OMEGA 6 The Triangle Stars, the retro styled journey recreation from a former Nintendo artist, has an English launch date.
The sport, which was launched in Japan this summer season, will probably be launched digitally in English for Nintendo Swap and Steam on February 28, 2025.
Omega 6 relies on a manga created by former Nintendo artwork director Takaya Imamura, who created characters for video games resembling F-Zero and Star Fox.
Imamura is the story and artwork director for the sport, whereas former Nintendo composer Shinobu Amayake (Stunt Race FX, Wario’s Woods) has created the music.
A synopsis reads: “A space-based epic awaits, when gamers embark on a sprawling story crammed with a solid of otherworldly characters, as they comply with the story of Thunder and Kyra, our humanoid heroes, entrusted by their creator Dr. Victor Franklin to find a brand new planet for the human race to name residence whereas Earth faces a problem for its very existence.”
An English-language model of Imamura’s comedian may also be launched within the west, revealed by Darkish Horse Comics.
Talking solely to VGC final 12 months, Imamura defined the similarities between Omega 6 and Star Fox.
“Story-wise, it’s completely different, however the type I draw, which is sort of a ‘retro future’, is analogous,” he stated. “That’s the one factor I can draw – that’s my type – so I didn’t change it! I’ve at all times wished to attract manga with this type, so I simply utilized it from my previous video games.”
Imamura left Nintendo in 2021 after three a long time, having labored on such titles as F-Zero, Star Fox and quite a few Zelda video games together with A Hyperlink to the Previous and Majora’s Masks.
