Q-Games has announced via the latest Nintendo Indie Direct Showcase that it is bringing a sequel to PixelJunk Eden to Switch this year. The predictably (and sensibly) named PixelJunk Eden 2 is scheduled for release this summer and it's good to see Q-Games and studio head Dylan Cuthbert, veteran of the Star Fox franchise, back on Nintendo's system following 2018's PixelJunk Monsters 2.
This new game sees you controlling a creature known as a Grimp on a mission to save your pals by journeying through levels that generate based on your actions, all in time to intoxicating tunes from Japanese experimental house/techno musician Baiyon. Here's a clip, as posted by Nintendo to Twitter:
As well as the all-encompassing solo experience, the game will come with 2-player local co-op, too. Here are a few more details from Nintendo's game page:
- Artistic style imagining nature and plant life, as visualised through the flow of ink running across a sheet of paper
- Ingenious stages generated in real-time based on player action; in all 10 gardens (stages), each with 5 variations
- Unique action experience born from the symphony of grooving techno/house sound and stylistic visuals
- 24 types of Grimps with different features. Individual Grimp characteristics change the gameplay
- 40 kinds of Spices are available to enhance the behaviour of Grimps
The original game was a real sensory assault so it's exciting to see the sequel coming to Switch. No word on price or an exact release date just yet, but summer's only a handful of months away.
Played the original? Excited for this? Let us know below.
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Eden is one of my all time favorite co-op games, and it's super fun solo, too. Once you get the movement down, the flow is real and it becomes intoxicating to play. Instabuy for me.
Excited for this one... Loved the first one.
I hope they don't stray too far beyond the simplicity of the first.
This sequel's first game was great!
A psudo-platforming game with physics-swinging and levels that morphed as you collected cells, and a hubworld that grew as you beat areas. Each garden is like 5-10 levels, if memory serves. I remember the level "hand-wash" which was white with grey rain. That was like twelve years ago, 13 maybe. Great game. I want the sequel.
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