Indie studio Code Wakers and publisher Armor Games Studios have announced today that aerial combat shooter Jet Lancer will be coming to the Switch on May 12th.
Set in a world overcome by giant robots, Jet Lancer is a bullet hell blaster where players will dog fight with enemy pilots, take down massive robot bosses and pull off insane aerial stunts, all while tinkering with upgrades and thinking up killer tactics on-the-fly.
Adopting a 2D visual style complete with intermission scenes which call to mind the classic Advance Wars series, Jet Lancer is built around a single-player campaign which offers a selection of accessibility options – such as damage modifiers, anti-fatigue control toggles, and visual options such as screen shake and screen-flash reduction – as well as a New Game+ mode for those who feel they're ready to test their skills to the limit.
If all of that sounds pretty good to you, then take note: Jet Lancer launches on Nintendo Switch on May 12th, priced at $14.99 / £13.49 / €14.99. It's also coming to PC & Mac via Steam, GOG, Humble Store and itch.io.
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that looks nice! The rock music and pixel art style reminds me of Steredenn, and that's a huge plus for me.
I'll remember this one and am looking forward to the review.
Reminds me of Robotech on the cube.
It looks quite good. It reminds me of Rogue Aces, which I really enjoyed.
I noticed Jet Lancer as it's next to 3 shoot em ups that caught my eye, Satazius Next, Armed 7 and Wolflame. Two of them are horizontal scrolling, the other vertical. They all have good reviews on Steam and are priced at only £6.29. Anyone played them on Steam?
This looks kind of amazing...
Looks good. Reminds me of Luftrausers
STEAM wish-list: Delete.
Switch purchase: Day 1!
It reminds of Daemon x Machina
It reminds me of Skyrim
@KitsuneNight That’s exactly what I came here looking for. I was disappointed ☹️.
Looks neat, but not my style of genre
This looks really good
Reminds me of Yoshi's Wooly World.
@HobbitGamer
Its graphical art direction remind me a lot of Battlecry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiQh8wm_75A
Course Battlecry wasn't a bullet hell, but in some place it damn near was.
But yeah this isn't my style of genre either i was hoping it would be a Robotech rip off..er homage.
Reminds me of Spider-Man
I honestly read the devs name as something else entirely...
Great game! Reminds me a lot of Luftrausers.
I was a part of their beta test, it's a great game, but the levels they gave me were brutally hard, hopefully they've balanced out the difficulty of the game to make it challenging rather than dying really quickly!
It looks great, but I found Luftrausers too brutal to be enjoyable... so if this is going for something similar I'm not sure I'm in.
Let's hope those accessibility options provide the right tweaking needed.
@brunojenso The Jet Lancers beta was way more brutal for me. At least Luftrausers is a game played in bursts as it's a game that never stops. Whilst Jet Lancers is level based with progression and boss battles. The issue I had with the beta was that I found the levels really tough, but the boss level they sent was reasonable.
Hey, one of the devs here! First of all, thank you all for warm reception, we really appreciate it!
@brunojenso @SepticLemon
That beta test was literally the first time we showcased the game externally, and it featured random assortment of early and late-game missions. Thanks to your feedback, we made a lot of work to smooth out the difficulty curve and improve player on-boarding (tutorials, UI, etc).
On top of that, we also have some accessibility options now, like extended evasion window, reduced damage, etc.
Looks great. Kinda wish it had multiplayer support both in dogfighting and campaign... but it’s also a 15 dollar indie.
@WhyN0t Congratulations on the game. I’m eager to try it next month. Hope you have a great launch.
Advance wars? All I see is visual novel art with more effort put into the game than lufwauffle.
It's a colorful Luftrausers with some story elements...I'm interested. Looks cool.
@sfb Oh man, I LOVE Luftrausers! I’m sure I read somewhere (here probably) that Vlambeer will bring it to Switch this year. Certainly hope so!
But going back to Jet Lancer:
OH. MY. GOD... NEED.
I like the aesthetic, but not a fan of 360 controls on character ships.
@WhyN0t Cheers for the info - sounds good.
Will pick it up half off.
@Roam85 @WhyN0t
Wow, dogfighting PvP actually sounds amazing for this.
Cheers on making Jet Lancers! This is the first shmup that I'm extremely interested in
Advance Wars? Where?
This looks more like a spiritual successors to Capcom's games U.N. Squadron/Aera 88 and Carrier Air Wing/U.S. Navy but with more mobility.
Yeah this looks like a lot of fun. May 12? May 12.
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