03-07-2020, 01:37 PM
The Weekendvania Edition
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<p>It’s not been a terribly interesting week, but I’ve made do the best I can – lots of behind the scenes changes going on at the moment, which I’ll be talking more about next week hopefully. We’ve got a few reviews in the pipeline but as we head towards the end of the month don’t expect much in the way of new features. I’ll be ticking things over with news in the interim.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in mobile gaming…</p>
<h2>New App Releases</h2>
<h3>Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castlevania-sotn/id1435456830" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a> & <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.konami.epjCastlevania2&hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>)</h3>
<p><em>Castlevania</em> is back in vogue at the moment thanks to the Netflix show, but we were genuinely surprised when we’d heard that one of the best entries of the series,<em> Symphony of the Night</em>, had dropped on mobile as a premium port – with controller support, no less!</p>
<p>It’s dirt cheap as well at $2.99, and the game is pretty much as it was back in the PS1 days, with a new ‘Continue’ feature being added by Konami, as well as Game Center achievements on iOS. There hasn’t been a new mobile trailer released as far as we’ve seen, so the below is from when the game was ported to the PS4.</p>
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<p>Other new releases today include <em>War Tortoise 2</em>, which is exactly what it sounds like (an on-rails Idle Shooter where you’re on a tortoise. Free to Play). Interestingly, <em>Motorsport Manager</em> has returned, only this time as online free-to-play game <em>Motorsport Manager Online</em>. I was thinking the other day we were overdue for a new entry in the series and it seems like rather than going down the annual release of other sports franchises, they’d try their hand at the free-to-play MMO world instead.</p>
<p>We’re not sure how it stacks up vs. the premium games, but we’ll try and find out. If you want to try it for yourself it’s available on both <a href="https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/motorsport-manager-online/id1356092270?mt=8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playsportgames.mmo&hl=en_GB" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>.</p>
<h2>App Updates & News</h2>
<p><em>Star Traders: Frontiers</em> got some new updates over the past couple of weeks – a new crew class was added called the Blade Dancer, and this week a new blade weapon type was also added. ‘Straight Blades’ use quickness instead of strength as the primary stat, and have a higher piercing chance. This week’s update also closed the loop-hole where you could get a negative jump-cost stat and generate fuel by hyper jumping between systems. Crafty.</p>
<p><em>Mario Kart Tour</em> has also received a few quality of life improvements ahead of the official release of multiplayer early next week.</p>
<h2>App Sales</h2>
<p><em>Football Manager Mobile</em> & <em>Football Manager Touch</em> are at least 25% off on both iOS and Android.</p>
<p>It’s not much, but <a href="https://www.pockettactics.com/reviews/bad-north-ios-android/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Bad North</em></a> is also discounted by $1, which is still the cheapest it’s gone since launch. <em>Kingdom: New Lands</em> is 50% off, as is <em>Star Traders: Frontiers</em>.</p>
<p><em>Seen anything else you liked? Played any of the above? Let us know in the comments.</em></p>
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<p>It’s not been a terribly interesting week, but I’ve made do the best I can – lots of behind the scenes changes going on at the moment, which I’ll be talking more about next week hopefully. We’ve got a few reviews in the pipeline but as we head towards the end of the month don’t expect much in the way of new features. I’ll be ticking things over with news in the interim.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in mobile gaming…</p>
<h2>New App Releases</h2>
<h3>Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castlevania-sotn/id1435456830" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a> & <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.konami.epjCastlevania2&hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>)</h3>
<p><em>Castlevania</em> is back in vogue at the moment thanks to the Netflix show, but we were genuinely surprised when we’d heard that one of the best entries of the series,<em> Symphony of the Night</em>, had dropped on mobile as a premium port – with controller support, no less!</p>
<p>It’s dirt cheap as well at $2.99, and the game is pretty much as it was back in the PS1 days, with a new ‘Continue’ feature being added by Konami, as well as Game Center achievements on iOS. There hasn’t been a new mobile trailer released as far as we’ve seen, so the below is from when the game was ported to the PS4.</p>
<p>[embedded content]</p>
<p>Other new releases today include <em>War Tortoise 2</em>, which is exactly what it sounds like (an on-rails Idle Shooter where you’re on a tortoise. Free to Play). Interestingly, <em>Motorsport Manager</em> has returned, only this time as online free-to-play game <em>Motorsport Manager Online</em>. I was thinking the other day we were overdue for a new entry in the series and it seems like rather than going down the annual release of other sports franchises, they’d try their hand at the free-to-play MMO world instead.</p>
<p>We’re not sure how it stacks up vs. the premium games, but we’ll try and find out. If you want to try it for yourself it’s available on both <a href="https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/motorsport-manager-online/id1356092270?mt=8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playsportgames.mmo&hl=en_GB" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>.</p>
<h2>App Updates & News</h2>
<p><em>Star Traders: Frontiers</em> got some new updates over the past couple of weeks – a new crew class was added called the Blade Dancer, and this week a new blade weapon type was also added. ‘Straight Blades’ use quickness instead of strength as the primary stat, and have a higher piercing chance. This week’s update also closed the loop-hole where you could get a negative jump-cost stat and generate fuel by hyper jumping between systems. Crafty.</p>
<p><em>Mario Kart Tour</em> has also received a few quality of life improvements ahead of the official release of multiplayer early next week.</p>
<h2>App Sales</h2>
<p><em>Football Manager Mobile</em> & <em>Football Manager Touch</em> are at least 25% off on both iOS and Android.</p>
<p>It’s not much, but <a href="https://www.pockettactics.com/reviews/bad-north-ios-android/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Bad North</em></a> is also discounted by $1, which is still the cheapest it’s gone since launch. <em>Kingdom: New Lands</em> is 50% off, as is <em>Star Traders: Frontiers</em>.</p>
<p><em>Seen anything else you liked? Played any of the above? Let us know in the comments.</em></p>
</div>
https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/03/...a-edition/