Publisher Apogee Entertainment and solo developer Eric Manahan have announced that the upcoming Metroidvania (or 'Celestoidvania' - bleeugh!) LUCID has 207% of its funding goal prior to its 2025 release on Nintendo Switch.
In addition, it's been confirmed that veteran composer David Wise has been hired to provide the score for the upcoming title. Wise has worked on a number of key Nintendo published titles in the past, including the likes of Donkey Kong Country, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Star Fox Adventures.
2025 is still a way off, but everything about Lucid, so far, is sounding pretty impressive. Here's what Apogee Entertainment has to say about the game:
Enter a flow state while hunting for the Lucid Giant’s heart across shimmering caverns, snow-covered ridges, and barren badlands. String together Crystal Arts for double-jump and airdash-fueled maneuvers to access out-of-reach areas. Hot-swap abilities on the fly to unleash heavy-hitting special attacks against evasive enemies and behemoth-sized bosses.
Hopefully, we'll have more information on a target release date in the coming weeks and months. Meanwhile, there are still a few days left to back the game's Kickstarter campaign if you wish to do so.
What do you make of Lucid so far? Are you pleased to see David Wise join the project? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
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Games like these are the reason I sometimes desperately try to like Metroidlikes. I rarely do but this looks promising.
Well I'm definitely interested in purchasing the soundtrack now at least!
Metroidvania crossed with Celeste. Colour me impressed!
I've been following this game for a while now and backed the Kickstarter on day 1. I'm even MORE hyped now that David Wise is contributing to it too
I know they never called themselves that, but would it be wrong to say The Messenger is a cross of Celeste with the Metroidvania genre?
This game looks so promising! I'm so hyped for the soundtrack, and the gameplay looks very unique and fun too!
David Wise isn't doing the entire soundtrack, but his involvement pushed me to back the game on Kickstarter (I was already really interested to begin with after NintendoLife first covered the game).
"How to make everyone and their grandma to pay attention to your game"
Aang looking a bit psycho.
So from interesting to must buy 🙈
David Wise's involvement instantly piques my interest.
I've been following for a little over a year now and I'm blown away with every update. The addition of David Wise is just icing on the cake. Eric, the developer, is incredibly passionate and an all around great person to talk shop with. Backing the KS was a no brainer. The Discord server is always lit and every now and then he'll stream art and lore for the game. OK, I'm done shilling. Just a big fan of what I've seen so far.
Wise move.
Highly accomplished composer.
yeah I could smoke a big bowl of this
YEAH BUDDY!!! A few years back, I found a beautiful pixel animation loop on Instagram, and followed immediately. Then saw the game attached to it, and seeing the progression of this thing has been an absolute delight.
Everything that gets added makes me want to play it more, and now that includes at least three tracks by David Wise himself??? Outstanding.
Got to know the dev a bit too. Dude is so nice and supportive of his friends and his community!
I really hate the word "celestoidvanina." But this looks pretty slick. Looking forward to it.
And I'm suddenly interested in this game.
first celestvania?
The messenger would like a word with you.
Even still, love Dave wise and will buy just to support him
The character's moves look really fluid and original (didn't play Celeste), also seems quite challenging.
Too bad it's another pixel "art" project, and people complaining about all the gorgeous looking games we get on Switch...
Happy for the makers though, whish their passion brings them lots of success.
The trailer definitely made me think of The Messenger.
Oh c'mon really? Celestoidvania...? This needs to stop immediately. Looks like this game might be a nice companion to Celeste though.
Looking nice, it's definitely on my wishlist but at this point I doubt I'll be getting to this one any time soon since I still got over 200 other Metroidvania games before this that I had not finish yet.
Looks really cool in general and with David Wise also being on board I'm definitely backing this on Kickstarter now!
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