Moon Diver

Thanks to Bacon, I was made aware of the potential awesomeness that comes from Strider's designer in the form of Square-Enix's Necromachina.

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Originally Posted by Siliconera

OK, so maybe the Necromachina trailer didn’t grab your attention, but this bit of probably news will. Kouichi "Isuke" Yotsui, one of the designers of Strider, is creating the side scrolling action game for Square Enix.

After leaving Capcom, Yotsui went on to make Osman, a Strider-like arcade game where Abdullah the Slaver destroys society and a bodybuilder/Judicial Affairs officer hires an assassin to . Necromachina also has a wacky story, which Square Enix summarized.

At the dawn of the 22nd century, an evil power brought inanimate objects to life, and they turned on humanity. Bridges, cars, cups–the whole of humanity’s creations turned on their makers. But hidden amongst humanity’s survivors, an elite unit of specially trained ninja known as Moondivers has been lying in wait for orders to reclaim the planet. Today, those orders arrived.

Ninjas vs.sentient bridges are coming to you on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this year.

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I hate how it looks like Devil May Cry or Castlevania characters running around Contra: Shattered Soldier sets, but other than that it looks good.

I was telling Vasteel the other day that I only want hand drawn 2D games on consoles and only want 2.5D on PC (because they benefit from 3D). This game fails that but deserves some slack from lineage alone.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I hate how it looks like Devil May Cry or Castlevania characters running around Contra: Shattered Soldier sets, but other than that it looks good.

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I dunno, DMC and CV aren't quite so flowery, although they're on that road. I'd say they're more akin to Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce.

The character designs are actually by an Italian guy, fwiw.

This looks great, especially with it being multiplayer. Looking forward to this.

I just hope it plays well single-player.

Also, if you haven't played Osman, you suck.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

I just hope it plays well single-player.

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Bless you.

Necro bump! This is now Moon Diver and is coming out on PSN on March 29.

For some reason the "Go Advanced" button on the edit screen for the original post isn't working, so I can't rename the thread to Moon Diver. I'll post that in the Feedback forum.

This game looks pretty good. 2.5D doesn't bother me as much when it is a new property. I just hate when old 2D games get raped by it. I'm in for this on PSN and would be down for some co-op when it hits.

Why wasn't I told about this game? WHY WASN'T I TOLD, INTERNET?!