Man I have serious buyers remorse with Dragon Marked for death. Sprawling, boring maps and grindy to boot. Got suckered on this one.
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Nintendo eShop - April 2019 | Our Wallets Are Ended
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Grrrrr! I've had a pretty good run of not picking any stinkers. Had to miss eventually.
The list of releases this week is so ridiculous that even the DLC tab has multiple cool stuff (Smash, Pic-a-Pix, Overcooked...). My bank account is crying.
Not feeling Katana Zero at the moment. While it's stunning to look at (burning your contract before levels is especially well done), the game play seems a little simplistic early on and the ratio of playing levels versus storytelling and dialogue seems far too skewed towards the latter, especially considering those elements aren't grabbing me. It's definitely not what I was expecting.
SEGA AGES Virtua Racing comes out next Thursday in Japan!
(And the gulf between regional releases continues...)
I've been gradually jumping in and out of it since January (playing solo offline as the Empress) and I'm just now finishing up the last of the quests, but it's been a bumpy journey so far and I'm sure it'll personally rank as one of Inti Creates' lesser efforts by the time I'm done with it. Game has many problems that should've been ironed out over the many years it's been back-burnered. The soundtrack and HD Rumble are two of its few saving graces.
I'm just trying to power through to the end so that I can promptly move on to Inti's Blaster Master Zero 2, which will hopefully redeem them after the disappointment of DMfD...
It's legit. Been playing a bit of the pre-release build, and it's got a lot of potential.
I think I saw them say on Twitter the embargo lifts Tuesday.
Shheeessh, april is just full of surprise eshop releases.
I might wait on a sale for this one, though. I'm more interested in it in a "I wanna see this game that left an inpact" sorta way. I feel like it might not fully click with me since I have no nostalgia, but as someone who is interested with gaming history, I feel like it's something I should at least try out.
Plus I want to support Sega Ages releases for games that don't get re-released as often.
So it's possible to play solo as the Empress? I haven't played Empress all that much, but it seems like kind of a chore to play as Shinobi and Shinobi has to be a lot easier to manage solo.
Devil Engine is on sale. That one's awesome, right? I get a little confused with all the various shmups.
So I downloaded the Labyrinth of Refrain demo and it's... a lot of fun. Etrian Odyssey with more depth basically. Anyone want to speak to why the game isn't rewarding? Note: I'll skip the story if the systems are good enough to carry me through. RPG stories are generally a huge disappointment to me, so I don't feel the need for them to help support anything. My favorite games lately have been shooters, roguelites, and platformers. If there is an RPG equivalent in this game (great gameplay, story not even necessary), then I'm game.
Ooh! Thanks for the heads-up. Been waiting for a sale on Devil Engine. Grabbed that and Cuphead this morning.
I enjoyed Refrain enough to complete the basic story, but I would agree that the cutscenes are very very skippable, as they drag on forever and are just generally annoying. The gameplay is fine enough to suit as a replacement for Etrian withdrawal, but it does feel to me very much of the Nippon Ichi/Disgaea school of gameplay where you grind and grind and grind for the random hope of getting the right skill or stat bump or equipment. Etrian seemed a bit more deliberate in the strategy of building out your team for certain skills and roles, where planning out these great synergies really highlighted the dungeon crawl, but I suppose you could do similar in Refrain if you don't mind really grinding for it.
All that said, if you want a dungeon crawler, Refrain is fine enough. Just jam on that SKIP SCENE button and you should be fine.
nautone Does a good job explaining, and I will add that I didn't feel like the game respected my time. Typical for a NISA game.
I mean I put in over 40 hours and stuff was still unlocking and getting discovered, and I did feel at a point where the combat wasn't engaging anymore. I think what it does is pushes that feeling as far as it can before introducing/adding a small change, either an upgrade path or new equipment, and then starting all over. It is ultra-grindy as well.
thanks for the clarification, both of you! it sounds like i will ultimately back off, at least until I see a sale. I had fun grinding through parts of Disgaea 5, but ultimately smashed that cheat shop up in order to get to the end. i love maze exploration and i don't mind long roads toward updates/team building, but lately I've been put off by enough RPGs to be cautious about my purchases. a lot of games people love have been left in the dust for more arcade experiences.
Same feeling with shatae half genie. They changed the genre...
I feel just the same. The best game I've placed in recent years were short but very sweet... ( Inside, What Remains of Edith Finch, Night in the Woods, Celeste etc. )
I find it pretty hard to get into long games nowadays because I probably will never finish those games.
BOUGHT
Like, I'm literally going into the eShop right now and buying this game.
Edit - Downloading! Really appreciate their response to the feedback over the icon.
Works fine in handheld but drops hdmi connection always after about 2-3 minutes. Tried on 3 different TVs and docks, reset system, went through Nintendo troubleshooting, etc.
Week April 18th
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Full week on eShop:
NA PR, Sales
EU PR, Sales
JP Article
- Games
- DLCs
- Demos
- Japan
-Late Releases
NA PR, Sales
EU PR, Sales
JP Article
- Games
- Cuphead - Studio MDHR - $19.99/€19.99 - 3.3 GB
- Katana ZERO - Askiisoft/Devolver Digital - $14.99/€14.99 - 244 MB
- Path to Mnemosyne - Hidden Trap - $9.99/€9.99 - 871 MB
- My Time At Portia - Team17 - $29.99/€29.99 - 2.6 GB
- Tanks Meet Zombies - TitanForgedGames - $9.99/€9.99 - 576 MB
- Truberbrook - Headup Games - $29.99/€29.99 (Launch sale: $26.99/€26.99) - 6.1 GB
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions - Playfusion - Free-to-Play - 97 MB
- Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection - Konami - $19.99/€19.99 - 289 MB
- Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster - Square Enix - $49.99/€49.99 - 14.0 GB
- Our World Is Ended - Pqube - $59.99/€49.99 - 2.8 GB
- Hell is Other Demons - Kongregate - $9.99/€9.99 - 409 MB
- You Died but a Necromancer Revived You - JaimeAlvarezLosada - $8.99/€8.99 (Launch sale: $7.64/€7.64) - 243 MB
- Alpha - Kaname - $5.00 - 264 MB
- The Padre - Feardemic - $19.99/€19.99 - 2.9 GB
- GoatPunks - Mellifont Santiago - $9.99/€8.90 - 574 MB *04/27 on NA*
- Samurai Shodown V Special - NeoGeo - SNK/Hamster Co. - $7.99/€6.99
- Dawn of Survivors - Wistone Ent. - $1.99/€1.79 - 379 MB
- Cafeteria Nipponica - Kairosoft - $12.00/€10.00 - 229 MB
- The Knight & The Dragon - Naps Team - $7.99/€9.99 - 176 MB
- DayD: Through Time - 8Floor Games - $9.99/€8.79 - 716 MB
- SlabWell: The Quest For Kaktun's Alpaca - $9.99/€9.99 - 1.0 GB
- Iron Snout - Ratalaika Games - $4.99/€4.99 - 49 MB
- Everybody, Hearts! - Cellnavi - $6.00/€5.00 - 272 MB
- Secrets of Magic: The Book of Spells - Joindots - $9.99/€9.99 - 180 MB
- Croc's World 2 - Sprakelsoft - $5.99/€4.99 - 385 MB
- Witch Thief - Cardboard Keep - €12.99 - 1.5 GB
- Moto Rush GT - Baltoro Games - $14.99/€14.99 - 2.3 GB
- Risky Rescue - Forever Entertainment - $4.99/€4.99 (Launch sale: €4.49) - 224 MB
- Active Soccer 2019 - Gianluca Troiano - $11.99/€9.99 - 544 MB
- Construction Machines Simulator - SimFabric - $29.49/€27.99 (Launch sale: $26.54/€25.19) - 138 MB
- Sudoku Relax - G-mode - $5.00/€5.09 (Launch sale: $3.50/€3.56) - 57 MB
- DLCs
- Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - Grasshopper Manufacture
Bubblegum Fatale - $5.99 - *Included in the Season Pass* - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Nintendo
Challenger Pack 1: Joker - $5.99/€5.99 - *Included in the Season Pass* - Overcooked! 2 - Team 17
Season Pass - $19.99/€18.99
Campfire Cook Off - $5.99/€4.99 - *Included in the Season Pass* - Tesla vs Lovecraft - 10tons
For Science! - $4.99/€4.99 - Trials Rising - Ubisoft
Sixty-Six - $7.99/€7.99 - *Included in the Season Pass*
- Demos
- BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! - HAL Laboratory/Nintendo
- Gabbuchi - h.a.n.d
- X-Morph: Defense - EXOR Studios
- Ayakashi Koi Gikyoku - DIGIMERCE
- Croc's World 2 - Sprakelsoft
- Japan
- Scrap Rush!! - Acquire - ¥1,680
- Langrisser I & II - extreme - ¥7,344
- Taishou x Alice: All in One - Protoype - ¥6,000
- Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun RE:Therapy - Kogado Studio - 4,800 (Launch sale: ¥3,840)
-Late Releases
- Moai VI: Unexpected Guests - Joindots - $18.99 - 940 MB *NA*
I'm usually not an 'icon warrior' but man, that's sooooo much better than what it was previously.
Man, this Cuphead replay has been so satisfying. Almost done with it after only a handful of hours; I did expect to have a great time but this is almost as exciting as the first playthrough.
Yeah Devil Engine is legit. There were a handful of impressions in past threads if you're interested, but it's definitely one of the better shooters available on the system.
I'm always confused by this and Rival Megagun (which seems like it's fine, but Devil Engine had a ton of praise, just wanted to make sure it was the right shmup-with-the-red-ship)
I have! My concern with that one is that it's going to turn out like Grimrock and battle will be a game of playing squaredance with the baddies. retreat, hit, retreat, hit, sidestep, hit, sidestep, hit... i should look at some reviews, though, because the graphics and setting seem top notch.
Earlier than expected, but just goes to show how far ahead into these releases Japan is. Will not be able to wait.
Features wise there isn't a lot there for me in a straight Arcade port of VR but this is a beggars/choosers situation.
Virtua Racing might be the most important SEGA AGES game to support with your wallet thus far if only because it's a 3D arcade rerelease, and they'll most likely be looking at sales of this to infer demand of other '90s arcade conversions and possibly Saturn/Dreamcast stuff. It also helps to get in early while the online population is healthy too. As soon as it launches in the West, I'll be sure to get a ton of races in against others while it's easy, since I imagine that's where most of the replayability will be if you don't have anyone to play with locally.
Yep, it's possible with minimal grinding, but obviously not ideal seeing as how DMfD was crafted primarily as a co-op experience. I checked for parties in the lobby a few times early on but was never able to join anyone, so I just gave up and decided to rough it on my own. I'm sure the game is much more enjoyable when you're progressing with other players as a team, but I'll probably never know what that's like since I'll be dropping this as soon as I'm done with all the quests and will be unlikely to ever return to it. Or maybe in a few years I'll give it another go with a different character, but by then the online playerbase will be nonexistent.
For the Empress, I've been primarily using the Sumeragi Glaive (free if you pre-purchased), dumping most of my level-up stat points into the strength attribute, and equipping nothing but healing and anti-poison items. Then you just need to memorize enemy behavior and spam the crap out of the dragon arm to send flying enemies to the ground where you can wail on them with your sword, which I admit can be pretty damn satisfying when the questionable level design doesn't get in the way. lol
Some of y'all were talking about Tangledeep the other day.
It just got updated with some QoL enhancements!
It just got updated with some QoL enhancements!
I don't know, in my opinion I think you may be doing a mistake. I really enjoyed the demo as well, and continued to enjoy the game for many many hours afterwards. It really gave me my Etrian fix and then some. Even though I didn't manage to beat the end boss (well the end of story boss, there's still lots of content afterwards apparently),I felt very satisfied with the entire experience. And I am saying this as someone who lost patience with Disgaea 5 very quickly.
As to Vaporum, that remains to be seen. I bought it, but I need to finish Bertram Fiddle 2 first, and then need to decide if to play next Vaporum, Shadowgate or Hellblade...
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Thanks to tolkir we can easily go back through the threadmarks and look up original game icons by week of release, and... well... you guys weren't kidding...
Thanks to tolkir we can easily go back through the threadmarks and look up original game icons by week of release, and... well... you guys weren't kidding...
You can also look at this beautiful site by Robin64: http://www.robin64.co.uk/switchiconshowdown/changes.php
Anyone tried Rogue Bit? Looks like an extremely niche thing, but I've been curious about it since it launched and now it's on sale for only 2.99.
Oh and I'm glad they changed the Ringo icon. I didn't particularly dislike the original but not making use of that sweet artwork felt like a waste.
Oh and I'm glad they changed the Ringo icon. I didn't particularly dislike the original but not making use of that sweet artwork felt like a waste.
I think that includes DLC. The EU webshop shows me 1999 (DE) or 2001 (UK) games, my eShop shows me 2041 (includes software such as YouTube).
That's still ~2.6 games per day, ~18 games per week or ~80 per month, which is insane.
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Yeah I'd highly recommend it (I think it's generally considered one of the best vn's), just keep in mind that it's not very long, it took me 2 hours to finish it since it has a single route.
Heh, this pretty much reads as a list of devs realising that they need to include the title of the game in its logo.
Thanks for the link.