Life
has been pretty hectic for me recently. My wife just gave birth to
our second child at time of writing and I’ve got a lot of other
things going on which means my time to just sit and game is fairly
limited. Thankfully, things should clear up at least a little bit in
January so I’m going to take a moment to jot down 5 games that I
have my eye on and I’m hoping to do a play through of soon
Hotel Barcelona
I
have an aggressive case of Roguelike fatigue. Nothing makes me skip
past a game faster than the seeing that tag in the game description.
Not that I have anything against the genre itself, it’s just that
there’s so fuckin many of them that I’ve just temporarily lost
interest. But then Hotel Barcelona comes along and it’s a game from
the collaborative mind of Suda51 and Swery. If you don’t know who
these guys are then I suggest looking them up and giving their games
a try. Killer7 from Suda I played at launch on my GameCube in 2005
and it has remained, to this day, one of my favourite games ever.
Swery is the man responsible for legendary jank fest Deadly
Premonition, a game so out there and interesting that despite it
being mind bogglingly ass in some places I think everyone, gamer or
not, should check it out at least once in their life. So a
collaborative work from those two should be pretty good right? Well
the names alone will get me to open my wallet so let’s hope I’m
in for an enjoyable stay.
House
of Necrosis
Oh
god, another game with randomly generated dungeons and perma death,
can’t move for games like this I swear to god. This game however
asks the interesting question “what if Resident Evil was a Mystery
Dungeon game?” and therefore piqued my interest instantly. I bought
a Shiren The Wanderer game on my DS many years ago and ever since
I’ve been a complete slut for the genre and one loosely based on
Resi can’t be a bad idea
Cloverpit
Described
as a cross between Balatro and Buckshot Roulette, Cloverpit is a game
I initially disregarded when it appeared in my Steam discovery queue.
My aforementioned Roguelike fatigue has caused me to be completely
uninterested in Balatro and Buckshot Roulette was such a nothing game
that I was sort of upset I spent money on it. But then I was looking
around on YouTube and I saw someone say that Cloverpit was less of a
Roguelike with slots and more of a puzzle game where you have to
finesse the machine into giving you enough wins to escape the death
game you’re in. That’s just fucking Kaiji! In case you aren’t
aware, Kaiji is an anime where a dude in crippling debt plays games
to either escape that debt or die. None of these games are played on
the level and Kaiji has to often finesse his way around the gambles
to clutch victory from the assholes that stacked the deck against
him. That’s when Cloverpit started to appeal to me, turning a
Kaiji-esque scenario into a whole ass game, fuckin great idea.
Weather or not this is actually the case is another story but just
the prospect of it being MAYBE true has got me wanting to try
Silent
Hill F
If
you’re in my discord or just know me personally then you’ll know
I’ve been slinging a lot of shit at Silent Hill F so seeing it in
this post might come as a surprise. All my potential issues with
Silent Hill F stem entirely from the “Silent Hill” part of the
title. For reasons that would take far too long for this post, the
tenuous links to a franchise of
a series that should have died in 2004 and hasn’t been good since I
find to be upsetting. The original team were done with Silent Hill
after the 3rd one, even more done after the 4th and moved on but the
franchise has been beaten into a bloody pulp to milk more cash out of
idiots who can’t engage with media that isn’t part of a larger IP
they’re already comfortable with, a sad state of affairs to say the
least. But when I saw the trailers to that game there was one thought
that stood out in my mind and
that was
if it wasn’t for that branding, I’d probably be quite interested
in it. If it wasn’t being pushed as a Silent Hill game to serve as
more ruination of that original series’ masterful writing then I
might have bought it day 1. Just call it “Hinako’s Flowery Trauma
Fuckabout” and let it stand on its own and I would have rushed to
open my wallet. Instead, you can take that £80 price tag and fuck
RIGHT off. But with a discount
and if I tell myself that I shouldn’t let bad branding ruin a
potentially good experience, I have to admit that it does look kinda
cool.
The
Entire Sakura Wars Series
Throwing one retro entry in the post, a series I’ve wanted to have a go through for a long while is Sakura Wars. A strategy RPG franchise that began its life on the Sega Saturn, sort of pulling a neo-Persona type beat long before Persona 3 was even a flash of an idea in some guys head. It’s not a series I have 0 experience with, I picked up the first game on the cheap for my Saturn back when I used to collect retro games but I didn’t play it that long and certainly never finished it. I’ve also had New Sakura Wars sat in my collection of PS4 games for years now and have never once touched it so maybe it’s about time I get on that. I adore SRPGs and I’m always down to play games with an abundance of anime waifus and therefore Sakura Wars seems like the kind of thing that’ll keep me entertained for a good long while.
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