Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! I am still cross-referencing my way through Blood Meridian, both incredibly vivid prose-poetic alchemy of the profound and harrowingly mundane, and also a bit like if a bible ate a pulp paperback then shat out a second, stupider bible with at least twice the people getting severed dicks shoved in their mouths. I love literature so much.
Centennial masterpiece.
Warning: This article delves into spoiler territory for The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy. If you’ve yet to play the game and want to go in blind, we recommend you come back at another time…
I’m not a fan of tactical RPGs… is what I would have told you before I played The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy. Heck, I’m still not sure I would call myself a ‘fan’ of the genre, necessarily; one game perhaps isn’t enough to sway me that much. The Hundred Line, though..? Yeah, I’m a fan of The Hundred Line.
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Kirb your enthusiasm.
We are back, back, back with another edition of Box Art Brawl!
It was a biggie last time, with a pair of F-Zero X covers facing off against each other. That’s not to say it was a close-fought competition, mind you. The character-focused Japanese cover walked away with a comfortable win, taking 84% of the vote and leaving Europe/North America in the dust with the remaining 16%. Yikes.
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But it has nothing to reveal right now.
Switch 2 is going to be packing a lot more horsepower under the hood and it’s already attracted certain third-party franchises from Electronic Arts that have been skipping Nintendo platforms for years. With this in mind, Codemasters is considering if the new hybrid system could be a “good fit” for its Formula One series.
Speaking to the sim racing website Traxion recently, F1 25‘s creative director Gavin Cooper mentioned how his team needs “some smart people” to look at the new Nintendo system and see what it can “actually do” and whether it’s “actually a good fit” for the F1 video game experience.
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Fixes for Switch version delayed.
: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time arrives on the Switch next week and ahead of release Level-5 is rolling out an early access update on select platforms, bumping the game up to Version 1.1.1.
This will be slightly different on the Switch front – with Version 1.1.0 apparently reflecting “some of the contents of this update” on 22nd May (JST). The version that reflects “most” of the content will be released in the future as Version 1.2.0.
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Almost a year on from its initial release, Zenless Zone Zero version 2.0 has been announced, slated for release next month on June 6th. There’s a lot coming in this new update, namely a new area to head to, the Waifei Peninsula, a “remote yet vibrant district of New Eridu.” The story follows on from where the Sacrifice crisis was left off in previous chapters, seeing you “uncover the hidden secrets of Phaethon and experience new Hollow exploration gameplay that harnesses the forces of Ether.”
You know what the main thing that’s holding me back from picking up Elden Ring Nightreign at launch is? The fact it doesn’t have an option for duos. For the most part I’m a single-player only kind of person, and when I play something online I normally like to do so with just my partner. I imagine I’m not the only person this applies to, nor am I likely to be the only one who thought “I don’t really want some rando called xX_fartmaster_Xx third wheeling my partner and me.” Luckily, FromSoftware seem to be at least considering a two-player option for the upcoming Soulslike.
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With Shinobi: Art of Vengeance’s release date now just 97 days away (not that we’re counting), both Sega and Lizardcube have been out and about and making sure to satiate our increasing desire for more information on their upcoming side-scrolling adventure.
Of course, this isn’t just any old adventure and, much like Lizardcube’s previous work, such as Streets of Rage 4 and Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap (both phenomenal), here we have a reworking, a full modernisation after a long period of dormancy, of the one and only Shinobi. The pressure of pulling apart a classic for the ages and rebuilding it in such a way that it satisfies newcomers and the hardcore, whilst also appearing modern and ‘good’? These folks have been there and done that.
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Have you ever immediately wishlisted a game on Steam based on aesthetics alone? I ask because that’s just happened to me with All Living Things, a stop-motion game inspired by The Ripley Scroll, a 15th-century alchemical manuscript. Doesn’t that just seem like a guaranteed feast for the eyes? Developer MOXO self-describes it as an “animated art-book puzzle game”, which feels perfectly apt for it. The general presentation is simple, this strange, alluring art book on a black background waiting for you to click around.
Lightyear Frontier launched into early access a little over a year ago, and it generally seems to have trudged along reasonably well since then. It’s not quite ready for 1.0 just yet, but a new update was announced by developers Frame Break and Amplifier Studios earlier this week that sounds like it’ll be bringing in some much needed changes.
