woot New Rocket Knight game confirmed!

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feeds@kickapps.com (The Turtle Guy) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:11:04 PST

Axel Gear, what have they done to you!? The facial tattoo, the eyeshadow, the smart-aleck look on your face - that's not the stoic badass I remember! They turned you into a punk!

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feeds@kickapps.com (Veckums) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:22:53 PST

Zontar!

You are much shorter than your robot clones.

That picture alone makes me want this.

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feeds@kickapps.com (Zontar King of the Pig People) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:43:04 PST

Time for more universe conquering.

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feeds@kickapps.com (Craig Bayfield) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:25:45 PST

Dang it, PSX. The gameplay mechanic actually seems enough like Sparkster:RKA2 and it flows well enough that I may be interested. The level design isn't too bad, though hardly inspired.

If I see videos of later stages, I may get a better idea of what the game is worth and make my purchase decisions from there.

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feeds@kickapps.com (SA Tails) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:25:21 PST

That looks pretty damn cool! I think I'll give it a shot. XD

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feeds@kickapps.com (Psxphile) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:02:31 PST

Stage 1
Hard Mode
Rail Gameplay
Flight Gameplay

Camera's still a bit zoomed out. I see they replaced the life icon in the corner there with something a little more palatable. And of course, who could not fangasm at the remixed RKA Stage 1 track? This might actually turn out to be quite playable.

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feeds@kickapps.com (The Turtle Guy) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:35:21 PST

That boss always scared the crap out of me as a kid. I'd try to slow things down by tapping Start over and over again. >_<

The spot I was stuck at as a kid (as in, I only passed it and beat the game by taking it out recently) was the final stage of the space boss. I could never dodge those tennis-ball-spread-shot things.

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feeds@kickapps.com (GT the Magikoopa) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:59:19 PST

In Rocket Knight Adventures...you don't even have to MOVE to dodge the Stage 4 End Boss's first attack.

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feeds@kickapps.com (D B Vulpix) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:46:12 PST

Naught Dog, Sucker Punch, Insomniac.

All 3 I think would have been excellent choices for this project. I mean they all have experience with talking animals wearing jet packs.

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feeds@kickapps.com (Ashide Bunni) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:53:54 PST

Ports of the original three games to XBA/PSN/VC are the only good things that could come from this.

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feeds@kickapps.com (Veckums) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:56:08 PST

I think this will make the current Sonic series superior by comparison. They'd be better off porting the original.

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feeds@kickapps.com (SA Tails) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:31:51 PST

... Yeah, I'm avoiding this. I'm glad however that this game isn't going to be retail.

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feeds@kickapps.com (Ashide Bunni) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:36:15 PST

This game looks awful in screenshots, awful in motion, and it's being developed by a group who specialize in shovelware.

This is definitely worth getting excited about!

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feeds@kickapps.com (D B Vulpix) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:52:57 PST

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/26724/bigger Trailer

Yeah looking at it I hope they do something to brighten this game up. It almost looks Sepia Tone. The style reminds me of LBP and Ratchet and Clank and thats fine but the colors look so dull compared to the older games. They need to saturated more imo.

Also it looks like some of the areas don't have textures to them. But since this game is still early in development I'm letting that slide. For all I know some of this stuff could have been pre alpha.

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feeds@kickapps.com (The Turtle Guy) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:17:15 PST

RKA-model all the way, PSX. Though it's probably the strongest nostalgia I have of my childhood blinding me of how cool the other set is.

BTW, those screenshots look like crap, concidering how great the art of the first game was. (I hated SNES Sparkster because of the drop in level design quality and I've never played Genesis Sparkster.) It looks exactly like a Little Big World hack. And that's terrible.

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feeds@kickapps.com (D B Vulpix) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:42:46 PST

To be honest I don't remember Rocket Knight's music so I went and found some to jog memory

The Music of Video games [301]

I don't get why people are hating the 2.5 d thing. I mean whats with this eternal love of humping sprites?

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feeds@kickapps.com (SA Tails) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:42:07 PST

I like the style of the second game's Sparkster sprites, though I like the first's more goofy design as well. Either work. XD

In any case, this sequel couldn't possibly be worse than Sonic these days, so I'll give it at least a fair shake.

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feeds@kickapps.com (Psxphile) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:22:37 PST

Which ones lol?

Gotta say, despite everything at the very least I'm cautiously optimistic. The guy heading development seems to understand what made the original Rocket Knight a great game and wants to implement them back into this new sequel. The last time we saw something like this we got Bionic Commando: ReArmed and that's the 3D-update-to-a-beloved-2D-ip that bucks the trend of bad 2D/3D remakes. Everything about that game was executed well and true to the nature of the original (not so much the next gen sequel). If this new RK can come close to that level of accomplishment, I say bring it on.

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feeds@kickapps.com (SA Tails) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:01:15 PST

**looks at screens** My Genesis weeps... I want the Sparkster sprites back... =\

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feeds@kickapps.com (Craig Bayfield) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:53:50 PST

Got to agree with PSX on the screens looking hideous. But if the soul of the game is there and Axle Gear makes an appearance, I may be interested.

Sparkster 2 (Rocket Knight Adventures) on the Genesis was one of my alltime favorite games... from the playable intro, the mechs and the inventive bosses (especially the final one)--- I just want them to match that level of quirky creativity.

They probably wont. But *SQUEEEE* I'm happy.

woot New Rocket Knight game confirmed!

feeds@kickapps.com (D B Vulpix) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:45:08 PST

http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3176338

http://cache.gawker.com/a...ocket-knight-returns.jpg

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3176349