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So some games , some indie gems go unnoticed. Hard to track all Indies??
Post any good indie you find here.
So at E3 we saw well known Indies Inside and No Man’s Sky.
Some other gems i found,
Axiom verge ( Blend of Contra, Metroid and Shinobi3 )
Trailer
Cuphead ( Feels like Treasure shooter with 1930s cartoon aesthetics)
Trailer
Cuphead is such a good idea and looks great.
Some indies I backed on kickstarter:
Hyper Light Drifter
Ghost Song - A Journey of Hope
A Hat in time
A mix of the old N64 platformers and Wind Waker:
Website: http://hatintime.com/
Trailer:
Recently completed: Game of Thrones (decent), Tales from the borderlands (great!), Life is Strange (great!), Stasis (good), Annas Quest (great!); Broken Age (poor)
White Night
A beautiful black and white adventure.
Website:http://osome-studio.com/whitenight/
Trailer
I really really enjoyed original Velocity on PS3 and didn’t know about sequel.
Velocity 2X ( Now with Metroid 2D shooting missions )
Trailer
Get the original one too.
This website seems pretty good for indie games. They’ve even got a top 100 anticipated list:
http://indiestatik.com/2014/01/01/indie-games-2014/
Recently completed: Game of Thrones (decent), Tales from the borderlands (great!), Life is Strange (great!), Stasis (good), Annas Quest (great!); Broken Age (poor)
Haven’t been following dedicated indie sites for about a year, but yes, Indie Statik is/was quite good. The best at the time was probably IndieGames (most likely still is).
Bloom: Memories
Action-adventure-RPG with an interesting bridge world concept.
Site: http://www.studiofawn.com/
Trailer:
Released today, Shovel Knight. When I first heard about this I thought nothing of it, but it seems to be getting great reviews:
IGN 9/10
Eurogamer 7/10
Nintendo Life (Wii U) 9/10
Nintendo Life (3DS) 9/10
USGamer 5/5Destructoid: 9.5/10
Gamespot: 7/10
Polygon 9/10
Joystiq 4.5/5
Kotaku: Highly Positive
Hardcore Gamer: 4.5/5
trailer:
It’s suppose to play like a mash up of a lot of the great Nintendo/sega games.
Recently completed: Game of Thrones (decent), Tales from the borderlands (great!), Life is Strange (great!), Stasis (good), Annas Quest (great!); Broken Age (poor)
^^^
Looks like total fanservice for Megaman and Castlevania fans.
Style and music of NES era.
http://virt.bandcamp.com/track/an-underlying-problem-the-lost-city
Have to keep it in my backlog, not in mood of hard gameplay sessions.
Armillo. An action puzzle platformer. Bit like a cross between Mario galaxy and Super Monkey ball. It’s a timed exclusive on the Wii u right now: http://www.armillogame.com/
Gameplay:
Recently completed: Game of Thrones (decent), Tales from the borderlands (great!), Life is Strange (great!), Stasis (good), Annas Quest (great!); Broken Age (poor)
Golden Hour. A pixel-art metroidvania.
Trailer:
Cuphead ( Feels like Treasure shooter with 1930s cartoon aesthetics)
There’s something disturbingly creepy about old cartoons from the 30’s/40’s. If anyone made a horror game in this style I’d be having nightmares for years
There’s something disturbingly creepy about old cartoons from the 30’s/40’s. If anyone made a horror game in this style I’d be having nightmares for years
That something includes that retro VHS feel, that vintage look, that made
old Horror films like Exorcist, Evildead and Omen still creepy as hell.
The best thing about Cuphead is that Devs went to great lengths in making
the art manually on paper first then translating on Photoshop/Digital.
(else you cannot make it work like original feel)
I had this approach with my art portfolio too, unfortunately nobody
understood it and laughed at me.
2 cool new gems
Oldschool Shinobi/Ninjagaiden style game from nowhere
http://store.steampowered.com/app/272330
Spire ( Looking forward to it, major undertaking from 2D Dustforce )
Axiom Verge Preview (IGN)
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/14/axiom-verge-playstations-very-own-metroid
I saw a thing for Cuphead, I can’t believe no one’s thought to make a game in that style before, it looks so great.
Axiom Verge looks awesome, that macabre art style goes great in a metroid-style game.
And Bloom has some great art aesthetics too.
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