Top 10 NEW Games of September 2024

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#10 Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions  Platform: PC PS4 PS5 Xbox One XSX|S   Release Date: September 03, 2024     #9 Dead Rising Deluxe Remastered  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S   Release Date: September 19, 2024    #8 Enotria: The Last Song  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S   Release Date: September 19, 2024    #7 Astro Bot  Platform: PS5   Release Date: September 06, 2024     #6 ZOOCHOSIS  Platform: PC  Release Date: September 23, 2024    #5 Frostpunk 2  Platform: PC - September 20, 2024  Release Date: PS5 XSX|S - 2025    #4 The Casting of Frank Stone  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S   Release Date: September 03, 2024    #3 The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom  Platform: Switch   Release Date: September 26, 2024    #2 Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S   Release Date: September 12, 2024    #1 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S   Release Date: September 09, 2024    BONUS     Age of Mythology: Retold  Platform: PC XSX|S   Release Date: September 04, 2024    NBA 2K25  Platform: PC PS4 Xbox One PS5 XSX|S Switch  Release Date: September 06, 2024    Epic Mickey: Rebrushed  Platform: PC PS4 Xbox One PS5 XSX|S Switch   Release Date: September 24, 2024    EA Sports FC 25  Platform: PC PS4 Xbox One PS5 XSX|S Switch   Release Date: September 27, 2024    Ace Attorney Investigations Collection  Platform: PC PS4 Xbox One PS5 XSX|S Switch   Release Date: September 06, 2024    Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP  Platform: PC PS5 XSX|S Switch  Release Date: September 12, 2024    Starfield: Shattered Space  Platform: PC XSX|S   Release Date: September 30, 2024    Final Fantasy XVI   Platform: PC   Release Date: September 17, 2024    God of War Ragnarök   Platform: PC   Release Date: September 19, 2024

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00:00Every month a bunch of new games release and every month Gameranx goes through, figures

00:06out which are best to at least pay attention to, and puts them together in a nice, easy

00:10to digest list.

00:11Hi folks, it's Falcon, and today on Gameranx, the video games releasing in September 2024

00:17you're going to hear about.

00:18Starting off with number 10, Harry Potter Quidditch Champions.

00:22Now I'm not one to get excited about a Harry Potter release, I'm not automatically sold

00:27on them.

00:28There are certainly good Harry Potter games, but one I actually look back on fondly is

00:32Quidditch World Cup.

00:34Now I don't know exactly how much of a direct predecessor this game is to that game, but

00:39it's interesting because the kind of Fortnite-y look Champions has actually kind of harkens

00:45back to World Cup a little bit.

00:47Honestly, this looks like a pretty fun game.

00:49You have all the different positions, chaser, seeker, beater, and keeper.

00:53It's the full-blown Quidditch experience, looks a little faster in pace than the old

00:58game, and also it's multiplayer, which is, I think, the biggest reason for this game

01:02to exist.

01:03Honestly, to me, it looks like some good, clean fun.

01:06It's coming to PlayStation and Xbox on September 3rd, and it will be landing on Nintendo Switch

01:11later, so keep your eyes peeled.

01:15At number 9 is Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster.

01:17In all seriousness, how couldn't you want this?

01:20The original Dead Rising in RE Engine-powered glory.

01:25A totally absurd game that, from everything I've seen, they've gone out of their way to

01:29preserve all of the feel of, including the gameplay, which looks very familiar.

01:35Everyone who's played this game a lot looks at that gameplay and goes, oh, that's how

01:38it feels.

01:39At least to me, unless they're hiding something that shows it's not, it looks like pretty

01:44authentic Dead Rising gameplay.

01:46They've also given us a few additions, including a new voice actor for Frank West, and not

01:51because they just wanted to replace the original guy, but they wanted a lot more talking in

01:55the game.

01:56Any conversation that was previously just text in the original version of the game now

02:01has voice acting, which I think is awesome, actually.

02:05But besides that, they've added the ability to save any time in infinity mode, which is

02:10a welcome addition.

02:11But one thing they have absolutely preserved is how everybody moves in this game, which

02:16is very old and arcade-y looking, and I couldn't be happier about that.

02:20Dead Rising Deluxe Remastered is coming to PS5, Xbox Series, and PC September 19th.

02:27At number eight is Inotria, The Last Song.

02:30So this is a kind of interesting Souls-like, where a lot of Souls-likes and the Souls games

02:35themselves are portrayals of decay, worlds that are in decline, or already declined,

02:41and your mission is somehow sad, or not necessarily to restore the glory of what once was, but

02:48to prevent something worse, maybe.

02:51Inotria, The Last Song, I think, takes a novel approach just to the world itself in a Souls-like.

02:56This is a world that is alive.

02:59You see sunflowers everywhere in some of the shots, vibrant and pretty, although not necessarily

03:04full of life.

03:05We don't see the kind of decay we're normally accustomed to in a Souls-like, though.

03:09The thing that's going on is there's basically a magical, evil stasis that is holding the

03:14world in place.

03:15Your whole thing is you're set now to end this stasis.

03:19I'm sure that there are some people who don't mind the stasis, so they're gonna try to stop you.

03:23This game is heavily inspired by Italian folklore, particularly in location, and I gotta say

03:29everything I've seen of it is very pretty.

03:30The sun lights everything in a very striking way.

03:34Inotria, The Last Song is coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series September 19th.

03:40At number 7 is Astro Bot.

03:42This is a game I'm actually fairly excited for.

03:45It probably sounds silly, but if you remember the Astro Bot sort of VR games for PlayStation

03:50VR, they're pretty damn good platformers, even though they're not necessarily full-blown

03:56games.

03:57They're kind of, in some ways, tech demos and tutorials and ways of introducing you

04:00to the PlayStation VR headset.

04:03That being said, they're actually really fun.

04:05They play more like a traditional platformer than a VR game, but they do things that sort

04:10of show you functions of VR.

04:12I like them, but I'm more excited for this than I would've ever been for another VR Astro

04:18Bot game.

04:19Astro Bot, the game, is an 80-level 3D platformer.

04:24It's a full game.

04:25It's four times the length of Astro's Playroom, and the thing that's fun about this franchise

04:30is it's kind of a celebration of PlayStation.

04:33At least the VR games were, and from every indication, it seems like a lot of it is here.

04:38Astro Bot is, himself, supposed to look like PlayStation hardware, in certain ways at least.

04:43In the same way the older games were meant to show off the PSVR, this one is, I mean,

04:48to a lesser extent, of course, intended to show you various features from the new DualSense

04:53controller.

04:54Although, I'll say, we're years into using the DualSense controller.

04:56I don't think we need tutorializing or any pointing out of things it can do.

05:00Hopefully it uses the things the controller can do in interesting ways.

05:03I'm sure it will.

05:04Again, the previous two games were great.

05:06They were way better than they had any right to be, and I'm kind of looking forward to

05:10a game game of it, like a full-ass Astro Bot game.

05:14I love platformers.

05:15I love 3D platformers.

05:16The mechanics are gonna be similar to Rescue Mission, where you have various bots you have

05:20to rescue in each of the levels.

05:22I'm completely on board for a full Astro game, so I will definitely be picking this up for

05:26the PS5 when it lands September 6th.

05:29At number six is Zookosis.

05:31Hey, what if you crossed a zoo with The Thing?

05:34Well, you get Zookosis.

05:36It's a game in which you play as a night zookeeper tasked with taking care of a bunch of animals

05:42that get infected with an alien menace and try to kill you.

05:45A lot of what you're trying to do here is to save the animals, but I would guess that

05:50a lot of the game revolves around trying to save yourself from the animals.

05:54It's a striking-looking game.

05:57You never really see animal body horror, at least not in video games.

06:01I'm sure you can find plenty of it if you really want to, but I really haven't seen

06:05a game that looks like this or is trying to do what this is trying to do.

06:09While the setup might sound a little Five Nights at Freddy's-like, it's more of an FPS,

06:13and I don't mean shooter.

06:14I mean a first-person something.

06:16Until I actually play this one, I don't know if I want to categorize it as anything particularly

06:21specific.

06:22It is a very interesting-looking game, and I am very much looking forward to giving it

06:26a spin.

06:27It releases on PC September 23rd.

06:31At number five is Frostpunk 2, which if you're aware of the life consumer that Frostpunk

06:36can be, you'll be either extremely happy or dismayed that they have made it so that you

06:41can not only build a larger city, but now you have to do a lot more to keep your citizens

06:47happy.

06:48Actually, maybe happy's a stretch.

06:49It's Frostpunk.

06:50It's not really a game about the warm fuzzies by any means.

06:55It's kind of the opposite.

06:56It says so in both of the words that make up its name.

06:59But now you're building districts and doing negotiations and political wheelings and dealings

07:04with various factions.

07:06There's now a feature called the Council Hall, where a hundred members of the community who

07:10each represent a certain faction vote on stuff, and well, that sounds pretty different from

07:16the first game, actually.

07:18You're also going to be required to make promises about the future, and if you can or can't

07:22or don't uphold them, you can get in trouble with various people and factions.

07:28All in all, I think the potential for a deep narrative is actually a bit higher.

07:33Certainly there'll be political intrigue, and that trailer where they announce the game?

07:37Pretty dramatic, actually, although in perhaps a slightly different way than we're typically

07:41used to.

07:42Frostpunk is coming to PC on September 20th.

07:46It will be coming to Xbox Series and PS5 next year, but that's a ways off.

07:53At number four is The Casting of Frank Stone, which is a new game by the Until Dawn developers

07:59set in the world of Behavior Interactive's Dead by Daylight.

08:03Now this is an interesting crossover, in my opinion.

08:06You don't really see totally different genres of game tap into an IP that the developer

08:13has nothing to do with.

08:15What happened was Behavior Interactive had been wanting to make a single player narrative

08:19driven game in their universe, but just didn't have the experience, and according to Steve

08:23Goss of Supermassive, the game is going to feel familiar if you've played other Supermassive

08:29games, but quote, huge sections of the game will feel nothing like a traditional Supermassive

08:34game.

08:35That's very interesting to me because, I mean, we all know what a Supermassive game is at

08:38this point.

08:39So there's kind of a lot of new and different things here, even though you may not really

08:43think of them as that astoundingly different.

08:46Dead by Daylight has a pretty cool universe, at least in terms of its looks, but I'm excited

08:51to learn more about it, honestly.

08:52The Casting of Frank Stone is coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series on September 3rd.

08:59At number three is The Legend of Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom.

09:02This is a game that puts you in control of Princess Zelda rather than Link, but it does

09:06have a very similar look to the Link's Awakening remake, which is, I think, a good thing because

09:12that was a fantastic game.

09:14And they're indicating with that look they wanted to play that way.

09:18And it looks like it does, of course, but Princess Zelda obviously has a different set

09:22of abilities, like the ability to bind objects.

09:25The way that works, once you've binded an object, it moves along with your movement

09:30as Zelda.

09:31Or the other way around, I imagine that there are instances where puzzles combine both types

09:37of binding.

09:38It's going to be interesting, for sure.

09:40It's obviously a Switch exclusive.

09:42It looks like a lot of fun, in my opinion.

09:44Obviously I'll take more Link's Awakening-style Zelda games.

09:48In a lot of ways, I kind of hoped that they would take that style and remake Link to the

09:53Past as well, maybe with time, maybe with interest in this game.

09:58Who knows?

09:59It's landing on Switch September 26th.

10:01At number two is Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown.

10:05Obviously the Test Drive series is known for big open worlds.

10:08I'm pretty excited about this one in particular.

10:11It features a one-to-one recreation of Hong Kong Island.

10:15And that means traffic is going to be on the opposite side of the road.

10:18It's never happened before in one of these games.

10:21The other two Test Drives are plain old American left-hand traffic, and I think that's friggin'

10:27cool.

10:28It's also going to be really annoying, I have a feeling, but right now I think it's really

10:31cool.

10:32They say they're going to make Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown to be like a competitor

10:37to Forza or The Crew, but also, and I don't know exactly how this fits in, the director

10:43also said additionally to those, it will be a competitor to Grand Theft Auto 6.

10:47I don't know how that's going to be the case.

10:50Test Drive really isn't Grand Theft Auto, but we'll see.

10:53I'm kind of just happy if it's another Test Drive game that doesn't depart too far from

10:58what makes Test Drive great.

11:00Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is coming to PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC September

11:0712th.

11:08And finally, at number one, we've said a lot about this.

11:11This is a big deal, Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2.

11:15Now obviously we're going to do plenty of content on this game.

11:18It's a sequel to a pretty damn good beloved game, and everything we've seen about it makes

11:24it seem like it's definitely going to be an improvement.

11:26They aren't playing the shove some random multiplayer mode down your throat.

11:31They're doing multiplayer that's similar to the old multiplayer, and they're doing co-op,

11:36and they've made some key changes to how the combat works, which is not necessarily making

11:41it easier.

11:42I suspect this game, like the previous game, are not going to be like tremendously hard,

11:46but the additions like expanding the melee combat, it's going to make the game more fun,

11:51and that's really the best element of it.

11:54The original Warhammer 40k Space Marine is a damn good hack and slash slash kind of shooter

11:59that looked a lot like Gears, but really wasn't a lot like Gears.

12:04There were elements that it shared in common with it, sure, but it is definitely not a

12:07game that emphasizes cover.

12:09You are a brute force lunatic in a huge space armor suit, and I cannot wait to jump back

12:15into that world with the same kind of gameplay, upgraded of course for modern stuff, in a

12:20way that doesn't endanger the game.

12:23I look at this, and there are some games where I think, ah, upgraded, modern, you're going

12:28to ruin what made the game, the game.

12:31Doesn't seem like that's happening here.

12:34Quality of life seems to be the primary stuff they've changed.

12:36Everything about it looks fun, it looks goofy in the way the original was, also dark, also

12:42epic.

12:43I mean, it's Warhammer 40k, and it's probably one of the most beloved Warhammer 40k video

12:48games that's ever been made, getting a sequel.

12:51Much later, might I add.

12:53It's been way too long.

12:54The game is landing on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC September 9th.

12:59I do have a couple of bonus for you as well.

13:02First off, it's Age of Mythology Retold, a full-blown remake of Age of Mythology, which

13:07was itself a spinoff of Age of Empires.

13:10In a lot of ways, it's retaining a lot of stuff from the original game, but they're

13:13adding some more modern features to keep it up with Age of Empires.

13:18The engine that they used to make Age of Empires 3 Definitive Edition, the bang engine,

13:22is specifically what they built this one on top of, and it looks fantastic.

13:26I'm really excited, because Age of Mythology was a game I remember going back to and having

13:30a lot of fun.

13:31It wasn't a bad-looking game at the time, it's just obviously an old game and has quite

13:35a few limitations.

13:37From what I've seen, a lot of the animation of, for instance, the gods, doesn't have those

13:41limitations.

13:42I'm pretty excited to see the god powers, which by the way, now are actually multi-use

13:47and you get cooldowns, which I think is a definite improvement.

13:50The reason you're playing this game is the god powers, right?

13:52Age of Mythology is coming to Xbox Series and Windows September 4th.

13:57Next is NBA 2K25.

13:59Damned 2K games just keep looking more and more real.

14:03Man, this is a long and storied series.

14:06I remember playing the original NBA 2K on the Dreamcast and thinking, wow, a game can't

14:10look more realistic than this.

14:12Here we are about 25 years later.

14:14I'm still saying it.

14:15Obviously they keep looking more and more realistic, but these games always are just

14:19top of the line, at least with that.

14:22There are not a lot of major changes this year.

14:25A couple of the features introduced last year are being kept, like the Pro Play NBA footage

14:30to animation pipeline they have.

14:33It's interesting, but I will say it's not as big of a deal as it was last year, obviously.

14:38They are introducing various build cap changes, including something they're calling Legends

14:43Badges.

14:44The acceleration has been replaced with agility, and now you don't do stamina through the builder

14:50in my career.

14:51Now you have to work out in a Gatorade facility, which is, I think, kind of cool while at the

14:55same time clearly being an advertisement.

14:57They did remove the badge regression from NBA 2K24.

15:01I'm happy about that.

15:02That was annoying.

15:03Beyond that, this is obviously a yearly upgrade.

15:08Those I think changes are welcome ones, each of them, if not major.

15:12But what a beautiful NBA.

15:13But obviously, incredible looking game, always fun, you know?

15:18If you don't have last year's, this is a good one to get.

15:20It's landing on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and Windows on September 6th, and this will

15:24be the first year that the PC players get all of the features the console players get,

15:29so that's pretty cool.

15:30Moving on, we've got Epic Mickey Rebrushed.

15:32If you missed your chance to play this one back on the Wii, and a lot of people did because

15:37although the Wii was a highly popular console, a lot of the more serious gamers didn't really

15:41play games on it.

15:43This is a full-on remake.

15:45It has moved Epic Mickey away from the Gamebryo engine over to Unreal, and it's looking real

15:51nice.

15:52If you're not familiar, it's a different kind of Mickey game.

15:55For those not familiar, it was a Mickey in a dark Disney world type game, kind of like

16:01Castle of Illusion or Forest of Illusion.

16:04It has that kind of a vibe, except for it's obviously a lot more extensive with what it

16:07does with Disney properties.

16:09The world that Mickey goes to has a bunch of forgotten creations of Disney, and it's

16:14dark and it's quite epic, as the title suggests.

16:18It's a great game.

16:19There's also a big improvement, and I talked about this in the Lollipop Chainsaw remake

16:25point, but there's a big improvement on the camera.

16:27Here it's a much more vast improvement because it's not only that it's a new engine, they

16:32completely remade all the graphics, it's also a game that you will not be playing on a Wiimote

16:36and a Nunchuck.

16:38You had no way to control the camera in the original game, and I can't imagine going back

16:42to it.

16:43So I'm pretty excited about more traditional controls for it, control over the camera,

16:48and just jumping back into a really underappreciated classic.

16:52It's not like it did bad or anything, but it was released at a time when the Wii was

16:56not new and everyone is kind of moving over to HD powerful consoles.

17:01I'm just really looking forward to getting back into this game.

17:04It's landing on the Playstations, the Xboxes, the PC, and of course the Nintendo Switch

17:10on September 24th.

17:11Next is EA Sports FC 25.

17:14As you know, this is what FIFA is now, if you're wondering.

17:18It's a yearly update, but it's a little more comprehensive than the last one we talked

17:22about.

17:23The tactical system is getting a complete overhaul, so you get a couple of things changed

17:27here first.

17:28The player has more agency over team strategies.

17:31Also they're saying their AI is smarter, but I mean the proof is always in the pudding

17:34for that.

17:35They've also come up with this thing called player roles, so as a player you fit into

17:40a team strategy in a specific way based on what you choose here.

17:43That's interesting because normally you're kind of just this omnipresence.

17:48I'm not sure if that's going to play out great or not, we'll see.

17:50I think it's an interesting idea though.

17:52There's new play styles for goalies, and there's a 5v5 rush mode that they've added.

17:57I think that's fun.

17:58So honestly, I think this is probably worth it even if you're a skip a year person.

18:03The updates are more substantial than just a roster.

18:05EA Sports FC 25 is coming to the Playstations, the Xboxes, PC, and Nintendo Switch September

18:1227th.

18:13Next is Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, which includes Ace Attorney Investigations

18:18Miles Edgeworth and Ace Attorney Investigations 2 Prosecutors Gambit.

18:22Honestly, probably my favorite games in the series.

18:24I like Miles Edgeworth.

18:26I like the investigation mechanics.

18:28And I'm pretty happy to have access to these games, legitimately speaking, on both the

18:33PC and the Nintendo Switch.

18:34You can get it, of course, on the Xbox and PlayStation platforms as well.

18:39I will probably be getting it for the PC.

18:42Maybe the Switch.

18:43I have some traveling in my near future and that sounds like a lot of fun.

18:47There is a demo of this available and the save data will transfer over to the full game.

18:52I think always a very good way to go.

18:55If you can't wait until September 6th, that's available right now.

18:59Another cool one coming up is Lollipop Chainsaw Repop, the remaster of Lollipop Chainsaw,

19:05which is a pretty damn fun game.

19:07Some of the best things I think that they're adding for the remaster is improving the camera

19:11for the chainsaw action.

19:13I think that's really always something that people should be thinking about when they

19:16remaster a game.

19:18Were there problems with the camera and can we fix them?

19:20I know that sounds really obvious, but a lot of remasters aren't like full recodes

19:26or full graphic replacements.

19:29The fact is, regardless of if you're doing that or not, you can improve things like the

19:33camera.

19:34It's not that Lollipop Chainsaw ever had the worst camera and it never really did, but

19:37that's the kind of improvement I always like to hear about.

19:40Stuff that, I mean, if it works, you're not even going to really notice that it's improved

19:44because you're immersed in the game.

19:46It's one of those quality of life things.

19:48I like that stuff.

19:49It was originally going to be a full remake, but it ended up being a remaster.

19:52And honestly, I'm kind of happy about that.

19:53I didn't really want a remake.

19:55The more it's like the original, but with just some quality of life stuff, the more

19:58happy I am about it.

20:00Lollipop Chainsaw Repop is landing on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC for the first

20:07time on PC.

20:09Was going to be September 25th, but it got moved up to September 12th.

20:13Hell yeah.

20:14It's called Starfield Shattered Space, a Starfield DLC that's actually, I think, going

20:19to make the game a lot more interesting.

20:21You got new enemy factions, new bosses, new weapons, new armor, new planets, and what

20:27they're calling the car mech system, which is mechs with the combat abilities of mechs,

20:33but the speed and maneuverability of cars.

20:36I'm interested to see how that plays.

20:39It looks fun, but that's landing on PC and Xbox Series on September 30th.

20:44Final Fantasy XVI is landing on the PC, and I am so excited.

20:48I love Final Fantasy XVI.

20:50It's like an extremely long Devil May Cry game with a plot like Game of Thrones that

20:55doesn't suck.

20:57The end of Game of Thrones makes the plot kind of suck, so it's whatever.

21:01Characters are great.

21:02Battling is great.

21:03I love any game that's inspired by Devil May Cry, but it's not just inspired by it.

21:07Platinum Games actually worked on it, but I'm kind of excited to play it on PC because

21:11Honestly, that's where I wanted to play it in the first place.

21:14It's a game that I think a really beefy PC is going to benefit quite a bit.

21:19Not that it runs bad on PS5 or anything, but I just have a feeling it's going to be good.

21:23I'm excited to play it again.

21:25I'm definitely going to on September 17th when it comes out.

21:28That's probably going to occupy another week of my life again.

21:31And finally, and this is a big one for me as well, God of War Ragnarok is landing on

21:35PC.

21:36I love the God of War reboot series.

21:38They're both really good games.

21:40And this is another one where I've thought, you know, it's really going to be good to

21:44go through this on PC when it comes out because they did an actually pretty damn good job

21:48with the first God of War port, and it stands to reason that they will do the same here.

21:53That one's landing on PC September 19th.

21:56And that's all for today.

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