Seriously, it’s been killing us to keep all the news about N+ quiet. We have really big mouths, and it’s hard to shut that down. But, finally, we’re FINALLY allowed to share the good news with everyone. N+ will be available for download for 800 points on this Wednesday, February 20th, at 9am PST. Yay!
We feel like maybe there’s not as much buzz as there could have been, but the orders to keep it all under our collective hat came from Microsoft’s marketing department, and presumably they know a lot more about this sort of thing than we do.
At this point we’re completely anxious, worried that it’s too hard and no one will buy it because the graphics are so minimal and stylized (though stylish), and after struggling with the demo for the hypothetical 3 minutes you have before people get bored, they’ll give up instead of pushing on and finding their inner ninja. All we can do is hope people will see/play past all that and get incurably addicted. And then addict their friends!
There are also a couple sets of really cool gamerpics and themes in the LIVE Marketplace — we would have liked to put them up for free, but this is apparently against policy. It *is* a bit frustrating: it seems silly to us that gamers have to pay for something entirely superficial and not even part of the game! In any case, we’ll try to have preview pics up on Wednesday, so at least you can see what you’ll be getting. There will also be one or two level packs coming in the future, though we don’t really know the timing for that yet.. but we figure 450 levels should keep everyone busy for a while
The GDC is looking like it’s going to be great. Raigan’s got a presentation on Monday, and Mare and Nick are doing the N+ XBLA post-mortem on Tuesday, so we’ve still got some work to do.. but we can’t wait for Wednesday!
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Then I lost all my progress.
Was angry.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
Edit: After some digging, I guess you're a ninja and it's a platformer/puzzle type thing
The PC version of the game is there to play in the op.
It's a simple platform game where you have to make it to the exit, collecting stuff on the way. It's also painfully difficult at times, which adds to the charm.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
Edit: Actually, I just saw an ad in a Gamestop for a DS/PSP version as well.
This seems like a really incongruous comment.. what if it came to the Wii and needed waggle?
The XBLA one has 450 levels. I don't know the specific differences other than that.
For the uninitiated, it's a very difficult platformer with extremely fluid animations and control, plus ragdoll physics. Definitely worth a shot if you're at all into platforming.
I love how XBLA is incorporating fun little pc games; all we need now is that slime game with amazing physics that I can't remember the name of.
Gish! KICKASS GAME.
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Hey, have they ever said when Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (Puppy Hat Edition) is coming out? Live needs it!
Now if they could just push Castle Crashers out the door...
...oh fuck me, I just remembered, achievements.
Not sure it's worth buying, with the plethora of custom maps for the regular version, but hey.
Oh, shit. There goes my free time.
800? Hmmmmmmmm...
Yeah what the hell ever happened to Castle Crashers?
From a month ago:
http://www.thebehemoth.com/news200801.html
Yeah. I doubt it'll be out this year. This'll be the third year it's been at PAX if it makes it to August...
That's a problem with the current pricing tiers. You almost have to price your game at 800 points to look like a quality game, otherwise you may get overlooked as a bargain bin title. There are exceptions to this (like Geometry Wars), but I've noticed this pattern for quite a while.
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Don't leave us hanging; what are they? :O
I finished everything from 000 to 994, and this literally has me giddy with excitement.
The object is a door type thing that pulses with electricty (that kills you) every 2 seconds or so, think a normal door in terms of size and shape. One of the new enemys is a laser spinner sort of thing, it constanlty spins and shoots a laser in a 360 degrees, it takes about 2 seconds for a full rotation. The seconds is alot more interesting, its a bumper drone and whenever you get to close to it, it releases a pulse that throws you backwards, the pulse it self isnt deadly though, so i think it has some great level building potential.
And it was worth 10 bucks just to play it on a fucking controller
It is so, SO SO SO MUCH better than the keyboard