PlatinumGames’ Vertical Shoot ‘Em Up, Sol Cresta, Delayed

PlatinumGames’ vertical shoot ‘em up, Sol Cresta, It is the resurrection and relaunch of a series more than 30 year oldThis has been delayed.

This news comes by way of PlatinumGames’ “Sol Cresta: Hideki Kamiya’s Very Sorry Stream,” which aired today, as reported by Eurogamer. The stream featured new gameplay of Sol Cresta, but PlatinumGames’ chief game designer, Kamiya, also revealed that it would miss its December release date. 

Kamiya stated that he doesn’t have any new release dates yet but hopes to make it public in the early part of next year. 

Sol Cresta was first announced in April as the successor to Terra Cresta and Moon Cresta. These arcade-style vertical-scrolling games were originally created by Nichibutsu. Sol Cresta follows in the steps of other Cresta games by featuring spaceships flying through galactic galaxies taking out foes in arcade-style vertical-shooter fashion. The game will allow you to dock with your allies just as the originals did almost 40 years ago. 

At the date of Sol Cresta’s announcement back in August, Kamiya said “we want to make all kinds of games…not just action games.” PlatinumGames is perhaps best known for what it does on the action side of gaming – Nier Automata, Astral Chain, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, to name a few – but it seems the studio is using Sol Cresta to prove it can do vertical shooters, too. 

It was noted that Eurogamer, Kamiya’s stream featured gameplay of Sol Cresta’s new Caravan Mode, which is a five-minute score attack mode. Kamiya debuted the opening scene, as well. 

Sol Cresta was initially set to release on PlayStation 3, Nintendo Switch and PC on Dec 9, 2018, but has been delayed until an unknown date.

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