JC Fletcher wrote:Prior Games is a new developer composed of former Digital Reality creative director Theodore Reiker, along with "key talent" from the Hungarian studio and other new staff. At Digital Reality they were most recently known for the excellent side-scrolling shooter Sine Mora, developed and published as a collaboration with Grasshopper Manufacture.
In an interview with Joystiq, Reiker revealed that the new team will return to the shmup genre in 2014, with another "Japanese-Hungarian co-development" codenamed Project Verona. "It will be more conservative in its gameplay and less ambiguous in its storytelling," Reiker notes, though he adds that it will also branch out from the conventions of the genre.
Thank God for the "more conservative" mechanics. He seems to have learned something from Sine Mora. I have a review of that game half-written in my head, I just need to play it more to finish it.
Wonder who the Japanese team will be this time. Really doubt it'll be Grasshopper again. May even be some amateur group or individual.
