mhg83

This is not an April Fools Joke:

"Pier Solar will be the very first all new game to appear on the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis and Sega Mega CD / Sega CD this millennium. The game is neither a Port, nor a translation and has not ripped content from any other game what so ever."



If you preorder the game you get the following:

What you'll get for your $35:
1 x 64MEG Pier Solar game cartridge.

1 x Audio/Data CD allowing enhanced HIFI soundtrack and sound effects, when used in conjunction with the Sega Mega CD / Sega CD add-on.

1 x 24 page glossy printed story book similar to those found with Japanese Sega Genesis Games.

1 x Uniquely styled gloss cardboard clamshell with incorporated storage for both the Audio/Data CD and booklet.

1 x Pier Solar Poster.

some game play scenes:

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and their official web site:

http://piersolar.com/index.php

This is a pretty cool project. It looks great for a sega genesis game and you get a ton of extras when you preorder. I'm going to get this. Anyone else interested in this game?

Gizmo

Someone released a new Genesis game like 3 or 4 years ago.

JimmySRU

April 1st maybe

mhg83

Is it Beggar Prince?

That was just a translation of the original. Pier Solar is actually made from the ground up. Still pretty cool someone would go to all that trouble for such a small group of gamers.

Breakfast with Girls

I was all set to order this, but then I played the demo and it really did not impress. It was incredibly boring, I couldn't find an enemy to fight, there were issues with the scrolling, the graphics (for all the hype) were dull and uninspired, and the story seems like a bad mimic (not homage) of early '90s RPG fare, complete with endless, mindless unskippable dialog with grammar errors.

Clearly the developers are relatively talented and diligent to bring a project like this to completion, but my god, they should have read a few books on writing beforehand.

Edit: By contrast, that Beggar Prince game looks kind of neat.