Developed by Cat Yard Games, Viral Nightmare is a reworked and reimagined take on Mega Man X6 that significantly enhances and expands the original game. It introduces a fully overhauled Nightmare Soul system, mix-and-match Armor parts, redesigned stages (with Blaze Heatnix’s stage standing out as an big improvement -- seriously), new story elements, and more.
The Batch 1 demo features five playable stages, four Armor Parts to collect, and 17 swappable parts to experiment with. There's enough content here to get a feel for the concept, which feels genuinely promising. Even if you’re perfectly happy with X6 as it is, this is absolutely worth checking out.
Quick heads up: if you’re planning to use a controller, make sure to launch the demo directly from your Steam Library. There’s currently a small issue where the controller won’t be detected if you run the standalone executable. Beyond that, enjoy!
That's weird; I launched the standalone executable without Steam and had no issues using a gamepad. Maybe Xinput devices work without Steam? That's what I used.
ReplyDeleteRemaking a game where the problem is 90% stage layout is hard because at what point is it not a remake but an entirely new game? I wonder how much of the og stage layout will be in this. Looking forward to it regardless because while I still think X6 is better than a majority of slop platformers out there it is one of the worst x games.
ReplyDeleteEu já acho o contrário, o melhor jogo. Talvez uma história não tão bem elaborada quanto os demais, mas veja: Melhores bosses, melhores fases, melhor trilha sonora, melhor design e animações. A abertura totalmente icônica com o Showtaro Morikubo em sua melhor fase (detalhe: ele faz a voz do X no game). A única coisa que acaba com ele e traz essa (meio) má fama é o level design mesmo. Este remake amador veio pra corrigir isso, e pelo pouco que vimos, está fazendo um ótimo trabalho! Espero que surja outros neste mesmo molde para todos os demais já lançados, desde o primeiro.
DeleteIt's amazing, Cat Yard and the volunteers have done such a great job in a small amount of time. Can't wait for the next Zero update.
ReplyDeleteI saw the artwork that was done by TomyCase, and it looks great. Will have to get around playing this sometime.
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