Twinworld Game Reviews

Indie publisher Ratalaika Games, together with developer Conradical Games, is delighted to announce Lootbox Lyfe+ a cross genre – Metroidvania/Hardcore Platformer experience that will be welcomed by avid gamers. Coming on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch it is due to hit digital stores with release date of 24th February 2023.

Lootbox Lyfe is ruled by the evil “Shadowleaf Irvine”. They’re a strange being who introduced Lootboxes to the Xoobotls, a species of round creatures who can be found in the world of Lootbox Lyfe. Over time, Xoobotls stopped spending money on items essential to life such as food, and water. It was soon after that bodies started dropping. Is there a way to bring the species back to its past glory? Or is this world forever in ruins due to Shadowleaf’s monopolistic endeavour?

The player will assume the role of Liam Cappello, the last Xoobotl in existence – a species of round creatures that live in the world of Lootbox Lyfe. Waking up from a long slumber only to see the world you once lived in is in ruins. The culprits of this calamity are Lootboxes.

Starting off with no powers, slowly you will gain more through opening lootboxes. Liam doesn’t even start with the ability to move, so you even have to get a lootbox for that! The basic objective is to save your species through delving into interconnected worlds riddles whilst platforming obstacles and unlocking new areas as you obtain new movement options.

The world of Lootbox Lyfe+ is vast just like any Metroidvania, but a key difference that makes it stand out is it has no individual enemies. The world is your enemy, you’ve got to dodge spikes, platform over rivers, and avoid traps to make it far in the game. Throughout you’ll unlock many abilities such as dashing, slamming, becoming a lootbox, and more, and you’ll need to use these tools all the time.

As you progress, platforming naturally gets harder. However, you unlock new abilities through finding lootboxes, which will allow you to approach challenges in various ways. If you get stuck, you can even buy hints with coins you obtain through exploration that point you to the nearest lootbox with a movement ability. You can also find lootboxes with quick travel functionality throughout the world to make backtracking a breeze!

More for your boot

Lootbox Lyfe+ encompasses many interesting features, as well as lack of enemies, allowing you to approach platforming challenges in a calculated manner, and encourages you to test out many movement ability combinations, there are movement abilities: As you unlock move abilities, you’ll be able to traverse through the world more and more seamlessly. This makes backtracking a breeze, and you’ll be able to feel like a real speed demon if you apply your learned skills to the built-in speedrunning mode.Open exploration: Past the start area, there is no set path forwards in Lootbox Lyfe – you can approach the different areas in different.

Orders. This ensures you never get lost because a stray path leads to another core part of the game!

Key areas to explore which include:

• A shadowy cave housing a lootbox addiction experimentation site.
• A pink fungal wasteland
• Interdimensional structures housing powerful lootbox rewards
• A snowy mining outpost based around extracting materials to make lootboxes

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Redemption Reapers, the dark fantasy tactical RPG developed by Adglobe and published by Binary Haze Interactive (ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights), unveils a new cinematic trailer in anticipation of next week’s launch on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023 at 7am PDT on Steam for Windows PC, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.

Witness the aftermath of the Mort invasion as Sarah, an orphan rescued and raised by the Ashen Hawk Brigade. Follow her journey from saved to savior as she comforts Naki, a young boy rescued by the Brigade just as she was.

As the lone survivor of the attack on Inissa Village eager to do his part in the battle against evil, Naki turns his fear of the Mort into courage. Learn to fight and join the Brigade as one of many characters defending the remnants of humanity.

Explore an array of strategic possibilities while deploying additional allies to turn the tides of war. Skillfully navigate abandoned villages, castles, tunnels and snowfields to protect innocent villagers and important figures on the path towards redemption.

Unleash each character’s ultimate strength by utilizing special skills to carve a path through enemies and boost the attributes of nearby teammates. Upgrade and outfit Brigade members with weapons and accessories. Uncover the backstories of fellow fighters of the Ashen Hawk Brigade between battles in fully voiced cutscenes.

Backed by a formidable battalion of AAA industry veterans, Redemption Reapers is an original story created by director Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Producer – ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights), with game balance design courtesy of tactical RPG veteran Masayuki Horikawa (Series Director – Fire Emblem, Planning – Kingdom Hearts III), Tomokazu Fukushima (Scenario – Metal Gear Solid, Freedom Wars), Rei Kondoh (Music – Bayonetta Series, Fire Emblem Series), and character design Yoko Tsukamoto.

Redemption Reapers will be available for $49.99 with Japanese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), and Korean-language support, and voiceover options in English and Japanese. The game offers over 25 hours of gameplay in addition to an unlockable hard mode upon completing a first playthrough.

For more information, please visit the Redemption Reapers website, follow Binary Haze Interactive on Twitter, and wishlist the game on Steam today.

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February 15th, 2023, Warsaw, Poland – naptime.games, a family game development studio, has announced Ink & Paper: DoodleCut – an exploratory approach to games that allows you to revisit your school years, and for the youngest lets you venture out not necessarily in a math notebook.

Draw a line to enclose the area and doodle it. Watch out for baddies who can catch you or cut your line!

You take control of a doodlebug crawling across the notebook. As you move, you draw a line behind you. When you surround an area, you can capture and doodle it. You must sketch more than three-quarters of a page to win.

Each level offers plenty of challenges – from particular areas to multiple types of enemies. Keep them from catching you or cutting your line!

Play alone or with your friend in co-op mode to get the most space quickly! You can also unlock expert speed and endless mode.

Doodle, divide, and conquer!

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Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society is available now on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and PC!

From the creators of Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk comes a new chapter in the dungeon-exploring adventure filled with charm and mystery! Summoned by the magnificent Madame Marta, you are but a wandering spirit awaiting your next command.

Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society offers dungeon-crawling adventures with new quality of life improvements and 50 hours of exploration alongside a cast of fully customizable companions to do your bidding.

Use a variety of pacts and puppet soldiers to customize a team of up to 40 fighters to dive into the darkness and discover the manor’s hidden secrets!

Be sure to catch our launch stream on Twitch.tv to get a first look at Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society and follow us on Twitter for all of our livestream updates!

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Stuttgart, Germany – 13 February 2023 – Hone your Ninja skills and save Princess Sakura when Ninja JaJamaru hits consoles next week! After decades as a cult classic in Japan, ININ Games happily releases three Ninja JaJaMaru collections by developer City Connection with games never before seen in the West. All three collections will be available digitally on PS4 and Nintendo Switch; however, pre-orders for boxed versions of Ninja JaJaMaru: The Great Yokai Battle+Hell Deluxe Edition are now live.

Stay tuned for the release of Ninja JaJaMaru and, in the meantime, check out the brand-new trailer of The Lost RPG Collection!

Will you be able to defeat evil and save Princess Sakura? Find out when Ninja JaJaMaru comes to consoles on February 21st.

For retro gaming enthusiasts, limited physical editions of JaJaMaru: Legendary Ninja Collection will be exclusively available via Strictly Limited Games.

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Indie publisher Ratalaika Games, together with developer Ohsat Games today 10 February 2023, releases their 90s retro platformer Go! Go! PogoGirl on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch, priced at $4.99 / €4.99.

Jump on your pogo stick and bounce, bounce, bounce! Go! Go! PogoGirl is a dynamic, cute and wholesome platformer about a girl and her pogo stick. Bounce your way through the world, collect gems and then bounce some more!

• Collect all 100 gems in a level!
• Find all three hidden gems in a level.
• Beating the level without dying.

A platformer that will get you hopping mad – in an enjoyable way!

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10 FEBRUARY, 2023 – Digerati is delighted to share the news that it has released a new games bundle for Nintendo Switch. Digerati Indie Darling Bundle Vol.5 includes Super Blood Hockey, The Procession To Calvary, Snakeybus, and Glass Masquerade 2. The bundle is priced €/$47.99 and is available to download now from the Nintendo eShop with a 20% launch discount for a limited time.

About the games

Super Blood Hockey (developed by Loren Lemcke): Arcade sports gaming gets a shot of adrenaline in Super Blood Hockey, a violent homage to classic 8- and 16-bit ice hockey games. Customize your line-up and take to the ice, using fast-paced skills and bone-crunching brutality to dominate.

Prove your hockey prowess in a deadly global tournament or against friends in 4-player local multiplayer. Build and manage your own squad in Franchise Mode – with the right diet your team can be season champions!

The Procession To Calvary (developed by Joe Richardson): Huzzah! The holy war is over! Your oppressors have been vanquished, the churches of the Old God lay in ruin and thousands of innocent people have been murdered! But it’s not all good news; the tyrant Heavenly Peter has escaped your clutches, and you have been tasked with finding him…

The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game in which you journey through a richly detailed landscape built from hundreds of Renaissance paintings.

Snakeybus (developed by Stovetop Studios): An absurd arcade-driving game and frantic score-chasing experience where the biggest danger is yourself! Wind through city streets, pick up as many passengers as you can and deliver them to their destination to increase your score AND the length of your bus!

Boost, jump, and steer around an obstacle course of your own making! Test your serpentine skills with various maps, modes, and bus types! All aboard the Snakeybus!

Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions (developed by Onyx Lute): A dreamlike collection of artistic jigsaw puzzles to piece together at your own relaxed pace. Dive into the rabbit hole of the abstract and the fantastical, putting together stained-glass fragments to solve dreams and riddles. Enjoy baroque depictions of 20th century imagination, in puzzles more intricate and complex than the original.

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Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5 on May 23, 2023!
(May 26, 2023 in Europe and June 2, 2023 in Oceania)

Grab your pack and loosen your belt as you explore the dungeons within Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook and scour for the resources needed to survive!

Scavenge, traverse, and fight to gather ingredients used to make life-sustaining meals! But beware, not all cooking is delicious!

Prepare for the adventure that awaits by joining the Retweet Contest for your chance to win a Limited Edition!

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Los Angeles, USA – February 9th, 2023 – Burst2Flame are pleased to announce that their simultaneous turn-based tactical RPG, Stolen Realm, will be exiting its Early Access phase and releasing on PC, Xbox and Switch in Q2 2023. The studio today also released the new World Map Update, removing the transition between the map and battles and introducing three brand new areas to the game, along with a host of other additions and improvements.

Praised by the likes of Shroud and Sacriel for the flexibility of its class customisation and a design that avoids RPG bloat, Stolen Realm takes the deep tactical systems of RPGs like Divinity: Original Sin and gives it a unique twist. Simultaneous turns allows all members of the player and enemy team to take their actions at once, creating the kinds of fast-paced encounters you’d typically find in action RPGs, without sacrificing the strategic richness that turn-based RPG fans love.

Stolen Realm features a highly customisable class system that allows you to create traditional RPG classes or break the mould to forge a unique champion of your own. Make a spell-slinging assassin, a priest born of frost, or a shadow-infused knight as you draw from a pool of over 300 possible skills. With over 700 items to loot, each fully customisable with modifiers, there’s even more  opportunity to change the way you play: wield Abbadon the Soul Crusher, a mythic mace that raises slain enemies as skeletal warriors to fight for you, or unsheath the Bloodletter, a cursed sword that grants additional power at the cost of your lifeblood. D&D-like special events where attribute-based rolls will have permanent effects on your character add yet another layer to building a character that is truly your own in a title that keeps a constant stream of compelling choices at the forefront of your experience.

With the release of the latest update, a world that changes with every expedition you undertake – either alone or with up to six players together via Stolen Realm’s friction free drop-in/drop-out co-op system –  gets even bigger. Delve deep into the forgotten ruins of the once great Dwarven Halls, adventure into the untamed wilds of the Emerald Jungle and uncover the mysteries of the Sunken Swamplands, facing all new foes like creeping spiders, giant scorpions and Great Wyrms along the way. The transition between the world map and battles is now gone – now you can take your fight directly to enemies on the world map.

A full list of the features added in the new World Map Update can be found here.

“We hope players enjoy the new content we’ve released today in the World Map Update and can’t wait for the full release of Stolen Realm on PC, Xbox and Switch in Q2 2023,” said developer Jason Jolley. “Our goal with Stolen Realm is to focus on the core appeal of RPGs. We want to ensure players are always in combat, looting and making interesting choices, with the freedom to drop-in with friends whenever they want thanks to automatic scaling. It’s been a real pleasure to see how well that concept has connected with our community during the Early Access phase and we’re looking forward to more people being able to experience the game come release”.

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