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Buckshot Roulette
2023
A nice short and sweet creepy game of Russian roulette with some special additions to keep things interesting and plenty of chances to not totally beef it.
A perfectly cromulent horror shooter where barnyard animals have been mutated to murderous monsters running around.
It's kind of creepy at the start, but the game never really keeps the scares, partially because the entire time I played there was only ambient noise.
It's kind of creepy at the start, but the game never really keeps the scares, partially because the entire time I played there was only ambient noise.
I took a three year break half way through this game, but I finally returned to it this month and saw the game through!
A major turning point for the series for not only changing the cast, but changing the style of combat from action to turn based. While not every aspect of the new turn based system felt fully realized in how the characters respond to the environment and enemies around them as they move, I’d still take this over the floaty input delay mess that was Yakuza 6 and some of the other Dragon Engine games before Gaiden finally cleaned things up.
While I don’t think the main story landed with me, I really was won over by Ichiban Kasuga. The guy is just such a delusional loser, but I couldn’t help but root for him all the way through.
A major turning point for the series for not only changing the cast, but changing the style of combat from action to turn based. While not every aspect of the new turn based system felt fully realized in how the characters respond to the environment and enemies around them as they move, I’d still take this over the floaty input delay mess that was Yakuza 6 and some of the other Dragon Engine games before Gaiden finally cleaned things up.
While I don’t think the main story landed with me, I really was won over by Ichiban Kasuga. The guy is just such a delusional loser, but I couldn’t help but root for him all the way through.
Summerhouse
2024
Summer House is a sweet nugget of a game: You get a bunch of house parts and assemble buildings that could be residential, business, or just whatever strikes my fancy that session. Overtime you can unlock people and animals depending on what's placed next to each other which is pretty cool.
Doug Huggem
2024
Became too kind for my own good and broke reality oop
Lethal Company
2023
Lethal Company is the multiplayer horror experience I wish I had when I played phasmophobia. Each time I play I can either feel some form of terror or absolute hilarity depending on the creature or abandoned base I come across with friends. I'm curious to see how the game will continue to evolve as its dev works things out, but it's a tremendous work so far.
[played via the Castlevania collection)
This game is extremely good and I feel like folks who are into souls games should check this one out.
This game is extremely good and I feel like folks who are into souls games should check this one out.
Digital Eclipse zooms in on the gaming library of Jeff Minter from Llamasoft, someone in the gaming industry that I've heard of once or twice but didn't realize just how long they've been at it and how many different platforms he's put games out on.
Since Llamasoft still puts out games today, none of the more recent games can be found here (which makes sense food ain't cheap rn). That being said, I feel like the narrative they tried to tell about Jeff felt a bit incomplete. I understand this is also a collab with a documentary team currently in the making of their film about Llamasoft, but I think this didn't hit for me the same way Atari 50 or Karataka did.
Still worthwhile to experience just to see these weird games from older platforms.
Since Llamasoft still puts out games today, none of the more recent games can be found here (which makes sense food ain't cheap rn). That being said, I feel like the narrative they tried to tell about Jeff felt a bit incomplete. I understand this is also a collab with a documentary team currently in the making of their film about Llamasoft, but I think this didn't hit for me the same way Atari 50 or Karataka did.
Still worthwhile to experience just to see these weird games from older platforms.
Cuphead
2017
I like animation
Sonic Superstars
2023
A good 2d Sonic game. The boss fights suck ass though especially the final one.