Night Star, a brand new studio made up of the workforce that made Sonic Mania, have introduced their first recreation, Penny’s Large Breakaway. Whereas Sonic Mania was a 2D platformer, the studio’s first recreation beneath their new title brings them into the realm of 3D, taking an extremely vibrant color palette that would definitely work in any traditional Sonic recreation, and marrying it a world that one may say is mildly harking back to the hedgehog’s rival Mario.
The sport was revealed throughout yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, and is described as “a fantastically stylised, vibrant journey during which you play Penny, the ‘yo-tagonist’ who must escape an infinite, bumbling penguin military as you swing, sprint, flip, zip, and trick your means via quite a lot of difficult ranges.” Its platforming actually appears to be like like numerous enjoyable, and a few of Penny’s strikes seem to be they may simply match into any of the 3D Mario titles. I am additionally eager to see how her yo-yo based mostly motion provides its personal spin to it, too.
“At Night Star, we’ve a deep ardour for expressive, character-driven video games that concentrate on a concise and satisfying move-set,” stated artistic director and lead engine architect Christian Whitehead in a press launch, who was additionally the director of Sonic Mania. “For our debut title, we challenged ourselves to deliver that method into not solely a brand new IP, however to a whole 3D world. Penny’s Large Breakaway has been an exquisite alternative for our workforce to develop creatively and technically as a studio, and we won’t look forward to gamers to carry out loads of slick tips with Penny and Yo-Yo!”
Whitehead can even be reuniting with a number of former Sonic Mania devs, together with Dave Padilla, who’s lead producer on Penny’s Large Breakaway, Tom Fry as artwork director, Hunter Bridges as recreation director and expertise officer, and Brad Flick as design director.
Penny’s Large Breakaway is presently set to launch in 2024, on Steam, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S.