Quick Look: Galak-Z

Cant wait to play this tonight! Figured I'd pull the trigger a little early and save some green. Hope it turns out as good as it looks.

Oh my I've been waiting for this for sooooo long.

Boy I wish this was coming out at the same time on the PC. Will have to wait to play this I guess. Looks good!

Can't wait for the PC release!

I really hope this becomes my next spelunky. I am kind of concerned by the episodes doesn't seem to be something you can run through quickly in the same way you could with Spelunky.

So ready for this game!

This has been taunting me on my PS4 all day.

I have intermittently been staring at the pre-order clock on my PS4 for long periods of time, trying to will this game into being released. I NEVER pre-order any more but I did for this thing.

I CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER, and wont have to very soon.

Laughing at Jeff trying to really politely ask Brad "have you tried sucking less?"

Got to say I'm surprised this Quick Look wasn't done by the Beast crew. Then again, Austin wouldn't really be the most impartial observer.

I appreciate Jeff's ability to call out faults in the game in spite of having had the developers on several times. Still think I'm grabbing this as soon as it's out on PC!

Pretty excited about this. First game I've digitally pre-ordered.

Laughing at Brad trying to be super stealthy and then immediately screwing it up :D I'm curious why we need a "quick look" as the last look at this a couple weeks ago shows pretty much the exact same thing.

I think Borderlands was the point I realized that I don't like moving backwards shooting things.

@sammo21: I thought the same thing- then realized, better to watch Brad play instead of the expert stuff from the developer. Probably will be closer to my experience!

@sammo21: They normally like to do a normal QL in addition to QL EX when they do one of those. Probably to get their opinions of the game out there as a QL EX often has a big focus on the dev and they tend to hold back some in those videos.

Really looking forward to the PC release of this.

Hopefully they put it on steam or at least give some kind of date before I stop being all hyped and forget it exists.

Not letting @austin_walker do the quick look for this? Ice cold...like space.

"Get back to me when you get to this season"

SHOTS FIRED!

Yeah me too man, I fell in love with Spelunky and still can enjoy to this day. (After some 1,500 deaths. and only a handful of wins). I see what you mean about the Episodes but I don't think it will take away from being somewhat pick up & play.

I also keep watching the clock on the game, I've tried starting it more than once. Weird psychology considering I know it wont work lol.

looking forward to quick look number 4

This quick look makes the game look really frustrating. Hoping for a demo to be released.

And another Unprofessional Fridays segment.

For me it's another in a series of games that look awesome but don't seem like they're all that fun to play. I say this as a person that doesn't enjoy anything about the rogue-like game structure. It's a shame cause I want to like it!

Same here since it a digital game I was planning to get anyway.

It feels like Brad hasn't figured out how to properly utilize both aspects of the combat.

The ship is more of a strafe/jab game (think like asteroids) whereas the robot mode is more of sneaking and melee (like metal gear). One of the nuances that I saw in the last look with the dev was the aspect of grabbing debris to flank the enemy since the enemy uses line of sight it seems like the way to get around and defeat enemies.

I didn't know I wanted Spacelunky with a Star Blazers skin so bad until I spent all day today refreshing PSN for any sign of it or a preorder option. I can see why Sony EU might not be happy about that showstopper with the broken mech controls but hurry up and give it to us already yeah?

Sounds like this PS4 build is for all intents and purposes an Early Access, well, since it's not available in my region(which is Hong Kong btw), I will wait for the Steam release.

The deviations in the old-school anime art design are bugging me. The characters' bobbing and swaying (as models do in every other game) is very distracting here, and the character portrait animations are too smooth. While I get "inspired by" doesn't need to mean "emulates perfectly," I find these deviations jarring nonetheless.

Everything else looks pretty boss.

@turboman: YES!

Austin says he's writing a review that'll be up in a couple days.

https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/628431985984323584

That's what I was planning on, until I realized they ditched the Vita release due to technological stuff.

I'm sure I'll play this a whole lot, but on the Vita I'd play this a WHOLE LOT.

why can't i find this on eu psn? couldn't find the pre-order they mentioned in the QL-EX either. Don't they want my money?

I cant find this on UK PlayStation Store. WHY NO UK RELEASE???

@drfat32: They say it's in cert! When the dev says soon/no idea they mean it. I'm sure 17-bit want it live as much as we do. The fact it's coming in this hot is unfortunate but it happens! Since it's a digital only game patching faults after shipping is more reasonable, but they don't have manufacturing or retailer/physical marketing concerns to influence a shipping decision either.

Waiting game really sucks though. :(

I'm far less jazzed for this game now than I was after the EX.

I feel this game would be amazing if it wasn't a rogue-like, I don't understand how wiping progress adds to a game. Also I just don't find high challenge fun, for me at least the feeling of accomplishment is never ever worth the frustration.

@drfat32, @burgavo

If the game didn't do that then there's no stakes every mission is just ram your ship into things until it all works out. I don't really understand how that'd be fun either.

No UK release at the moment makes me sad. :(

OMG is that Dean Venture? Perfect for a whiny main anime character!

Yeah, I hate it when these guys play games they enjoy and force me to watch every video.

I don't think I'm interested in anything but the art style.

The difficulty level does seem to be a bit of a turn off for me. I'd rather have an easier 12 hour fun game than a 25 hour frustrating, but still rewarding game.

Same... :(

Brad makes it look somewhat more frustrating than it actually is..

Also the mech is so much more powerful than suggested here you can just juke around and cut fools to ribbons.

There is no way this game is as hard as Brad made it out to be.

Wow, I was super excited for this game when they did that quick look last year but now that I've seen plenty of footage from the final game, I have zero interest in this anymore. It's basically Brutal Legend all over again.