Tried some more demos.
The Last Salvage Squad. This is an interesting fps game, where you play a moderately sized giant robot.. girl? Fighting giant robot tripod walkers. What makes it interesting is that there are only a few of you left and you have to salvage your weapons from the battlefield. So the start of a fight is you dodging enemies while trying to get a gun then taking out the walkers and as long as you don't die, another friendly robot will join in the hanger.
Altered Alma. Seems like a metroidvania. Its got some really really nice pixel art graphics, gameplay feels pretty good and character graphics are nice, seems like you can build relationships with your crew and have awkward make outs if it gets high enough. One thing I'm unsure about though is the teleporting dagger you get early on. It lets you teleport to a wall and you can just use it over and over again which to me says they are going to have to do a lot of things to prevent you from just easily sequence breaking, so that probably means some rough platforming. Still though, keeping an eye on it, seems cool.
Drone Sector. You play a circling drone gunship, al la that mission in COD4 where you are playing the gunner on the c-130. I played an earlier demo of it and really liked it, but this new demo... I don't know, something felt off, its still neat and you have a few squads of troops to command around the battlefield to complete objectives, but... I'm not sure what felt missing.
Wildblue Skies and Fur Squadron Phoenix. I'm lumping these together because they both really want to be Starfox. Wildblue is decent, but feels lacking, you don't seem to have a lock on weapon, despite the game really feeling like it wants you to have one and its got an annoying habit of the aiming reticle fighting against you when you target anything near the side of the screen. But its not out yet so that might be fixed. Fur Squad feels pretty good to play, camera is further back so it feels better to play then Wildblue, but it has the feeling of AI slop all over it, the character art and the voices being the most prominent. Fur also has a roguelike element, if you die you can spend points to unlock upgrades, not sure how I feel about that.
Parasite Mutant. Not a new demo but I finally got around to it, the combat is really similar to Parasite Eve, which is awesome. Not sure about the story and such, I get the feeling the main character will be the usual robotic combat female that Japan loves to do "I'm a cute giiiiirl, but I'm only made for the mud and blood of the battlefield" doesn't help that she's wearing a thick trench coat looking thing but her boobs are still bouncing around. At least shes not a teenager... probably.
