Wednesday, October 24, 2018

MEGASPHERE - New trailer for this promising "Roguevania" with destructible environments!


Megasphere - New Trailer
Megasphere - Logo animated gif

Very ambitious one-Russian-man project "Megasphere" gets a new satisfying looking trailer, showcasing the gorgeous lighting engine, intense gunfights, and "NewRetroWav-ish" music!

MegaSphere is available right now for Early Access on Steam, Itch.io and Humble Store! 
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/386340/MegaSphere/ 
Itch.io: antonkudin.itch.io/megasphere 
HB: www.humblebundle.com/store/megasphere

Saturday, October 06, 2018

Hazelnut Bastille: first trailer and a playable demo of this action-RPG inspired by Zelda: A Link to the Past!


Hazelnut Bastille - Dungeon

The new Zelda on PC and Switch! 

Scheduled for 2019, Aloft Studio unveils a first official video of its game "Hazelnut Bastille" and offers you to try a playable demo!

A worthy heir to Super Famicom games like "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past"
(from which it borrows the overworld, dungeons and progression system) and "Seiken Densetsu", Hazelnut Bastille, a top-down view 2D action-RPG game, looks like it came to visit us right from the early-to-mid 90s.

While waiting for a more accurate release date, the developers offer a playable demo in exchange for an inscription to their newsletter.

The first official trailer does not try to hide its obvious resemblance to Zelda 3! 

Friday, October 05, 2018

Review - TIMESPINNER - Successor of Symphony of the Night?


A bit disappointing, but still an enjoyable Metroidvania.

Timespinner - Haristel

Timespinner - Logo

Well, Although it didn't take as long as Iconoclasts(10 years) it still took the developer Lunar Ray Games 4 years to complete "Timespinner", which is out now on Steam!

A bit like the recent - underappreciated - Chasm, it's clearly inspired by old-school PS1 castlevania games(Symphony of the night), and how about the ones on Nintendo DS too? (Especially Order of Ecclesia, for the glyph system!)

So, will it become a classic like its grandpa, or will it fall in the bottomless pits of bad Castlevania clones? let's find out!