i recently played the demo for morhta and its looking to be something pretty interesting. its a dark fantasy shooter with some killer low polly art and an extremely interesting world also Psychopomp is excellent too. its about an hour and a half long, and basically boils down to walk around weird places and being a schizophrenic woman. which makes it a 10/10 in my book but if you make anything weird enough and grungy enough ill probably like it no matter what
Awesome video, KANNON!👍 I'm happy that indie games and AA games are evolving so much that indie games and AA games are taking over the entire triple AAA industry!🤘 Also KANNON, have you watched Murder Drones, Lackadaisy, The Amazing Digital Circus, Port By The Sea, Ramshackle, Dungeon Flippers, Pieces Of Powder, Paper World, and Catching Up? If so or not, can you make a video about indie animation vs Hollywood studios/companies vs Japanese anime studios, please?
I find the music artist showcase at the end pretty refreshing as a closer to videos, with that out of the way, do you take suggestions for artists? If you do, then suggest Surrogate, they've been my favorite for a while.
If you’re so jazzed about Mariachi Legends, you should play Prince of Persia The Lost Crown. The combat is godly and has a lot of anime/DMC influence in it.
I would recommend trying "Fumes", "Spy Drops", "All in the Abyss: Judge the fake", and "Kings of Hell". DS4 windows mess for me all of the sudden so I got screwed when I tried VA Proxy.
hey brother another great vid. love your style of puttin people on. I think youll dig Sheena Ringo if you havent peeped her yet. Her album Shōso Strip is this crazy distorted j-rock thats just one banger after the next, might just be my favourite japanese record till date and ive heard hundereds of em.
when i tried va proxy when the first demo appeared i couldnt find the appeal and was so lost. maybe its time to give it another chsnce, like you hyped it likes crazy and all the clips were nuts
The more time passes the more I'm more hyped for indie games than AAAs. Not to say interesting AAAs are rare or anything, it's just that the indies go so wild with vision, art direction and gameplay that they're such a big surprise everytime.
Dear lord, seems like I've been sleeping on some real 🔥 indie games wtf am I doing 💀💀 dude I'm pretty sure I've watched some of your videos before... Why the hell didn't I sub? xD anyways uhhh do you have any ideas on Windblown? The EA is out currently
Here's some other games that may be of interest to you, based on your love for pixel art styles and preference for high action. 2020, 2022 and 2023 had the release of No Straight Roads, Soulstice and Clash: Artifacts of Chaos respectively (plus, 2023 had Hi-fi Rush and Cookie Cutter). Those first three are very dear to me personally. For upcoming high (character) action games, be sure to set your eyes on the likes of Genokids, Jamphibian, Enenra Daemon Core, Mightreya, Captain Blood and Yasuke: A Lost Descendant. Perhaps the game Bad Boro and Lost in Random: The Eternal Die too. And in terms of pixel art, there's the RPGs My Familiar (i've especially got my eye on this one), Octopus City Blues, and i think Pillory as well. I'm just reminded of Clown Meat. Difficult 2D platformer with clown horror elements, but the clowns as such aren't necessarily evil. Hope these are likewise of interest to you!
Yo dude, on the front of 2D action-heavy games & metroidvanias, i think i can supply a number of cool ones too! Cookie Cutter, Magenta Horizon, Kraino Rebirth, Decline's Drops and Immortal: And the Death that Follows. - Cookie Cutter: Hand-drawn 2D metroidvania with A LOT more planned for the future. Combat like a 2D beat-em-up. Normal attacks fill up a Special bar called the Void meter, which fuels Weapons, "spells" and a self-heal. Feels quite smooth and Executions reward extra health and Void. Two of the weapons you can find in the game are wholly optional, connected to sidequests. It's one of the most special games for me in recent years and i'm very excited for the future plans. It's a real love child of the dev-- dude's got a history in punk rock and Italian rave scenes and has stated in interviews that he really wants Cookie Cutter to be its own thing. Those who don't like it, don't like it, but those who resonate with it, resonate VERy strongly. He went through more than 100 interviews with possible publishers before he found one that was fully alright with not interfering or trying to force its own influence. And believe you me, that's hard to do with a game where the protagonist is a kinda chubby young lady dressed as a waitress, with a red Chelsea cut, and a robot vagina for a friend, in a cartoonish/comic-like colorful sci-fi/cyberpunk world. In the dev's own words, "I will continue to put my stories out there until i'm not better, not worse, but different". (something like that). - Magenta Horizon: 2D character action type game set in a purgatory world. Very colorful and a LOT of options right from the get-go. The entire Act 1 of 3 is the demo. Very striking art style! All of these games do, but they're all different from one another and i do want to emphasize it with Magenta Horizon, because on a technical level it probably has the most going on from all these. Alongside Immortal: And the Death that Follows. - Kraino Rebirth. Metroidvania. Was on Kickstarter and recently reached its funding for at least normal development, though additional funding goals weren't met. Pixelly art style by a dude that i believe worked on some of the Shantae games (Risky's Revenge and Pirate's Curse). About a skeleton in a top hat and with a scythe fighting various spooky threats. There is a demo out! - Decline's Drops: Angry gardener puppet fights off an evil science empire that ruined her garden, led by various draconic creatures that have mutated frogs and chickens making up their forces. Quite combat-focused too, the lead dev said that inspirations range from Yoshi's Island to Smash Bros. Various directional attacks: Normal, Tap/Smash and Specials. The lead dev of this one has a lot more planned for the future as well, like Boss Rush, time attack, new levels and bosses and even playable characters. Released a few weeks ago, does have a demo with levels from World 1, World 3 and the first BOss. - Immortal: and the Death that Follows. This one's unique for being a high-action roguelike beat-em-up platformer. It's 2D, with Hindu mythology inspirations, and gameplay-wise you can find and assign different moves per run. And apparently you can also change difficulty *through* a run depending on how you choose to finish a boss-- or if you spare the boss but demand it to do something beneficial for you. (The dev has cited God Hand for inspiration here) Which ones of these have your attention the most so far?
@@L_inkle Makes sense, skeletons are always cool. Mr. Bones from the Sega Saturn and the awesome Blues-type soundtrack that game has can attest to that. I'm glad my recommendations in this and the other comment (action games and some pixel art ones) are of interest! :) I'm doing my best to spread word on cool games wherever i can. Have a good Halloween!
i thought one of the characters in the thumbnail was Gretel from Magenta Horizon for a second. 2D game in the same genre as stuff like Devil May Cry, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, Darksiders and stuff.
I HIGHLY recommend checking out rain world if you like the world of V.A proxy. I haven't played V.A proxy but I've played a lot of rain world. One thing I've heard about Proxy is that the world is heavily inspired by rain world, and one look at the gameplay confirms it with these weird bio-mechanical structures and striking colours mixed with dirty greys. Rain world is my favorite game of all time, BUT, it is very hard, unfairly hard sometimes
For my own artist recommendation, I would recommend the band "Cheem". They are a very underground band that are pushing a new genre they like to call "Nu Pop". It's kinda like if you mixed Pop Punk with Nu Metal. They only have a little over 8,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. If you want a starting point, their album ""Guilty Pleasure" is a great listen. Highly recommend checking them out.
Idk if "air gear" is obscure, or if its even that good, i read it in like middle school. But the vibes and the art are absolutely insane (read the manga heard the anime wasnt very good)
