God I really truly enjoyed Pixeljunk Eden a ton (I am the anti-Rudie on this front) as just swinging through those worlds managing momentum and such tickled the right part of my brain and this… seems to think that was the one part of the game worth excising?
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What about PixelJunk Shooter? That’s one I play through every few years, usually co-op with my nephew. I would recommend liking it as well even if it’s not as distinctive as Eden.
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I wasn’t a fan of Shooter’s cursor-like movement even before I spent a few years on a spaceship game all about momentum. Smart level design, but the flat graphic style of the PixelJunk games doesn’t give me any atmosphere or presence, which I need to stay invested in a game like this. For similar reasons I respect but can’t get into Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.
Have you played the mobile one, Eden Obscura? It does one real neat thing where the backgrounds are partially filled in by your phone’s rear facing camera. I feel like more mobile games could stand to do stuff like that.
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As far as weird reimaginations go I want a Resident Evil 7-style reboot of Maniac Mansion.
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Gimmick! special Edition is out on everything.
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Out on wednesday, daisy cruiser is a good choice.
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Holy shit it records sleep audio and you get different Pokemon based on how they categorise your sleep type. Looking forward to stories of people not actually sleeping but making certain noises for 8 hours all night just to fill out the dex.
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out next Thursday
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Wow, thanks for the reminder, I forgot all about that game.
I played a ton of that Tomorrow Children beta and I never had any idea what I was doing, why I was doing it, or why I kept playing it. Would not be surprised if it was a psy-op of some kind.
PixelJunk Eden was a joy in that early PS3 indie era but I also don’t know that it’s something I felt needed additional content (didn’t it already one get DLC way back then too?). I guess to justify the sequel it needs more “mechanics” and probably more straightforward platforming to try and sell itself in a fairly crowded indie platformer sphere.
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Good to see they’re focused on getting the details right.
Absolutely love that 2D style. Wonder if turning the screen shake off will be an option. Not too in love with the 3D dungeon but hm could this be the first Wizardry I play.
The 2D artist has a really nifty Wizardry-style (I think?) color pixiv gallery:
Oh I see, apparently the art was made for Javardry (English web version; there’s an English Windows version (Wiki (JP); software page (JP); English version direct download link)–requires Java) but the artist made their work available for use in other games too or something Art similarities to Buriedbornes :: Demon Lord Reincarnation General Discussions
Man this Javardry thing is kind of cool (color and no screen shake ^_ ^).
It looks like Demon Lord Reincarnation is sort of a stylized black and white port of it, but not free. Hm.
Buriedbornes is a free-to-play on Steam (version of a mobile game, looks like) that uses the same art:
Wizardry: The Five Ordeals looks similar, but appears to be based on a 2006 Japanese PC game–maybe its art inspired Javardry’s:
Javardry has a big scenario-creation scene among Japanese users Javardry Wiki* , but none in English–maybe because the Javardry editor is in Japanese.
The Five Ordeals also has an editor–in Japanese. However, it sounds like ten or so user-created scenarios for it do have English versions–downloadable through the game itself, I think. It has several paid DLC scenarios, too–surprisingly expensive ones. And I don’t like its presentation as much.
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I did not even know it existed. I also don’t own a smart phone, but if i ever do I’ll have to try and remember this exists!
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I played Buriedbornes a bit and wrote in the thread very briefly in March. It’s a good “game while doing something else” game. It says Steam cloud supported but it didn’t work for me. caused me to bounce. Started a pretty long play session on a computer in a spot I rarely access anymore. I bounced.
So… caveat free-to-playor
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Oh yeah, random game that caught my eye today:
Apparently a real punk band, and I’m not sure we have many games that take place in Milwaukee’s punk scene. Game looks janky as hell but I loved too many of these signs at the anti-Punk protest.
“Go mosh in a pit of fire” as an amazing turn of phrase. I’m also gonna include the trailer as I kinda love the 2 second look at the “3d beat 'em up in a mosh pit” stage.
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There was just a long multipart documentary about Milwaukee’s punk scene that hit last summer, and I gotta believe this dev was inspired by that.
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This rules
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