From the Newsletter: LRG Team Summer Picks
From the Newsletter: LRG Team Summer Picks
A shout out from the Limited Run crew to some of their summer break faves.
Summer has arrived, and that means taking a little vacation time. We know that not everyone wants to spend their days off baking on a beach... some of us are indoor kids first and foremost. So, for the latest Limited Run Games newsletter, we asked the team to check the shelves at Limited Run Retail and give their favorite summer picks a callout. Here’s what they had to say:
The Jeremy:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES
For those nostalgic childhood memories
This one has a dicey reputation among some people who want it to be a home port of the beloved arcade game. That came later! This is something different: a crazy challenging solo adventure. But you can play as all four turtles! In fact, you’ll probably end up using them all just to survive the bomb diffusion quest beneath the dam...
V. From Leadership:
Retail Exclusive Cover of Clock Tower Rewind
You may have also been lucky enough to see these at select events
Clock Tower! The original game took almost 30 years to come to America! And to celebrate the thrills of helping to keep definitely-not-Jennifer-Connelly safe from a weirdo with giant scissors, we created this special events-only cover. Which you can find at Limited Run Retail. Which, if we’re being honest, is like a special event in physical form.
The Bojangler from Customer Experience
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Another iconic childhood pick
Please don’t mistake this for Blood Omen 2! They are part of the same series but very different! Soul Reaver 2 features Raziel, who is a vampire, but only kind of monstrously evil (versus Kain, who is a vampire, and fully monstrously evil). You know what? The best way to keep them straight is play the whole series for yourself. Good thing Limited Run has made that so easy for you, eh?
Indecisive From Publishing
R-Type Delta: HD Boosted
Well, he actually said “anything R-Type related”
After blowing the human race’s collective mind with the original 1987 arcade hit R-Type, the series saw a few sequels before laying dormant for half a decade. R-Type Delta relaunched the games for the 3D era, though of course it didn’t go fully 3D in terms of gameplay. R-Type is already hard enough in 2D! But it did juice up the action with polygonal graphics... and HD Boosted juices up those graphics in turn with high-definition resolution.
K. from Art
Hi-Fi Rush
The Rhythm Edition is Now Shipping
This stylish 3D action game pushes back against players’ tendency to get carried away while fighting bad guys and start button-mashing by encouraging them to play rhythmically instead. Fight your way through armies of futuristic, fantastic foes in time to the music embedded in the protagonist’s chest. It’s synesthetic and diegetic all at once!
J. From Production
Animal Well
Go Big Mooode!!
An enigmatic take on the metroidvania concept, light on traditional action and heavy on puzzle-solving—including some innovative takes on community gameplay. The kind of game you can get lost in for a long time. I mean, what else are you gonna do with these long summer months?
A Different Jeremy
Castlevania Dominus Collection
More on Castlevania later...
Three great games in one great package. Actually, four great games if you count the remake of Haunted Castle. Dominus Collection contains the three final traditional entries in the Castlevania series... a distinction it will hold until Belmont’s Curse comes out this fall.
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