During its 'Super Summer Festival' livestream, PlatinumGames' lifted the lid on its Sol Cresta arcade cabinet.
Yes, that's right - the sequel to the arcade shoot 'em-ups Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta - is getting its very own cabinet. Hideki Kamiya explained how the cabinet - which still appears to be in the early stages of development - would be appearing at next week's BitSummit event in Kyoto for media and developers to check out.
While this cabinet will only be at BitSummit to being with, Platinum hopes to make it available at many other events in the future. Beyond this, according to a translation, fans can "look forward to having these [cabinets] somewhere in the future, when things calm down a little bit". This comment was in reference to the pandemic.
Apart from this, Kamiya and the team showed off more footage of the game, which you can catch up on in the video below (see 1:47:00 for cabinet footage). Sol Cresta is still targeting a 2021 release for the Nintendo Switch.
What are your thoughts about Sol Cresta so far? Would you be interested in an arcade cabinet? Tell us down below.
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Oh how I miss arcades... and how being in them was loud and crowded, and more exciting than console games. Now the arcade is the Switch for me, because people are always crowding around asking to play. Would love to add Sol Cresta and previous games to my Switch.
Lol my brother has every arcade game on his pc.
We had a family reunion (brothers cousins je etc) just to play retro arcade games. Man what a blast.
I know it's a small thing (but hey, it's the little things right!) but I hope they manage to fit the Moon Cresta jingle (the one at the start of the game as your ship appears) somewhere in the soundtrack. In Terra Cresta, it played after you lost your third life. Always thought it was a nice nod.
Edit - Hmm...they re-arranged it in the original april fool's joke. Hmm...
Can’t make an arcade game without the arcade cab!
@Severian who is crowding around you asking to play and where does this happen?
Cause I know that doesn’t happen to me in my house 😂
Actually, that is slightly misleading as Sol Cresta is destined to be a home release as part of Hamster's "Neo Arcade Classics" series. The Arcade cabinet serves no other purpose than a promotional piece used for events.
It is nice that a Sol Cresta game, running on a console inside the Vewlix arcade cabinet, will give off that arcade-like vibe.
I'm pretty hyped for this, but i think the greatest NEW shoot'em up this year will be Illvelo Swamp.
@PessitheMystic Friends and roommates, whom I also remind them about how they said "The Switch has no games" or that "Nintendo just makes games for kids"!
That is not its own cabinet, that is just a standard Viewlix cabinet running the game. I want to love this, but it looks like a mobile game.
Great news least they are trying to keep the arcade spirit alive:) luckily I do as well. Bought myself an Atgames legends ultimate cab, with fully loaded USB sticks, full of arcade and 16bit goodness. Would be nice if Sol cresta would run it also.
@EmirParkreiner Does Radirgy Swag have English language support or if not, is it easy to figure out what to do?
Nice. Always good to see arcade cabinets for new games appear.
Of only this was a 3D shooter like Star Fox...
@GrailUK I was thinking of making that my ring tone, in honor of the only arcade game I’ve ever “clocked”.
@KIRO Yeah! That would make a great ring tone!
@OorWullie
It doesn't have english language support, and while it's possible to figure things out (and also to find information online), the game definitely is a bit more difficult to play without knowing japanese then most others.
I'm glad i picked it up at it's original JP release date, but now it really (no, REALLY) looks like Dispatch's western release might actually happen soon, so maybe you should wait a little bit longer.
[slobbers like the desperate moron i am]
@OorWullie They tweeted in their instagram account that there will be an international release one day. Might be a long while before that happens though.
@EmirParkreiner Cheers for the info. I will wait and see what happens over the next couple of months.
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