Zen Studios, to date, has been supportive of the Wii U eShop in bringing both Zen Pinball 2 and Star Wars Pinball to the platform, but we were starting to wonder whether the promised CastleStorm would ever make an appearance.
The good news is that the title appears to be finally approaching release, with the studio posting on its own forums to link to the official Nintendo game page, which is showing December as the target window. Zen Studio's Community Manager said that the release date wasn't pinned down, but that it "should be ready to rock soon".
This game has attracted praise for its releases on other platforms, as it offers a mashup of real-time strategy, tower defence and 2D brawling. Its features will include a story mode, castle editor, co-op and online multiplayer; the releases on other platforms have also had additional DLC, so we'll also be interested in seeing whether that content will be on the Wii U day one or at a later date.
We're certainly looking forward to giving this a whirl; the trailer for its previous Xbox 360 release is below, which is practically identical to that currently on the Nintendo game page. Are you looking forward to this one?
Thanks to Spoony_Tech for the tip.
[source forum.zenstudios.com]
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I think I played this before and kind of liked it.. maybe I'll check it out on the Wii U, if it's a reasonable price that is. The fact that it has online play makes me want it more. Wii U is severely lacking in that area.
@Thomas Has this been reviewed on the xbox site? If so can you post a link?
Played the crap out of the demo, luckily this wasn't in the recent steam sale so i wasn't tempted to pick it up then but i'll be getting the Wii U release day one for co-op fun.
I'm wondering if they will bundle the two dlcs with it or do some kind of deal?
Looks promising.
Cool I am looking forward to this but with Zen Studios track record December will probably mean February.
@DefHalan lol true that true that!
To their defense though once submitted its out of their hands. This has happen to them before. If anything there crime is reporting it should be out before it gets a date from Nintendo.
@DefHalan I don't even want to think about going through that again.
@Spoony_Tech I talked with their PR rep. It seems that Zen was taken by surprise that Nintendo posted about the title so they were a little caught off guard. I'm hoping it is true that the Wii U will get online multiplayer as that feature didn't make it on ZP2.
@Everly So the ball really is in Nintendo's court to get us a date? Let's just hope we don't get it 6 weeks after Europe!
@Spoony_Tech Exactly. Or even worse that NoA decides it isn't a title that would do well in NA and not release it at all.
this game looks awesome. Definite buy for me
like games like that, I'm gonna pick it up
I don't know if they're nearly as supportive as you say. What happened with that star wars pinball dlc that was supposed to come to wii u?
@EvisceratorX
They can still come. it was said to come for fall and technically, it is still fall.
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=217213
If online is indeed present, day one buy for me.
Online better be there, but looks like it might be a purchase.
Tried it on Vita and the left analog stick to move the ballista (sp?) was so finicky that it was hard to be able to make precise shots which is important in a game such as this.
wow that trailer looks awesome!!.. i love indie games but somehow never heard of this game til now.day one purchace for sure!
I read the title as Castlevania, mehhh...
I recall Zen saying this was coming to the 3DS as well like 1 1/2 years ago....wonder if it still is at some point. Looks pretty cool
@Zemus-DJ Yeah I'm not holding my breath on that. If its taking this long to hit the Wii U I say if the 3ds sees it at all we are looking at another 6 months to a year if the system can even handle it!?
@Spoony_Tech To be fair the PS3 and PS Vita versions only came out last month.
@Emblem Yeah but lets not forget those are all HD systems and the 3ds needs different programming as the others are more or less straight ports. Although I'm sure the Wii U had some work around as well but I'm sure Zen is finally starting to get use to it!
Guys/gals I have this on the 360 and I can tell you that it's definitely worth the pick up. Castlestorm will probably be best on the Wii U seeing as the gamepad will add extra incentive to the game. I may double dip.
I'll be keeping my eye on this. It looks really fun! Edit: Just b/c I currently don't have a WU, doesn't mean I never will. So, it's always good to keep up to speed on titles I may find interesting, & fun.
Well I certainly hope it's under ten bucks, since all I have on my eShop account currently is $9.87... If not, I will have to go buy another card, which is no loss really xD
Day one buy, I've been waiting for this for a while now.
Looking forward to this game on Wii U Zen Studios, and all the DLC packs too!
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