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Today The Buzz Is About: Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Seriously, watch this trailer. Everybody's talking about it!

If I see a single trailer referenced multiple times in one morning on Twitter and more than one message board, there's a good chance I'm going to watch it. You should watch this too.
 

  

 
 
The game is Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, and it appears to be the brainchild of animator Michel Gagné, who's worked on everything from An American Tail (Fievel!!!) to best-movie-of-all-time The Iron Giant. This looks like some fashion of puzzle-oriented shooter for the PC, and there's an official production blog you can take a look at for some background on the game. 
 
More to the point, I think I just had one of those "I can't believe games look like this now" sorts of moments.
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If I see a single trailer referenced multiple times in one morning on Twitter and more than one message board, there's a good chance I'm going to watch it. You should watch this too.
 

  

 
 
The game is Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, and it appears to be the brainchild of animator Michel Gagné, who's worked on everything from An American Tail (Fievel!!!) to best-movie-of-all-time The Iron Giant. This looks like some fashion of puzzle-oriented shooter for the PC, and there's an official production blog you can take a look at for some background on the game. 
 
More to the point, I think I just had one of those "I can't believe games look like this now" sorts of moments.
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This made me think about Pixeljunk for a second. It looks a bit different later on but I am getting that vibe. Looks fine; puzzle-side-scrolling-shooters are a nice breed.

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Looks great and I love the art style..

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that looks awesome

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Usually i'm the first to rave about cool looking indie stuff, but this just doesn't look interesting to me, odd really because i'm into the genre quite heavily. Weird, guess i've got too much stuff on my plate to be looking forward to this, especially with no confirmed XBLA release yet.

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reminds me of LoccoRocco a lot in terms of style. If LoccoRocca was a badass ship, and loves metal. Looks pretty sick though.  

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That looks great! I can't wait to see more.

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Digging the art style, not much else to freak out about though.

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Completely awesome trailer.

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Looks damn cool.

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What a pleasant level of insanity.  PixelJunk-esque games for PC?  Yes please.

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If you read Gagne's blog, he talks about pitching the game to Microsoft last May.  So maybe there'll be an xbla release too?

Anyways, the trailer looks totally sweet.  This has shot to the top of my most-anticipated list.

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Nice art style.

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That saucer looks like one from Batteries Not Included.

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It has the Iron Giant style all over it.  Please...PLEASE someone pick this up FAST!

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Looks great. Art style reminds me of Patapon or LoccoRoco.

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This game looks wicked sick, but I'm afraid I'll only get it if it's on a disc I can buy at the store, or it's on XBLA or PSN. I don't buy downloadable PC games. No exceptions.

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Looks gorgeous. XBLA, please.

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This looks pretty sweet! 

Is this only going to be on PC?... if so, that kinda sucks though. 

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The art style actually looks a bit like Samurai Jack... If anyone remembers that show.

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@RHCPfan24 said:
" This made me think about Pixeljunk for a second. It looks a bit different later on but I am getting that vibe. Looks fine; puzzle-side-scrolling-shooters are a nice breed. "
Same here. The gameplay sort of reminded me of PixelJunk Shooter.

Anyway, the game looks good. I (and everyone else it seems) love the art style. I'm looking forward to getting more details on the game, like what platforms it'll be released on (aside from the PC which seems rather obvious).
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Heck yeah!
That looks like a great new title. That would make a perfect dual-thumbstick title for the PS3 or 360.

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Did these guys make World of Goo or are they just ripping them off?

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nice, it reminds me of patapon's art style 

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please come to xbla.


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This looks like it will be fun. Plus anything with Dimmu Borgir used for advertising is ok in my book. \m/ >.< \m/

The art style is good, but just getting out of a degree where art like this is pretty much what the better students are doing (both in style and quality) it doesn't have the same "WOW!" factor that it would have had for me a couple years ago. There are also a few flash games that use the same style, though in most of those cases the pretty graphics were what sold you on the game not the gameplay, so hopefully this one will be fun to play as well.

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Looks pretty wild...also, very difficult.

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Pixeljunk:Eden:Shooter

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@stinky:  

from their production blog:

"Most notably lending a much needed programming hand in the demo build we put together for the XBLA group at Microsoft. "

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@Jimbo said:
" Did these guys make World of Goo or are they just ripping them off? "
There are a lot worse art styles to rip off.
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Yeah the Iron Giant is basically the best movie ever.

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Yes. GOD yes!

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Awesome choice of music, Dimmu Borgir!

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Demon Burger!

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Looks shadowy and twisted and Fantastic!

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The game has style.

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Awesomeness!

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I like the name and looks of it but the music didn't belong in that trailer.

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It's like if Genndy Tartakovsky made Solar Jetman

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This game looks like it's going to be the shit. Hell yes.

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You can play PC games with joysticks/console controllers.

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Roberval, Québec represent!! Keep going, Gagné, looks great!

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That looks like PixelJunk Shooter, only infinitely more crazy.

And yes, Iron Giant was a great movie.

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WANT.

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Wow...I'm interested. Next evolution in twin-stick shooting perhaps? Possible console release (oh please oh please)? Looks cool!

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Same about the shitty metal music...other than that it looks awesome.

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Thanks for linking it, this game is now on my tracklist.

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iron man was amazing. games looks fine

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Yeah, I made a topic about this, but only 17 views... =(