The Blue Reflection series by Gust is a high school slice of life with apocalyptic level situations and magical girls. With the world on the brink of destruction, it'll be up to a select few to tackle those that wish to destroy it, all while managing the emotions of their friends, fellow students, and themselves…
In the early 90s, Coktel Vision (which later became Sierra On-Line) released a quirky point and click adventure game titled Gobliiins which had players bouncing between three different Goblins to find a cure for good King Angoulafre.
What a meow-gnificent evening it is to send your paw-rcels out to those family and friends! Are mew looking to pick up an item or send something out? Well at Cat Mail Co. we can send and receive all your deliveries!
Have you ever grown up feeling like you don't belong? For our Heroine, that's the feeling she lives with everyday in her small farming village. But it's not her only secret...
STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions is just that! Massively co-operative and not an MMO! When you first run the game you are instantly into the tutorial...
Today we’re looking at what has rapidly become an absolute favorite in the open-world RPG genre for me. An interesting story, memorable NPCs, stunning visuals, and a setting absolutely dripping with flavor, Dread Delusion sets its tone immediately and sticks with it.
I enjoy simulation-type games, and I enjoyed the original release of House Flipper, but I never got around to getting the DLC. When the remastered version of the game was released, I figured it would be the best way to experience the DLC while checking out how the base game was upgraded.
GranBlue Fantasy: ReLink released in 2024 bringing the GranBlue universe to an action adventure JRPG format. With a party of up to four members, this band of skyfarers set out for new skies, adventures, and dangers. Two years later, Endless Ragnarok...
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Are you ready for the package deal for the Azure Striker spin-offs before the third title in the spinoff series drops? Do you love the Megaman X games but want something fresh and musical? Do you wanna feel totally inadequate when you get a crappy score rating after beating what you thought was a tough fight?
We were huge fans of Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide here at Chalgyr's Game Room, with a score of 8/10 and multiple PlayTime videos as well. We had a chance to ask Martin Wahlund, CEO of Fatshark, some questions that had been on our mind since playing the game.
Not the first time we have posted about this upcoming title (and certainly not the last), we have a bit more information on some of the characters for the impending release.
When you make a game that covers well-known territory, you have certain advantages and disadvantages. The Walking Dead: Michonne - Episode 1: In Too Deep has all of those on display, and while it is by no means a poor effort, the chapter does very little to distinguish itself either.
When a title describes itself with the following “With combat inspired from classics such as Diablo and Torchlight, this hack n' slash roguelike RPG puts you in the shoes of a powerful hero on the rise.” I can’t help but be interested from the get go being a huge fan of the Hack and Style / Roguelike styles. Currently within Early Access on Steam, Herolike is an interesting merger of different ideas that gives it not only a unique feel, but is loads of fun to play for hours on end.
Still within its alpha stages there are currently two playable character types offered in the form of the up close and personal Guardian and the long ranged Shaman with magic as well as projectiles from her staff. Each character type offers simultaneously a different but familiar experience with skills that while distinctly different, function along the same lines. The Guardian for example has a powerful shockwave while the shaman has tracking magic missiles that will find their targets even if you are currently looking the wrong way you can still claim that you got them. Where things become a bit more similar is in the third and fourth skills that increase armors and turn our characters into Avatars of power which is a lot of fun to do. Having currently gone this route allows for similar styles to be played while still offering enough of a difference to make having different classes worthwhile. It’ll be interesting to see how the rest of the classes play out over time.
Unlike Diablo, Torchlight, Titan’s Quest, Grim Dawn, Victor Vran, Van Helsing (you obviously get the point by now), Herolike has a different approach for Hacking and Slashing elements that works perfectly in the Roguelike world which is all about chance as even the best strategies can be sunk by elements out of our control. Instead of being provided an open or even open-like world to explore, players will instead be treated to instances that follow different tenants depending on how the world map is designed for that play through.
The world map is one of the first Roguelike elements that makes its appearance with various possible styled scenarios built across the screen horizontally in the form of a branching path. Hostile (pure Hack and Slash events), Tower Defense, Role Playing, and taking a Gamble are the options spread out for players to choose as they cross the map. The layout of the options is randomized for every new character as are what actually happens within which spices things up a bit. Currently ranging from one to three options sometimes the options being random are two Hostile and one Tower Defense really giving the player one of two choices. The interesting thing however is with everything being randomized, Hack and Slash Option A can be completely different than Hack and Slash Option B.
Right now both the Role Playing as well as Hostile are the two styles of events that contain the most amount of variety. Role Playing is exactly that with a variety of situation that your character can find themselves in up to even the point of deciding if it’s worth getting involved or not. Your actions along with current reputation will determine the outcome of the reward in the form of gold and more renown. Hack and Slash is exactly that and unlike the Tower Defense in which a point must be protected, Hack and Slash is simply surviving without worrying about defending a point but instead staying alive through a variety of different locations each with their own traits.
A cold landscape reduces the speed of movement as it’s freaking cold (looks outside at our current Canadian weather and I can’t blame our characters), a dark cave reduces the visibility until the enemy is right upon you, and a graveyard may spawn patches of darkness that will suck your health away. Add in a desert with sand tornados and there’s more than just the enemies that can kill you. Death you ask? This is a Roguelike but if you die, you’re dead and must start everything all over again from the beginning. Don’t worry though, if you were smart about it death isn’t all that bad as your heros essentially have a keep in which they can build up with various merchants in order to make the next run just a little bit easier.
The town in which the Keep is located in can be viewed as a base of operations which isn’t necessary to always go back to unless you yourself deem it important. This was a great move on Games Hut part as if there was nothing to do why would I have to go back there only to leave again? The town plays host to a variety of shops for gear both offensive and defensive purposes, items such as healing potions and gold magnets, a station to boost the starting level and funding, an alter or resurrection, and finally for the cost of renown sending out other adventurers to hopefully find gold and materials. To build these shops is where the Keep itself comes in as it produces a set quantity of materials for every point completed on the world map. Once enough materials have been amassed then buildings can be then put into place which become permanent even after a character death which makes the next playthrough that much easier as better gear can be accessed quicker. Once established, the shops like the Keep can be upgraded to provide both a better range of equipment and more materials respectively.
Being in Early Access and within the Alpha no less the amount of content currently available is impressive. Being in said Early Access however it is to be expected to see some bugs such as random crashes or it crashing once character death has occurred. Nothing is honestly game breaking as things load back up fairly quickly but it should be expected that the game will crash instead of returning to the main menu in order to create another character.
Herolike is already on its way to become something great taking ideas from two different veins and creating something fresh that is great to play for long periods on end even if you die to a chest because you figured the poison would have all been out and you wanted to know if something actually WAS inside of that chest. Alas… it was but my first of many deaths.
Game Information
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PC Developer(s):
Games Hut Publisher(s):
Black Shell Media Genre(s):
RPG
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Single Player Other Platform(s):
NA
I really enjoyed Mind Zero when it released on Vita some time ago, and I think it's awesome that so many Aksys games are starting to find a home on PC. This is going to be another welcome addition to Steam.
After a couple of weeks where I took a look heavily at RPGs, Hamza has come back with a new list of songs that cover games from a wide variety of genres. One title is certainly newer than the rest.
Nope, I did not misspell the name of the game in the title, that is a pun on games being Remastered (and it was really hard for me to leave R and E out of it while typing). This is an updated take on the popular The Ship: Murder Party that released several years ago, and while The Ship: Remasted shows some promise, it is clearly an Early Access title.
Fans of the competitive fighting scene will no doubt enjoy what Street Fighter V has to offer. It is a fast, fluid and well-balanced fighting game that looks and sound spectacular. At its core, the thing people will care about most is outstanding. It is therefore such a shame that the rest of the game feels so incredibly incomplete.
Admittedly, I am a huge fan of this series. Not necessarily for its brutal difficulty, though I am always up for the challenge. But I love the dark, moody atmosphere. And on that front, this new trailer really helps to set that tone.
So with several releases having been delayed until this month, they can be found in last month's article!
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The assassin is back and making his appearence on the newest and now current generation of consoles. Fans of the series have probably been awaiting its release since the E3 trailer. The good news is that the wait is now over!
Tom Clancy's The Division is something new for the series based off of the author's universe moving towards an open world with destructible elements. Following a terrifying premise, jump into this smallpox pandemic filled world as part of the Division in order to try to restore order.
This is something that I personally have been looking to. Aegis of Earth puts players in one of the hottest seats possible as they must lead the defense of one of the last cities of the planet in order to prevent extinction.
I don't think the UFC needs much in the ways of introduction. Adding in new features to the gameplay jump into the Octagonal ring for some brutal hand to hand action.
Following on the tails of the Dynasty Series, Samurai Warriors is seeing its empire release.
With tactical elements adding into the Warriors styled combat that we all love, this is definitely a title that is going to make the month of March great.
" Experience the real world of rally and feel the adrenaline driving like you’ve never did before! Conquer the glory! Put yourself to the test, challenge the hardest tracks of the world and beat all the opponents, becoming the new off-road star!
Created in collaboration with nine-time rally world champion, Sébastien Loeb Rally Evo will powerslide into players’ homes all over the world with the aim of getting their adrenalin pumping and delivering all the thrills of the world of rally."
The brawling girls are back and this time it's on both the PS4 and the Vita. The seventh entry into the series will feature a new story alongside making more characters playable including some from other series such as Dead or Alive.
Terraria isn't a new title per say having already released on multiple systems however it is seeing a release on the 3DS which will be an interesting approach with the two screen design.
Pokemon Stadium came out YEARS ago and while I may not have ever won against my brother it was loads of fun to play. Pokken Tournament is taking this old concept of Pokemon fighting one another to a whole new level having been developed in the same style as the Tekken series.
Mario and Sonic are back once again for more Olympic Games. Tackling the summer games will be a different experience from the Winter ones two years ago.
République is an episodic experience that was originally released for the iOS and has seen release on the both Android and Windows platforms. Releasing with all episodes, help Hope in this PS4 version by communicating with her over phones and computers in order to help her escape République.
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Tropico 5 originally came out last year. Having since been released on the PS4 and the XB1, it is now re-releasing with both some enhancements and DLC.
