The Backlog Check-in Vol. 220: 3/19/22: Ghostwire: Tokyo/Kirby and the Forgotten Land/Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Edition
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 2:36 am
Played: Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Black The Fall, Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, Eight Dragons, The Last Stand: Aftermath, Marchen Forest
Finished: Eight Dragons
Playing: Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
Added: Asdivine Saga, Atom RPG, Eight Dragons, Exile’s End, Marchen Forest, My Memory of Us, Tanuki Justice, Wallachia: Reign of Dracula
I played the following games recently:
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a cool comic book art style turn-based RPG with colorful graphics, cartoon quality animations and an interesting cast of characters. I didn’t play too much of it since I didn’t want to get invested in a lengthy RPG right now, but I liked what I played and I think that it’s something that most of you might like as well.
Black The Fall is a side scrolling 2.5D platform puzzle game similar to Inside. It has really good graphics, clever/creative puzzles and challenging platforming. I don’t particularly like the character that you play as since he’s basically just a generic avatar that looks a little dopey, but this is a pure gameplay driven game primarily about solving puzzles so it’s not too big of a deal. I was enjoying figuring out the puzzles, but figuring out how to get through an area to reach the next one is basically all that you do. There’s some platforming segments, but they’re usually brief. Some combat segments would have been a nice addition for some variety IMO, because just figuring out puzzles every step of the way and nothing else gets a little tedious. I was enjoying it enough to want to play through it, but I’m just not in the mood for a pure puzzle game right now.
I’m currently playing Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, it’s a somewhat linear third person co-op action game. I’m playing as Catti-Brie the archer, and she’s a good character with ranged arrow attacks and acrobatic kicks. The graphics are impressive, the character controls are decent if albeit a little clunky/stiff, the combat is fun for the most part and there’s a lot of loot to find/collect. The story is serviceable enough to give a reason for what you’re doing, but there’s really no character development.
It had the potential to be a really good single player RPG, but they opted to make it an arcade-y co-op action game instead. It’s more Gauntlet than Dungeons & Dragons. The levels are like dungeons that would be in an action RPG, but there’s no game world or character interaction. There’s simply a small hub area where you select a level to go to, and then start the level. There’s no adventure or RPG elements beyond some basic leveling, attribute upgrading and skill unlocking.
It could have been a full-fledged RPG if there was a game world to travel with towns and NPCs to interact with, but instead it’s essentially just a series of dungeons that you go through and nothing else. I’ve been enjoying it since the combat is kind of fun and the levels are fairly well designed with some platforming and traps in them, but it ultimately feels like I’m playing an unfinished RPG that’s missing everything but its dungeons.
Games releasing this week
Aery: Calm Mind 2
APFTU
The Ascent
BouncyBoi in Puzzle Land
Expedition Zero
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Itorah
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
A Memoire Blue
Relayer
Richy’s Nightmares
Rune Factory 5
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
Tunche
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Finished: Eight Dragons
Playing: Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
Added: Asdivine Saga, Atom RPG, Eight Dragons, Exile’s End, Marchen Forest, My Memory of Us, Tanuki Justice, Wallachia: Reign of Dracula
I played the following games recently:
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a cool comic book art style turn-based RPG with colorful graphics, cartoon quality animations and an interesting cast of characters. I didn’t play too much of it since I didn’t want to get invested in a lengthy RPG right now, but I liked what I played and I think that it’s something that most of you might like as well.
Black The Fall is a side scrolling 2.5D platform puzzle game similar to Inside. It has really good graphics, clever/creative puzzles and challenging platforming. I don’t particularly like the character that you play as since he’s basically just a generic avatar that looks a little dopey, but this is a pure gameplay driven game primarily about solving puzzles so it’s not too big of a deal. I was enjoying figuring out the puzzles, but figuring out how to get through an area to reach the next one is basically all that you do. There’s some platforming segments, but they’re usually brief. Some combat segments would have been a nice addition for some variety IMO, because just figuring out puzzles every step of the way and nothing else gets a little tedious. I was enjoying it enough to want to play through it, but I’m just not in the mood for a pure puzzle game right now.
I’m currently playing Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, it’s a somewhat linear third person co-op action game. I’m playing as Catti-Brie the archer, and she’s a good character with ranged arrow attacks and acrobatic kicks. The graphics are impressive, the character controls are decent if albeit a little clunky/stiff, the combat is fun for the most part and there’s a lot of loot to find/collect. The story is serviceable enough to give a reason for what you’re doing, but there’s really no character development.
It had the potential to be a really good single player RPG, but they opted to make it an arcade-y co-op action game instead. It’s more Gauntlet than Dungeons & Dragons. The levels are like dungeons that would be in an action RPG, but there’s no game world or character interaction. There’s simply a small hub area where you select a level to go to, and then start the level. There’s no adventure or RPG elements beyond some basic leveling, attribute upgrading and skill unlocking.
It could have been a full-fledged RPG if there was a game world to travel with towns and NPCs to interact with, but instead it’s essentially just a series of dungeons that you go through and nothing else. I’ve been enjoying it since the combat is kind of fun and the levels are fairly well designed with some platforming and traps in them, but it ultimately feels like I’m playing an unfinished RPG that’s missing everything but its dungeons.
Games releasing this week
Aery: Calm Mind 2
APFTU
The Ascent
BouncyBoi in Puzzle Land
Expedition Zero
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Itorah
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
A Memoire Blue
Relayer
Richy’s Nightmares
Rune Factory 5
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
Tunche
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games