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just a pretty girl, building up a pretty world
i used to do things; now, not so much
let's all be gay and destroy capitalism together π
when you weren't looking a kobold has snuck into your backpack and is now eating your gold pieces
there is a small notification in the corner of your screen that says "-1 gold" and it ticks up by 1 every 4 seconds
opening your backpack pauses this notification as the kobold stares innocently into the distance
when you close the backpack the notification appears again
Announced last week and released today on Switch: FINAL EXERION, a revival of Jaleco's 1983 fixed-screen arcade shooting game Exerion (of x-in-1 NES multicart fame) and the first in a planned three-part series of "FINAL ____" Jaleco revival titles.
This series is being developed by Happymeal Inc., a studio founded by former Cave employee Junji Seki that made their bones during the galakei era and have recently found success with the Mystery Annai series of Famicom-style adventure games (the first of which was just localised as Retro Mystery Club Vol.1, and one of Seki's particular quirks is that, for whatever reason, he just really likes Exerionβhe made a fake Exerion minigame for one of these ADVs and was such a stickler that he went and got the actual Exerion license for it, even, and now they've gone whole-hog and made a full-on sequel with modern game systems and a story and all sorts of junk. I do appreciate that they've identified Exerion's key defining traitβunnatural, disorienting parallax backgroundβand committed themselves to presenting as many new and exciting ways to nauseate the player as possible.
(Incidentally, Seki also runs Famicassearch, a collection & database of second-hand, hand-labelled cartridges that might one day be reunited with their original owners, which I wrote about a little while back.)
City Connection and Happymeal have some other collabs in the works: one, which they fully revealed a couple weeks ago, is an ADV based on OMEGA 6, the recent comic by former Star Fox steward Takaya Imamura, and I believe there's one more, separate from the Final Series, that's due to be announced this weekend...