New Game Releases: May 19th-25th, 2016

From the return of the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pikuchu, this week’s schedule of new game releases has a number of luminaries from gaming’s golden era. Hell, even Bill and Lance’s descendants make an appearance for Contra III’s eShop appearance. With the publishing of Overwatch, it’s be interesting to see if characters like Genji, Tracer, and Mei are able to withstand the test of time.

Header image: A Little Lily Princess, PC

PlayStation 3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutants in Manhattan (retail and PSN, $39.99)

PlayStation 4
Adam’s Venture Origins (retail, $49.99)
Crazy Strike Bowling EX (PSN, $12.99)
Downwell (PSN, $4.99, Cross Buy)
Dungeons 2 (retail, $49.99)
Lumo (PSN, $19.99)
Overwatch – Collector’s Edition (retail, 129.99)
Overwatch Origins Edition (retail and PSN, $59.99)
Retsnom (PSN, $4.99)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutants in Manhattan (retail and PSN, $49.99)
The Last Blade 2 (PSN, $14.99)

Wii U
Chompy Chomp Chomp Party (eShop, $11.99)
PixelJunk Monsters (eShop, $9.99)
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure (eShop, $19.99)
Sweetest Thing (eShop, $6.99)

Xbox 360
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutants in Manhattan (retail and XGS, $39.99)

Xbox One
Cubikolor (XGS, $TBA)
Overwatch – Collector’s Edition (retail, 129.99)
Overwatch Origins Edition (retail or XGS, $59.99)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutants in Manhattan (retail and XGS, $49.99)

3DS
Contra III: The Alien Wars (eShop, Virtual Console, $7.99)
Digger Dan DX (eShop, $0.99)

PS Vita
Downwell (PSN, $4.99, Cross Buy)
Zombies: The Last Survivor (PSN, $4.99)

PC (via Steam unless noted)
A Little Lily Princess ($12.74)
Arkshot ($7.19)
City Play ($3.39)
FleetCOMM ($TBA)
Koihime Enbu ($33.99)
Holodaze (VR, $2.99)
IWO: Bloodbath in the Bonins ($8.99)
Just a Cleric ($3.99)
LASTFIGHT ($13.49)
Linkrealms ($14.99)
One Troll Army (free)
Overwatch – Collector’s Edition (retail, 129.99)
Overwatch Origins Edition (retail or Battle.net, $59.99)
Major\Minor ($8.99)
Miko Mole ($TBA)
NotCoD ($5.39)
Princess Edge – Dragonstone ($7.19)
Retool ($7.19)
Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun ($26.99)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutants in Manhattan ($39.99)
The Dweller ($2.99)
The Way ($TBA)
Total War: Warhammer ($59.99)
Uprising: Join or Die ($4.89)

Robert’s Pick: A female-fueled fighter with combatants (loosely) culled from Romance of Three Kingdoms? How could I not give a nod to Koihime Enbu? As an ecchi-energized visual novel released nearly a decade ago, Koihime Musō: Doki Otome Darake no Sangokushi Engi re-imagined Luo Guanzhong’s historical novel as a power struggle led by pugnacious lassies. Koihime Enbu thrusts thirteen of those generals (along with seven assistive characters) into a showdown filled with flashy specials and explosive combos, but is refreshingly light on aerials.

Gonçalo’s Pick: For the past few years, the Total War Series brought on a serious case of franchise fatigue for me. Perhaps the themes weren’t particularly to my liking or maybe recent gameplay additions weren’t particularly interesting. Though each release was a quality entry, they just didn’t carry the same spark for me. However, we are now witnessing what is possibly a dream come true, uniting Total War with Warhammer sounds like a match made in heaven. Few, if any games have ever managed to properly capture the epic battles and armies that we often read in its lore, but the team over at Creative Assembly might just address that.