Quick Look: Road Show: Outland

The polarity thing reminds me of ikaruga.

very interesting concept and complicated puzzles. Kind of like patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time.

The idea of a bullethell shooter platformer this gives me sounds unique.

Hiroshi must hate his life when doing this over and over with random journalists.

Though Ryan did a solid job, I'd say.

As far as vaguely described fantasy/spiritual storyline solely in aid of a high concept game mechanic goes, this game is the Shadow of the Colossus of 2D platformers. It definitely reminded me of Ikagura and as much as I'm trying to feel ambivalent towards it, I can't help but to admit that it looks ok; and there's obviously more to it than what we saw.

When this game says: "Co-op", it means: "Co-op"!

Looks rad.

The game looks neat.  Will check out the demo when it comes out.

looks good and fun, is that guy a giant or was Ryan sitting down? why didn't the guy have a chair? xD

Ryan is sitting down I thought..compare with the other guy in the background.

The game looks interesting though not for me. I do like the premise and the artwork seems unique. The gameplay well, not it's fault with me at least.

Looks like it could be a ton of fun with a friend.

Looks neat, I really dig the art style. The co-op levels look like they could be quite challenging and fun!

The thing about Ikaruga is, when you scrutinize it thoughtfully, it's WILDLY overrated.

Outland may have that problem but I'm cautiously optimistic it's going to do the "light/dark" mechanic way more justice.

Looks more red and blue and not light and dark.

IDK. The art style is nice, but it seems kind of... bland.

Unless I hear it's really really good, like, say, Super Meat Bout or Braid, I think I'll pass.

I like that he mispronounced dubloons as "double-loons", though.

" The thing about Ikaruga is, when you scrutinize it thoughtfully, it's WILDLY overrated.Outland may have that problem but I'm cautiously optimistic it's going to do the "light/dark" mechanic way more justice. "

This looks interesting..! I really like the art style, and that whole co-op element (particularly the whole 'fuck with your partner' thing, when you've got light/dark control) seems potentially entertaining.

Yay for multiplayer platformers!
And yay for the demo operator being a totally cool dude! QL:EXs can be a drag sometimes, but he was both laid back and to the point. Great vid guys :]

Those sisters were like a giant Pepsi logo.

the boss fight is very similar in concept to the last Hard Corps fight...

This looks surprisingly great. Guess I shouldn't be too shocked at how well it's coming together given the developer's pedigree, but I'm glad to see their games maintaining an apparent high level of quality even as they explore other genres and styles

interesting.

" Looks good. Probably won't pick it up though unless it's on sale (400 MSP) or if they release it on Steam.  "

" The thing about Ikaruga is, when you scrutinize it thoughtfully, it's WILDLY overrated.Outland may have that problem but I'm cautiously optimistic it's going to do the "light/dark" mechanic way more justice. "

I was able to demo this while Adam gave me a run down of the game at PAX.. It was great, and Adam is a heck of a nice guy with a lot of excitement for the game. I can't wait to get it.

" I was able to demo this while Adam gave me a run down of the game at PAX.. It was great, and Adam is a heck of a nice guy with a lot of excitement for the game. I can't wait to get it. "

 

no offline COOP, no thanks.

" @Khann:Thanks for you helpful input, Khann. :)

"

TALL

Looks all right, the gameplay and premise are not exciting me though.

That flash game, Fireboy and Watergirl or whatever, isn't the sound when you hover over a level on the level select screen the exact same sound of the fairies in Zelda:OoT and MM?

Ill be picking this up for co op, dindt even know what it was untill now. Count a sale there ubi direct from GB

" Hiroshi must hate his life when doing this over and over with random journalists.Though Ryan did a solid job, I'd say. "

I remember reading about this in Game Informer. Looks pretty good. I'm diggin' the Patapon art style, but I have no interest in the co-op whatsoever, which seems to be what it's focused on so I'll probably pass unless it gets raving reviews or something.

" It's Ikaruga, the platformer! Which, to me, sounds DOPE. "

This game looks great!

A very pretty game.  I will probably play it simply for the art style, although the game looks pretty fun too.

Great. Another one of those fuckin games where you won't
find a co-op player 3 months after release.  I gotta pass.

It's too bad the coop part looks really great... I don't play co-op, hope it's as good single player.

" So it is You-bisoft, not Oobi- soft. That will take a bit to change my perception of that name. "

This game looks awesome.

" @Jeffk38uk said:

" So it is You-bisoft, not Oobi- soft. That will take a bit to change my perception of that name. "

I didn't even know Ubi Soft HAD a San Francisco office:) But I know this - in both Montreal and France (and they are, after all, a French publisher) - they pronounce it "ooh-bisoft". This US Producer guy is just confusing everything! "

This looks absolutely brilliant.  Definitely picking this up.

Sold!

hmmmmmmm im not to sure about this one???

I dig it. i really dig silhouette animation, so anything like this - from Limbo to the load screens and cutscenes in Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom - are something that I'm automatically a fan of. As for a polarity-switching mechanic, this looks pretty solid. I loved Ikaruga, and even love Silhouette Mirage on PSX (a game a TON of people covering this seem to forget), and I gotta say just from watching videos that Outland is WAAAY less confusing than Silhouette Mirage. Still, someone  should put that up on the PSN as a PSX Classic. Even though Working Designs isn't around anymore. It's one of Treasure's coolest games - they don't make platformers very often.

looks really cool, does have the same concept as ikaruga.