We've just got word from Leuvsion - a studio led by UK-based developer Lewis Pugh - that work on the ambitious "open platformer" Twisted Fusion is progressing nicely and is now aiming to launch in early October for reasonable price of £4 / €5 / $5.
Way back in Spring 2014 this was one of a number of eShop projects that was successfully funded on Kickstarter. In this open platformer, players can tackle the adventure alone or with up to five co-op buddies. There's monster hunting and breeding, loot collecting and plenty besides that highlight the gameplay depth being targeted here - it's a Wii U exclusive, too.
We have to say we dig the art style and soundtrack in the game. Take a look at the action trailer to get a feel for yourself.
Is Twisted Fusion on your day one purchase list? As always let us know with a comment below.
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Characters are kinda small but it looks like a D1 purchase for me.
Does this really look like a fun game? Looks like a soggy poo to me. Hmmmm....
It looks great but not my personal style of game. I'm not a fan of the small character/big world view perspective. I may give it a download for the multiplayer option, but it looks like a solid quality product. I hope it does well. It's nice to see some Wii U exclusives.
I wasnt sure if this still existed. May give it a try.
Seems mediocre but likely still worth 5 bucks.
I'm tired of this 8-bit nostalgia/fever, and I hope that the next Shovel knight turns into a 16-bit game
Well, it looks better than better than nothing!
I'll wait to see how it turns out. It looks well done, but a bit minimalist.
I'm not sure whether to love this or it's just ok. Visually I'm not impressed and I hate trial and error gameplay but something about it seems like it could be fun.
No
Its the game that had that internet browser demo. Didn't really like it back than though.
Never heard of it before but at that price I'm interested.
That perspective really bothers me. Other than that, I guess this game looks decent. Not sure if I'll buy it, though.
Meh...
Neat nice looking little game.
If the music is going to be ANYTHING like the promo, I'm sold!
@MrPuzzlez the music playing in the trailer is the boss battle theme tune, a personal favourite of mine.
The game does have a nice range of tunes though, from this boss music to a homey tune that plays just when inside buildings. There is also day and night versions of the overworld theme.
You will get a chance to hear more soon as more trailers come out that focus on other aspects of the game.
Not interested, but spent a nice amount of time looking at the picture on top of the article.
@Zach777
I played the beta1 and 2. In the first was problems. But the second beta was fun. The game is worth the price.
I will buy it.
Kind of sick of tiny characters and huge backgrounds.
@PAppleyard My first thought reading your post was playing Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on a high-resolution monitor. Funny since in the original Jazz took up like half the screen.
For those curious why the combo of high resolution frame with small character sprites, of course theres artistic preference but functionality it really helps with exploration and is basically a requirement for co-op multiplayer without split screen, especially as you can play with 5 players local so you can have 5 unique players characters all running / jetpacking around at once. (with space to do so)
Interestingly as the game uses both the TV and GamePad at their native resolutions without scaling (not something I've seen other Wii U games do) when playing off-tv the view on the gamepad is differnt with the characters taking up more screen real estate (As is using a pixel perfect mode on both, with the gamepad having fewer pixels) so there's some options to play with.
@Frank90
Did you actually watch the trailer? That is clearly 16 bit.
Very excited for this, been waiting since playing some of the PC beta to have it on the WiiU finally
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