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Born of Bread is a 2.5D adventure RPG game that combines exploration with a combat system that rethinks turn-based encounters. Experience a home-cooked retro take on classic cartoony with charming characters for children and adults alike. Players assume the character of a sentient flour golem with a childlike curiosity who possesses a unique set...
Platform(s): PC(version reviewed), Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One Genre: 2D beat-em-up RPG hybrid with Technos throwbacks aplenty 2019's River City Girls surprised everyone with its brand of humour, fun 2D beat-em-up action, lush pixel artwork, catchy music, and nods to the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon franchise. A couple more years later, we're...
The hit 2022 WASD game Vampire Survivors is getting its first-ever expansion. It's called Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell and it just appeared out of nowhere on PC (Steam). No release date has been mentioned for now, but we do know the DLC contains 8 new characters, 13 new weapons, 1 new stage, and 6 new music tracks. The new stage is...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation Genre: 2D dodge 'em up Have you ever played a 2D shoot-em-up like R-Type, but you avoided everything that came in your way instead of blasting the problem directly? No? Well, you'll get a huge-yet-short serving of that with developer Digital Kingdom and publisher Thunderful ...
The Knight Witch is out right now for PC (Steam) and Nintendo Switch. If you love 2D shmups and search action game hybrids, you'll find a lot to love about this new title from developer Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team. What you won't like is the game's difficulty; it's pretty tough and requires your diligence in memorizing bullet hell ...
Platform(s): PC (version played), Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch Genre: Metroidvania bullet hell shmup If you think the whimsical art style and cheery folksy intro music of Team 17 and Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team's latest 2D search action shmup hybrid game The Knight Witch equals an easy game, think again. Wic...
The upcoming 2D dodge-em-up game Swordship is reminiscent of a 2D shmup, but you don't fire bullets. Rather, you dodge things and obstacles coming at you and from all sides as you're speeding in your titular Swordship on the sea. Developer Digital Kingdom and publisher Thunderful has unleashed a developer commentary video talking about the game'...
If you love the Western anime production series RWBY, you may find the latest game adaptation quite decent. RWBY: Arrowfell mixes 2D action with search action-like elements, where you can switch between the main huntresses -Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang- and use their special Semblances to defeat foes, solve puzzles, and overcome obstacles. If yo...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D action platformer with search action-like elements The last time production house Rooster Teeth lent their Western animation/anime license RWBY out for a video game is for the Arc System Works fighting game crossover BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, and that worked out very well for them. ...
Before it was swamped with too many Pokemon games to make, Gamefreak used to create original 2D games. One of them is an underrated 2D platformer-slash-drilling-sim called Drill Dozer, and it was a lovely Game Boy Advance marvel. Fast forward to now, and it seems that the cult game has inspired developers like Ahr Ech to make their own drilling ...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch, Apple Arcade Genre: 2D action roguelite where you go deeper underground It's nice to know that Yacht Club Games and developer Nitrome are bringing back the classic gameplay of Bandai Namco's Mr. Driller, now in a new 2D action platformer guise and Shovel Knight brand. Shovel Knight Dig is wha...
If you missed the Sega 2D platformer classics Castle of Illusion and World of Illusion, this new D23 Expo announcement will make you jump for joy. Disney and DLaLa Studios (Battletoads reboot) will be making a new 2D platformer named Disney's Illusion Island, which features co-op and four different playable Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Goofy...
Remember Apogee, the old-school PC gaming software publisher known for many classics like the 2D Duke Nukem games and even Castle Wolfenstein? Well, they're still sticking around and have the subtitle "Entertainment" just for kicks, but still publish retro-style games. Their latest? An upcoming Metroidvania side-scrolling action title called LUC...
Update: River City Girls 2's release date is added. WayForward has dished out more info about its upcoming 2D beat-em-up River City Girls 2. First up, there's a bit more gameplay of the main characters Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, Riki, Marian (Double Dragon ex-damsel-now-badass), and Provie. You also get to know the villains of this entry: the crim...
Capcom and SNK are fighting game juggernauts then and now, so it only made sense for both of them to team up at one point to make a crossover fighting game between the two factions. That happened with 2000's Capcom VS SNK and 2001's Capcom VS SNK 2, with both games being very popular in their time. Will there be a revival for this? It's a possib...
Publisher Aksys Games and developer RareBreed Makes Games will be delaying its upcoming 2D pixel-based fighting game Blazing Strike, which still looks really gorgeous and fluid in motion. Don't believe me? Check out the trailer below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBG4nWyix8w Blazing Strike will be delayed to Spring 2023, quite a few mon...
The King of Fighters XV's latest characters will be out next week, and will have the long-awaited crossplay feature next year. SNK announced during EVO 2022 that Team Awakened Orochi, which features Orochi Yashiro, Orochi Chris, and Orochi Shermie, will release on 8th August. That's this coming Monday. To recap, they play like their KOF '97, KOF...
With the work it has done for the Bloodstained 2D pixel side games, Inti Creates would be a shoe-in to make a full-fledged 2D action game in the veins of the Castlevania series. Wouldn't you know it, that's what it's working on right now. The company that made the Mega Man Zero and Azure Striker Gunvolt series (and GalGun) has announced a side-s...
Some games age like fine wine. Others may not be the hot title when it first came out, but end up becoming better in retrospect, arguably being a title ahead of its time. At Kakuchopurei, we may cover a lot of new games, but we always fall back to the classics, be it the incredibly old ones or recent titles from a few years past. There are a bun...
Warner Bros. Games' big 2D fighting game MultiVersus, featuring a ton of characters from DC Comics and Cartoon Network (among other IPs) will be out later this month. MultiVersus will launch on 26 July for PC (Steam), Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS5, and PS4 according to Warner Bros. Games and developer Player First Games. If you want to access the g...
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