05.04.17

How do you know if a game's good, or just looks good? Hell if I know, but the latter's definitely more prominent. In all honesty, if you just stick to games with reviews in the triple digits and ratings above 90%, you'll probably get to try all the really good games out there. But I'm not like that, so here's three games from last week.
Apparently there's this popular thing on consoles called Smash. Rivals of Aether is apparently kind of like that Smash, except it's available for PCs. I wanted to mention it, because I think it's a good game, but I wouldn't really recommend playing it simple because there's a better alternative. These games rely heavily on the size of the playerbase for PvP matchmaking, and Brawlhalla has a playerbase that's 10-20 times as large. Honestly, neither game is better than the other, although they do have their differences, but I'd recommend Brawlhalla, because Rivals of Aether is relatively dead.
Then some lesser known games that look good, but that I'm less sure about.
HackyZack seems to be a skill-requiring action puzzle platformer. Now, puzzle platformers aren't really my thing, but it's been a while since I've played one, and this one has an interesting twist where you have to juggle a ball while doing wall-jumps and the like. It's probably as difficult as it sounds.
And Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King appears to be some RPG-ish adventure game. Looks fairly simplistic, but the pixel art's nice, and perhaps there's a little bit of good gameplay in there.

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