{"id":8024,"date":"2019-03-20T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2019-12-18T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:26:41","slug":"nindies-spotlight-mar-20-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8024","title":{"rendered":"Nindies Spotlight – Mar 20\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey, a new Nindies presentation. I actually wasn\u2019t going to bother watching this but then I heard some rumblings online that it was pretty incredible<\/em>. So I pulled it up on the ol\u2019 YouTube and WOW do I ever have opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuphead<\/strong> – I\u2019m happy, ever so happy<\/em> that Cuphead is coming to Switch. What seemed impossible up until now has been made into actual reality now that Nintendo and Microsoft are BFFs. The thing is, I\u2019m not going to buy it, at least not right away. I\u2019ve already had my fill (ha!) of Cuphead, and I feel no need to revisit it yet. Stellar game, tho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Lantern<\/strong> – I don\u2019t know if this is something I\u2019d actually play, but the idea of a survival game set out in Alaska where you\u2019re in command of dogsled is very interesting. Also, bear attacks. I need to know more though. If it plops you in the snow as says \u201chave at \u2018er\u201d I\u2019ll be all over that, but I\u2019ll probably skip it if it\u2019s a more linear, story-focused kind of game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darkwood<\/strong> – I\u2019ve heard good things about this. Stories that absolutely piqued my interest. It\u2019s a procedurally-generated survival horror dealie, but I\u2019m not in love with the top-down perspective. I don\u2019t know why, either, as I\u2019m perfectly fine with it for many other games. This is exactly the kind of game that I need a demo for, just to get a feel for it before I commit my $25 to the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RAD<\/strong> – A new Double Fine game. I\u2019ve been down this road enough times that I know how Double Fine games work: I end up liking everything about them except for the act of playing them. And RAD\u2026 it definitely seems like it\u2019ll fit that description. Run around in a post-apocalyptic cartoon Hellscape! Create a trail of flowers and grass wherever you go like in Okami! Mutate your guy to do cool things! And even though I like all those bullet points\u2026 it looks a little shallow and maybe boring. We\u2019ll have to see.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stranger Things 3<\/strong> – I\u2019d like to start by saying that I really have no interest in playing this game; it doesn\u2019t look very good in any way. However, the visual style is reminding me of something very specific and I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is and it\u2019s driving me BATTY. I can\u2019t wait for the day when I\u2019m in the shower and randomly realize what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blaster Master Zero 2<\/strong> – You remember how excited I was about the Link\u2019s Awakening remake? Well I am almost as excited about this sequel that was announced and released during this presentation. If you\u2019ll take a moment to recall, I thought very highly of Blaster Master Zero, and in fact pronounced it to be one of my favourite games of 2017. To be included on that list with the likes of RE7, Breath of the Wild, and Mario Odyssey is no small feat. Obviously I immediately opened my phone to Nintendo\u2019s online store and purchased this right away. I\u2019m sure that by the time this post is published I will have already finished BMZ2 (Future Ryan Sez: It\u2019s freakin\u2019 awesome!), but as of writing time I am dying to actually have a few spare moments to dig into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cadence of Hyrule<\/strong> – I never had any intention of playing Crypt of the Necrodancer. I don\u2019t like roguelikes. I tried. Lord did I ever try, but they just don\u2019t work for me. HOWEVER. Now that Necrodancer is getting a Zelda-themed sequel? Yeah I\u2019m in for giving this one a shot. And I think it\u2019ll be a little more palatable than the scores of various Mystery Dungeons that I played, being that it\u2019s rhythm-based. Also the Zelda branding suggests it will probably get dumbed down for the unwashed masses. Which, in this one very specific case, I see as a net positive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like with the last Nintendo Direct, I\u2019m just going to round up the titles of all the things I have no interest in here. These include: Overland<\/strong>, My Friend Pedro<\/strong>, Neo Cab<\/strong>, Katana ZERO<\/strong>, Creature in the Well<\/strong>, Bloodroots<\/strong>, Pine<\/strong>, Super Crate Box<\/strong>, Nuclear Throne<\/strong>, Ultra Bugs<\/strong>, and Swimsanity!<\/strong>. That isn\u2019t to say that any of these games looked bad or unworthy of my attention (although truthfully, Neo Cab seems terminally boring), but in this age of Too Many Games, one needs to know how to write things off at a glance. You\u2019ll lose your mind if you try to take an interest in everything, because there\u2019s not enough time in the world for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, a new Nindies presentation. I actually wasn\u2019t going to bother watching this but then I heard some rumblings online that it was pretty incredible. So I pulled it up on the ol\u2019 YouTube and WOW do I ever have opinions. Cuphead – I\u2019m happy, ever so happy that Cuphead is coming to Switch. What … Continue reading Nindies Spotlight – Mar 20\/19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spooky","category-video-games","category-zelda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8025,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions\/8025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}