShop things.

There's a demo/playtest(?) of the new Mario Strikers game that is live now if you have a Switch Online membership. If not I think you can only play during certain times June 3rd-5th. I'm downloading it now so not 100% clear yet. I didn't like the first Mario Strikers game at all but will absolutely try a free demo and see how I feel about this new one.

Silt comes out sometime this month and also just had a demo drop! Neat-looking black and white diving exploration game. This demo is also in my download queue right now so no impressions yet.

Elder Scrolls Online is adding the High Isles expansion. June 6th on PC, June 21st on consoles. This hits right after I have surgery and will be bedridden for a few weeks so I am very pleased with this timing. I don't know a ton about it but honestly a new Elder Scrolls area when slightly loopy from pain meds seems like just the right amount of brainpower/attention span.

Sonic Origins comes out on the 23rd but I doubt I'll buy it until it goes on sale in a year or whatever. I was excited for a lot of the features but as people pointed out in the Sonic thread the tier system is awful.

Horihugh and Friends is a sidescrolling shooter that looks cute and fun. Control two pup pilots! But with everything else going on this month I doubt I'll pick this up right away unless reviews are amazing.

But the biggest one for me this month is Fire Emblem Warriors Three Houses which comes out on the 24th. These games are ridiculous and I love it and this is also sounds like a perfect thing to play when full of pain meds!

 

[Peklo]

Flowers -Le volume sur hiver- will be out on the 18th. It will conclude a four-part visual novel series that's released biennially since 2016, every summer. They are the best visual novels I've ever read, in total are one of the best series in video games and I cannot contain my happiness that the story will finally reach its conclusion.

On the 23rd, The Caligula Effect 2 reaches PC and hopefully wider audiences--if you are Persona-starved, play something better; play this. It beyond deserves the recognition, and I will probably play it again.

Capcom Fighting Collection may as well be called "Darkstalkers and friends" because that's what I'll get it for. Not to look down on Red Earth finally getting a home port, but there are priorities.

Importers have been enjoying Pocky & Rocky Reshrined for a while now, and the rest of the world can catch up on the 24th if all pans out. Tengo Project are one of the most unassailable development houses in the industry, and nothing points to their latest proving that track record wrong.

Overlord: Escape from Nazarick puts me in a tough spot of conflicting interests, because while it is a woman protagonist-lead search actioner with fun-seeming movement mechanics, it's also a licensed property based on a hideously terrible light novel/anime trainwreck full of misogynistic and sexualized violence, including in the starring character's death scene which is as repulsively conceived and directed as anything I've ever seen in the medium. I don't know if that's a price I'll be willing to pay, by association or anything else this spinoff will do, to sate my genre fix.

 

[YangusKhan]

Just Fire Emblem Warriors for me. So far...

 

[chud_666]

Capcom Fighting Collection may as well be called "Darkstalkers and friends" because that's what I'll get it for. Not to look down on Red Earth finally getting a home port, but there are priorities.

Co-sign

Also - Shadowrun Trilogy getting console release - I'm super stoked for that!

 

[Octopus Prime]

Hoo boy, big month this time. Just focusing on the stuff I am deeply jazzed for;

Metal Max Xeno is a severely rebuilt port of one of the few Metal Max games released in English, it's an RPG with a customizable tank that you use to go dungeon crawling with. Apparently the original version of the game was basically rebuilt from the ground up as it wasn't very good, and now it's VERY good.

Shadowrun Returns Trilogy is all three of the Shadowrun games from recent years all compiled and released on consoles. And none of them are the SNES game, but they all look to be at least similar enough to connect with the same mental brain zone as that game did. Or like Divinity 2, except cyberpunk.

Sonic Origins is all the Sonic games I really liked compiled into one.

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes has been mentioned quite a bit. I want it.

Capcom Fighting Game Collection also has, and I also do.

 

[WisteriaHysteria]

AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative is the only thing I have even remote interest in. But uh, it doesn't make a lot of sense to buy the sequel to a game I haven't even taken the shrink wrap off of yet, haha.

 

[ArugulaZ]

Capcom Fighting Game Collection is what I want most. I don't know how many times I've purchased Darkstalkers in the past, but I'm doing it again, dadgummit! (Pity they couldn't get a more full-bodied Vampire Savior in there... instead, they give you the arcade games, which were split into three releases because they couldn't smash all of the characters into one ROM.)

 

[WildcatJF]

I have three I'm getting this month, all on the same day: Capcom Fighting Collection, Fire Emblem Three Hopes, and Pocky and Rocky Reshrined. What an incredible trilogy of games, haha. Altho I ordered deluxe versions of the latter two which are coming after those dates...

 

[Violentvixen]

The new TMNT Shredder's Revenge game comes out next week?! It looks great, here's the thread.

 

[Bongo]

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is making a very good first impression on me with its demo, and I am now even more interested in the full thing.

I'm tempted to pick up Capcom Fighting Collection just for a good way to play Red Earth. I'm not sold on it, though. This might be a catch-up month for me. Still, the idea of a predominantly singleplayer fighting game is pretty tempting. The campaign isn't an afterthought and it'd be a safe way to gain literacy in the genre.

 

[Bongo]

Double posting like a rascal to report that I heard a rumor that Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga is, surprise!, being released this month, rather than the vague reports of "summer" or "soon" that have been circulating more officially. I hope this rumor is true.

This indie tactical RPG wears its influences on its sleeve: from Fire Emblem, it takes a tactical flow where the two sides alternate moving their entire team on a square grid, and a blue-haired choosable-gender protagonist who makes friends; and from Ogre Battle, it takes the squads of multiple characters, whose customizable layout determines their actions in combat.

There's a recent demo out now.

 

[Violentvixen]

Double posting like a rascal to report that I heard a rumor that Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga is, surprise!, being released this month, rather than the vague reports of "summer" or "soon" that have been circulating more officially. I hope this rumor is true.

This indie tactical RPG wears its influences on its sleeve: from Fire Emblem, it takes a tactical flow where the two sides alternate moving their entire team on a square grid, and a blue-haired choosable-gender protagonist who makes friends; and from Ogre Battle, it takes the squads of multiple characters, whose customizable layout determines their actions in combat.

There's a recent demo out now.

Well this looks very much up my alley, downloading the demo now.

 

[muteKi]

Oh god, Sonic Origins and Caligula Effect 2 on the same day? My wallet shudders.

 

[Paul le Fou]

Double posting like a rascal to report that I heard a rumor that Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga is, surprise!, being released this month, rather than the vague reports of "summer" or "soon" that have been circulating more officially. I hope this rumor is true.

This indie tactical RPG wears its influences on its sleeve: from Fire Emblem, it takes a tactical flow where the two sides alternate moving their entire team on a square grid, and a blue-haired choosable-gender protagonist who makes friends; and from Ogre Battle, it takes the squads of multiple characters, whose customizable layout determines their actions in combat.

There's a recent demo out now.

This seems to have a (pre-recorded) stream broadcasting on the linked page right now, with the developer playing through a battle (or more?), so that's something else to check out!

 

[Bongo]

Double posting like a rascal to report that I heard a rumor that Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga is, surprise!, being released this month, rather than the vague reports of "summer" or "soon" that have been circulating more officially. I hope this rumor is true.

The rumor was truer than I hoped. It's out now!

 

[Solitayre]

Double posting like a rascal to report that I heard a rumor that Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga is, surprise!, being released this month, rather than the vague reports of "summer" or "soon" that have been circulating more officially. I hope this rumor is true.

This indie tactical RPG wears its influences on its sleeve: from Fire Emblem, it takes a tactical flow where the two sides alternate moving their entire team on a square grid, and a blue-haired choosable-gender protagonist who makes friends; and from Ogre Battle, it takes the squads of multiple characters, whose customizable layout determines their actions in combat.

There's a recent demo out now.

*Sigh*

Unfortunately I have to come into this thread and ruin everyone's fun.

I know the developer of *Symphony of War* from my RPG Maker days and he is full-throated alt-right.

 

[Rascally Badger]

Has anyone said Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak? Looks like a pretty significant expansion; new monsters, new areas, G rank quests. I am looking forward to it at the end of the month. Enough so that I am finally finishing up the Hub quests on the base game.