At Nintendo's Indie World Showcase in March, publisher Merge Games revealed the indie brawler, Bounty Battle.
The Dark Screen-developed multiplayer brawler is inspired by games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate but replaces all of the famous industry mascots with indie icons. The game was scheduled to arrive on the Switch next week, but will now experience a "slight" delay.
Here's the reason behind this decision, courtesy of the official press release:
We’re sorry to say that we’ve had to make the unfortunate decision to delay the launch of our upcoming All-Star Indie Fighter, Bounty Battle.
Our goal to provide an amazing couch co-op experience to our community is within reach, but we felt that we still had significant improvements to make that we simply could not achieve without a slight delay.
Our community's experience is of utmost importance to us, so keeping that in mind we decided that we needed more time to deliver Bounty Battle as intended and intact.
This means that Bounty Battle will no longer release on the 23rd July as previously announced. We will update the community as soon as we have a new release date to share with everyone!
We would like to take the time to thank you all for your patience and understanding in this matter.
As noted, Merge will update the community as soon as it sorts out a new release date for Bounty Battle. The physical release of this game in North America has also reportedly been cancelled (thanks, GoNintendo).
Do you like the look of Bounty Battle? Leave a comment below.
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Fair enough, it’s always better to delay than pushing out a rushed version of the game. First impressions are everything and not many games recover from a bad launch.
Super Bootleg Bros.
It LOOKS decent, but really just looks like a carbon copy of SSB, and it’s not doing a good job trying to hide it 😂
Good that they realized this thing needs a lot of work.
Still need to play Flinthook on the Switch. I played it for a bit on PS4 and remember liking it.
Plz have Hat kid.
maybe I have a trauma called Brawlout
so I'm staying away
I LOVE indie games so I'd be into a big indie cross over but after watching the trailer I honestly can't tell whats going on lol. Was it just me or does it seems dark and murky? Visually I had some trouble. Could be just my vision.
Blade strangers had a lot of big indie stars too. I didn't realize this was a thing and I would say bake it for as long as possible. Fighting games are so hard to do right anymore.
Is it me or does the in-game footage seem to have frame rate issues? I hope that’s what they fix because at the moment, I keep seeing stutters and that’s not a good thing for fighting games when inputs needs to be precise.
@Kirby_Girl Agreed. The trailer gives me no interest in this game. I think you nailed it with "Murky" and just doesn't look fun.
It is kind of neat seeing indie crossover fighting games with indie characters, but the downside is, they'll never have the appeal of something like Smash, which is stuffed with many bigger IPs.
Somewhat off-topic but I think they could make Rusty from SteamWorld Dig work as a Mii Brawler costume
@nessisonett > rushed
Back when the game was being crowdfunded, their initial release date was Q4 2018. Their release date on Steam also has been delayed for over a year. This game has had more than enough time and is still needing delays, I'm very worried.
@ReaperExTenebris Hopefully they'll use this extra time to add her into the game but I doubt the developers are smart enough to realize that.
Bored of Smash Bros knock offs. Blade Strangers looked ok, but I'm pretty sure it uses simplified inputs which I just don't enjoy.
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