Dcubed Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago So it looks like someone got their hands on a Switch 1 dev kit and hit the jackpot. From the Reddit post, found items include... Quote Old Splatoon 2 debug builds Rime Unreleased lego civilization game Unreleased Ridge racer prototype Unreleased retro studios game (project harmony) Arms debug build Project Harmony is a reletively recent rumour, but supposedly it was the big project that Retro Studios was working on inbetween Tropical Freeze and Metroid Prime Remastered. An action RPG that was designed to be an interactive musical. Supposedly they spent 3 years working on this prototype, before giving up on it. Well it looks like that rumour may well have been true! Because we now have our first screenshots of this prototype! Not to be outdone, that old rumour about Bandai Namco Singapore working on Ridge Racer 8? Completely true! And we have video footage to prove it! https://streamable.com/grt0hz (An alternative upload for those of you who don't want to use Twitter). This also soft confirms the rumours about BN Singapore also working on the original version of Prime 4 before they got publically thrown under the bus in favour of Retro. News is still breaking, so hopefully we'll see some video footage of Project Harmony soon. 4
Hero-of-Time Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago Finally! About time Retro's project was revealed. It was obvious they were working on something that got canned, given how unproductive they were during those years. 1
Dcubed Posted 12 hours ago Author Posted 12 hours ago (edited) Bit of detail about the Splatoon 2 prototype... Quote Can confirm at least the splatoon 2 debug leak is real. Source is @nvnprogram on twitter but looks like the posts are deleted now. They showed off this unreleased game mode where two teams were fighting over a rocket ship in the middle of the map. The idea was to shoot the rocket with your team’s ink to fill up its gauge. Once your team filled it all the way up, the rocket would blast off, scoring you points. The player who actually landed the final shot to fill the gauge got rewarded with this super fast automatic weapon. After the rocket launched, it would then reappear somewhere else on the map. If anyone archived these vids please let me know and post them in the replies:) Looks like the guy with the dev kit is struggling to get his controller working with the Project Harmony proto; might be some time before we see it in action, but hopefully video footage will come... Edit: HELL HATH FROZEN OVER!! WE HAVE PROJECT HARMONY FOOTAGE!!! https://streamable.com/2mkoof And there it is! Edited 11 hours ago by Dcubed
Julius Posted 11 hours ago Posted 11 hours ago 43 minutes ago, Dcubed said: Project Harmony is a reletively recent rumour, but supposedly it was the big project that Retro Studios was working on inbetween Tropical Freeze and Metroid Prime Remastered. An action RPG that was designed to be an interactive musical. I always knew that Star Fox Grand Prix was a musical RPG. It absolutely explains Fox's light-footedness in Smash! Anyways, this is awesome. Kind of crazy the number of leaks we've been getting out of Nintendo and Nintendo-adjacent studios this past year or so. Does this soft confirm that the Nintendo Ninjas are roughly the same age as Nintendo's old guard and are around retirement age? Because they've been caught sleeping as of late 1
Dcubed Posted 11 hours ago Author Posted 11 hours ago A few opinions of mine regarding the Project Harmony footage... It kind of reminds me a lot of Kameo: Elements of Power; with the animal riding/shifting mechanic. The character designs also remind me a lot of it too. Kind of prophetic... considering that Kameo was a long troubled project that struggled to find its identity and shifted focus multiple times throughout its protracted development cycle. It also looks like they may have been experimenting with a rhythm-based attacking mechanic, sort of like what HiFi Rush would end up pioneering a few years later. We don't see any enemies throughout this prototype footage, but the debug options hint at some similar mechanics. Also, I just want to say, I absolutely love the fact that they use the name WindWakerHint for the mechanic that sees the main character look towards objects of interest that can help the player
Cube Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago 1 hour ago, Dcubed said: It also looks like they may have been experimenting with a rhythm-based attacking mechanic, sort of like what HiFi Rush would end up pioneering a few years later. We don't see any enemies throughout this prototype footage, but the debug options hint at some similar mechanics. Also, I just want to say, I absolutely love the fact that they use the name WindWakerHint for the mechanic that sees the main character look towards objects of interest that can help the player I do wonder if the combat itself was inspired by Wind Waker. While it's not rhythm based, there is a musical element to the combat of the game, so it may have sparked the idea. I really like the look of Harmony. I want it more than the Switch 2 games.
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