Weapon Shop de Omasse is a very unique game developed by Level-5 incorporated. It incorporates a unique combination of gameplay elements not usually seen in other games. Strange as it is, the game is most defiantly a fun experience for any RPG fan.
Are you ready to travel back in time? Retro City Rampage DX is a hilarious 8 bit parody game that provides hours of shenanigans and non stop brutality.
Inazuma Eleven is a unique soccer RPG game that is developed by Level-5. It has combines RPG elements and the game of soccer into it to blend it into a very great mix. Players who are fans of RPGs or soccer will have a very fun experience while playing this game.
Magus (pronounced May-jus) is a third-person action/adventure title from Black Tower and Aksys Games. It stars the titular protagonist; a young man imprisoned since infancy and tortured for reasons unknown. One day mysterious woman named Kinna, reveals his true birthright, to be that of a God and assists in his escape. Now with this assassin by his side, Magus sets out to gets his revenge of the King who had him locked away. It is an interesting plot, that never really delivers. It isn’t bad but there is nothing about this narrative that left an impression. It does feature some interesting and funny dialogue, mostly the protagonist’s. For some reason Magus speaks as though as he lives in modern time, even though this game takes place in a fantasy world set in the past. Sentences such as “Damn, son how many unicorns did you have to eat to get that big?”, while funny, is out of place.
One of the original formats of games, the traditional tabletop role playing game genre, is brought to life in Escahlon: Book III for beginners and pros to hash out their dice rolling dreams (and nightmares). To start things off, players select their Gender, Origin, Axiom, and Class while also setting a Portrait image (with custom images allowed as well) in addition to picking 15 available Skills and dice rolling attributes including Strength, Dexterity, Endurance, Speed, Intelligence, Wisdom, Perception, and Concentration (20 attribute points are also distributed manually by the player). Once all of this has been completed and a character has been given a name, the game begins. The skills available range from Light / Heavy Armor to Foraging, Medicine, Hiding in Shadows, Swords, Picking Locks, and much more. Choosing these skills will play a large role in defining the gameplay experience players will get out of their time with Eschalon: Book III. The game can be played in Hardcore mode (or lower settings) for additional difficulty as well.
The first thing users experience when they put on a pair of SteelSeries H Wireless Gaming Headsets is the comfort level and flexibility of the accessory. Users can wear these over a hat comfortably. It becomes evidently clear upon getting your first listen that they also provide a great value for the sound quality and technical quality provided. The battery life is very good fresh out of the box, and holds up pretty well over the initial span of time they were tested through.
Earth Defense Force 2025 is a third-person shooter from developer Sandlot. A sequel to EDF 2017, it sees the planet Earth once again threatened by giant bugs and an alien threat known as the Ravagers. That is all you really need to know about this game’s story. It’s a throwaway tale, filled with B movie dialogue and equally cheesy voice acting. The main focus of this game is to kill everything in sight and have fun. EDF generally delivers, though it is not without its annoyances.
Final Fantasy VII is arguably the single handedly most well known role playing game ever released out of Japan. Originally hitting the Sony PlayStation exclusively in 1997, this game has gone on to see a retro release on Windows PC in 1998 and is also available as a digital download from the PlayStation Store (compatible with PSP, PS3, and PS Vita). However, until now – there have been no noticeable adjustments made to the game’s look across these versions. Square Enix has taken the liberty of putting out a New PC Version that now comes with achievements, enhanced graphics, and a few other features that attempt to avoid spoiling the game while at the same time bringing it in line with modern releases of the genre.
Deadly 30 is a 2D side scrolling survival shooter, developed by Ignatus Zak and Gonzalo Villagomez. Now as an avid fan of old style games such as side scrollers and platformers, I say that Deadly 30 definitely fits in to those field of games and is very fun play.
One of the best features of Tiny Barbarian DX is that the controls are very intuitive. When players hit a button, the game reacts as expected. It’s accurate, it’s smooth, and it’s fun to play. Graphically and in terms of gameplay Tiny Barbarian DX is heavily inspired by retro sidescrollers like Castlevania or Mega Man, and yet it manages to feel very polished and actually stand side by side with these titles visually. The tactile feel makes it easy to run through levels that are designed with just the right amount of challenge to them to keep players on their toes but not go over the top with frustration. The music in Tiny Barbarian DX is also very well crafted and sounds retro yet with a noticeable upgrade in acoustics for those with a great headset. The sound effects relay information similar to video games of the past.
Gravity Badgers is a gravity-based game similar to the Angry Birds franchise. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really become more than that which is a shame. This title is not bad by any means, but doesn’t push the genre to a new level and doesn’t experiment with new gameplay mechanics.
In War of the Human Tanks players participate in matches of progression / attrition. Before starting a battle players must thumb through tons of dialogue and still frame graphics before actually getting to do anything. Thankfully the developers realized this was going to be a problem for the less reader-ish gamers out there and so this can be skipped though through a very fast message skip feature, unfortunately messages sent during battle do not get skipped and there’s a ton before the battles.
Insurgency is a newly released first person shooter game available for Steam featuring Multiplayer shoot-outs that are akin to the shooter feeling released during the golden age of First Person Shooter games on the PC platform. Developer New World Interactive brings forward this release on Windows and Mac OS X with a training segment, matchmaking system, and the ability to set up co-op sessions with friends.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a game that immediately brings me back to the Angband days which practically gave birth to the dungeon crawling genre but in a way that perhaps only the most exquisite tastes could really grasp and appreciate. Many players will be pushed away from a title like Tales of Maj’Eyal due to the lack of eye candy and modern day role playing game features. This is at the cost of missing out on a classic formula that helped make the rogue-like genre possible.
Hmm what can I say about Rekoil? Nothing! Rekoil is a multiplayer only game, but it has no multiplayer. You may be asking “What? That doesn’t make sense!”
In Long Live The Queen players take control of a Crown Princess who will become Queen and is constantly having every facet of her character tested. It seems like no matter what players do and how they build up the Crown Princess, something isn’t good enough. This is a frustration but at the same time the game is well put together enough that this also encourages multiple play-throughs and mastery of the mechanics. This means Long Live The Queen achieves a large amount of replay value, albeit at the cost of being an addiction and very difficult to master title.
With Blackguards, Daedalic Entertainment have created a game that is not easy to get into but unlocks tons of fun and satisfying gameplay for hardcore role playing game fans who are able to master its control set and user interface. If those don’t scare you off, then you’re in for a treat. Blackguards rewards players with a decent story, great battles, and an easy on the eyes experience that easily stands out in its genre.
Strike Vector is a strictly air-born, strictly multiplayer piloting / shooting game that is visually appealing and provokes a strong sense of competition for those that play it consistently. Shamefully, the game’s many online dedicated servers sit empty the majority of the time and players come and go even within a single match so often it almost seems like nobody is enjoying themselves enough to stick around and kill or be killed. So much potential exists in this title, and yet ultimately it falls short of being a great game for several distinct reasons.
Magicite is an indie game that has an early access release on steam and continues the trend of indie survival adventure games but with a 2D platformer / RPG twist to it. When players start the game they create a character of which they would like to play the game as. This character creation process includes being able to choose how he / she will look. Stats for the character are randomly generated along with traits. Annoyingly though, you cannot select your own stats or traits which diminishes the customizability of your character.
Frozen Hearth is a real time strategy game available right now on Steam with a unique story-line that gives way to original gameplay mechanics and a diverse set of units which are controlled by the player in addition to a main hero style character that is customized to some extent based on the player’s play-style. Structure building has been simplified quite a bit to keep the player’s focus on the battle at hand and so sub-structures are built and replaced as attachments to the home base rather than freestyle bases being built across empty lands.
Nidhogg grabs potential buyers right away from the first sight of gameplay with its simplistic, retro-inspired art design and graphics. Using a conservative amount of colors and techniques, development studio Messhof has managed to pull off one of the most purely fun games to release in recent memory for the Windows PC gaming platform.
Ethan: Meteor Hunter is a 2D puzzle/platformer from developers Seaven Studio. It stars the titular protagonist, a little rat who is struck by meteorites and gains the power of telekinesis. With this new found power, Ethan goes on an adventure to collect more meteorites in order to become even more powerful. His overall goal however is to get revenge on the neighbor who destroyed his house. Is this a revenge tale worth getting into? In short…no!
The SteelSeries Rival Gaming Mouse is by far one of the most accurate gaming mouse devices I’ve used in my many years throughout the PC Gaming industry. With comfort being one of my top priorities when selecting a gaming mouse, the Rival satisfies and doesn’t look half bad either.
Based on the award-winning Fables comic books by Bill Willingham, The Wolf Among Us is a point-and-click episodic series from developer Telltale games. This dark and twisted take on fairy tale lore, stars Sheriff Bigby Wolf (formerly the Big Bad Wolf) whose job is to keep the citizens of Fabletown safe. When a fable (fairy tale character) is brutally murdered, it is up to Bigby found out who is responsible and why. The story of this prequel to the comic series will be told across 5 episodes. The first episode titled “Faith”, started things off with a bang, and while there are a few missteps in episode two, it continues this trend. Note*: You must own episode one in order for you to be able to play this episode, as it counts as DLC.
Broken Age is a point and click adventure game, sounds fun already. It tells the story of a young boy and girl living parallel lives to each other without knowledge. A girl living in a village, a boy living in a spaceship. The girl is selected as the next to be sacrificed to a monster, but she refuses. While the boy is living alone only with a computer, I guess you could say is mom to watch him, but he wants to get away and live adventures of his own.