This was for the longest time a self-published title until Konami swooped in recently and snapped it up. So now Whites are dominating even in traditionally Japanese-dominated genres, as with
Hollow Knight and
Streets of Rage 4, to mention two other prominent examples.
No idea if it will be good, but at least the mechanics should be simpler than
Sine Mora's, so at least this one has a CHANCE of being good (complexity is for advanced designers, beginners should stick with simplicity).
Sine Mora, if you didn't know, was great aesthetically but rotten mechanically, but to me it's still worth a 4/5 just because of how awesome it looks, so if this one is even MEDIOCRE mechanically, it should be a 5/5 overall, given that it looks better than even many modern FPSes/TPSes etc. If it's any good at all, and if it sells at all, it'll be the revolution in STGs that the Japs have failed to give us.
Which is why it's deceptive that the Konami logo will be all over it, like the Chinese buying stakes in countless White developers because they're too dumb to develop their own games.
But enough with the racism. I can't wait to play this at 4K on a huge screen. Maybe it will look good even at 8K?
Btw, the director went on
Shumps and got into a fight with the old-timers. Very interesting discussion, months ago. I've been meaning to post it here. I'll look it up and bump the thread.
TBA.