Yesterday, the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee lifted the lid on Giga Wrecker Alt. Originally arriving on Valve’s Steam platform in 2016 as Giga Wrecker, the game is now seemingly headed to multiple platforms, including the Nintendo Switch.
If the game rating alone wasn’t convincing enough, Game Freak has now registered two new trademarks in Japan. The first is Giga Wrecker and the second is Giga Wrecker Alt. It seems as if the 'very positive' Steam release is expected to arrive on consoles in the near future.
If you perhaps missed yesterday’s news, the title is a 2D action-adventure puzzle sidescroller published by Rising Star Games. You take control of a girl named Reika in a world invaded by an army of evil robots. You’ll have the ability to manipulate debris and crush enemies with a selection of objects in this physics-based adventure. Until we get a more official announcement, take a look at what the game has to offer in the below trailer:
Would you be interested in playing this game on the Switch? Tell us below.
[source japanesenintendo.com]
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Hopefully they've done something with the translation seeing as how it was so bad I couldn't be bothered finishing the game. The game is quite challenging though which had a bit to do with it as well.
if its a physical release then I will be all over that. I cant seem to get enough of 2d platforming
.....am I the only one that didn't knew Game Freak was totally independent from Nintendo? I thought they could only develop for them
Couldn't find the name behind the artwork. It feels very different from the usual for video games.
Does anyone know who could it be?
@Bobb https://www.giantbomb.com/giga-wrecker/3030-55166/credits/
Just says “Asigiri”
@Antraxx777 Thank you very much
I'll look it up
Odd how despite their obviously closer than usual relationship with Nintendo that they still occasionally decide to support other platforms. Love it when Nintendo manage to acquire exclusives.
@dux It’s very uncommon.
In 2015, Game Freak released Tembo The Badass Elephant for pretty much everything except Nintendo systems, and it definitely surprised me. Pretty good game too.
I've known for years that Game Freak is involved with other games too. But it is still weird seeing that classic logo not followed by something Pokemon.
@dux Game Freak alongside Camelot Software Planning, Intelligent Systems, and Monolith Soft are Nintendo's second party studios (similar to how Rare was in the 90s). Though they make games for Nintendo, Nintendo only own 85% of the properties from those studios and they could also make games for other company as well as long as they don't take Nintendo's IP with them for example We Love Golf is made by Camelot but is a Capcom game, Tembo the Badass Elephant (like Pulseman) is made by Game Freak but is a Sega game, Project X Zone is made by Monolith Soft but is published by Namco despite having IPs from Sega, Namco and Capcom in there, and Dragon Quest Wars is made by Intelligent Systems but that is a Square Enix game.
@retro_player_22 that was very informative, thanks! it's nice to see they're not stuck with Nintendo because I believe this allows for them to have a broader scope from other players and studios, so this is a win-win situation for Pokémon in my opinion (at least I hope so)
If it comes physical Asia or NA-I'll get it.
@dux Believe it or not there's also a Pokemon game released for a Sega system, the Sega Pico. A toy handheld by Sega Toys which had a large batch of edutainment titles.
@retro_player_22 ok wow and that'a second gen already! =O I had no idea
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