Have SNKP actually decided to make a WiiWare version of the very cool looking Star Radish April 1st joke? No. Is it an HD version of the wonderful Twinkle Star Sprites for XBLA/PSN? No. Have SNKP totally lost the plot and decided to have the King of Fighters characters flying through the air rapidly shooting fireballs in a 2D vert shooter? Oh, yes they have. King of FIghters: Skystage
Their also releasing a 3D Samurai Showdown onto XBLA/PSN. I guess they have to balance the awesomeness for KOFXII with crap like this.
What gets me is how totally unrealistic it is; fireball throwing aside. There's absolutely no way whatsoever that you're getting Mai Shiranui airborne without bending space or totally defying all know laws of physics/gravity.
Well, at least it's not a DoA shmup. I don't think this looks quite as bad as some people have said, although it might just be because I like KoF and 2D shooters so much. Of course, the whole thing looks more like a silly fan-made Flash game than anything professional (and I'd rather have KoF '98 UM on XBLA, obviously).
Loving KOFs and 2D shmups as I do, and given the sheer amount of silliness in this game, I must say I'm eager to get this. I just hope it's a well designed danmaku, not just a random bullet hell .
It really is silly that they are using their characters at the ships rather than spending 10-minutes to make a real shmup character. Lazy? I'm inclined to think so, but we'll see. The graphics do look descent, and I am sorry to say Yamato, but from the second picture it may very well be another bullet hell. I hope for your sake that it is not.
