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From Xblaze Lost: Memories, a visual novel/dungeon crawler that expands the BlazBlue mythos to Japanese Rail Sim 3D Journey to Kyoto, recreation of an autumn journey on the Eizan Electric Railway, this week’s new game releases offer a number of notable titles. For those less enamored by niche, there are a notable of captivating offerings headed to PC with OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood leading the charge.
Header image: Xblaze Lost: Memories
PlayStation 3
Goat Simulator (PSN, $9.99)
Xblaze Lost: Memories (also on PSN, $39.99)
PlayStation 4
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (PSN, $19.99)
Commander Cherry’s Puzzled Journey (PSN, $13.99)
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (PSN, $19.99)
Gauntlet: Slayer Edition (PSN, $19.99)
Goat Simulator (PSN, $9.99)
Kung Fury: Street Rage (PSN, $3.99)
Prototype (PSN, $29.99)
Prototype 2 (PSN, $39.99)
TorqueL (PSN, $9.99, Cross-buy)
Toy Soldiers: War Chest (PSN, $14.99)
Toy Soldiers: War Chest Hall of Fame Edition (also on PSN, $29.99)
Xbox One
Commander Cherry’s Puzzled Journey (XGS, $13.99)
Prototype Biohazard Bundle (XGS, $49.99)
Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings (XGS, $19.99)
The Bridge (XGS, $9.99)
Toy Soldiers: War Chest (XGS, $14.99)
Toy Soldiers: War Chest Hall of Fame Edition (also on XGS, $29.99)
Wii U
Astral Breakers (eShop, $4.99)
Golden Sun: The Lost Age (eShop, $7.99)
Kung Fu Fight! (eShop, $1.99)
Onimusha Tactics (eShop, $6.99)
3DS
Best of Arcade Games – Brick Breaker (eShop, $9.99)
Best of Arcade Games – Tetraminos (eShop, $9.99)
Japanese Rail Sim 3D Journey to Kyoto (eShop, $19.99)
Jewel Quest 4 Heritage (eShop, $5.99)
Picross e6 (eShop, $5.99)
PS Vita
Actual Sunlight (PSN, $3.99)
TorqueL (PSN, $9.99, Cross-buy)
Xblaze Lost: Memories (also on PSN, $39.99)
PC (Avilable via Steam, unless otherwise noted)
12 Labours of Hercules III: Girl Power ($TBA)
Black Home ($TBA)
Call of Tomsk-7 ($TBA)
Cashtronauts ($TBA)
Celestian Tales: Old North ($TBA)
Close Order ($TBA)
Demon Hearts ($TBA)
Firestarter ($TBA)
Gravity Error ($TBA)
Gun Rocket ($TBA)
Gunnheim ($TBA)
Hacknet ($TBA)
Labyronia RPG ($TBA)
Nightside ($13.99)
OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood ($TBA)
President for a Day – Floodings ($TBA)
Royal Bounty HD ($TBA)
The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition ($3.99)
The Static Speaks My Name ($TBA)
Wanderlust Adventures ($TBA)
Robert’s Pick: Save for the pool of Gameboy Advance Games offered to Ambassadors, GBA titles haven’t been made available for the 3DS. This pains me, as I’d gladly hand over my money to play Advance Wars, Drill Dozer, Metroid: Zero Mission, as well at the two Golden Sun games on my New 3DS. As such, I’ll have to suffice with Golden Sun: The Lost Age’s appearance on the Wii U. While I might be sacrificing portability, as least Nintendo’s emulation is spot on, offering a wealth of options, from pixel smoothing to customizable controls. In all, it’s even better that we attached a Game Boy Player to the bottom of our GameCubes.
Gonçalo’s Pick: Perhaps my greatest regret during the heyday of Nintendo’s 32-bit handheld was not picking Golden Sun: The Lost Age. The first entry in this series set a standard for handheld JRPGs few could compete with despite its short length. Now at least, this improved sequel is available for Wii-U owners who for some reason or another missed an amazing classic.
I don’t recognize a single one of those Steam games.
Me neither. But you know what? If I go to Steam and look around, I’ll want at least two of them.
I’m hoping you review Japanese Rail Sim 3D Journey to Kyoto. Your Narita review was pretty good.
Is that the one that got stolen word for word? Whatever happened with that?
I’m a little surprised that The Lost Age would have Buddha-sprites. Wasn’t that released when Nintendo didn’t like religious stuff in games?
Nah, Golden Age was an early 2000s release. Nintendo stopped being the content police in the mid-nineties.
I got X Blaze and X Blades mixed up in my head and got REAL CONCERNED!
Throw in the X-Games, put it on Xbox and watch it sell.
Add XCOM combat too!
In the original version of Metroid Prime 3, Admiral Dane says “Damn”.
In the Trilogy verison he says “Noooo”.
Content Police Regroup!
SeanTrolla is back. I missed him!
Toy Soldiers: War Chest is coming to Xbone this week, BTW
So so GoW Ultimate says (taken from Amazon):
Includes access to the entire Xbox 360 Gears of War collection to play on Xbox One at no additional cost if you play Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on Xbox Live before 12/31/2015.
You think I can redbox it, play it on live and get access to the collection?
You probably need to stick in your disk to play it though.
I loved the last Xblaze, but I’m going to have to wait for reviews for Lost: Memories before committing.
Best of Arcade Games – Brick Breaker
Knockoff Breakout for $10? That’s why Nintendo’s in 3rd place.
Gunnheim looks kind of cool to me.
Need a good price on a 4 pack and I’m in!
Is Toy Soldiers: War Chest a new game or just a collection of the older one?
Seems like more Japanese games are coming out there days, or at least that’s what you’re focusing on here.