Anyway, early into Yakuza: LAD you bump into a professor who gives you a Sujidex that logs all the weird human beings you encounter on the streets of Yokohama. I think of it as this cursed Pokedex containing a mishmash of flesh and bone. And let me tell you, there are some real maniacs roaming out there in the wild.
An interesting concept and good look from this yet-unnamed game, a mood which has made me instantly buy the dev’s previous game. That’s named Titan Chaser, and it looks like a laid-back game about exploring a foggy world and scaring off giant monsters? And it’s only 80p on Steam? I am extremely in. I have only bad experiences with patch cables (well, patch cables have only bad experiences with me) but this is an interesting way to control a submarine: I don’t know what this is and nor does its maker, but I dig it: Some dodgy yet undeniably effective life advice in E4TWB6K, a game we’ve seen in Screenshot Saturday Mondays before:...
Co-op “survival-crafting adventure” Abiotic Factor (coming to Steam) looks an awful lot like Half-Life from the whitecoats’ perspective, so is this an unforseen consequence of Gordon Freeman blowing up the staff room microwave? Striking violence in Death Of A Wish (“teaser demo” available on Itch): A cute little scene in Garden Galaxy, a game about building garden dioramas (coming to Steam): Scaling a giant beastie in Chasing The Unseen (coming to Steam), a game with a creature many creatures to climb: Stealth DIY in World’s Worst Handyman (coming to Steam): An enlightening look inside your computer from Echostasis (coming to Steam): Don’t know what it is; do like it: Coughing combat in this yet-unnamed immersive sim: A whole lot of loveliness from Castle Of The Water Monks (available free on Itch): And to close, once again I cannot resist this peek at the game formerly known by the working title The Office, now renamed to Lifelong: What else caught your eye this weekend, reader dear?...
I remain extremely into the look of ghostly twin-stick shooter Hauntii (coming to Steam): I can see why you might think early work-in-progress has Kingdom Hearts fashion but no, it’s Hot Topic mall goth. The dev has described it has described this game as “a Souls-like that takes place in the American Midwest” and I think there’s one subtle but important distinction between that aesthetic and Kingdom Hearts, the energy drinks: I try not to post the same game too often but after last week I encouraged immersive sim Spectra to make its new cigarette machines interactive (and I did very much enjoy the suggestion from RPS commenter “poliovaccine” that cigarettes in immersive sims should be a social currency letting you enter conversation with smokers), it would be irresponsible if I didn’t follow up and point out that yes, the dev has now done made them dispense packets of fags: Likewise, I cannot resist all these objects to fiddle with in Interior Worlds: Skeleton-parrying FPS Voidborn (coming to Steam) looks extremely my bag: We continue the stylish violence with Godbeast Mk....
For Serious Sam 4, Croteam have announced that the latest game update adds the newest edition of the Serious Editor free for all owners of the game. Sam 4 also has Steam Workshop support. “Modders have always been the backbone of our community, expanding Serious Sam games with crazy modifications of all shapes and sizes,” says Serious Sam 4 project lead Davor Hunski. “Some of the total conversion mods we have played throughout the years were absolutely impressive and have kept our games alive for years....
Shenmue The Animation is a co-production of Cartoon Network’s adult-oriented spin-off Adult Swim and anime streaming service Crunchyroll. It’ll begin airing on February 5th with 13 episodes produced. I have regrettably been RPS’s resident anime guy for a long time, but I’m not so excited about this. The animation looks pretty rough to me, at least when compared to Netflix’s increasingly swish productions. Plus, a lot of what made Shenmue weird and interesting was its unusual commitment to simulating the world....
The patch that Tenacious D predicted updates all the game’s metallic surfaces, water, and other reflective surfaces to realistically reflect all the, er, unrealistic environments. Blasting demons has never looked so specular. I’ve not had an RTX card for long, and it’s only a 2080, but in my short time of tracing those rays it’s an effect you feel as much as you notice. Watching the corridors in that video, the blasts of light surrounding the player really do add an immersive sheen to the action....
This time, Ubisoft said the delay is necessary to give players “the best possible experience”. Although development is complete, the extra four months gives the devs a chance to “polish and balance” the game using feedback from recent playtests. Skull & Bones is in development at Ubisoft Singapore and was first shown off at E3 2017, back before I got all my gold teeth and adopted my macaw, Polly. It was originally meant to release in autumn 2018, but it’s been delayed so many times it might as well be the subject of a comical sea shanty....
Hallada got the idea for Modmapper while searching for places in Skyrim to create mods for that hadn’t already been shown a lot of attention. “After over a decade of modifications, there could be conflicts with hundreds of mods in any area I chose which could cause issues like multiple buildings overlapping or terrain changes causing floating rocks and trees,” Hallada said on his blog earlier this week. Rather than mucking about with tools such as TESSEdit to work through and resolve mod conflicts, Hallada decided to create something to find conflicts across as many mods as possible....
They’re coming in July as part of the Avatar Battle Pass. Aang will be a skin for Merlin, Susano will wear Zuko’s skin, and Skadi will dress up as Korra (with Naga). They are just skins, mind, with the same abilities as the original characters. The battle pass will include other Avatar-y bits too, including variant skins and “an emote honouring unlucky cabbage vendors.” I haven’t seen the movie but I assume that’s an in-joke....
I wonder what their reaction would be to Soccer Story, an “adventure RPG” about playing football-ish sports in a lush, green, almost Pokémon-like world. Here’s the announcement trailer. Try not to smash your monitors, Rangers fans: “It’s been a year since The Calamity™ tore apart the very foundations of soccer as we know it, and since then, Soccer Inc. has made dang well sure that not a soul has been allowed to even look at a soccer ball, let alone kick it,” says the blurb on the official site....
The video from IGN shows Sonic ascending to the top of some ruins before heading out into Frontiers’ open world, which has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Breath of the Wild. Although, as Graham noted after yesterday’s much briefer teaser, it’s all a bit washed out and grey? Which particularly stands out given the Zelda comparisons, as well as Sonic’s own vibrancy in most of the rest of the games....
CD Projekt Red had initially directed PlayStation Store purchasers towards Sony and the usual refund system, but many had their request denied so CDPR soon said er, hang on, wait a bit, we’ll get back to you on this. Turns out, Sony’s bespoke Cyberpunk blanket refund solution also involves entirely pulling the game from sale in their store. For this to happen with such a high-profile game is wild. “SIE strives to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction, therefore we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased Cyberpunk 2077 via PlayStation Store,” Sony say on their Cyberpunk refunds page....
The final demo features the first two chapters of the game, both of which weren’t available in the previous demo. Team Ninja promises the demo will showcase the game’s fast-paced melee combat as you fight waves of demons through the Three Kingdoms. Wo Long’s co-op multiplayer is also included, so you can slay monsters with some friends, too. If you beat the demo and transfer your save file, you’ll be able to unlock the Crouching Dragon Helmet in the final release....
Mossmouth announced not long ago that they planned to release the game on PC shortly after the PS4 launch. PlayStation folks will get their hands on the sequel on September 15th. Despite 2020 being the year of delays for even the most well-laid plans it seems like Mossmouth won’t be deterred. They’ve come in on the short end of their estimated window, planning the PC release for September 29th. This time around, the spelunking crew is headed to the moon to dig up treasure and family....
So, Starfield is set in 2330, in a section of the Milky Way galaxy that’s about 50 light-years away from our solar system. It takes place 20 years after a war between the two largest factions in the Settled Systems, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective. The trailer doesn’t go into detail about what they were fighting about, but it was called the Colony War, so it seems likely they were at odds over who owns what planets....
As cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer noted, games started being pulled from sale at around 4pm on Monday, set to “Retired at publisher request”. If you already owned an affected game, you could still play it, but newcomers couldn’t buy them. Then someone must have noticed and felt a terrible sudden feeling of oh god oh god I’ve done it this is it I’m over oh god what have I done oh god oh god, because the games started coming back over the next 20 minutes....
But a fair few areas are barred behind breakable walls and gates that are cannot be broken through without the correct equipment, and are apparently immune to the usual “explore every nook and cranny until you reach the other side” approach. These special sealed entrances obstinately tell you that “You need a tool to break this” when you try to open them, but don’t give you any clue as to what that tool is or where to find it....
This interaction is contained in a new trailer that I deem to be perfect. It sells me on this Final Fantasy action RPG, because it seems like I’ll get to control someone as impatient as I am. Jack lives for crashing and bashing. The story is an inconvenience for him, the fighting is not.
It’s a phrase I often found myself echoing while playing Sunday Gold for review, too, both during its tedious, war of attrition-style turn-based battles, and while trying to figure out some of its more obtuse puzzles. BKOM Studios have tried to fuse one too many things together in Sunday Gold, and the result is a messy, somewhat artificial blend of Deathloop’s style, Invisible Inc’s tension and a more action-led focus on the cerebral role-playing of Disco Elysium....
