Dillon's Dead Heat breakers is a game I only seem to remember. part of the problem is that it was a late late 3DS title, and it was eShop only in the US.
Turns your Mii into an animal after starting a new game. Turns streetpass friends into animals, which then become NPCs you can hire and level up. The character designs are all furries and it's all really good?
Missions are a frantic maelstrom of tower defense, beat em up, and map traversal. The final stage of each level turns into racing combat.
In between missions you have a little town you can walk around in and do various things, such as
- Running a shop
- Dirtbike racing
- Pachinko parlor
each minigame is really fleshed out and could be it's own game. Dirtbike racing could be a whole game. The shopkeeper minigame could be a whole game.
The writing and music are really really charming. I regularly will snap photos of dialog or item descriptions because they're really funny or charming.
Anyway I think I'm the only person who remembers this game.
Re: games u feel no one remembers.... 🖳
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:22 pm
by Lolo De Puzlo
Ja'aran wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 8:43 pm
Ribbit King actually slaps
Only just recently played Ribbit King and it's extremely good.
Re: games u feel no one remembers.... 🖳
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:55 pm
by Ivy-IV
I don't think I've ever heard anybody talk about Dead Head Fred:
Weird little game! Combination schlock horror/noir vibe, you play a detective who wakes up with no memory of the past few days, and a bad case of Decapitation. His brain salvaged in a jar and bolted back on, he has to find out who did it and why. Also he's voiced by John C McGinley.
It's kind of a search action-ish
Hidden text.
Headtroidvania
game where you get new abilities for puzzles/platforming/combat by finding heads you can swap between.
Re: games u feel no one remembers.... 🖳
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:24 am
by xwildwhirlx
DRAWN TO LIFE SERIES INSTANTLY POPPED INTO MY HEAD
Hidden text.
ITS REALLY FUN AND YOU GET TO DRAW STUFF AND THE STORY IS INTERESTING
ignore the newest game btw… Drawn To Life: Two Realms isn’t real and can’t hurt u… *is in denial*
Re: games u feel no one remembers.... 🖳
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:40 am
by Cayman
hellojed wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 10:15 pm
Dillon's Dead Heat breakers is a game I only seem to remember. part of the problem is that it was a late late 3DS title, and it was eShop only in the US.
Turns your Mii into an animal after starting a new game. Turns streetpass friends into animals, which then become NPCs you can hire and level up. The character designs are all furries and it's all really good?
Missions are a frantic maelstrom of tower defense, beat em up, and map traversal. The final stage of each level turns into racing combat.
In between missions you have a little town you can walk around in and do various things, such as
- Running a shop
- Dirtbike racing
- Pachinko parlor
each minigame is really fleshed out and could be it's own game. Dirtbike racing could be a whole game. The shopkeeper minigame could be a whole game.
The writing and music are really really charming. I regularly will snap photos of dialog or item descriptions because they're really funny or charming.
Anyway I think I'm the only person who remembers this game.
I actually have Dillon's Rolling Western on my boyfriend's 3DS! Never played Dead Heat Breakers, though. It's a pretty unusual game both in terms of game structure and mechanics, though I only played a little bit of it before.
Re: games u feel no one remembers.... 🖳
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:24 am
by CosmicMocha
JarylGaren wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:15 am
god, I remember spending an embarrassing amount of time in Shining Soul II for the GBA
it's a hack'n'slash game where you can play as either a wolf man or a dragon man. the wolf man in particular also gets a passive skill where his HP regenerate over time, which is *really* good
OMG yes!! Shining Souls II is incredible, as soon as I saw this thread I was gonna post about the Shining franchise in general. Specifically the Shining Force series which is basically the most popular spin off
Shining Force was basically Sega's answer to Nintendo's Fire Emblem, but even then it has some amazing features for its time (that even Fire Emblem wouldn't get until way later) Shining Force 3 (with all of its 3 scenarios) is maybe one of my favorite games of all time. The whole series was developed by Camelot Software Planning, which would later become more well known for basically being a Nintendo 2nd Party (Mario Tennis, Golden Sun, etc)
Aside from being one of my favorites SJRPGs franchises, there's a few fur fellows that are actually good units! So definitely give them a go.
