M2 Is Working On A Brand New 'Night Striker' Game

Gotta love M2 and all the work that they do for making these games available for the masses.

I like it, but it might be too much graphical glitz and glam for my eyes

Wow looks insane!

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Basically has everything I need. I love the way this looks so far so I’ll be adding this to my list. Will be checking out the earlier titles as I’m not familiar with them! If all goes according to plan I’ll be buying the Operation Night Strikers compilation!

Not a big fan of the original and this looks pretty a** to be honest…

M2 is awesome, but this game doesn't really look like my jam.

From the thumbnail, I thought/hoped this would be Descent!

It's quite old news, but OK

Bribes paid to Square-Enix

I’m sure this will be good because M2.

I know it’s a longshot at this point but I’m still hoping for the M2 Ketsui Deathtiny port to come to Switch/2. Such a fantastic shmup.

I love their remakes for the 3DS.

I was hoping for some sprite scaling, but this looks awful.

Compared to the original arcade, this is much nicer to look at. So smooth. Could use more ground textures though.

Also, we’re still months away from Operation Night Strikers collection in the meantime. Getting ever so closer to the real Operation Wolf as well as Space Gun. Now, the question is to go for physical which includes the console versions ,that I don’t care much for, just to play Night Strikers Gear early or save some yen and just get the arcade versions download?

I'm interested in the original arcade game, I believe it was a Japan arcade exclusive.

@MontyCircus It says M2 ShotTriggers at the end of the trailer. So good chance this won't just be a standalone game. M2 made a brand new game for the Aleste Collection, and that came with 4 older games too. Night Striker doesn't have any sequels, so perhaps they'll include the arcade and Playstation versions. I think they're both different enough from each other, at least graphically, to be worth having.

Edit - Looking at its Steam page, it seems it is just a standalone title. That's a shame. Never mind, still looking forward to it. The more official sequels to shmup classics they make, the better.

@masterLEON I was hoping Night Striker Gear would come with the arcade and maybe Playstation versions, since it seems to be part of the ShotTriggers series. I don't think any game in the series is just a standalone title. But looking at its Steam listing, it seems like this will be. I had forgotten about Operation Night Striker till I read your comment there. So that probably rules out any chance of it being included with Gear.

I was thinking, Operation Night Striker collection would be fun to play with mouse controls on Switch 2, especially with rumble. Not sure if it's coming to Switch 2 but it'll still be playable. So maybe they'll add mouse controls to the collection. Maybe to the new game too.

@MontyCircus I saw one at Barcade in the city, in English. It was next to SEGA’s Time Traveler last time I went.

@OorWullie If mouse controls have a simulate thumbstick mode that would be great, for a lot of games. But if not, since they made SEGA AGES, they could implement the joy-con flight stick mode they made for Space Harrier. Now that I think about it, maybe they’re utilizing their super scaler porting expertise from SEGA AGES as a base for Night Strikers (arcade and Gear) and Operation Thunderbolt?