Shogun Showdown: Samurai Combo Shuffling. In the beginning of this year, I was pleasantly surprised by a little Western-themed gunslinging game called Guncho. In Guncho, you take turns in a hexagonal grid killing everyone on sight before moving on to the next randomized level. Shogun Showdown feels very much like a medieval Japanese version of Guncho: it is very puzzly, has you carefully consider your moves, and one wrong move can screw up the entire battle strategy. And that’s a good thing...| jefklakscodex.com
In the Into the Aether 2024 Game of the Year Spectacular podcast episode, Brendon mentioned a small game in his top 10 that piqued my interested as soon as the words tactical and turn-based were uttered, but I initially had trouble finding it: I thought Brendon kept saying Gun Show instead of Tiny Touch Tales’ Guncho. The game is essentially a three-man job lead by Arnold Rauers who blogs about the progress from prototype (e.g. see this early 2022 video on X) to last year’s sales revenue....| Retro Gaming on Jefklak's Codex
Tactics Ogre: A Reborn SNES Masterpiece. What if you take an obscure 1995 SNES strategy RPG, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together originally developed by Quest, and remaster it for the PSP? In 2010, that sounded like a good idea, and it was fairly well-received. In fact, that release, together with the remaster of a more well-known Japanese SRPG called Final Fantasy Tactics, was the sole reason why I bought a PSP Slim in the first place. The PSP version of Let Us Cling Together completely over...| jefklakscodex.com