Unholy Night - New SFC/SNES game from ex-SNK developers

[HuMan]

That USA-release kickstarter doesn't even look official. Almost looks like some nerds slapped together some shitty mockups in Photoshop and will ask the original dev/pub team permission to make a USA version if the kickstarter gets funded.

[Michirin9801]

When I read "New SNES Fighting Game" I was ecstatic! I mean, seriously, I LOVE Fighting games with a passion and I also LOVE The SNES with a passion, but after reading your answers in this thread I got a little concerned... Has the game been released yet? If so has anyone here played it? Is it any good?

[Joe Redifer]

Shoulda put this on the f***ing Saturn. Yeh.

If they do a physical I would much prefer a cartridge than a cd tbh.

Is there any reason a game can't exist on a Saturn cartridge as opposed to a CD?

[xelement5x]

When I read "New SNES Fighting Game" I was ecstatic! I mean, seriously, I LOVE Fighting games with a passion and I also LOVE The SNES with a passion, but after reading your answers in this thread I got a little concerned... Has the game been released yet? If so has anyone here played it? Is it any good?

I don't think the JP version is released yet, it's still up for preoder at Play-Asia:
http://www.play-asia.com/unholy-night-the-darkness-hunter/13/70aw3p

[Black Tiger]

People have already posted photos after receiving it.

Still no quality game footage to see if it runs at a proper framerate.

[Michirin9801]

I don't think the JP version is released yet, it's still up for preoder at Play-Asia:
http://www.play-asia.com/unholy-night-the-darkness-hunter/13/70aw3p

There's a gameplay video in that page, and well, it looks fine enough to me! Albeit a little slow, but I don't mind it really...
Granted it's not gonna be beating the likes of Killer Instinct or Gundam Wing Endless Duel, but I welcome a new 16 bit fighting game with open arms ;3
I wish I could buy just a ROM of it though...

[cr8zykuban0]

looks pretty cool tho. dont like the box art, just doesnt fit the theme to the game. looks more like im going to watch anime girls gone wild rather than play a fighting game

[Black Tiger]

I don't think the JP version is released yet, it's still up for preoder at Play-Asia:
http://www.play-asia.com/unholy-night-the-darkness-hunter/13/70aw3p

There's a gameplay video in that page, and well, it looks fine enough to me! Albeit a little slow, but I don't mind it really...
Granted it's not gonna be beating the likes of Killer Instinct or Gundam Wing Endless Duel, but I welcome a new 16 bit fighting game with open arms ;3
I wish I could buy just a ROM of it though...

That video makes it look like it's running at 15fps.

[Gredler]

This dude says it's "kind of choppy" fwiw.

[Dicer]

This dude says it's "kind of choppy" fwiw.

Looks no better than a B-tier effort from back in the day, honestly...

[cr8zykuban0]

kinda sucks how they use the same music for many of the stages. animations look kinda choppy, bad translation too. " what the hell of you?" hahah

[elmer]

Looks no better than a B-tier effort from back in the day, honestly...

I'm glad that I didn't have to be the first person to say that.

The UI work is pitiful, and the lack of anything going on in the background, or even some simple background parallax on the floor, just makes it look half-hearted.

The folks at AtariAge are already starting to suspect that it wasn't really ex-SNK developers, but actually a Chinese team with a knock-off engine.

[cr8zykuban0]

I have to agree. I think if it was truely ex-snk developers who worked on this game, i think it would have came out a lot better. SNK was known for their fighting games and this game definitely doesnt have that SNK look or charm to it

[Gredler]

The UI work is pitiful, and the lack of anything going on in the background, or even some simple background parallax on the floor, just makes it look half-hearted

This was the most disheartening thing to me - I was considering supporting them, but the backgrounds look like photos they used a conversion software to dither down to shit, and the UI looks like it was 2% of their dev time.

Some nice effects, nice character art, but the animation speed ruins the look of them.

Was pretty sad when I saw the video, and wish they just put more time into it rather than selling it as is.

[Sarumaru]

I few days ago, I made a mini review video about this game on yootoobz. I'll post it here;


It's kinda... bad.