On the latest episode of Blue Tengu Unplugged, Eric carries on like a Supernatural Winchester, heading into haunted houses to clean out the monsters for cold, hard experience points. Larva Mortus is a fast-paced, top-down monster killer with plenty to keep you on your toes and a giant sword for when you want to go […]
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This week, we’ve got two new unplugged episodes that require a little thinking – something Eric isn’t very good at. The first is the colorful adventure game / Kafkaesque nightmare to be had during the Journey of a Roach. The second is the gorgeous and surreal Mirror Moon EP, which prove Eric’s mental muscles need
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Craft yourself a raft and let the ocean take you to beautiful islands packed with hardy deer and angry pirates in the game Salt. Although it takes a few tries for Eric to gather all of the twigs and sticks he needs to set sail, the pleasant, rolling ocean pays off the effort. Who’s an
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Kids get in for half price, but no responsible parent would ever bring them to the deadly medieval theme park of Dungeonland. Eric discovers the value of smashing everything in his quest to put the monsters back in their place. If you like a straightforward, colorful action game with treasure hidden in every trash can,
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Someone get the manager! Eric gets out some work-related stress by tearing through a building full of zombie office workers with the best, flat voice acting in a video game. If you can’t tell by the screenshot, this extremely addicting action game is violent, so if that’s not your thing, this might not be the
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Space! Yes, we’re heading back above the clouds into Eric’s favorite place. This time we’re going where no tengu has gone before with X Rebirth, thanks to the Steam free weekend. Come join Eric, along with his stowaway in her highly inefficient spacesuit, as they take to the intergalactic highways in a one-of-a-kind ship and
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So… that happened. We finally dived into the Outlast DLC you voted for, and, though we didn’t outlast very much, we had fun trying and dying. If you haven’t seen any of our Unplugged episodes before, they’re an irregular feature we do where our game designer, Eric, jumps in and tries one of his growing
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Steam offered up a lot of titles to try out this last weekend, so Eric took advantage of their generosity to jump into four games for Blue Tengu Unplugged. Two (Chivalry and Pool Nation) were for the free weekend, while two (Passing Pineview Forest and Fractured Space) were just plain free to play. Chivalry: Medieval
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To continue our early Halloween celebration, Eric took a look at three horror-themed games that have been eagerly awaiting his attention. A huge fan of anything that inspires a little dread, he’s hoping at least one of them will produce a few chills. Killing Floor, a co-op focused survival horror shooter, where Eric learns it’s
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While the big typhoon rolled through Tsukuba, Eric, trapped inside his apartment hoping for clear skies, got down to the business of having fun with four games on an episode of Blue Tengu Unplugged. All of the videos are archived over at YouTube. Beat Hazard, the rhythm-based twin stick shooter. DLC Quest, an action platformer