Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service has been quietly gaining steam, even as other services expand their availability and offerings. After a stellar April that featured a host of popular titles, Luna is back this May with some huge surprises.
One of Platinum's forgotten gems that has found a new life is out on the streaming service this month, as are two indie titles and one of the best JRPG franchises on the market right now. Whatever your preference, Luna+ has something for everyone in May.
The Wonderful 101: Remastered
The Wonderful 101: Remastered is an action-adventure game which originally released in 2013 as a Wii U exclusive. It featured a team of 100 original playable heroes that have united together to defend earth from alien invaders. They use their superhuman abilities to conjure all types of forms, like a giant fist or a sharp blade. The remastered version of the game also features its own versions of iconic characters like Bayonetta, known as Wonder-Bayonetta.
With the ability to control up to 100 characters (known as Wonderful-Ones) at once, playthroughs of the game are unique to each player and some pretty wacky combos can be performed. With light humor and PlatinumGame's hallmark dynamic action, the game really allows for players to relive their childish superhero fantasy but is also just adult enough to not feel like a kid's game. Defend civilians, uphold justice, and play with the 100 uniquely designed Centinel-suit-wearing agents in this highly rated game.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV
With an overwhelmingly positive Steam rating, The Legends of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV is a JRPG turn-based video game that is rich in storytelling. A finale in the Trails series, this is the last installment of the Cold Steel tetralogy. The series itself boasts at least nine games and over a thousand hours of gameplay and story, making the franchise a worthwhile investment.
Trails of Cold Steel IV, in particular, showcases the ultimate class reunion with the largest cast of characters in series history, including characters from Class VII, heroes of Liberl and Crossbell's Special Support Section. At the same time, the game's combat features a mix of both new and returning systems to give it a nostalgic yet refreshed feel, including summoning giant mechs into battle, auto-battle and utilizing the Lost Arts.
RAD
RAD is a 3D action rogue-like video game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity in this game has suffered two cataclysmic events that have greatly transformed the world into a radioactive wasteland. It's full of mutants, strange environments and superpowers. Journey as a teenage protagonist with the future of humanity at risk, using these strange new powers and a trusty bat to fight off threats in the Fallow. But be careful, all types of toxins are free-roaming in this strange world, and they can mutate any human into a strange creature.
As the player's body twists and turns from the toxic exposure, they find themselves far less human yet far more powerful. Some of the best parts of the game are its art style, which resembles a punkish-neon lit graphic, and its classic, rogue-like gameplay flow.
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
A 1-4 player game, Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is a classic adventure game with modern rogue-lite elements. The game has an expansive overworld and dungeon crawls for players to explore together to fight the mysterious evil growing beneath the land of Tasos. As this darkness grows, the ancient seals within the four ancient dungeons are weakening, threatening to release the Titans while their minions slip by and wreak havoc on the world.
Now the goddess of these seals leaves the world's fate up to her desperate plea for a band of heroes to stop them. Tackle procedural dungeons with classic weapons and upgradable characters to try and save the day. Rebuild villages, choose from multiple classes and defeat the powerful titans in this co-op adventure.