Welcome back to This Week In Games Australia, and the start of a busy week ahead. AAA is back in force this week, with multiple major launches. The Last of Us Part I arrives and marks its third consecutive outing on a PlayStation console, and F1 manager 2022 applies a classic genre to today’s ultra-popular sport. Destroy all people 2 rejected and TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection fill in the AA grid, and Tinykin fills the indie quota. This is what you will be playing this week.
August 30
Destroy All Humans 2 Retested (PS5, XSX, PC)
You already know if the Destroy all people games are your b-movie cup of tea. These games follow an angry alien trapped on Earth, taking out his frustrations on the unwary people who stand in his way. Silly, straight forward fun. Destroy all people 2 is a 2006 game, so even with a fresh coat of paint it can still show its age.
F1 Manager 2022 (PS5, XSX, PC, PS4, XBO)
With F1 enjoying Netflix’s most significant rise in popularity since the Schumacher era in the 1990s Ride to survive, there was a rush of games hoping to capitalize. Many of these have been cheap mobile dairy cows. EAs F1 22 has been a successful yet temperamental racing sim that allows players to fulfill their dream of driving one of these ultra-fast cars and making general decisions about the future of the team. F1 manager removes driving from the equation altogether. Instead, this is a game about being a team boss or, in F1 terms, a team boss. Every decision, from financials for the year to which upgrades the team will focus on, race and tire strategy and even which systems are available to your drivers during a race, is yours. Every move you make should translate into an advantage for your team, so your drivers can take home podiums and Constructors’ Championship points. One for the min-maxers, for sure.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection (PS5, XSX, PC, NS, PS4, XBO)
Konami isn’t that interested in producing new games, but seems happy to mine its library of classic titles these days. Example: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collectiona series of games from Konami’s TMNT heyday. equal to being Castlevania collection, there is actually a surprising number of games in this pack. This is what you get:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (Arcade)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time* (Arcade)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters* (SNES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist* (Mega Drive)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Mega Drive)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan (Game Boy)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewer (GameBoy)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (GameBoy)
The games with asterisks next to them can also be played online. Eleven of these games have regional and Japanese versions. Without a doubt the most comprehensive package of TMNT games ever released.
Tinykin (PS5, XSX, PC, NS, PS4, XBO)
Tinykin shares a conceptual space with Pikmin. Both games are about a tiny spaceman stranded in a world he doesn’t understand, turning a local, color-coded prey animal into an unstoppably productive personal army. Like Pikmin, different colors of Tinykin can be used for different purposes. Blue Tinykin are conductive and can be linked together in a line to connect an electrical current. Purple Tinykin is very strong and can be used to lift and move heavy obstacles. Green Tinykin can be stacked to create a ladder. You get the idea. Instead of Nintendo doing something with the Pikmin franchise i’m happy someone out there is still using his ideas to create something new.
1st of September
Thymesia (XSX, XBO)
This one has been out on other platforms for a while, but this week is coming to Xbox. The latest to plunge into the overcrowded Souls-esque genre, Thymesia is a dark fantasy action RPG in which you are a character named Corvus, who “harvests the power of disease”. It all looks very Soulsy, but will FromSoft hold a candle at best? Find out later this week on Game Pass.
September 2nd
Fallen Legion Collection (PS5, XSX, PC, XBO)
It wouldn’t be TWIG without a JRPG on the list. Fallen Legion Collection combines Rise to glory and Revenants in one package. This will be the first outing of both games on the PlayStation 5.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R (PS5, XSX, PC, NS, PS4, XBO)
I’ve never seen JoJo’s Bizarre AdventureSo I don’t know what the hell is going on here. Nevertheless, this trailer shows a woman landing a 20-hit combo on a man with her boobs, then pounding him further with junk she found on the street. Make of this anything you want. For example, I am terrified. This is a remake of a PS3 game from 2013 and will be the first outing on the current generation of consoles.
Lego Brawls (PS5, XSX, PC, NS, PS4, XBO)
Everyone has a Smash Bros suddenly clone. When did that trend start? Anyway, Lego fights‘ approach is to build your own fighter from scratch and take the battle to different platformer style levels. It certainly looks a little less complex than Smash Bros, making it a much more accessible entry point into the genre for younger players. It first started on mobile platforms and is now making the jump to consoles and PC.
The Last of Us Part I (PS5)
There is some back and forth around the value of The last of our part l as a package. Most have played it before and we know how valuable it is to PlayStation as a brand. The game is a verified masterpiece, but it is also almost ten years old. For this remaster, Naughty Dog has visually rebuilt the game to be more in line with the look of the sequel. Many new accessibility options have been added to further reflect the PS4 succession. Naughty Dog promises that elements such as combat have been made smoother, and some refinements have also been made to the gameplay to make it feel more modern than the PS3 game it will always be.
I think the big question for players is: do you have another one? The last of us breakthrough in you after all these years? Has it been long enough since you played it that an expensive coat of next-generation paint would tempt you to take another run? Let me know; I am very curious about the gut check of the public on this.
And that’s another week of TWIG! What are you diving into this week? Sound off in the comments below.
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