It looks and feels like its progenitor but does away with stiff controls, frustrating and limiting game mechanics, and the finality of losing 3 measly lives. The story is the same as The Adventure Christopher Belmont is out to kick some Dracula ass, a hundred years or so before Simon went on his quest. “Redesigned” is such an understatement when it comes to ReBirth’s redesigned levels.
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(This is a companion piece to the KOF2002:UM PS4 disc release, for which orders close on March 14.Things aren’t recognizable at all – and that’s a good thing! It truly feels like an all new experience. In this case, one can only hope that "definitive" means "abjectly not the original arcade music" because oof. Availability: from 10AM Eastern, March 5.The King of Fighters 2002: The Definitive Soundtrack from Brave Wave & Limited Run Games Laced Records have once again teamed up with respected FGC figure Ryan Hart to offer a hand-picked selection of tracks from Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 4 each soundtrack is available in both standard and limited-edition variants and is split across three and two LPs, respectively, with tracks taken from both the arcade and PlayStation 2 versions of each games. Tekken Tag Tournament & Tekken 4 vinyl from Laced Records You'll never hear any of this music in any future version of the game, so you might as well grab the soundtrack on its lonesome. Availability: orders close in April, ETA June.
Super Meat Boy! Nice to Meat You LP from Danny Baronowsky via Bandcamp In any event, they do and will continue to sound great. I would like to remind people that, despite the narrative that Ship to Shore is contractually obligated to maintain, the arrangements produced for these particular games can be accredited specifically to Manabu Namiki, and not the nebulous "Konami Kukeiha Club" to which every piece of Konami-adjacent music will be forever attributed.
Useless fact: The creative leads on this game worked collectively and individually on a lot of G-MODE's more acclaimed releases, including Hero Must Die.
Why should I care? This game's battle system was described to me as " Final Fantasy X's turn order system with Final Fantasy V's job-switching system', which I'm sure ticks the boxes some of you might hope would be ticked.
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What's this? A heaven-and-hell RPG played from the demons' perspective, developed by Matrix Software and published on Japanese feature phones by G-MODE in 2006 the player-party, led by the lower-class demon Loki, set out on a quest around the seven circles of hell in order to fully harness the mysterious "Pendulum", an object that allows them to converse with increasingly arcane beings when powered up with cold hard cash. Useless fact: Jaleco had a history of very liberal and tenuous takes on games from other companies, and there's a lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest Legend of Makai was their take on Rare's Wizards & Warriors: aside from abundant mechanical, visual and structural similarities, developer NMK worked on the Famicom version of the original Wizards & Warriors on Jaleco's behalf. Why should I care? You've played the likes of Monster Land and Black Tiger and would like to disavow yourself of the idea that every other late-'80s arcade action-RPG was of equivalent quality. What's this? An RPG-tinged action game, developed by NMK for Jaleco and distributed in arcades in 1987 the player is tasked with exploring relatively open levels for keys, chests and crucial items, with stores scattered about that allow the player to purchase new equipment and other items, some of which are dramatically less helpful than others. Platform: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 (worldwide).and, as for the more practical-minded folks out there, keep plugging away at Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection, I suppose? ARCADE ARCHIVES All of you rabid vinyl collectors should be more than satisfied with this week's offerings.