This looks to be like Terra Cresta’s Zanac Neo. Terra Cresta is one of my favorite Arcade Archives games on Switch, and Zanac Neo is great, so I’m really looking forward to this! I guess this series must be pretty popular in Japan, because I never would’ve expected this.
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the guy who made INFERNIUM had a new game come out a few days back:
it seems to be part of a larger series? i see listings for other "Horror tales" games by him set to come out at the end of the year.
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Hadn’t heard of these games before. Did you like Infernium?
Infernium, a survival horror approach to Pac-Man.
waht to heck!!
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oh yeah we’ve talked about infernium here before, it rules, it’s literally dark souls x pacman extrapolated out beautifully
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wow I got to play this. wish I knew about it while the summer sale was on.
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yeah i’ve seen several posts about INFERNIUM here. Bennett Foddy also wrote about it for his little games recommending website/blog he was doing for awhile (which is how i’d heard of it):
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I feel like this might be common knowledge here but I didn’t know this and it’s interesting
EDIT: it seems that tansaku 【探索】 could also be translated as “lookup,” “hunt,” “investigation” or “exploration,” if “search action” feels a little clumsy in English
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Been using Search Action and Belt Scroller for years.
But also think “genre” is twisted for video games and hate it.
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one of the things i was genuinely really struck by and have subscribed to ever since from the tim chronicles was the importance of distinguishing “genre” (murder mystery, sci-fi etc) from “format” (platformer, shmup, fps etc) when it comes to vidcons
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One of the most actively political things I hope I can practice with any writing I do in academia is to insist on using search action in place of metroidvania, and call these damn things videogames not video games.
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You all can call your action spelunkers whatever you’d like, but I feel very strongly about video game being spelled as two words. Like board game, card game, role-playing game, etc. it should always be two words. Same with “never mind”, which is neither here nor there, but also one of those things that drives me crazy.
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long live vidcons
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i feel verystrongly that english should become an agglutinativelanguage
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the -like appendage treats it as a scene formed around a seminal work (Doomlike, Roguelike, Metroidlike, Soulslike). Finding a new genre appellation is supposed to be a christening and the moment when it no longer needs that inspired work; in expensive pop art it seems more that it marks the moment it because culturally self-sustaining, that the audience is no more just a subset of those who played the original, regardless of whether the new genre has broken past it.
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Yeah yeah, I was once sympathetic to this thinking too. But you can’t take the video out of these games and translate them into a traditional analog game format and maintain the same meaning. And maybe someone would disagree, but you can put chess into a video format and all the same information comes along with it. Not the case with analog Dark Souls.
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videogames, pronounced like it’s the name of a figure from greek myth
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Gameymede, divine hero of the gamers.
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fuck i adore this, thx lokes
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though i’m going to imagine they were one of the sophistic rubes socrates owned at a symposium, which i guess is still in the realm of mythology actually
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