Choice Provisions’ Runner3 is one of the most highly anticipated indie releases on the eShop, as the third instalment in the studio’s delightfully crazy rhythm platformer series. The previous two games were both known for their extremely high difficulty, but it was the special stages in those predecessors that really ratcheted things up another notch. The retro stages will be making a return in Runner3, and a new blog post from the developers recently revealed new details about what fans have to look forward to.
Interestingly enough, these stages will have complete freedom of movement, and instead of a pixelated art-style, they’ll feature a new look inspired by the work of Friz Freleng and Hanna-Barbara. Each main level will have a retro challenge attached to it, and there will be three bosses in this sub-world to battle, as well. It’ll be worth your time to thoroughly explore this world, too, as each retro challenge hides five Gildan Coins which can be exchanged for new accessories and items to deck out CommanderVideo.
What do you think? Are you getting Runner3? Did you manage to 100% complete its predecessors? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source blog.nicalis.com]
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Day 1 baby
With Runner 2, the main game was considerably easier than that from the first game, but the extra challenges got absolutely insane.
Looking forward to seeing the levels of crazsy they attain in the third game.
Small detail but..
Gotta respect developers that put unnecessary work into something as neat as having a small difference in artstyle in retro stages - it really shows their devotion to their game and it's unfortunate there are very little developers that do this.
Shame that we live in a "copy and paste reusable assets" era of gaming.
@Varkster I... think we've kind of always lived in that era, at least to some extent.
The joy of gaming🌈🎼🎧
Runner2, against all odds, was one of my favorite Wii U platformers. Right up there with Legends, Tropical Freeze, 3DW, and Ducktales. The care they're putting into this suggests we're getting another exciting work.
Wish they would make sequels to their other better games. Kinda sick of RUNNER tbh
@Radbot42 runner3 is beautiful but i agree with you, i hope we get them to go back to the conceptual visions that we got in the wii days
I definitely want it but why is it $40? I bought the first one for 8 bucks and then second for 15. This is a huge price jump for the series!
@Varkster Gaming has always been heavily copy and paste. Look at how much is copy pasted in Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc.
@sketchturner I totally agree about that price. That's too high for an auto-runner.
knowing it's that much makes it any easy skip. Maybe I'll get it if it ever goes 80% off
Day one love these games, now if we could get the other Bit. Trip games on Switch that would be awesome or sequels to the other titles would be awesome.
This is def a day one for me... I cannot wait to play this on the go for many many hours. May 22nd cannot come soon enough!
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