Fatal Frame: Mask Of The Lunar Eclipse plunges players into the dreadful past of Rougetsu Island as three
(Young women? Girls? I have no idea how old they are supposed to be and for some reason that’s not surprising.) survivors and a stalwart detective revisit the ruins of a hospital that was once home to a haunting ceremony. They all have amnesia, of course, because that’s a low-effort way to generate an air of mystery. Well, except the detective, who is just confused because he never really figured out what was going on in the first place.
Overall, it’s a thoroughly okay game from 2008 that’s been papered over with some hazy lofi graphics to justify selling it at full price in 2023. It’s up to you if you think that’s worth it – I bought the Mass Effect remaster, so I’m hardly one to judge – but while the graphics have been thoroughly airbrushed, that’s no cure for Fatal Frame’s dated gameplay and undead pacing.
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Sons Of The Forest has been a big success – so popular it may have crashed Steam – but players have had some quibbles about the survival sequel since its early access launch. Developer Endnight Games are looking to fix many of these problems, and add a bunch of new features, in the newest patch. Yesterday’s patch added a mid-game boss, a bucket of balance tweaks, multiple fixes for everyone’s absolute best friend Kelvin, plus much more. You can read the full list of changes in the developer’s Steam blog.
Resident Evil 4‘s remake launches in just a couple of weeks on March 24th. If even that is too long to wait, you’re now in luck: Capcom just released a demo. It features an early section of the game and no time limit.
The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum has been on a long road, which I suppose is fitting given the source material. It now has a story trailer, as of this evening’s Nacon Connect, but the third-person stealth ’em up once again impresses mostly 
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League was recently shown in 
closed beta testing, Epic’s self-publishing tools for developers are now available for all to use on the Epic Games Store. Previously, Epic had their own internal curation process for publishing to the store, but this changes from today, with developers now having much more control over getting their games onto the EGS. Well, almost.
podcast today discusses sequels and serieseseses, in light of some surprise announcements of sequels over the last week (Nate isn’t here today, but maybe he’ll return in the next entry? You’ll have to listen to find out). In games we seem to accept that a series running for decades, over many, many sequels, is just kind of normal. What’s the deal with that? Would games be better without sequels? Who knows? Us. We do. We talk about it today.
Resident Evil 4 remake trailer the other week, they promised a 
most anticipated games make the Selection, including Black Salt Games’ eldritch fishing sim 
Galacticare has slapped this management game right onto the old radar. An intergalactic radar, in fact, because this is a hospital management game – in spaaaaace! – coming later this year. It’s from a Brighton-based indie studio called Brightrock Games, and it sort of looks like Theme Hospital with a space skin, or Startopia with a hospital sim. Neither option is a bad thing, in my opinion.