This game was covered on the Axe of the Blood God podcast (great show that talks about RPGs of all types). They interviewed the team behind Darkest Dungeon and its upcoming sequel. It was pretty fascinating hearing the about the work they put into making the game. The santiy mechanic sounds interesting.
Hey Cary! Great story about making Xevious and Zaxxon maps with your dad's printer paper. I can see why that seemed like a great idea back then since dot matrix paper was connected together anyway. My dad probably would have said "Jamie, you're wasting my resources!"...he'd probably laugh about it now though.
I also read the same thing the other day about Xevious being the first game to use pre-rendered graphics. But my review was already written and I didn't have time to really verify it, I decided not to worry about including it in the aritcle.
Yup, I knew about Grobda's (how do you even pronounce that game title?) relation to Xevious because I have all 5 Namco Museum collections on the PlayStation and I believe Grobda is on volume 2. I also have Xevious 3D/G+ (probably since the early 2000s) and I love having several versions of Xevious available to play. It's always intrigued me since playing it on the Atari 7800 al thos years back. Finding hiddle "S" flags was so exciting and made it one of the most exciting SHMUPS aI played back then. I still get that sense of wonder now and then when I play the arcade version.
Hey, thanks for the correction! I can't tell you how many times I proof-read the review and made additional corrections before posting. And yet, sometimes little errors like that still slip through. LOL!
I'm glad you enjoyed the review. And yeah, Xevious is one my favorties as well.
Yeah man, Life Force is great Gradius companion piece. I rememebr for years thinking it was the official sequel until I saw the actual sequels on the Famicom and MSX.
I also played Yoshi's Crafted World and Tetris 99 after the Nintendo Direct. I never played Wooly World, so the demo to Crafted World was me seeing a Yoshi game with the grphical style for the first time. I think game gorgeous and the gameplay is quite fun.
I'm digging Tetris 99 as well. I don't recall any mention of this game prior to the Direct announcment. If that is so, good on Nintendo for keeping it under wraps and releasing as a surprise. I didn't think that was possible these days with a fairly high profile franchise. I had planned to write a review on the game, but I got sidetracked over the weekend. Still might get around to it soon anyway.
Nice! I saw him in a commercial for the game. I was hoping he'd be in it. Perfect guy for the job!
Is Terry Crew really in this game, or was that just an advertising ploy to get folks to buy into it?
I always liked the box art for Faxanadu.
I still need to finish playing through the Sly trilogy. Thanks for the reminder.
