GR - "We're really into the idea of Meta," Behold artist Bruno Briseno told me about his studio's new game, Chroma Squad, using the studio's previous title for an example. Knights of Pen and Paper gave you control over both the players and Dungeon Master as they enjoyed a tabletop RPG to inhabit a liminal space between the game world and the "real world". Chroma Squad tries to mimic that in a new pixelart tactical RPG/management sim featuring your favorite Japanese warriors.
In Chroma Squad the conceit is that rather than being the heroes, you play the people working on a Sentai television show. The title is directly inspired by Japanese shows like Changeman and Flashman though you might be more familiar with the American equivalent in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. You play as the development team behind the costumed-heroes-versus-evil-mo nsters. Once the game's Kickstarter began to pick up, the developers attracted the ranks of Super Sentai fans who began to lend their deep knowledge to the game. Briseno recommends the pirate themed Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger as one of the better contemporary entries.
Chroma Squad is a tactical RPG about five young stunt actors, who decide to quit their day jobs and start their own Power Rangers-inspired TV show!
Nintendo's Switch definitely had a lot of success so far and the games keep coming. Here is Spiel Time's article about the top 10 must-play Nintendo Switch games of August 2019.
Think I'll be picking up Astral Chain and Oninaki. Still need to check out the demo though to say for sure.
Walker writes, "Dandy Dungeon, the weird and wonderful romance programming simulator is coming to the Switch, but I can think of five more oddball games that Nintendo needs to look at."
Looks interesting. I'll have to keep my eye on this one.
It's as if the Axem Rangers made a video game!
such a clever idea for a game. Very original.