![]() ![]() ![]() BLACK BIRD is a vertical shooter that is also an elaborate class-conscious revenge epic. Million Onion Hotel is a top-down puzzle game that is also a hallucination on the vastness of existence. If you’re familiar with Onion-in-Chief Yoshirō Kimura’s previous designs, then you know to expect a simple, thoughtful genre piece that is simultaneously a goddamn magnum opus. But now Brave Yamada has risen again, in the form of a comprehensive rerelease for Switch, and this vastly weird, weirdly vast game has another chance to confuse and delight and compel and charm. When I wrote about Onion Games’ wonderful operatic bullet hell BLACK BIRD, I referred to their fourth wall-demolishing mobile dungeon-crawling puzzle-RPG Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada as “now sadly defunct.” And indeed it was, at the time: discontinued and delisted, to the infinite sadness of its devotees and of those who, like me, had only just begun to become devoted before the game disappeared. ![]()
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