The Lost Vikings was an amazing 2D puzzler platformer for the SNES which arguably has never been bettered, despite the passage of time. If you're a fan of this classic title then you'll be pleased to know that a Steam release that has been dubbed the spiritual successor to the Silicon & Synapse (now Blizzard) 1992 romp is coming to the Switch later this year.
Grave Danger allows you to control three different characters - Elliot the wizard, Dante the cowboy and Malice the Grim Reaper - to explore a 2D environment, solving puzzles and taking down enemies. A Co-op mode is included, too. As you can see from the trailer, it's very close to The Lost Vikings in terms of gameplay, which already makes us excited.
Grave Danger: Ultimate Edition is expected to arrive on Switch in Q3 this year. Interested? Let us know with a comment.
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I will never be a fan of that Flash-esque aesthetics. Or cheesy mobile bounciness. However you want to phrase it. I'd take pixel art any day over that style.
Someone tell those developers to include 3 player co-op.
part 1 and 2 were great, Olaf looks lost out there!
just give us both originals and Rock n Roll Racing!
@PleaseUnderstan and blackthorne!
Oh your god! Lost Vikings was my life back in the day! YAAAAAY
@TobiasAmaranth : Unfortunately a lot of television animation looks as if it was animated via Flash too (and it very well could be).
Nothing will ever compare to hand-drawn, hand-coloured animation. Nothing.
Lost Vikings was good, but rather hard. Didn't know there was a spiritual successor. Certain recent games have made me wary of spiritual successors, but I'll have a glance at this one on Steam later and see whether it's any good.
I loved the Lost Vikings but I'll carry a "wait & see" approach to this game. Like @crimsontadpoles comment, I've seen many "spiritual successor" games not live up to the hype.
Is there a certain design engine that generates this odd flash kind of style graphic or is everybody suddenly hand drawing the same thing. It just doesnt look good or animate well.
I don't think you can call it a spiritual successor if someone else made it. Clone would be more appropriate.
@YANDMAN the technique is called skeletal animation. It allows for the use of less drawing required for animating which is why a lot of indies use it. You can draw one rig of your character and animate a skeleton of it and get many different animation cycles out of a single set of of assets. There are many different pieces of software to do this, and even Unity’s own 2D tutorials show how to do this style of animation. It can be done well, but most don’t make the effort and instead just add the “bounce” to make it feel more “animated”...
I agree to some of you: Animation-wise it doesn't look that hot!
Looks too mobile to me but the gameplay does seem to run well.
Why so far off though? Like if I decide to get it I can just get it on Steam now instead of on Switch in 9 months...
It looks...ok at best. Just seems like its catered to the mobile phone market and "spiritual successer" is a joke as no one involved in the origin is working in this. Its like saying Great Gianna Sisters is the spiritual suvcesser to the original Super Mario Bros. Anyway a Trine trilogy would be a better option for Switch.
Can't wait to try this on Switch! Looks fun...
@retro_player_22 @Remerkin You guys think this would be fun for switch at least? Been looking for a new game on there to look forward to.
@IndieGameGirly Some people really don’t like that style of graphics, but it doesn’t really bother me much. As to if it would be fun it would depend on the gameplay for me. The game is out on steam and has some positive reviews, just not a lot of reviews.
@Remerkin Thanks for the insight, i assumed it must be due to a generally used piece of software. It looks bad.
I'd love an update to the lost vikings! I played the Amiga version.
I like the hand drawn style as well - remember the terrible 2D CGI of the 2nd lost vikings? Now THAT was truly bad looking.
@PleaseUnderstan Rock N Roll racing would be a tough one considering they used licensed music in the original.
Oh, cool. I've got a soft spot for "The Lost Vikings." I still have the Genesis version (which almost requires a 6 button pad when playing solo). I could never get past Level 7 back in the day. I should get back to it sometime.
*Watches Youtube Let's Play of Level 7.
Oh, so that's how you do it! You have to go over the top of the level as Erik to get the key to make a bridge for the others!
@BulbasaurusRex I just saw they launched yesterday, they even seem to have given everyone who owned the original game an instant upgrade from what I read over at ComicBuzz, and what is BrightLocker? I've gotta check them out there sometime later...
Just saw this launched yesterday on steam, and BrightLocker? Not sure what that is but I'll check it out. Anyhow, figured I'd come back and let ya'll know!
@Remerkin Ok cool, thanks for getting back to me. Haven't been here in a while so sorry it took this long.
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