Games of July 2020
Can you believe it, today marks the first day of the second half of 2020 and given how the first six months went, things can only get better. Of course on the gaming front, things are picking up and slowing down, which is odd, there are countless big names to come, but there are also new consoles launching, which means new games, new IP and new other things we don’t know about yet.
Of course, we are going to talk about the games of July here, so without further adieu here we go.
VR offered up a superhero experience when PlayStation VR first released, with Batman title, but that was a way to just experience a few set views, this is the first time where players can actually suit up.
Requiring the move controllers, this is perhaps the most inventive use for VR, but also the closest anyone will get to being Iron Man, unless you are Robert Downey Jr. Early hands on were not that promising, but as that was in a convention space, that could explain it, so hopefully at home would be a nice thing.
Atlus originally released the game back on the PlayStation 3, but then gave it another shot at life when they ported it to PlayStation 4 and PC, that is the version that is coming to the Switch, complete with sheep galore.
You are Vincent, a man who is in love with Katherine, but is scared to commit to her, whilst drinking at a bar he meets Catherine and the two of them spend a night together. Now with two ladies, with the same name, Vincent starts to descend into madness as he tries to grapple with everything in life and it all comes together in his nightmares.
F1 2020 is the latest entry in the popular racing series, I really shouldn’t need to say any more than that, but I will. F1 2020 will introduce a team management feature known as "My Team" which allows the player to create and run an eleventh team.
The player will initially need to choose an engine supplier, recruit a second driver, design a livery and sign sponsors. As the career mode progresses, they will be able to upgrade the facilities at their team's headquarters and hire staff to continue development. This supplements the development tree used to upgrade the car. If all this sounds familiar, that is because there have been similar modes in other Codemasters racing games.
SAO has become a big thing over the years and Bandai Namco have been right there with the anime and manga, creating games that let viewers dive into the same worlds as the protagonists, just without the threat of death.
Alicization Lycoris is set in Underworld and with Kirito trapped there, whilst his body is attempted to be cleansed of a deadly poison, he embarks on a grand adventure to stop the Administrator, an AI program that knows its an AI and seeks to escape, no matter the damage it leaves behind it.
A surprise reveal last year, Deadly Premonition 2 is coming to Switch as an exclusive release and a true sequel to the original game, which also came to Switch last year.
The game has you playing the role of two different characters, in two different time periods, as you attempt to uncover the truth behind events in two different cities. With time travel, mysteries abound, this is one game that will have you questioning everything.
This is the PC release of Death Stranding, the game is the same, but with extra PC support, like 4K and Ultra-Wide support, as well as a Photo Mode, plus with PC mods are a likely thing to be added, even if unofficially.
The game is set in the United States during the aftermath of the eponymous Death Stranding, which caused destructive creatures from a realm between life and death to begin roaming the Earth. Players control Sam Porter Bridges, a courier tasked with delivering supplies to the fractured and isolated colonies that remain and reconnecting them via a wireless communications network.
The game that I am personally, the most excited for, this is the last big game from PlayStation Studios on the PlayStation 4 and it looks to be quite the swan song for the popular platform.
Set on Tsushima Island in the year 1274, the game revolves around one of the island's last samurai, Jin Sakai, during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. The armies of the Mongol Empire, utilizing weapons and military tactics unknown to the Japanese, have conquered and devastated many countries and Tsushima is all that stands between them and the mainland of Japan. The island was devastated by the first wave of the Mongol invasion; its samurai forces were easily defeated, allowing the invaders to conquer large swaths of territory where they terrorize the local inhabitants and gather resources to build up their strength. Jin is one of the few survivors of his clan, wiped out while trying to defend the island
Releasing on the same day as the one above, Paper Mario The Origami King is an odd game, in two ways, the first is that it seems to be a return to the original style of games, rather than the more modern takes and secondly, we had no idea it existed 2 months ago.
Peach has been transformed by the evil Origami King and her castle stolen and now Mario and a new gang of allies must travel the world, breaking the thread of paper that are keeping the castle contained, in order to save the Princess and the day.
The classic first person shooter from Crytek is back with the action-packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles you loved the first time around—now with remastered graphics optimised for a new generation of hardware.
This was the game that was the benchmark for PC players for years, with the saying, if it can run Crysis, it can run anything being a way to know if your machine was good. While the sequels did hit consoles, the first entry never did, but it coming to them is not the big news, the Switch release is the biggest. With the question now being, if a Switch can run Crysis, can it run everything?
A remake of an Aussie game, Destroy All Humans took the alien invasion hype that was big in the 1950’s and turned it around, rather than being the humans attempting to stop the invasion, you were the alien, bent on it.
Take on the role of the evil alien Crypto-137 as you harvest DNA and bring down the US government, all the while you annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities. Anyone gets in your way and you can reduce their cities to rubble with your flying Saucer. Think of it as one giant step on mankind!
Initially planned to release in March, the game was delayed a little, then again cause of the world, but now the date is locked. Being another adaptation of the manga, there were many things players were looking forward to, but there is a catch here.
The game is only offering up two arcs, which are still quite lengthy, this is not the entire story of Fairy Tail in game form, but it does have some key moments. With a unique combat system, where attacks take up so much space, this is not going to be your standard JRPG, but with Fairy Tail, you never know what you might get.
