Nathan Wind Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Yasawas said: Skulls of the Shogun is under a fiver on sale now and has been on my wishlist for a wee while. It's good. Plays a brutal little game of turn based strategy. Limited amount of units and a limit on how many you can activate each turn makes it tick along at a good pace, quite a lot of these games get bogged down. It didn't engage me that well. I've had a couple of versions of it and never seen the end, but it's well worth a fiver. This has made me want to play it again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Grossman Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Ghostbusters is down to £11.99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovelyman Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Yasawas said: Skulls of the Shogun is under a fiver on sale now and has been on my wishlist for a wee while. Anyone got impressions of it? I love turn-based strategy but I don't need another one (Disgaea 4 arrived yesterday ffs!). But maybe I do. I have a weird hankering for SmileBASIC today, I've been investigating that and Fuze 4 Switch recently and it seems the better supported. I've always wanted to tinker with programming, I loved BASIC on the Speccy and this seems like a wonderfully awkward way to do it. Please say you have Into the Breach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yasawas Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I have Into the Breach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friedgold Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 2 hours ago, partious said: I got smilebasic at the Japan release what must be a year ago. I've enjoyed playing the uploaded games so I've got my money's worth. As someone with no experience of basic/game coding I found the Japanese documentation/online guides pathetic, especially compared to the likes of pico 8. I'd like to see it catch on outside Japan as that's about the only way it will ever get some decent guides (Japanese users don't seem big on putting their time into making free step by step guides in general in the way you get on the English language internet, not that I blame them). There are some pretty impressive shmups on it, but less representation of non-shmup genres. It does seem like the perfect time right now to give something like this a go. I've always been interested in learning a bit of programming. This and Sunless Sea might have to be this week's pickups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moosegrinder Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 From Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partious Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 31 minutes ago, friedgold said: It does seem like the perfect time right now to give something like this a go. I've always been interested in learning a bit of programming. This and Sunless Sea might have to be this week's pickups. It's all code so you'd learn programming but just be warned it uses BASIC as opposed to something more commonly used/potentially financially beneficial like c# , Java or Javascript. It seems to be fairly standard BASIC, no object oriented stuff etc (I may have read FUZE uses BASIC modified to be more like python, but also that it was buggy and smilebasic is the more competent program). I know some practical Javascript/Ruby on Rails but not enough about "programming" to go in depth on how useful learning BASIC is as a starting point in 2020. I want to look into smilebasic more myself too, maybe the situation with guides etc has improved in the past year. Around the Japanese release it was a bit like just being thrown in the deep end and told "swim". The games that people upload are competent/enjoyable 8 bit style games that are actually quite fun to play, if nothing flashy/mindblowing. I've had a lot more enjoyment from the Smilebasic user creations than anything on Dreams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friedgold Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I have no pretensions of being some kind of late-blooming Derek Yu tbf. I've just always found it fascinating without really ever having had a means of grounding myself in the subject, even at a basic level. That said if I can make eventually graduate to building my own Switch Spelunky, or my dream Dwarf Fortress Switch game I'll always remember my roots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradigor Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Lonely Mountains: Downhill is coming on May 7th 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdn2 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Flashback is 89p in the new sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omizzay Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Just picked up Volgarr the Viking for next to nothing. Man, this is the hardest game I've played in a long time. Real Ghouls n Ghosts vibe, but seemingly even more unforgiving. Is it worth pursuing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovelyman Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Just now, Omizzay said: Just picked up Volgarr the Viking for next to nothing. Man, this is the hardest game I've played in a long time. Real Ghouls n Ghosts vibe, but seemingly even more unforgiving. Is it worth pursuing? Yeah it's brilliant. It's very old school but lots of fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdn2 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, Omizzay said: Just picked up Volgarr the Viking for next to nothing. Man, this is the hardest game I've played in a long time. Real Ghouls n Ghosts vibe, but seemingly even more unforgiving. Is it worth pursuing? Yeah, I loved it a few years ago when I played it on Xbox. You improve constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joffocakes Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Volgarr is reeaally satisfying. But yeah. Difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgraves Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I think it was recommended by a few people in here recently as being a decent Advance Wars-a-like - Spaceland is on sale (down to a tenner): https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Spaceland-1660563.html Added to my pile of shame..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerokus Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Rive is well worth the £1.30 it costs just now. Classic arcade platform shooter sort of thing that occasionally turns into a horizontal shmup, quite tricky, very fast and smooth. The blathering main character is irritating mind you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdn2 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Any opinions of Ironcast? It's got good reviews and is on sale at the minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeOfEarlsfield Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 35 minutes ago, mdn2 said: Any opinions of Ironcast? It's got good reviews and is on sale at the minute. It’s pretty good up to a point. That point being the final (final) boss which was a ridiculous difficulty hike and I couldn’t be bothered playing it over and over to work out a winning strategy and actually get the stuff needed to implement it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdn2 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Thanks. I might give it a look while it's on sale. It looks my sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scissorkicks Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I'm quite enjoying Hammerwatch, which I picked up in the sale. Sort of Gauntlet with combos. I find it quite hypnotic and soothing, until I've got one more objective to finish on a level and sometimes it results in a bit of wandering around empty levels trying to find the switch I missed. Has anyone played Super Pixel Racers? It's the kind of thing that *could* be my bag, but could also be a dogs dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerling Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Flashback 89p!! Yes 89p 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mawdlin Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Blasphemous is in the current sale. I'm about 50 percent through it and I like it a lot. It's not as hard as I was expecting and once you start unlocking some powers the map opens up beautifully with shortcuts and portals. The save points are spaced out decently too. The difficulty lies in working out where to explore next rather than the combat, which I've found to be precise with some satisfyingly crunchy sound effects. Fab game if you want Dark Souls fused with Super Metroid. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chooch Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 There’s a double pack with that Valfaris people have been chatting about and Slain for £14.39 (£11 SA eshop). https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Valfaris-Slain-Double-Pack-1757669.html?awc=12777_1587722064_74240b21bb090b3acfece5f9a8ec6273&affil=awin&utm_source=AWIN&utm_medium=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digidip.net%2F&utm_campaign=0l009g68cv2j&utm _content=Sub+Networks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgraves Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 13 hours ago, gingerling said: Flashback 89p!! Yes 89p Is it any good - I'd heard it was not the best conversion- something about input lag iirc? I know it's only 89p but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moosegrinder Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Right can someone actually explain what the difference between CMS and Car Mechanic Simulators Pocket Edition is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradigor Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Got Levelhead for review. Whilst at first it looks like a shameless Mario Maker clone, it is really rather good. The editing tools seem to be rather robust. Best of all, it is cross-platform and corss-save on Xbox, Epic, Switch, Steam, Android, and iOS, with levels shareable across all of them too. Got to play more but early impressions are good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovelyman Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Chooch said: There’s a double pack with that Valfaris people have been chatting about and Slain for £14.39 (£11 SA eshop). https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Valfaris-Slain-Double-Pack-1757669.html?awc=12777_1587722064_74240b21bb090b3acfece5f9a8ec6273&affil=awin&utm_source=AWIN&utm_medium=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digidip.net%2F&utm_campaign=0l009g68cv2j&utm _content=Sub+Networks Valfaris is superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xevious Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 17/04/2020 at 12:22, mdn2 said: Pfft. Amateur. (Plus Murder By Numbers and Voxelgram) Why haven't you got Piczle Colors? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdn2 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 18 minutes ago, Xevious said: Why haven't you got Piczle Colors? To be honest, I don't know. I'll add it to the list for when it's on sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerokus Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 15 hours ago, moosegrinder said: Right can someone actually explain what the difference between CMS and Car Mechanic Simulators Pocket Edition is? I think one is a port of the phone game and one is of an old version of he proper pc game. Confusingly though it's the one which is currently cheap as chips called pocket edition which is the full fat game. That's as far as I can tell anyway. I played an earlier year version of the PC version, oddly compelling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now