Star Renegades

June 17, 2020 9:36 AM

A trailer for the upcoming video game Star Renegades.

It features an extremely well directed anime short story which seems to introduce the world of the game.

posted by Alex404 (8 comments total)

I was all "ooh, a game that renders in Anime!" and then, no. Pixel art. Kind of like Bega's Battle.

The game does look cool, but for a game trailer it was really misleading.
posted by grumpybear69 at 10:20 AM on June 17, 2020 [2 favorites]

I feel like there needs to a rule: if you can't produce an actual gameplay video, you can't post a game trailer.
posted by parmanparman at 11:32 AM on June 17, 2020

"Mild blood."

I am a diffident O negative, myself.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 11:33 AM on June 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

Here's a 2 minute video demonstrating some of the gameplay.
posted by Alex404 at 11:38 AM on June 17, 2020 [2 favorites]

the combat demo looks interesting, but I wonder how frequently you have to engage with it deeply. There's a lot to be said for jrpg combat that is mostly brainless on occasion: Bravely Default and FFXII did a great job of letting you effectively autopilot (or just completely remove) combat between big hairy boss fights.
posted by Reyturner at 12:16 PM on June 17, 2020

Yeah I thought the animation was the game graphics also.

Is there some retro/nostalgia reason for the graphics looking so much like an old Sega 16 bit game? Surely it could look much more advanced.
posted by Liquidwolf at 6:10 PM on June 17, 2020

Almost certainly it's for nostalgia. There are a ton of games, both indie and from big houses, going this way lately. Hyper Light Drifter was phenomenally successful. But I think it's also interesting when games don't rely on the latest cutting-edge tech. Thomas Was Alone tells a great story using only rectangles.
posted by xedrik at 7:53 PM on June 17, 2020

> There's a lot to be said for jrpg combat that is mostly brainless on occasion: Bravely Default

Actually it kinda looks more like an evolution of Octopath, which was a bit less brainless by ... default.

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posted by pwnguin at 2:08 PM on June 18, 2020