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BREAK!! Into the Gaming Shelf With an Homage to Classic JRPGs
There are so many incredible crowdfunding campaigns going on, I really can’t stand it. Games are so good, y’all. I’ve also got some new games, supplements and additions, and indie designers who are taking it upon themselves to break apart systems and find new, incredible, and transformative ways to play games. (Every …
Pizza Tower is a bizarre homage to Wario Land that really makes me laugh
You know what’s guaranteed to make me laugh every single time? A good visual gag in a cartoon. A little freak reading a newspaper, for instance. A hyper-realistic close-up of a character’s face. A weird rat, perhaps. Maybe it’s smoking a cigarette? Whimsical. I love it. This is the main reason why I keep returning to Pizza Tower, a 2D platformer by Tour De Pizza that released on Steam yesterday. It’s a bizarre homage to Nintendo’s lesser-known Wario Land series (specifically its fourth entry) that’s jam-packed with goofy little drawings that make me laugh. It’s good, but not without its issues.
Distract guards by flushing toilets in this free little Thief homage
Cute, free little thief homage Li’l Taffer starts you off in front of a door to a big manor, along with five instances of an ability called ‘knock’. Reader, I am telling you this so that you don’t waste all of them pointlessly knocking on the door like I did, as you are in fact supposed to use them to knock out guards.
It’s a procedurally generated game made for 7dfps 2022, a game jam that challenges folks to make an fps game in seven days. Your manor will be different to mine, but the toilets will probably still be silly.
Alan Johnson pay homage to reggae innovator Count Ossie with Stillness
Shaped around words taken from Count Ossie’s legendary track ‘Poem,’ Tom Neilan and Gareth Kirby send up a haunting homage to the reggae innovator in minimal percussion and high pressure bass weight. “In the stillness of the night and the clamour of the day, Count Ossie’s wise poetic words ring true in every single way. Long […]
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Offset Continues To Pay Homage To Takeoff: ‘Missing Everything About You’
Offset is continuing to honor his late friend, Takeoff.
This time, it is through another tribute.
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Taking to his Instagram account, Offset shared a picture of Takeoff and captioned the post, “Missing everything bout you specially that smile.”
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New Blood’s Fallout homage will have first-person combat
Over Jump Rally’s demo is a fan-created homage to Sega Rally
I have lovely, blue sky memories of Sega Rally, and I’m not the only one. Over Jump Rally is a fan-created homage to Sega’s forgotten arcade racer built in Unreal Engine 5, and there’s a demo available now if you want to get your wheels dirty.
FromSoftware homage Lies of P isn’t just Bloodborne, it’s Sekiro too
You’ve seen the comparisons before, but it’s impossible to deny there’s more than a likeness between Lies of P and FromSoftware bangers like Bloodborne and Sekiro. There’s the obvious stuff like the perspective, UI, lock-on effect, weighty melee combat, ‘you died’ style death screen, parrying, and dingy urban world, but that barely scratches the surface.
The pace of exploration is classic FromSoftware. Turn down a dimly lit street and you’ll spot an apparently dead soldier at the end. As you approach a dog appears from behind a carriage, snarling with its first few paces towards you. Just as you begin trading blows with the hound you hear another soldier coming from where you entered the alleyway, and as you turn you notice the soldier that was prone at the end of the alley is now on its feet and shambling your way. Figuring out the best order, attack patterns, and counters for this trio takes a few attempts, and it takes a few more runs before I can squeeze past with enough health to make subsequent fights worth attempting.
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Thymesia Review – Hunter Homage
A lot of games have drawn inspiration from the works of From Software, with varying degrees of success. While many developers look to emulate that high degree of challenge that comes from the likes of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, they often miss the fact that it’s From’s thoughtful, tight gameplay and deliberate encounter design that makes these games fun, not just a punishing difficulty. Thymesia, a 3D action game that draws heavy influence from some specific From titles, manages to strike that balance successfully, creating a Souls-like that taps into the same rewarding moments provided by its biggest inspirations.
Thymesia draws most obviously from two of From Software’s games: the aggressive, horror-inspired Bloodborne, and the fast-paced, duel-focused Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. And to be sure, developer Overborder Studio owes a lot to its inspirations. Like Bloodborne, Thymesia is about a lone warrior wandering into a plague-stricken world where everyone infected has turned into a maddened, bloodthirsty killer. It has a similar atmosphere to Bloodborne and even its protagonist, Corvus, looks a bit like a Yarnham Hunter–more accurately, Hunter of Hunters Eileen the Crow.
Like most Souls games, Thymesia drops you into the middle of a weird situation without much explanation and leaves you to figure out what you’re facing as you explore its world and kill the people you find there. It all takes place in a kingdom called Hermes, which is apparently located in the canopy of an enormous tree. The world has been beset by a plague that infects people and animals, mutating them and turning them into monsters. Until now, Hermes managed to deal with the plague through the study and use of alchemy, but something has gone wrong, Hermes has succumbed, and nobody knows what to do.