Physical releases make us happy
NGDEV, today announced that the jump and shoot game Gunlord X is going to be available for the Nintendo Switch as Physical Edition in May 2020. The Physical Edition will be available as Standard Edition and Limited Edition. The LE contains a fantastic 16-bit style soundtrack, several postcards, and stickers – this edition is strongly limited to #999 pieces.
Gunlord X is a vastly improved port of the critically acclaimed game Gunlord, originally developed for NeoGeo back in 2012. Several new features were added, including a 16:9 mode, new stages, enemies and bosses!
Features added to Gunlord X:
- Enlarged levels offering new secrets and challenges.
- 4 new boss enemies
- Jet Pack action in a horizontal shmup stage!
- Earn continues by collecting all big diamonds per stage.
- Autosaving level progression. Finishing a level allows you to restart from the last level you died on.
- Accomplishment and statistics screens
- Newgame+ mode for speedrunners
- Increased the viewport to support 16:9 widescreen
- Scanline/RGB CRT TV shader
- Increased sprite/particle effects
- Alpha blending special FX
- Nice parallax scrolling elements
- Improved controls (direct control over the 360° snake beam with R Stick)
- Optional modern twin-stick controls (control movement and shooting direction independently)
- Fully customizable controls
- Improved difficulty curve
- Rebalanced weapon power levels
- Stable 60fps in both docked/undocked mode
- HD Rumble