After a disastrous Kickstarter campaign that managed to raise only half the needed funds to publish Unholy Knight on the Super Nintendo later this year, it seemed like NU-GAIA's ambitious Super Nintendo one-on-one fighter was heading for an early retirement. So it was surprising to find out that the game was picked up by Retroism for release on June 19th of the current year.
Even more surprising, the game pre-order has popped up on Amazon. For now it is US only, but we will hopefully see the game released worldwide.
Meanwhile, the NU GAIA YouTube channel is already filled with several gameplay videos of the game in action, like the one above recorded on a real Super Famicom. You can sample more of the upcoming game in this playlist.
What do you think? Are you tempted to add this 2017 release to your Super Nintendo Library? Is this something you would like to see being done more often? Let us know in the comments.
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This item does not ship to United Kingdom. Well sugar me Sh*&Lumps. Looks like the UK get screwed again. Hopefully someone will dump the game online.
This is awesome. Totally gonna buy this cartridge to play on my SNES.
Would love to see more developers do this. What if we suddenly see a rise in games made for the SNES and it becomes popular again like it was back when.
....First of all...that pic is distracting...second, what's wrong with the eShop? >.>
@Moms-Meowth I guess they were going for the authentic '90s experience where it would take Nintendo Europe between six months to a year to release things in the UK.
I would buy a new N64 game in a heartbeat
@BulkSlash Nintendo Europe was really poor back then. Waiting 6 months for DKC and KI to come out was hell. Seeing it in all the mags too didn't help lol
@Joeynator3000 Beat me to it (the distracting part).
I love to have (that) nightmares!
Hmm? The video dind't embedded correctly in the post!
@Muqsit1 ...You're the same guy that was spamming links everywhere aren't you...
@Joeynator3000 I have him reported already.
@Shiryu I did too, it is him. It's the same exact link, really wished I could do more than edit/delete comments. :/
@antdickens
Banning powers would be nice, it's the same user that was spamming the exact same messages before. He was already banned once.
@Joeynator3000
What's wrong with having links, many ppl do it. Just wondering why
@NintySnesMan Advertising and spamming links in every post is against the rules.
@Joeynator3000
OK, no worries, I don't bother with links myself. Looks like he hasn't learned his lesson
Yeah he's still posting everywhere, and the way he's talking....I can already tell it's actually a bot.
This should get released anyway, but on modern consoles.
Looks a brilliant idea for a beat em up roster and by a talented team. Would just rather see it running smooth and better graphics using modern hardware instead of the SNES that appears to be struggling to run that tech demo of it.
Hopefully Bandai will pick up distribution duties in the U.K., otherwise I'll have to get it from a mail order company in Super Play magazine, get a SCART SNES and hope my TV can handle 60Hz.
Gotta love the early 90's!! 😀
I need me some new SNES games! Still keeping my eye on Socks the Cat!
I had heard of companies still releasing Dreamcast games, but I didn't know they were going as far back as releasing new SNES games. That's pretty cool.
@Joeynator3000
Yep it's a bot, especially after reading it's 2nd comment. Also can't understand why you don't have powers to ban ppl
@NintySnesMan Ant hates me apparently. TwT
I'll buy this if it hits Australia. I love my snes and still play it all the time.
That's pretty cool. Atari 2600 doesn't really hold any interest for me anymore, but I could go for some SNES and Genesis games, though.
What luck! I was just lamenting the fact I forgot to fund the Kickstarter like a week ago! Pretty damn happy about this!
@Joeynator3000 Making games in the style of 8/16 Bit games is one thing. Making a game that will actually run on an SNES is a totaly different challenge.
Most "retro" games made today would never be able to run on the systems they emulate. They just use that graphical style but don't stick to the actual restrictions of the style.
It looks great. I'll be pre ordering not just for the game/collection, but also to support this lost artform.
I'm hoping the ROM stays in the right customers hands, at least until everyone gets paid something for their work on this project. After putting a year of time/creative effort into something, its always nice to have some incentive to keep doing it. As to whether that's just fan support, or a small profit to fund something new, well...I'm not quite sure of NU GAIA's motivations (I haven't been able to follow this too closely). I just know it can't be fun to have your work taken away from you from certain fans, who might not comprehend the effort put in. Sorry, small rant there guys - but only well intentioned.
Yes got my copy pre-ordered, it's being ages since I bought a brand new Super NES game.
Sold! But I would love to see a newer experience on a modern system. This is a nice treat, but I'd rather play on what I got hooked up, not what I gotta dig out.
I think it's great they are doing it.
Cool and all but the switch would be of a wise choice
If this was on the Switch eshop, I'd insta-buy this
just yer mandatory T H I C C comment rolling through
@Destron "Making games in the style of 8/16 Bit games is one thing. Making a game that will actually run on an SNES is a totaly different challenge.
Most "retro" games made today would never be able to run on the systems they emulate. They just use that graphical style but don't stick to the actual restrictions of the style."
This exactly! I mean, there's really no point to limit yourself to an old hardware spec other than self-satisfaction, but there are lots of folks who will appreciate the effort. The only dev I know who got things closest to the restrictions of the spec is Brian Provinciano with Retro City Rampage. For example, he was able to keep the choosable color palettes exactly like the original hardware (but you really need to see it on a CRT for the full effect). And the 486 port on a 3.5 inch floppy is nothing short of a masterpiece! A real proof of concept! Heck, even Shovel Knight falls just short of being truly 8-bit in that respect.
Cool
I'd be interested if it were a Switch game.
Wish this could be released on Wii U Virtual Console...
@Moms-Meowth i already own it and bought it straight from play asia and it shipped to me in the u.k
The kickstarter was only for the English version and that it what failed. this game has always been available from play asia as the intended famicom release of which you can simply buy anytime you like and of course it has better artwork than the awful proposed NTSC release.
I love 2D fighting games, but from the videos I've seen of this it looks pretty terrible. It looks slow and the animations look sloppy, and the presentation is ugly. Maybe it looks better once the game is finished.
What is it with so many art styles like this where they have a chick with huge knockers but microscopic nipples?
@PlywoodStick It's an excuse for more cleavage! "The target audience won't notice"
@Braok You can't get any more cleavage out of that arrangement, there's nothing holding them down. You'd have to get, like, a transparent underside clamp with ghostly gothic lion's paws and an iridescent needle spiked buckler nipple cover to get any more cleavage from every angle!
@SuperWeird
That would be so cool.
@PlywoodStick i don't know what to think of that
@Braok EXACTLY.
I am too young to be looking at sexy pics like that, before I know it I will have to learn about the birds and bees scenario
@NintySnesMan Yeah, her bazongas are the bees, your pecker is the bird. It's an uncomfortable scenario. I wouldn't recommend it.
@PlywoodStick
Lol yeah mate
The game was up for preorder on Amazon Japan for the SFC version for ages, and is still there (which I'm hoping to get), so this is nothing new, just the US version presumably.
I fixed the video embed!
My SNES no longer works!
Did you notice that the same song loops in all the fights? Hmmm...
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