Each week brings a dizzying range of new titles on the Switch eShop, a number of which we've already covered in news posts in recent times - the likes of Slain: Back from Hell and The Sexy Brutale are right around the corner. Another title that deserves a nod to be on the radar, also out this week, is Dimension Drive.
As you can see in the video it's a shoot 'em up, with the twist that you have to switch between two sides of the screen. You have limited energy on each side, meaning that you need to alternate back and forth while trying to deal with the various things trying to kill you. It has four difficulty settings and 13 stages (with another 13 to play 'mirrored') along with support for local co-op.
Developed by 2Awesome Studio, it's the work of two engineers that once worked at the European Space Agency. We gave a PC build a whirl and spoke to the studio's David Jimenez a little while ago.
Is this one in the reckoning for your eShop purchases this week?
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Lol, that looks way too complicated for my brain to handle.
Played a bit of the previous entries on PSTV of all things. Looking forward to this but will await NL seal of approval first.
This looks amazing but honestly think I could not handle all these mechanics at once... My head hurt just watching the trailer, haha
Really curious to see how this one turns out. I won't be buying it before reading the NL review but I'm pretty optimistic it's going to be good. I was just saying in the forum yesterday, this week's weekly update is crazy good. Embers of Mirrim looks really good and was very well received on PS4. Then we have Slain - Back from Hell, The Sexy Brutale and Gunbird. All 4 of those are certain downloads for me. Dimension Drive will very likely join them. Caveman Warriors is another one that's tempting me, depends on how it plays in single player though. Acorn Tactics could be a dark horse too. Teslagrad, Human Fall Flat and Plague Road are also in there, although those 3 don't interest me.
That's one hell of a lineup.
Visuals are great, but it looks too gimmicky for my tastes.
Colour me interested
Same day as Gunbird, same month as RXN Raijin...
Shmups are back and they are here to stay!
@Shiryu Hi. Developers here. Not sure what you mean, this is the first game we do and this is the first release we do. There was no previous entries and definitely not one on PSTV. At least that we know of XD
Thanks a lot to NL for sharing the news and to everyone for the nice comments
@2Awesome Thanks for the quick reply. Let me go find out... I can't recall for the life of me the complete title, I am sure there was "Dive" in it but I might be wrong. It was basically the same dual screen set up and you could "blink" between screens. I will keep on researching until I figure it out (or call on my mate for him to tell me).
Regardless, I might be the biggest shmup junkie here on both the NL staff and readers gang, so I am definitely very eager to give this a try and stand corrected that this is your first time and your original IP.
@2Awesome Found it, it was "Velocity Ultra"! No dual screen, my mistake, you could only blink your ship into separate parts of the screen in order to progress. Ah, this memory of mine...
@Shiryu Oh, yeah. We're big fans of Velocity but yes, Dimension Drive is a different IP. There's so many cool things that can be done with teleportation!
@2Awesome Spoken like a true Seth Brundle.
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