Cham the Cat Adventure strives to recreate Mario's iffiest outing: Super Mario Land! Yep, Cham feels like the weird, cat-girl sequel gamers never got and Nintendo would never deliver. But more importantly...is it good?
TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight
TASOMACHI is Super Mario in the body of a super cutie. Tasked with romping and hopping through idyllic, picturesque landscapes, she's definitely not unlike her portly counterpart. Except here, there are no baddies. No real challenge. Just revelry...in what might be one of the prettiest games of its age.
Cocoon: If terrestrial insects build hives and mounds, would not interstellar insects do the same...just across a much grander dimension? That's Cocoon, a game of melding and metamorphosis...a journey through worlds...an exercise in dismantling the past to develop what's always been.
Fairune is an RPG without the basic ingredients of one--it strips away the typical combat and narrative structure in favor of pure exploration and fetch-quest puzzle solving. Does such a reductionist approach make for a good game...or a pointless one?
Gal Guardians: Demon Purge
Gal Guardians learns from the best, cribbing from the Castlevania franchise while switching the whips for bullets and replacing the guys with the yummiest girls. Because, really, if women are good at anything, it's slaying monsters with endearing spear and winsome gun.
UFO 50 tries to channel the best of the 8-bit era with fifty fully unique and complete games--a slew of homebrew, some might say, in one easily obtainable package. And though these titles vary in both quality and appeal, this is still one of the most elaborate and well-meaning projects ever conceived, indie or otherwise.
