Stylish '90s Inspired 3D Platformer Lunistice Gets A New Switch Release Date

Very beautiful indeed! Art direction is impeccable and looks fun.

If I saw a game like this on PS1, it would be one of my favorites like Klonoa was.

for $4.99 this is definitely worth trying out. I spent more than that in the mid-nineties to rent garbage.

After all the wonderful pixel art in indie games, I'm glad to see low poly get the footing it deserves.

Looks like fun

Sort of looks like it plays how I always imagine I want Sonic The Hedgehog in 3D to play.

Looks fantastic day one for that price.

About time someone mentioned "the Saturn era".

Anyhoo, much of the Saturn 3D games weren't always the best looking ones (aside from Sega's 1st party 3D games) and a few 3rd party games. But the graphics of the Saturn versions always had that peculiar charm.

Back on topic, this one seems to go as far as to replicate all three of the PSX, Saturn, & N64 graphics. I MIGHT be talking out of my head though on that one...

But it looks amazing so far.

Linear 3D platformers > Open world 3D platformers.

Mario 64 is a great game, Banjo too, Spyro too, but in the end, platformers that are more corridor like are more focused on action instead of exploration and are more similar to the classic 2D platformers of the past, Mario 64 changed the Mario formula too much, people kinda dislike or forgot about Super Mario 3D Land and World, but they are what Super Mario 64 should have been.

looks great, reminds me of my lost childhood, more or this kind of thing plz

@victordamazio personally don't agree with 'better' but they are two distinctive approaches and the traditional linear platformer seems to have taken a back seat since the late 90s, particularly with the rise of the 'metroidvania'/open world games.
(i'm ignoring endless runner type games here which kind of follow on from that tradition in a simplified sense)
i thought super mario 3d world was fairly well regarded tho, it just suffered from being on the wii u?

This looks so lovely!

@rupert_the_giantbear Oh there's definitely a constituency that hates 3D World because it's too close to the 2D games (I disagree - I think it's a logical next step from Galaxy 2 and a phenomenal game in its own right. I think it might actually be the peak peak Nintendo game where their design ethos is expressed most clearly and executed most confidently).

I think its main problem was always that it launched so soon after NSMBU and NSMB2 and NSLU and Mario 3D Land and it was named so similarly. The 3D World pattern is - to me - preferable to the open world "explorathon" Odyssey template but I can see why some people felt they'd overplayed it in a short space of time.

@victordamazio I would take Mario 64 over Super Mario 3D Land /World any day. Finished Mario 64 multiple times but cannot find it in me to put the time into finishing 3D Land. Its just boring as hell.

Wow, this looks like a cut above Toree 1&2 judging by that trailer. And those were already excellent games at a similarly excellent price.

The gameplay kind of reminds me of Sonic Adventure 2.