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@Olliemar28 Ah okay, that makes perfect sense! Thanks for confirming. Phenomena is a great flick btw. Any horror film that ends with a knife wielding chimp is a win in my books!

I've played this one before, it indeed does have an excellent, spooky atmosphere especially for a super famicom game. I recall Jennifer's walking speed being painfully slow though. Also, perhaps just a coincidence, but the main character Jennifer bears a strong resemblance to 1980s Jennifer Connelly.

Definitely have my eye on this one. Looks like they went all out with the visuals. Very cool to see classic metal slug bosses from a different perspective.

Wow! Absolutely gorgeous. Looks like Contra meets Symphony of the Night.

Not the most practical pan in any case. Looks like all you can really use it for is making Toad shaped pancakes. You know, besides using it as some kind of makeshift bludgeon.

@WoomyNNYes I agree that Crow Country should be here. I enjoyed it more than Alisa which goes for a similar vibe.

I finished the Castlevania Dominus Collection awhile back, so now I'm playing through Symphony of the Night again. I dig the DS games, but Symphony still is the greatest of this style of 'vania. There's just something special about it. The music, the detailed visuals, everything just comes together perfectly. I just find it a joy to play through again and again, more so than the other games.

"You take the Smurf pill, you stay in Smurf land, and I show you how deep the Smurf hole goes...."

-Smurfeos

Atmosphere is the most important element to me when it comes to horror games, will defo check this one out. Looks like it'll be a good companion piece to Crow Country which was excellent.

I've been playing over the past couple days. Love the haunting atmosphere. Definitely one of the freakiest horror games I've played in recent memory, in spite of it's lofi visuals. Testament to the excellent writing, visual and sound design.

Man, too many great horror themed games coming out this month.

I think RE4 struck the perfect balance between action and horror. RE5 was more of an all out action game, but I still kind of like it mainly because Wesker is such a wonderfully over the top villain. 6 just went completely off the rails. I've tried to replay it several times over the years, I just haven't been able to.

Never heard of this one, looks great though. I'm a sucker for a good Resident Evil-alike.

Yeah, the visuals aren't very appealing to me. They should have gone the route of the recent Shadow of the Ninja remake and just updated the pixel graphics.

Sunshine Manor was a fun little horror game. That being the case I'll probably grab this too.

@TotalHenshin They might be bullet trails? Not entirely sure tho.

Their love of the halfling's leaf, has clearly slowed their development time.

Considering the Neo Geo's lineup, this is quite a paltry selection, spread across two collections no less. In any case, I already have most of the Neo Geo games I wanted via ACA Neo Geo.

This defo looks like my kinda game. Although it needs the 'Kurosawa mode' from Ghost of Tsushima;)

I mean, how am I not going to vote for an alien snake bug with X-Acto blades for legs.

I dig all the little references to both 2d and 3d Zeldas they seem to be packing into this.

I saw this was out the other day, will definitely grab it down the line. I still have to beat the first Valfaris, that game does not mess around.

Looking forward to trying Haunted Castle Revisited. I've heard so many bad things about the original over the years I've avoided it like the plague.

Can't wait to dive in tonight! Between this and the Castlevania Dominus Collection it's been a good week for the switch, at least as far as my gaming tastes go.

Speaking of liminal space, was at the production office for a show I'm working on the other day. They set up shop in a small section of an old law office that had been in disuse for god knows how long. Just a labyrinthine maze of carpeted corridors, empty offices and vast open common areas with depressing drop ceilings. It was basically being inside the backrooms, I'm not even kidding,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo

Holy crap, I'm gone for a few days and this news drops, frikin incredible!!

I played this only recently, it's a solid Capcom beat 'em up, up there with the greats. They really were the kings of the genre during the 90s.

This looks quite intriguing. Love those gorgeous isometric visuals.

It's a nice idea for a set, but I think DK himself needs some work. He just looks, off.

Yep, the NA cover is cool as hell.

@NeonPizza Yeah, I played the demo as well. It definitely feels slower and more methodical than ninja gaiden, but that’s not a bad thing. It also happens to be gorgeous, it barely resembles the original nes game. As you say it does look like a 2d ps1 game, I was reminded of Megaman X4.

@abbyhitter 3 is great, it definitely builds upon what came before. DKC2 remains my fav, but I like how all three have a unique tone/atmosphere that sets them apart from one another.

Why this is simply 'banana slamma' as the kids say.

@Ralizah I’ve seen the first Rob Zombie remake, it sucks. He tries to make Micheal a sympathetic character with an abusive childhood, which I think ruins him. He was way scarier when he was a soulless murder machine with no clear motivation, just pure evil.

And I know it’s divisive, but I actually like Halloween 3 Season of the Witch. It’s when they tried to turn Halloween into an anthology horror series, with each movie being a self contained horror story that had nothing to do with Micheal Myers. But unfortunately it flopped, so they just went back to bringing Micheal back in every movie. Anyway, 3 is worth checking out if you haven’t seen it.

Wow, these actually look really freakin cool. Hopefully they turn out to be good.

I wonder if Bruce Campbell will be lending his voice talents? That's something he's traditionally done in most Evil Dead games.

Marty McFly Jr called, he wants his wardrobe back.

@Diogmites Oh yeah there are definitely some interesting themes at play in Prometheus about faith, the origin of humanity, and the search for immortality. And it is a very pretty movie. It’s trying to be high brow sci-fi, while also having the trappings of a bad b-movie, with the goofy writing. Like the guys with the high tech 3d mapping orbs who somehow still get lost, and then subsequently treat a horrifying alien snake like a cute puppy, lol. David was a great character tho, And the surgery scene with Shaw is intense as hell. I really just wish it was it’s own thing, and not connected to Alien. I feel like they just did that for marketing reasons.

Ah yes, I often lament there was never was a Conan 3, and they tease it at the end of both movies too. Absolutely missed opportunity.

@Diogmites Yeah, definitely some development hell that went on with 3.

In regards to Prometheus and Covenant, I just have a ton of issues with the writing in those movies which I won’t get into here. Suffice to say, lots of characters making nonsensical decisions. My main issue with those films however, is that it completely ruins the mystery of the space jockey, that being the giant alien corpse they find on the ship in the original film. That scene is so haunting and atmospheric, you just wonder what that thing was when it was alive and how it got there. Then according to Prometheus it’s just a big albino bodybuilder…okay. Oh, and by the way, David the android made the aliens with the black goo….like, really??? It’s stuff like that that makes the universe they established in the first film seem smaller. The space jockey and the alien did not need an origin story. It’s the mystery that made them interesting. It’s as if Ridley Scott doesn’t even understand the appeal of his own series. Anyway that’s just how I feel. There definitely is still some fun horror stuff in those movies, I feel like I might like them more if they had no connection to the Alien franchise.

Oh yeah Conan the Destroyer rocks, haha. It’s not as good as the first one, but it’s still a very fun fantasy quest kinda movie for sure.

@Diogmites Lol yeah, Brad Dourif spouting expositional dialogue whilst cocooned to a wall is hilarious. And yeah Weaver is great, you can tell she’s just having a lot of fun with the roll. Fun fact, the scene when she effortlessly makes a backwards 3 pointer shot on the basketball court apparently only took two takes!

I remember reading somewhere one of the original drafts for the script of Alien 3 involved Ripley landing on a wooden monastery planet inhabited by space monks. Certainly sounds more interesting than what we got.

Agreed the og Alien is still the best. Don’t get me started on Prometheus or Alien Covenant though, oof those movies are rough.

@Diogmites Haha, well I’m glad to hear there’s another fan of Alien Resurrection out there besides myself and a buddy of mine. It’s just a fun spin on the Alien premise that does not take itself too seriously. (Brad Dourif making kissy faces at the alien is too funny). It also happens to still look great years later. I will grant that Alien 3 does have a pretty epic ending, but overall I find it to be a depressing slog, with mostly terrible alien vfx.

The curse of the video game movie strikes again.

In regards to Alien Romulus, I just have no interest in seeing it for some reason, and I love the first two, (and 4 is a lot of dumb fun). I think I'm just tired of them dredging up these old franchises over and over again, they're almost always mediocre at best.

Yeah this looks amazing. Ninja action platformers, one of my favourite sub-genres.

It's a cool illustration of Zero on the NA one, but I don't like how it's cropped.

EU looks like another artist traced the JP one. He's got weird googly eyes.

JP is definitely the strongest here.

@LikelySatan I like the cathedral background, or 'nude place' as it's called, and the forest stage is nice too. But yeah, overall the backgrounds aren't anything to write home about.

@Vyacheslav333 Ah, thank you for the correction.

While I don't think it's quite as good as the previous two Capcom Vs Snk games, I've still been having a lot of fun with it.

There is one character that is absolutely cheap and that's Goenitz.

"KOKO DESU KA? KOKO DESU KA?"

Holy crap I can't stand that guy. It is satisfying when you actually do beat him tho.

@WaveBoy Completely agree. 80s/90s was the golden age of amazing hand painted box/cartridge art.

I like the sleekness of the N64 carts, but I gotta go with the Snes.

I really like the look of this. Just in time for spooky season.

Hey now there's a mash up I never considered before. Looks excellent.