For games, I highly recommend The World Ends With You, a Square Enix game. If you are able to find a DS version I highly recomend playing that version over the Switch port. Some of the mechanics from the DS version don't translate quite well into the Switch port. Although the Switch port does have postgame stuff thay does allude to the upcoming sequel game. I don't know how sucessful The World Ends with You is, because it is a pretty niche game, but the characters did show up in Kingdom Hearts DDD and that there is a sequel that's going to get a summer release , July 27, this year. I love this game because it's story really hits home for me about it's themes of isolation and connection. Also this game is one of the few games that really made use of all the things a DS could do: use the touch screen, gamepad, dual monitors, and voice recognition all in one battle system. and nothing goes to waste or is screen filler.
For an indie game I've enjoyed recently, Everhood is up there for interesting games. The main draw of the game is the music since the main gameplay loop consists of dodging the opponent's musical attacks. It's an interesting game, because you can clearly see where some influences have affected the game, but that's just a surface assesment. Because Everhood is really distinct from the obvious source of inspiration. Honestly, I'm more curious about your opinion on the game's music. The story is about a doll that gets their arm stolen and the journey it goes to get it back. However when you do get it back half way through the game, well, the philisophical themes of existance come fully into play from that point forward.
I would recomended the Medieval Cop series. Though I am not sure where to hold it in terms of success, because the badge hunters on Kongregate absolutely loathe the game, while the fans absolutely adore the games. I suspect that part of the negativety comes from how Kongregate keeps putting episodes of Medieval Cop up for Badges of the Day so frequently , because Medieval Cop is one of the few games can can be played post flash discontinue. And that, Medieval cop is an episodic game, that's more accuretly described as a visual novel with gameplay elements. I suspect that's why some of the hate describes the game as "just one long cutscene and one mystery in the middle" The dev does use rpg maker to create the games, so thats something to consider.
I find it interesting that there's some disisiveness about graphics of games. For me I am looking at game graphics under a comercial design eye, where you do what is functional to get things done. As much as I love to have pretty things to look at, I do recognize that not everyone has the artistic skill to put a game out that has FF7 remake levels of graphics. Because of that, I can suspend my disbelief for when pixel art doesn't have the same hyper realistic as real life.
To me when there is so much focus on the visual side of the game, a small part of me wonders if the story was sacrified to get the aethetic down. Look at Pokemon X and Y, it looks pretty with the jump to 3D, but dear god did the story suffer.
In contrast, the pixelated look sets my expectation higher that the story be a good one. Because pixelated games can't carry out the awe pretty games do, pixelated games have to make up for their lack of high def graphics with an amazing story, gameplay, or both.
Can games have both amazing graphics and gameplay? Yes, but it is a difficult thing to balance and not everyone has the funds or skill to do both. Ori and the Blind forest is one that has both the aethetics and gameplay done amazingly. The World Ends with You came from Square Enix so they have the company funding to ensure that the graphics and gameplay can be amazing.
For an indie game I've enjoyed recently, Everhood is up there for interesting games. The main draw of the game is the music since the main gameplay loop consists of dodging the opponent's musical attacks. It's an interesting game, because you can clearly see where some influences have affected the game, but that's just a surface assesment. Because Everhood is really distinct from the obvious source of inspiration. Honestly, I'm more curious about your opinion on the game's music. The story is about a doll that gets their arm stolen and the journey it goes to get it back. However when you do get it back half way through the game, well, the philisophical themes of existance come fully into play from that point forward.
I would recomended the Medieval Cop series. Though I am not sure where to hold it in terms of success, because the badge hunters on Kongregate absolutely loathe the game, while the fans absolutely adore the games. I suspect that part of the negativety comes from how Kongregate keeps putting episodes of Medieval Cop up for Badges of the Day so frequently , because Medieval Cop is one of the few games can can be played post flash discontinue. And that, Medieval cop is an episodic game, that's more accuretly described as a visual novel with gameplay elements. I suspect that's why some of the hate describes the game as "just one long cutscene and one mystery in the middle" The dev does use rpg maker to create the games, so thats something to consider.
I find it interesting that there's some disisiveness about graphics of games. For me I am looking at game graphics under a comercial design eye, where you do what is functional to get things done. As much as I love to have pretty things to look at, I do recognize that not everyone has the artistic skill to put a game out that has FF7 remake levels of graphics. Because of that, I can suspend my disbelief for when pixel art doesn't have the same hyper realistic as real life.
To me when there is so much focus on the visual side of the game, a small part of me wonders if the story was sacrified to get the aethetic down. Look at Pokemon X and Y, it looks pretty with the jump to 3D, but dear god did the story suffer.
In contrast, the pixelated look sets my expectation higher that the story be a good one. Because pixelated games can't carry out the awe pretty games do, pixelated games have to make up for their lack of high def graphics with an amazing story, gameplay, or both.
Can games have both amazing graphics and gameplay? Yes, but it is a difficult thing to balance and not everyone has the funds or skill to do both. Ori and the Blind forest is one that has both the aethetics and gameplay done amazingly. The World Ends with You came from Square Enix so they have the company funding to ensure that the graphics and gameplay can be amazing.