2025 is just kicking off and various video game companies and industry figures have been sharing their plans for the year ahead.
As for the Japanese developer Inti Creates, it hopes to announce “several titles” this year. Unsurprisingly a major focus will be placed on its signature style "2D action games". Here’s exactly what the CEO and president Takuya Aizu had to say about this in a new year message on social media:
“Happy new year. This year, we plan to announce several titles, with a focus on our company’s specialty of 2D action games.”
In 2024 Inti Creates released games like GUNVOLT RECORDS: Cychronicle, Umbraclaw and Card-en-Ciel on the Switch. The new Castlevania-like Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark is also on the way this year and will be arriving in March.
The company's most recent Switch release was Divine Dynamo Flamefrit in November 2024. It's a top-down action-adventure dungeon crawler which we gave seven out of ten stars here on Nintendo Life. Here's some details about it from our review:
"Divine Dynamo Flamefrit is actually a spin-off of Inti Creates’ deckbuilding roguelite RPG Card-en-Ciel, which launched just weeks prior. In the universe of that title, Flamefrit is a successful entertainment franchise consisting of a popular anime and several tie-in games — the first of which is ostensibly the very game that we’re reviewing now. That meta element and background context isn’t necessary at all to enjoy what Divine Dynamo Flamefrit has to offer, but it’s a neat bit of fanservice that strengthens the game’s appeal toward anyone who has given Card-en-Ciel a go."
Have you played any of Inti Creates games on the Switch over the past year? What would you like to see from this developer next? Let us know in the comments.
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Looking forward to it; gunvolt, umbraclaw, and gal guardians are all fun games.
The first video game I ever owned was Mega Man ZXA (also Lego Star Wars and Ben 10 lol) and little did I know I started with peak.
Honestly, as goofy as the Gunvolt story is, I dig the games. Would definitely want more of those.
And a Gal*Gun 3, cause it is a cheeky rails shooter, enjoyed the other two.
There's a typo in the last paragraph, says 2025 instead of 2024
I want more Blaster Master :/
Can I get Mighty Gunvolt 3? Please?
I'm interested in whatever they are doing. Blaster Master Zero 1-3 and the Curse of the Moon games are amazing.
Inti Creates usually makes solid 2D action games. I thought the Blaster Master Zero Trilogy was pretty good and the ending to 3 definitely leaves a cliffhanger to make more.
Their flagship franchise Gunvolt is more of a miss for me. The first 2 I thought were mediocre games with very tedious gameplay but the 3rd one changed my mind. The gameplay in 3 was much more fun and fast paced.
Can we get the Switch version of Mighty Gunvolt OUT of Japan, please?
@FX29 However, it has the worst story.
@Paraka There are 3 Gal*Gun games though. Gal*Gun: Double Peace, Gal*Gun Returns and Gal*Gun 2. I'd love another one as well.
@JustMonika Double Peace is more of a direct sequel to the first game than 2, which was more made for VR
I want a real GalGun 3!
Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark.
Looks fun 2D action game.
Let's see what will happen about the game later.
İ liked this one.
Looking forward to seeing what Inti has in store for us this year and even more so considering the games they released last year (interested in playing most of those myself when I can)!
I’d say the third Mega Man ZX game, but I don’t think Inti Creates has the best relationship with Capcom these days.
I'm never satisfied with their games except for curse of the moon. Feel like they've always just been pumping them out. Hoping for a longer gunvolt burst or something that uses the weapon configuration system, and just a game with the empress in it cause it's such a cool design.
Gal*Gun 3 on PC, please.
I have mixed feelings about Inti-Creates. I will definitely at least take a look at whatever they announce but their games are very hit and miss for me…
Love to hear it. I really need to finish the Gunvolt series, specifically part 3 (and Luminous Avenger iX 2) as well as the Blaster Master Zero series, again, part 3. Flamefrit and Umbraclaw are in the wings. Gal Guardians depends on if my gamer friend is down.
Divine Dynamo Flamefrit's demo was hot garbage. IntiCreates sometimes misses... but they usually hit.
Hoping we see the fully voiced Blaster Master Zero trilogy that Japan got both a) dubbed in English and b) released in the West.
Also, the president of IntiCreates once expressed interest in a Zelda 2 remake. Let them remake the best Zelda game, Nintendo.
@StephenYap3 Was there a Mighty Gunvolt Burst 2?
Cool, I love their work. Just played throught the Blaster Master Zero trilogy and the Luminous Avenger iX games again over Christmas break and had a blast. Looking forward to see what they've got cooking.
Hopefully they announce a new Bloodstained Curse of the Moon game
@Bucky No. Mighty Gunvolt Burst is "Mighty Gunvolt 2".
Hopefully Mighty Gunvolt 3 builds upon the gameplay and mechanics of Mighty Gunvolt Burst, though.
Umbraclaw is sitting in my backlog, the demo convinced me I would enjoy it. I don't think I'm familiar with anything else they've made. But I'll keep an eye out.
I really like at least some of the games they do but I've got to admit the whole waifu aesthetic is getting worse and worse and more prevalent and I'm sorry but not only do I think it's actively toxic but also it looks more like a cop-out, an excuse of a design than anything. It just generally looks cheap.
So with inticreates whenever they announce something I usually watch the trailer asking myself : is it one of the good ones? It's very hit or miss.
@JustMonika - GG Double Peace is sort of a half step game, like a 1.5 if you will.
When I say Gal*Gun 3, I mean a whole new experience with new characters and such.
@Samalik What about Gal*Gun Returns? Isn't that technically the third game?
@JustMonika that's a remake of the first, actually
I would like to see a Fully dubbed Gal Gun game. I know the first Gal Guardians game had limited English voice acting for the action gameplay, and the fully dubbed Card En Ciel Game features characters from the Gal Gun games that was dubbed. I think its tike that Inti Creates does a Fully dubbed Gal Gun game (maybe starting with Gal Gun: Double Peace remake).
@Samalik You're absolutely correct. I should know better since I've been following the games since the first which was years before it came to North America 😆
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