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[DunDunDunpachi]

Gunlord was originally an indie release for the Neo Geo and Dreamcast in 2012. If you want that artificially-flavored R E T R O A E S T H E T I C, you're covered.

NG.DEV is a respected indie-arcade dev with a decent catalogue of modern releases, such as Last Hope: Pink Bullets, Fast Strikers, and Neo Xyx.

Official website.

Features added to Gunlord X:​

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Enlarged levels offering new secrets and challenges.​

4 new boss enemies​

Jet Pack action in a horizontal shmup stage!​

Earn continues by collecting all big diamonds per stage.​

Autosaving level progression. Finishing a level allows you to restart from the last level you died on.​

Accomplishment and statistics screens​

Newgame+ mode for speedrunners​

Increased the viewport to support 16:9 widescreen​

Scanline/RGB CRT TV shader​

Increased sprite/particle effects​

Alpha blending special FX​

Nice parallax scrolling elements​

Improved controls (direct control over the 360° snake beam with R Stick)​

Optional modern twin stick controls (control movement and shooting direction independently)​

Fully customizable controls​

Improved difficulty curve​

Rebalanced weapon powerlevels​

Stable 60fps in both docked/undocked mode​

HD Rumble​

 

[ienjoyrawfish]

I've never played Gunlord but have wanted to for a while now.

So this is a remaster not a sequel? Sounds pretty safe to say it's the definitive version if so?

Will almost certainly pick this up.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I've never played Gunlord but have wanted to for a while now.

So this is a remaster not a sequel? Sounds pretty safe to say it's the definitive version if so?

Will almost certainly pick this up.

Yeah it's the definitive version of a 2012 game, but considering the niche and the platforms on which Gunlord was released, it is safe to say that most people haven't heard of it let alone played it prior to this announcement.

 

[angelic]

That music is really Huelsbeck esque.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I'd always been meaning to check this game out, but never quite got around to it. Cool - guess this is the right opportunity to do that. Shouldn't suffer from the music looping issue in the DC version either ( or whatever the glitch was... don't quite remember.) Nice that there's pretty much no wait time for it, either.

Edit: Store page is up -- https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/gunlord-x-switch/

May 22, $9.99.

 

[Cattlyst]

Good game. Reminiscent of Turrican. Also has some shoot 'em up sections where you pilot a ship. Played the Dreamcast version which is great.

Edit: it's not a ship, it's the blokey with a jetpack. Eh. It's been a while.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

"Eurostyle" isn't a selling point when it comes to old school platformers... sorry (no)

 

[Dazrael]

I didn’t expect this to be out so soon, that’s a nice surprise. I was weighing up trying to pick it up on AES but it’s hella expensive. Another win for the Switch.