I couldn't really glean much more information than that from the short demonstration NIGORO offered, but La-Mulana 2 definitely gives off a strong Castlevania vibe. 'There are lots of traps!' Naramura boasts. She runs and jumps, whips foes, traverses the slice of stage NIGORO has mocked up for the initial demo, and dies horribly to surprising traps scattered throughout the world. One thing that's decided is the new character, the daughter of the original hero.' The new heroine will probably die just as much as her father did.Ī young blonde woman in a classic Indiana Jones bomber jacket adorned with patches emblazoned with both American and Japanese flags, La-Mulana's protagonist currently gets about much like her father.

It's not like we're hiding anything, but honestly, we don't have anything set in stone yet.

'The game concept, the game design itself, it's in my mind right now,' says Naramura, 'But we haven't been able to decide on a lot of things yet. La-Mulana 2 exists as little more than a raw engine demo and some incomplete concept at the moment, and designer Takumi Naramura stresses that the team makes no promises for a time frame, but the intention is certainly real. Six years later (or a couple of years after the beleaguered Wii port finally saw the light of day), NIGORO has kicked off development of their next game, with a full announcement due this weekend at Tokyo Game Show - and fittingly, it's a sequel to the game that put them on the map in the first place. But if anyone has a claim to prior art in this burgeoning field, it's NIGORO, who helped pave the way for a cottage industry back in 2005 with La-Mulana. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.Ī whole lot of independent developers have their heads down hard at work on creating their own take on the classic platformer genre - often with a decidedly Metroid-influenced slant. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.

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