It isn't. It's a rebooted prequel to the 2004 reboot of an 80s Atari 2600 game.

@@trise2033Yes, because that is totally less convoluted lol

Whoa this is heavy.

I said the same thing about Blaster Master when the Zero trilogy was released.

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

Well, it is now about anime thighs

It was. My question is what could have they done with that? It was a 2600 game made in the late 80's. I'm hoping that if this does well, they try to take from the original story a bit.

​@@ripcase1990If you can't make a "Yar's Revenge" game that actually has anything to do with Yar's Revenge, then just don't call it that in the first place.

​​​​​@@legtendgav556 That's what you get with the help of the creators of Shantae and River City Girls. Nice rhyme tho.

@@legtendgav556Masterful play on words. 👏🏻😁

How the mighty have fallen.

They certainly aren't as big as they were before, but I'd say this title is considered indie mostly because of its developers (WayForward).

Like Nintendo. Remember Cadence of Hyrule? And Advance Wars?

It all came full circle, since Atari technically started off as indie

@eddmario Yeah, I suppose.

Well, let's compare your game description to the trailer: "Yar is an alien fly." Emi seems to grow wings at one point; and then there's the figure behind her in the title card (her full transformation, perhaps?) "The enemy is referred to as the Qotile," The bad guys are from QoTech "dodge the floating probe dot" Stealth seems to be a part of the gameplay. "break apart the Qotile's shield" We see her dismantling (absorbing?) some kind of barrier at one point. "launch the Zorlon Cannon" Back to the part where she grows wings, she looks ready to Kamehameha something. "Also, there's a safe zone," At one point, she's hiding from a guard robot in a shadowy area. So far, it looks like they're doing their homework on this.

*Metroid-like, not Metroidvania. Castlevania, at it’s roots, is NOT like Metroid.

​@@raidraptor-ultimatefalcon2634 Hence why the term was coined to refer to those later Castlevania games that resembled Super Metroid. It's a very well established genre name, you don't get any points for etymological puritanism...

@@jgodden8022 Castlevania turned INTO a Metroid-like, not help create the genre, therefore the “vania” part of “Metroidvania” shouldn’t exist. Castlevania gave up it’s identity when SotN released. Let’s not pretend like it did anything nearly as good as the game series it was trying to rip-off.

​@@raidraptor-ultimatefalcon2634try looking up metroidvania it's a real genre of games and that's what this is.

@@raidraptor-ultimatefalcon2634 Uhh... no? First of all, Symphony of the Night isn't even the first Metroidvania Castlevania game, Simon's Quest is (while it's not as conventional of a Metroidvania as later games, it shares most of the common traits people associate with Metroidvanias, such as an open world full of collectables needed to unlock new areas, a leveling system, etc.). That game released in 1987, a year after the original Metroid. While Symphony of the Night didn't invent the genre, it, alongside Super Metroid, were what popularized the genre and established its traditional conventions. On another note, by your logic, Metroid shouldn't be a part of the genre's name, considering Metroid didn't invent it either (there was already several games, such as 1984's Brain Breaker and 1985's Dragon Slayer II, that used the gameplay of Metroidvanias, Metroid is just the oldest series with said gameplay to get popular). Calling the Metroidvania Castlevania games a rip-off of Metroid is also wrong, since the developers have openly stated that the games took inspiration from Zelda II, not Metroid. Also, "Let’s not pretend like it did anything nearly as good as the game series it was trying to rip-off." Yeah, let's totally act like Symphony of the Night isn't considered by an extremely large amount of people to be one of the greatest video games of all time.

Are their games always so stiff looking? Or do you think it's cus it's still in development

@@VashVicious2 Their expertise is in 90's style pixelart, so it's hard to say if that's the intention or if it's still in development.

One based on my fave atari game? Take my money!

@@VashVicious2 It looks no stiffer than the Megaman games

Nicely found!

@@atari thanks. care to give my comment a like?

yes

How about you play the game to find out.

​@@joshuawebb4966no

@@joshuawebb4966 The game's going to have to do a lot of convoluted explaining to get from what we're shown here to the original game's story (which was about mutated houseflies in outer space fighting an alien planet-destroying warlord)

The year is 1000000 CE and houseflies have evolved into anime girls. There, I fixed it.

*Writes down ideas* Go on, go on.

Do you mean why wayforward is one of my favorite.

@@joshuawebb4966 Whoops. Thanks for catching that. Fix'd

There's also a "Nolan" in there as well. I can't imagine what other references were snuck in... I wonder what "FINEDAY" represents??

What is HSWWSH?

@@maverickhuntermeta4954 easter egg from the original game, the initials of one of the developers

It looks like it was going to be something much different like a robot/samus-like suit but they slapped her model onto it and called it a day. It looks clunky.

@@Gamemaster64 Te game isn't out yet, so we're not really able to say they called it a day. It's coming out sometime this year, which means there's potentially still time for polish. Will be interesting to see.

@@OptimusNiaaThat is true. That could very well change, but as a first impression it doesn't bode well. First impressions are everything.

@@Gamemaster64 Yeah, it's not going to change. And even if it does I'm still not going to play it. Not with such an obnoxious protagonist.

I don't see the problem 😕

We're going deeper!

PFFFFT

Can't crawl if you're rising.

That's WayForward in a nutshell. Shantae is the best example of all style no substance in gaming, people are distracted by the great art and music to the point they don't realize the gameplay and story are quite poor.

It was the highlight for us too!

big oof

Reminds me of late 90s~2000s Megaman, but with actual 3D instead of pre-rendered sprites

Bakugan says hi!

idk they're pretty hit-or-miss

Look up Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia.

Contra: Operation Galuga says Hi!

What are you talking about? Didn't you see that half-a-second clip of an underbaked hacking minigame that looks like a bargain bin version of the original and might come up a grand total of 5 times in the entire game? What more do you need?

Yare Yare Daze, Yar’s revenge.

Per Atari, “In Yars Rising, players take control of the young hacker Emi Kimura, who is hired by a mysterious patron to infiltrate the shadowy Qotech corporation. ... Embark on Emi’s journey to decipher the mystery of the corporation’s closely guarded secret and uncover her inexplicable bond to a far-off alien race.” Might be more related than on first glance.

It'll all make sense in time ;)

We think so too!

It looked fine to me.

❤

Well, they did put his initials in the video. (It was a one-man production)

HSW is probably in his office waiting to play.

How great would it be if Howard is involved in this in some way? He's actually said in interviews he's been working with Atari on a Yars sequel. Is this it?

And not even the same varieties of fruit from the old games, but their sprites have a faux-retro style so it's close enough!

only Metroid Dread.

It shouldn't even be one. Yars Revenge was a space ship shooter.

​@@bideobamersare you saying (shouldn't)? I think you should look over what your typing and so what if it was a space shooter before it'll be fine.

@joshuawebb4966 make a new IP if you are going to throw the source material in the garbage.

@@bideobamers BORING it's way more interesting to make this instead.

There's already a Steam store listing.

Nah that was the Quotile. Yar is the race of flies.

The qotile wasn’t even the wall, that was a shield protecting it

Alive and kickin'

No I don’t think so.

@@Unknown_User174 oh...well, it kinda sounded like her

Sounds like Jenny Yokobori to me

@@Syiepherze who?

Mega Man 11 looked so much better than this wdym

@@Its_PacFan specifically the walk cycle

@@ryuail I see, mb

It's fine why are you complaining about a new yar's game.

@@joshuawebb4966 because I'm betting it's more of a trademark renewal project than anything else. It looks cheap, and the voiceover has the feeling of "this is what young people like, right?" about it.

I’m afraid it’s not her because she’s never been voiced in a video game.

@@Unknown_User174 Ah thanks, learned something new.

From 0:45 it sounds more like Jenny Yokobori

@@Syiepherze You could be right. It could also be someone else entirely.