PixyJunket

I just downloaded the demo of this indie PC game.

It was the fastest I've ever spent $20 in my life.

THE HOMEPAGE:
http://www.konjak.org/g_noitu2.html

THE DEMO YOU WILL DOWNLOAD NOW:
http://www.2shared.com/file/3188373/...5/nl2demo.html

SOME PICTURES OF PIXELS > POLYGONS:







It's an insane, fast-paced, combo driven action game that plays with the mouse and keyboard.

I'm going to post the trailer, but DO NOT WATCH IT unless the PixyJunket Double Uranium Seal of Best $20 You'll Spend in 2008 hasn't piqued your curiosity. Just download the 10MB demo, unzip it and play it. At worst, you'll waste five minutes, surely a trivial amount of time for anybody on DVDTalk. At best, you'll want to start writing letters to game publishers to demand this man gets a license for a DS or Wii Ware release.

The entire game, graphics and music included, was made by one man.

And now, the trailer, of which lasts the amount of time it takes to just download and start the game which you should be doing instead of clicking on this link and really doesn't do a lick of good in describing the pure, unadulterated candy love of extreme joy actually playing the game gives off but here it goes anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysO4YfKM1E0

PixyJunket

OH SNAP, this is important:

If you have an LCD monitor, use Fullscreen 2 in the config. This will use your monitor's native resolution to give a crispy, sharp image as opposed to switching to 640x480 mode and making the awesome 2D graphics look like a nasty, blurry XBLA game.

GreenVulture

The Onion AV Club gave this game a very positive review a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.avclub.com/content/games/...e_2_devolution

dvd182

It looked good on the 1UP Show, might give it a shot this weekend if I beat GTA before then.

boredsilly

Yeah, I saw this on the 1up show myself, but for some reason I assumed it was a DS game.

fumanstan

Where's the sex?

PixyJunket

Whoa, it's actually getting mainstream press? Impressive.

Stage 4 is epic, by the way.

This guy really needs to secure a publisher for a Wii Ware release!

Liver&Onions

HA! You're not as cool and as underground as you think!

PixyJunket

Please, I knew of Noitu Love 2 from playing Noitu Love and Chalk last year (everybody should check Chalk out on the guy's site, it's free!) and taking in the RSS feed from Indie Gamer Blog, I didn't need it to be hidden in a video about yet another military FPS.

Liver&Onions

See, I never thought that you had any underground cred anyway.

PixyJunket

I beat this last night, this game has insanely awesome bosses!

I will be replaying many times this with the [unlockables] and at the harder difficulties.

Also, according to the end sequence, I may have missed some secrets.

slop101

hmm...

I have an LCD monitor and I tried all the different setting in the config, and all I could see was a pixely mess of a game - just looked like absolute shit (nothing at all like those screen-shot or the youtube video).

Oh well - it seemed fun, and I think it'd be way more fun on something like the Wii, anyways, so I'll just wait for it's inevitable release there.

boredsilly

About how long is it? In the review I watched it said the game was pretty short, but that you can unlock other characters (who play differently than the main dude) and that its got a high replay value.

PixyJunket

Yup, that's correct. I'd say the length would be about the same as a similar styled action game from the SNES/Genesis era. There's extra characters, hidden bosses, multiple difficulties and of course, it stores your scores and rankings in case you want to do score attack.

fumanstan

Yeah same here. Changed it to Fullscreen 2 and it looks pretty bad on my LCD. Using the 2x mode looked better, albeit in a tiny window.

Not a fan of the controls either. I think it would be more fun with just the keyboard.

PixyJunket

Hmm.. now that I think about it I might be a rare special case as I've got a 4:3 1600x1200 LCD and the game scales perfectly as if it was running a SNES through S-Video or RGB through a quality CRT. I didn't think about most LCDs being 5:4 or 16:10 which would cause horribly uneven scaling. In that case it's probably better to roll with a windowed mode (unless you like the blurry vision).

I think the mouse controls are perfect, in my opinion.. you probably couldn't replicate the ability to jump from enemy to enemy any other way (or any other way in such an awesome way). I tend to just use the double-tap for the dash attacks and didn't really come across a need to use the shield (right click) in Normal mode.

slop101

I think optimized Wii controls would be even better, with the Wii-mote as the target, and using the nunchuk to control movement, with the A, B or Z buttons for attack/jump, it'd be a natural fit.

orangecrush

What if I could find the world ends with you for $20?

PixyJunket

Noitu Love 2 is now $10!

PixyJunket

http://golgothstudio.com/devblog/noi...ove-2-wiiware/