Wow this game is a looker. My mind would have been blown if this was released back in the Genesis glory days. All the parallel scrolling going on is rayman levels insane.
This is fascinating! I actually just picked up life-on-mars a few weeks ago and beat it so I saw this coming. It's a good game and I'm looking forward to the sequel!
this looks amazing, im shocked just how awesome and crisp this is, love the cyberpunk art style and that intro with voice over... hot daaamn... truly stunning. i Need this game 🎉
@@RetroGamerBoy i honestly dont know, is it a text to voice synth thing thats been recoded at a low setting and then compressed somehow? im honestly not sure but it works a charm, truly amazing i hope theres more voice work throughout, i remember back in the day being shocked with scorpions "come here!" harpoon, this nukes that 👍👍👍🍻
Just from this video preview, the game seems to have a Shinobi, E-Swat, Robocop and Gunstar Heroes feel to it, just to name a few. Very good place to start.
Discovered and immediately bought Life on Mars for my Genesis thanks to your showcase of it months ago, and this sequel even looks miles better!! Very excited for this one and gonna preorder it right away. The gameplay reminds me a lot of Shinobi, with the ranged shooting, automatic melee slash, and even the Shinobi 3 downward kick, haha. Even that jet bike section you showed at the end is like the horseback and surfboard levels from Shinobi 3. This looks to be a great time! Thank you for making us aware of these amazing gems that are still being made for our favorite console :)
It’s funny you say “still being made” like there wasn’t ever a point when they weren’t being made. It was the Watermelon game in like 2015 that was the first game to be made since, I guess, around 1996, probably an EA sport game. So there was a 20 gap without any releases. I don’t think this game looks very good though.
Looks pretty cool. The flying cars are a little distracting to me. Long after understanding they're in the background, the ones going to the left keep telling me "watch out!" 🤷♂️
The most impressive thing I've noticed with this game is just how much parallax they've been able to achieve with the two background layers, some sprites, a bit of background priority shifting and lots of row/line scrolling. And that ED-209-looking boss even seems to be doing proper sprite rotation on its head too--no idea how that's done. It's graphically very impressive. I had a wee back and forth chat with the developer on one of their UA-cam videos, and it's really interesting to figure out how much of it was achieved. It's amazing what you can do with a bit of creative thinking and problem solving, and just the ambition to really push a system to its limits.
The genesis is absolutely obliterating the obsolete snes in the independent scene , you need to forget about the snes its too far behind, do yourself a favor don't be so stubborn sir.
@@StaticTV80 I guess we'll just have to see what happens once the SNES gets some tools that more people can work with as easily as most people seem to be able to work with the Genesis' SGDK. Right now, the development tools, documentation and just indie/homebrew scenes for both these consoles simply aren't on the same level, so comparing them directly in modern times based on brand new titles or whatever is mostly stupid. But let's chat again in the future if/when the SNES' scene is on a level playing field, and then we can see what both systems are truly capable of in modern times. Remember for now though, that this is what the modern Genesis dev scene managed to do when trying to duplicate the stock SNES: ua-cam.com/video/_NoXtdR2c0g/v-deo.html (Genesis) vs ua-cam.com/video/sak--JiDnBA/v-deo.html (SNES) And this is what the infant modern SNES dev scene managed to achieve when trying to duplicate the stock Genesis: ua-cam.com/video/MTBGIo7HXis/v-deo.html (Genesis) vs ua-cam.com/video/DlrxKECsogE/v-deo.html (SNES) So, it will be real interesting to see brand new games on SNES that actually push the system to its own limits in modern times too, and then, once both consoles are on a level playing field in today's scene, we can compare both systems more directly and fairly once again. Of course, in terms of 3D, the Genesis dev scene is also making a stock version of Star Fox that isn't that far off the FX version of SNES Star Fox, so there is that too--and that can't be denied.
@@inceptional Why are you like this, why are you so focused on the snes obsolete hardware, the snes CPU isn't even being used anymore while the 68k is still in use and admired by programmers.
@@StaticTV80 Are you some anti-SNES fanboy or what? Why would it bother you that someone else wants to see both consoles, SNES and Gen/MD being utilized and celebrated by modern indie devs? You need to cool off! Get a shower.
I thought the same thing. A lot of cyberpunk games and films draw inspiration from that and films like Blade Runner. They were so ground breaking and genre defining.
If this was released on the 90s, then the sales would have gone up through the roof for the Genesis because of that daring fact that they were able to pull it off which was the FMC's sprite like the MK Blood allowance. A truly stunning game indeed. Hopefully we can get an indie racing game soon on the Mega Drive.
Daaamn the folks @Kai Magazine became rather masterful with the Mega Drive hardware 😯 The game is already technically stunning! The intro with voice over is unreal for a 16-bit cart game but what blew my mind the most is how the superb parallax background kicked in @6:15!! And those wonderful colors!! Will look incredible on the intended CRT rendering (either proper CRT monitor or HD screen with CRT-like filters) 🤩 ... Which is ultimately one of the coolest things about "retro systems" (i.e. anything prior to the Dreamcast): how they rely on the post-processing created by CRT rendering. It's an art in itself (and it's also tons of fun trying different kinds of tweaks/filters). edit: one thing though is that quality > quantity. the homebrew scene feels a bit flooded lately but several of these aftermarket games would benefit immensely from tweaked gameplay + worthy harder difficulty settings, all of which would lead to increased replay value! edit2: wow, that boss looks like something Konami x Wolf Team could have made! Think Axelay's 2nd boss and Sol-Feace's 1st boss had a baby 😃 edit3: 16:20 knew it! This soundtrack had Savaged Regime's sound patches and long melodies all over it, fantastic stuff! So cool to know he's involved in this.
This game looks and sounds INCREDIBLE! I have to get both this and Life on Mars. Who would have thought we would be getting AAA titles for the Genesis/Mega Drive in 2023. Thanks for much for this early look. Again, wow!
to me they sound quite boring and like AI-generated, it's not good voice acting beside the technical achievement. It would be cool if they are synthesized by the genesis, but I guess they're just big wave files, that's not a problem with mappers and genesis roms that are over 10MB
Incredible, this game looks amazing. It looks like the games that came out in the last years of life for Genesis. The graphics are gorgeous, I really like cyberpunk. I subscribed to the channel after the video with Viktor Karasev, I see a lot of interesting things here)
Hello John. We´re making a JRPG. El Secreto de los cuatro Vientos (The Secret of the Four Winds). It´s an action JRPG and it´s a long way in the development of this game. Thanks.
@@bundjohn Hi, thank you for your kind words ^_^ The Secret of the 4 winds will probably have a playable demo on early 2024 and the game should be released on late 2024.
Kai Magazine are awesome and this looks great I’m loving it I’m definitely getting this and Life on Mars for my Mega Drive thanks for sharing Mike another good video review 👍
Thank you for sharing, Mike. ^^ And this other JRPG seem to be promiaing. A complete new art style. I wish Kai Magazine much succes with their games. And I can say if noh now the will get latley my money for the JRPG.
Life on Mars was a phenomenal game. I bought it after watching your review of it and beat it within a week of getting it. Which rarely happens with my schedule. So, from here on, anything from Kai Magazine has my attention.
Amazing, genuinely, it looks great. I also love how the Heroine is... erm... let's say "depicted" _exactly_ the way a Heroine would have been depicted in the 90s. And I'm not even joking, we all know how many of our "gaming heroines" / fighters were drawn / shown to us young boys back then. And we loved it. So I do like that sort of sincerity about this.
Crazy how many games continue to be released for the Genesis/MD. It seems like more Genesis/MD games are released last few years than what we received in NA for the TG16 back in 1992. I have Life on Mars so I’m looking forward to this. Thx for sharing
Very new to this channel; this game is frigging awesome. I still have my 1980’s Japanese SMD in its box - so does this game come on a cartridge like the originals? I can’t believe how good this game is - surely it can’t run on a normal generic SMD? Anyway, loving this well constructed informative professionally executed channel…. It’s dam good and really sets off my nostalgic tastebuds. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hi, thank you for your kind words! The game runs on any original Sega Genesis/Megadrive and the cartridge does not add any additional hardware, it is all 100% pure Genesis/Megadrive
Каждый раз, выпуская подобную игру, разработчики энтузиасты доказывают, что Сега слишком рано списала старушку Мегадрайв. Всё могла бы получится иначе.
First off, I'm a simple man. Secondly, This game looks like it draws inspiration from one of the all-time best Cyberpunk games in my opinion, Robocop vs. The Terminator. And finally, I love this model that retro developers have been using where they put out a demo rom and the physical comes later. And Mike thank you for bringing these games to everyone's attention.
The gameplay reminds me of the terminator. I’ve tried the demo on my everdrive and loved it. Definitely getting this when it comes out. Seeing this made me get life on Mars which I’m having a blast with.
It's amazing to see new games made for decades old systems, especially when the games are made by talented programmers that know and exploit the systems abilities and push the hardware with options and play dynamics not used in games made during the consoles heyday.
Mike, this game is absolutely fantastic! I have never seen so many parallaxes running in a Mega Drive game, besides the presentation with voices... This game uses a cartridge with special chips for sound or video? We didn't see this in the 90's... Would a game like this run well on current Mega Drive clones? It looks like something from an arcade and the story reminds me of Druuna (probably someone must have read Serpieri's stories), because it has a lot in common, except for the more hardcore content of the characters. Look, it's impressive what has been done on the Mega Drive, because its direct competitors don't reach the same diversification of releases.
Hi, thank you for your kind words ^_^ There is a playable demo that you can run with your standard Megadrive, it doesn't need any upgrades. The final game with the original cartridge will be protected and it will not run without the cartridge, and it will probably not run with megadrive clones.
@@kaimagazine8221 Got it buddy... I already calculated that this ROM may have extra resources beyond the native capacity of the Mega Drive and therefore FPGA chips will have some conflict when dealing with these other chips, which is not very positive, taking into account what happens with Virtua Racing. Still, let's wait for the final result, as first impressions are excellent.
@@PONTOCRITICO I don't know if I understood your message correctly. The demo rom doesn't have any extra hardware resources, nor the final game. It doesn't use any FPGA chips or extra hardware. This is why the demo ROM you can download and try will work on any megadrive console without any extra hardware. It is a ROM, so it is software, it is a simple rom and it works on any stock console without any additional hardware.
@@kaimagazine8221 "The final game with the original cartridge will be protected and it will not run without the cartridge, and it will probably not run with megadrive clones." Are you going to do a Steam/PC version at least? Some of us love playing Genesis games but don't have the luxury of having a real Genesis hardware setup. Wish that I could just buy the ROM image from you, which I could then play on my favorite emulator, but I do understand the piracy concerns.
Based on that intro, our newest Twitter follower must've mistaken us for you. lol This seriously looks fantastic though--the little touches (like shadow and light!) and it just seems like it'll be so much fun to play.
Looks good so far; the closest comparison off of the top of my mind would be the Genesis version of ESWAT. Always like to see Genesis/Mega Drive focused new games being created in this day and age.
Those levels of parallax and the added details like the flying cars and shadows and highlights and a sight to behold. If they can maintain the quality throughout the game, this could be very special.
Wow! Awesome vid, Mike! A sequel to Life on Mars! That is great news! Love what we see so far. And some audio dialogues out of the Mega Drive? What sorcery is this!? XD I can't wait!
@@RetroGamerBoy It kinda reminded me of the games from Renovation Products/Telenet. They often had anime-inspired cutscenes (Valis, Gaiares, El Viento, Earnest Evans), but yeah.. this is almost Sega-CD quality!!
Rea;lly great looking game it is Mike. I really want this in my Sega Genesis collection and It's been a while since I demanded myself for a new Genesis game bro. 8^) Anthony...
It looks really neat, but I hope they adjust the main characters sprite before release. She seems to be in a different scale than the environment, and she's taller than the enemies as well. I know that this is totally nitpicking when the games looks and sounds this great, but once you notice it its hard to ignore. But again, if THAT would be the only issue, then its a mark of a great game!
In a private gaming group chat, we were discussing this game and your video (all good). We all had the same question, are there levels other than street levels?
then you probably missed space harrier 2, e-swat, mickey mania, mega turrican, speedball 2, dynamite headdy, NBA jam, demolition man and so on... recent sound drivers sure make it easier to do clear voices on mega drive/genesis but it's a baffling misconception to think that it wasn't already the case back then!
Very nice walkthrough Mike! 👍🙏 The visuals look amazing and you pointed out interesting elements which I didn’t notice. I was amazed with how much vocal they could afford to put into a MD game intro, incredible!
love the asthetic, the graphics, the music, the cutscenes. looks awesome. thanks for showing us!
You forgot the non-woke protag 😍👍
@@TexasHollowEarth Yes! That's why I stopped buying Limited Run games, bunch of woke crap.
The music is simply outstanding. I want a CD sound track.
多謝分享，我來自香港。It's amazing. Especially I live in Hong Kong n love Blade Runner, Akira movies. Of course, we love SEGA.
I love Hong Kong, I have visited a few times.
@@RetroGamerBoy🤝
15:52 great character des ^3
Lots of fine animation
Wow this game is a looker. My mind would have been blown if this was released back in the Genesis glory days. All the parallel scrolling going on is rayman levels insane.
6:17
7:35
There is a reason why games never looked this good. Detailed artwork takes memory which was expensive back then
Same here. I love the universe and aesthetic they have created.
@@ajsingh4545 so true. I remember Sega slapping 4 mega bits on some of the game boxes. Then by the end of the system we were seeing 24mb carts.
Sold! I'm taking this. I hope my Mega SG arrives before though.
It's been a few months without a new game. I was beginning to worry.
This is fascinating! I actually just picked up life-on-mars a few weeks ago and beat it so I saw this coming. It's a good game and I'm looking forward to the sequel!
I was surprised it came so quickly, and the game is coming out this year as well which is very cool.
Wow,Looks great! Gonna pre-order mines and the pre-quel too!!
It's really impressive so far, I can't wait to play the full game
this looks amazing, im shocked just how awesome and crisp this is, love the cyberpunk art style and that intro with voice over... hot daaamn... truly stunning. i Need this game 🎉
I was blown away by the intro, how are they doing the voice over.
@@RetroGamerBoy i honestly dont know, is it a text to voice synth thing thats been recoded at a low setting and then compressed somehow? im honestly not sure but it works a charm, truly amazing i hope theres more voice work throughout, i remember back in the day being shocked with scorpions "come here!" harpoon, this nukes that 👍👍👍🍻
This game looks really fun to play, kinda reminds me of El Viento and Shinobi. Great review!
I think the team said that Shinobi was an inspiration for the game.
Looking good! Female protagonist in a cyberpunk setting, It ticks all the right boxes for me:)
Snap. It's a winning combination.
Yeah a strong, empowered, but incredibly sexy, attractive heroine is a winner for me
Thank You, for all your Homebrew coverage! These videos are a real treat!
Cool, I'm glad you like them.
Hi Mike!
Thank you very much for this awesome review!
Wow! that was great!
Thank you for supporting the small indie developers!
Thank you for making amazing games and for letting me share your video with the community.
Thief.
Just from this video preview, the game seems to have a Shinobi, E-Swat, Robocop and Gunstar Heroes feel to it, just to name a few. Very good place to start.
Yup, the team said the Shinobi was an inspiration for the game.
Discovered and immediately bought Life on Mars for my Genesis thanks to your showcase of it months ago, and this sequel even looks miles better!! Very excited for this one and gonna preorder it right away. The gameplay reminds me a lot of Shinobi, with the ranged shooting, automatic melee slash, and even the Shinobi 3 downward kick, haha. Even that jet bike section you showed at the end is like the horseback and surfboard levels from Shinobi 3. This looks to be a great time! Thank you for making us aware of these amazing gems that are still being made for our favorite console :)
The team did say that some of the inspection for this game came from Shinobi, so great spot there.
It’s funny you say “still being made” like there wasn’t ever a point when they weren’t being made.
It was the Watermelon game in like 2015 that was the first game to be made since, I guess, around 1996, probably an EA sport game. So there was a 20 gap without any releases.
I don’t think this game looks very good though.
Looks pretty cool.
The flying cars are a little distracting to me. Long after understanding they're in the background, the ones going to the left keep telling me "watch out!" 🤷♂️
Interesting, what would you like to see?
The most impressive thing I've noticed with this game is just how much parallax they've been able to achieve with the two background layers, some sprites, a bit of background priority shifting and lots of row/line scrolling. And that ED-209-looking boss even seems to be doing proper sprite rotation on its head too--no idea how that's done. It's graphically very impressive.
I had a wee back and forth chat with the developer on one of their UA-cam videos, and it's really interesting to figure out how much of it was achieved. It's amazing what you can do with a bit of creative thinking and problem solving, and just the ambition to really push a system to its limits.
The genesis is absolutely obliterating the obsolete snes in the independent scene , you need to forget about the snes its too far behind, do yourself a favor don't be so stubborn sir.
@@StaticTV80 I guess we'll just have to see what happens once the SNES gets some tools that more people can work with as easily as most people seem to be able to work with the Genesis' SGDK.
Right now, the development tools, documentation and just indie/homebrew scenes for both these consoles simply aren't on the same level, so comparing them directly in modern times based on brand new titles or whatever is mostly stupid. But let's chat again in the future if/when the SNES' scene is on a level playing field, and then we can see what both systems are truly capable of in modern times.
Remember for now though, that this is what the modern Genesis dev scene managed to do when trying to duplicate the stock SNES:
ua-cam.com/video/_NoXtdR2c0g/v-deo.html (Genesis)
vs
ua-cam.com/video/sak--JiDnBA/v-deo.html (SNES)
And this is what the infant modern SNES dev scene managed to achieve when trying to duplicate the stock Genesis:
ua-cam.com/video/MTBGIo7HXis/v-deo.html (Genesis)
vs
ua-cam.com/video/DlrxKECsogE/v-deo.html (SNES)
So, it will be real interesting to see brand new games on SNES that actually push the system to its own limits in modern times too, and then, once both consoles are on a level playing field in today's scene, we can compare both systems more directly and fairly once again.
Of course, in terms of 3D, the Genesis dev scene is also making a stock version of Star Fox that isn't that far off the FX version of SNES Star Fox, so there is that too--and that can't be denied.
@@inceptional Why are you like this, why are you so focused on the snes obsolete hardware, the snes CPU isn't even being used anymore while the 68k is still in use and admired by programmers.
@@StaticTV80 Hey, if it helps, you keep it up for a long as you can. . . .
@@StaticTV80 Are you some anti-SNES fanboy or what? Why would it bother you that someone else wants to see both consoles, SNES and Gen/MD being utilized and celebrated by modern indie devs? You need to cool off! Get a shower.
the look of the character is like the 90's Anime characters, I love old school anime. Bubblegum crisis, Dirty Pair, etc.
I totally agree. That intro is pretty epic as well.
I haven't even gotten around yet to playing Life on Mars and here I go ordering the next game...
Thank you! ^_^
What! I really enjoyed Life on Mars. I would have loved more of it.
Damn it Kai magazine have been so good for mega drive as of late.
Yup, and there is more to come.
The opening cutscene and background parallax looks nice. That looks like Neo Tokyo from AKIRA.
I thought the same thing. A lot of cyberpunk games and films draw inspiration from that and films like Blade Runner. They were so ground breaking and genre defining.
I love how the character is like a new version of Satoshi Urushihara´s pinups. Im exited 4 play this game
It's a lot of fun to play.
I love this game already.
It's like Resident Evil but for Sega Genesis.
There is a team making the original Resident Evil for the Mega Drive and Genesis. I've made a few videos on it.
This game looks so awesome. I beat Life on Mars not too long ago; I'm psyched the sequel is almost here already. I can't wait to play it
I know this game came out of nowhere. It's a pleasant surprise.
Love it right away&Life on Mars was a big hitter for the Genesis/Mega Drive as well!Gonna preordered again,another no brainer❤
Yup, these guys get better and better.
If this was released on the 90s, then the sales would have gone up through the roof for the Genesis because of that daring fact that they were able to pull it off which was the FMC's sprite like the MK Blood allowance.
A truly stunning game indeed. Hopefully we can get an indie racing game soon on the Mega Drive.
Totally agree. If this was released back then this would probably be a massive franchise by now.
Totally agree. If this was released back then this would probably be a massive franchise by now.
@@RetroGamerBoy Indeed
Woww this looks fantastic! Backed!
7:23 I can't figure out how they're doing so many background layers... some of it must be sprites, I suppose
Correct! ^_^
They are pulling off some many cool visual effects.
I would have played Life on Earth if it existed back in the 90s. Excellent offering for an aftermarket game.
Same here, and given that I was a young teenager I would have loved the cover art....
@@RetroGamerBoy Lol
Daaamn the folks @Kai Magazine became rather masterful with the Mega Drive hardware 😯 The game is already technically stunning! The intro with voice over is unreal for a 16-bit cart game but what blew my mind the most is how the superb parallax background kicked in @6:15!! And those wonderful colors!! Will look incredible on the intended CRT rendering (either proper CRT monitor or HD screen with CRT-like filters) 🤩
... Which is ultimately one of the coolest things about "retro systems" (i.e. anything prior to the Dreamcast): how they rely on the post-processing created by CRT rendering. It's an art in itself (and it's also tons of fun trying different kinds of tweaks/filters).
edit: one thing though is that quality > quantity. the homebrew scene feels a bit flooded lately but several of these aftermarket games would benefit immensely from tweaked gameplay + worthy harder difficulty settings, all of which would lead to increased replay value!
edit2: wow, that boss looks like something Konami x Wolf Team could have made! Think Axelay's 2nd boss and Sol-Feace's 1st boss had a baby 😃
edit3: 16:20 knew it! This soundtrack had Savaged Regime's sound patches and long melodies all over it, fantastic stuff! So cool to know he's involved in this.
I've only played this early demo and they already have so much crammed into it.
Sega Genesis still is alive and hopefully we get Street of rage 5,golden axe 5,shinobi 4,many more games
Ohhh I would love a new Golden Axe game.
@@RetroGamerBoy yes currently many freelance development but we have wait some time
This Women has Ballistics! 😂
Also great Sprite work by the way!
Someone said they were based on my bald head.
I stopped buying games a while ago, but I may break that and order a copy of this, looks really cool.
SEGA!!!
It's an awesome game, even at this early stage. Try the other game modes and ramping up the difficulty really makes for a unique challenge.
This game looks and sounds INCREDIBLE! I have to get both this and Life on Mars. Who would have thought we would be getting AAA titles for the Genesis/Mega Drive in 2023. Thanks for much for this early look. Again, wow!
The team make some great games and they are improving with every release.
The voice samples alone are a milestone.
They are insane. How they've managed it I don't know.
to me they sound quite boring and like AI-generated, it's not good voice acting beside the technical achievement. It would be cool if they are synthesized by the genesis, but I guess they're just big wave files, that's not a problem with mappers and genesis roms that are over 10MB
Thanks for highlighting this! Definitely a preorder for me.
I love all these new games for old consoles.
Incredible, this game looks amazing. It looks like the games that came out in the last years of life for Genesis. The graphics are gorgeous, I really like cyberpunk. I subscribed to the channel after the video with Viktor Karasev, I see a lot of interesting things here)
These guys are getting better and better at their craft. And this is what independent development is all about.
I am beginning to love mega drive more then snes at this point ❤❤❤❤
😂 careful.
I’ve got my copy pre-ordered and damn they’re making a JRPG?!?!
Hello John. We´re making a JRPG. El Secreto de los cuatro Vientos (The Secret of the Four Winds). It´s an action JRPG and it´s a long way in the development of this game. Thanks.
Snap, I have my pre-order in as well.
@@VictorSanchez-ei6ds that’s great to hear, any idea when it will be released or we might see a demo?
@@RetroGamerBoy looks like we’ll both be in the manual 😊
@@bundjohn Hi, thank you for your kind words ^_^ The Secret of the 4 winds will probably have a playable demo on early 2024 and the game should be released on late 2024.
Kai Magazine are awesome and this looks great I’m loving it I’m definitely getting this and Life on Mars for my Mega Drive thanks for sharing Mike another good video review 👍
No problem, I hope you enjoy it.
I love it... I'm gonna buy it soon.
Same here.
Thank you for sharing, Mike. ^^ And this other JRPG seem to be promiaing. A complete new art style. I wish Kai Magazine much succes with their games. And I can say if noh now the will get latley my money for the JRPG.
Same here they have my money.
Wow this game looks great. The Graphics they pulled off is outstanding. I know what I'm pre-ordering on paid day. 😁
Snap 🤘😝🤘
Before I even start I just KNOW this is a sequel to Life on Mars. Which was a fantastic game. Will have this one ordered as soon as available.
Well, you were right
I have my pre-order for the game. I can't wait to play it.
Life on Mars was a phenomenal game. I bought it after watching your review of it and beat it within a week of getting it. Which rarely happens with my schedule. So, from here on, anything from Kai Magazine has my attention.
Yup I love the stuff they are putting out.
This game looks pretty cool. Now this is pushing the Genesis to the limits!
It's doing a damn good job of it.
Looks like a Sega CD/32x game. The artwork and coloring, and sounds are just incredible!
It's amazing the sound is stunning
Thank you for making this video! I'm picking up their games! Can you imagine an Evercade collection!?
That would be awesome.
This game looks incredible! Thanks for sharing. Cheers 🍻
Any time, it's great getting the chance to show off these games.
Amazing, genuinely, it looks great.
I also love how the Heroine is... erm... let's say "depicted" _exactly_ the way a Heroine would have been depicted in the 90s. And I'm not even joking, we all know how many of our "gaming heroines" / fighters were drawn / shown to us young boys back then. And we loved it. So I do like that sort of sincerity about this.
Yup the team do a lot of 90s games parody.
This game looks gorgeous!!!!
There is so much going on in it.
Some vey impressive elements to this but it just looks like Robocop level design with better graphics. More home computer that home console in style.
RoboCop Vs Terminator was a great game. What would you like to see added?
@@RetroGamerBoy I would say that Robocop vs Terminator was a mediocre game. Gunstar Heroes was a great game, in that genre.
If you are going for a full Megadrive set then might aswell go for the full homebrew cartridge releases too 👍
That is going to be a tough one. Especially as my copy of Paprium has not turned up.
@@RetroGamerBoy I hope your copy has now turned up. Appreciate the reply 👍
@@RockyFluffyWhiskas unfortunately not
Wow a great setting, awesome visuals love the effects on all that parallax scrolling ❤
Kai magazine software just keep getting better and better
Scott I only just finished Life on Mars a few months ago and now the sequel is coming out at the end of the year. It's insane.
Crazy how many games continue to be released for the Genesis/MD. It seems like more Genesis/MD games are released last few years than what we received in NA for the TG16 back in 1992. I have Life on Mars so I’m looking forward to this. Thx for sharing
Yup, the indie Dev scene is very healthy on the Mega Drive.
10:55 I wanted this 32 years ago
😅 It's a late Christmas present.
WoW
🤘😝🤘
Great stuff! Thanks for this Mike, I will defo be adding that to my list!
Fantastic!
These graphics are so great and appreciated!
They got the little details right
Very new to this channel; this game is frigging awesome. I still have my 1980’s Japanese SMD in its box - so does this game come on a cartridge like the originals? I can’t believe how good this game is - surely it can’t run on a normal generic SMD?
Anyway, loving this well constructed informative professionally executed channel…. It’s dam good and really sets off my nostalgic tastebuds. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hi, thank you for your kind words!
The game runs on any original Sega Genesis/Megadrive and the cartridge does not add any additional hardware, it is all 100% pure Genesis/Megadrive
@@kaimagazine8221 are these games region locked? Like, I like the blue case of the Mega Drive version, could I play it on my US Genesis?
@@scramblesthedeathdealer They are region free, the same cartridge runs on every region
@@kaimagazine8221 Awesome! And thanks for the quick response!
Yup, if you use the link below you can pre-order it. And the best thing is that they have Japanese box art as well.
Каждый раз, выпуская подобную игру, разработчики энтузиасты доказывают, что Сега слишком рано списала старушку Мегадрайв. Всё могла бы получится иначе.
Yup the console had a lot of life left in it.
That footage at the end looks like it could be from some spin off of their MSX game Rune Monster
It's a port from their MSX game Life on Mars.
First off, I'm a simple man.
Secondly, This game looks like it draws inspiration from one of the all-time best Cyberpunk games in my opinion, Robocop vs. The Terminator. And finally, I love this model that retro developers have been using where they put out a demo rom and the physical comes later. And Mike thank you for bringing these games to everyone's attention.
The demo ROMs are great, they remind me of the old cover disc demos.
The gameplay reminds me of the terminator. I’ve tried the demo on my everdrive and loved it. Definitely getting this when it comes out. Seeing this made me get life on Mars which I’m having a blast with.
I really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to the full release.
Bringing that 80/90s anime booba back. ❤️
They do like their parody in their games.
2:48 on 0.25 speed looks impressive 😅
Exactly 😂
Some skilled animation there.
It's amazing to see new games made for decades old systems, especially when the games are made by talented programmers that know and exploit the systems abilities and push the hardware with options and play dynamics not used in games made during the consoles heyday.
The indie devs are really starting to push the system.
I'm hyped! 😊 aand even preordered :D
Thanks a lot!
Same here. I have my order in.
@@RetroGamerBoy..and it arrived today! 😊
🎉 perfect news Sega😅 Life on Earth 2
Sega forever
Very impressive! Pushing that Sega to the limits!
I love seeing projects like this.
Mike, this game is absolutely fantastic! I have never seen so many parallaxes running in a Mega Drive game, besides the presentation with voices... This game uses a cartridge with special chips for sound or video? We didn't see this in the 90's... Would a game like this run well on current Mega Drive clones? It looks like something from an arcade and the story reminds me of Druuna (probably someone must have read Serpieri's stories), because it has a lot in common, except for the more hardcore content of the characters. Look, it's impressive what has been done on the Mega Drive, because its direct competitors don't reach the same diversification of releases.
Hi, thank you for your kind words ^_^
There is a playable demo that you can run with your standard Megadrive, it doesn't need any upgrades. The final game with the original cartridge will be protected and it will not run without the cartridge, and it will probably not run with megadrive clones.
@@kaimagazine8221 Got it buddy... I already calculated that this ROM may have extra resources beyond the native capacity of the Mega Drive and therefore FPGA chips will have some conflict when dealing with these other chips, which is not very positive, taking into account what happens with Virtua Racing. Still, let's wait for the final result, as first impressions are excellent.
@@PONTOCRITICO I don't know if I understood your message correctly. The demo rom doesn't have any extra hardware resources, nor the final game. It doesn't use any FPGA chips or extra hardware. This is why the demo ROM you can download and try will work on any megadrive console without any extra hardware. It is a ROM, so it is software, it is a simple rom and it works on any stock console without any additional hardware.
I apologyze if I missunderstood you, but I have slept 2-4 hours for the last several days and my brain is pretty much useless
@@kaimagazine8221 "The final game with the original cartridge will be protected and it will not run without the cartridge, and it will probably not run with megadrive clones."
Are you going to do a Steam/PC version at least? Some of us love playing Genesis games but don't have the luxury of having a real Genesis hardware setup. Wish that I could just buy the ROM image from you, which I could then play on my favorite emulator, but I do understand the piracy concerns.
I'd love to see alternate pallette swaps at least, for the protag. Maybe alternate colors to denote different abilities 🤷♂️
That would be cool
I'm blown away. It looks so damn good, and with full speech and all that graphical trickery, it looks absolutely amazing.
It's amazing what Dev teams are doing with this old Sega Hardware.
Based on that intro, our newest Twitter follower must've mistaken us for you. lol
This seriously looks fantastic though--the little touches (like shadow and light!) and it just seems like it'll be so much fun to play.
Your newest follower features in this game Tom.
Looks good so far; the closest comparison off of the top of my mind would be the Genesis version of ESWAT. Always like to see Genesis/Mega Drive focused new games being created in this day and age.
It's great to see so many of these new games. They won't all be AAA, but as long as we support them, they will continue to come.
Those levels of parallax and the added details like the flying cars and shadows and highlights and a sight to behold. If they can maintain the quality throughout the game, this could be very special.
Fingers crossed
F*ing amazing! Thank you for letting us know about this gem
Any time.
I also like cyberpunk themed games. I had the Matrix movies to thank for that 🥰
I love the first Matrix. I watched not having a clue what it was and then went and watched the next 4 shows in the same day.
Sega genesis is my favorite console to this day. This looks great. I will buy this when it available if I am alive. Lol pray for me.
🙏
Pre ordered it after this video. And while i am on it i ordered their Life on Mars and Metal Dragon too.😁
Some great purchases there.
Wow! Awesome vid, Mike!
A sequel to Life on Mars! That is great news! Love what we see so far. And some audio dialogues out of the Mega Drive? What sorcery is this!? XD
I can't wait!
It's black magic for sure, it was almost Mega CD like.
@@RetroGamerBoy It kinda reminded me of the games from Renovation Products/Telenet. They often had anime-inspired cutscenes (Valis, Gaiares, El Viento, Earnest Evans), but yeah.. this is almost Sega-CD quality!!
This game gave me robocop vs terminator style vibes.
A few people have said this, others call out Shinobi as another game it looks similar to.
looks aweome! i love the new MD escene, thanks for that preview!
It's great, so many cool games in development.
Rea;lly great looking game it is Mike. I really want this in my Sega Genesis collection and It's been a while since I demanded myself for a new Genesis game bro. 8^)
Anthony...
It's certainly looking good Anthony. Are you going to get Final Vendetta on the Neo Geo?
Those are some amazing intros. Presentation of those are insane.
They look great, the voice samples are awesome for the MD.
@@RetroGamerBoy indeed ;). She got some great assets for sure XD.
Wow this game looks amazing 😍 thanks for sharing it with us.
It's great to play, the demo is up on their site.
It looks really neat, but I hope they adjust the main characters sprite before release. She seems to be in a different scale than the environment, and she's taller than the enemies as well. I know that this is totally nitpicking when the games looks and sounds this great, but once you notice it its hard to ignore. But again, if THAT would be the only issue, then its a mark of a great game!
Maybe she is just a tall lady...
Life on Earth looks excellent. Love the Blade Runner backdrops with the Robocop v Terminator look and play style
Yup, I was thinking of Robocop Vs Terminator when I played this.
What developer's can do without time or financial constraints. Game looks awesome.
Indie Devs make some of the best games out there.
The gun sounds like the gauss cannon from Descent 2 😮
It's does, good call.
In a private gaming group chat, we were discussing this game and your video (all good). We all had the same question, are there levels other than street levels?
Yes, there is a laboratory, a factory, a space agency launch site... And not all levels are linear
The Dev team have the answer for you👍
Wondering how much the game capacity is.
2mb
@@RetroGamerBoy So is 16mbit right? That era game company use this unit.
Más viva que nunca Genesis, es un placer ver tus vídeos.
Thank you, and yes there are so many great games for the console.
That looks stunning! Do they sell a digital version? I play retro games in MiSTER.
I think it's only a physical release.
Enjoyed Life on Mars. I'll definitely be picking this one up!
Snap!!
Why is the intro so... Sexy? 😇😅
Seriously, I'm pre-ordering this game right now! Loved Life on Mars!
Kai-Magazine deserves our support!!!
Thank you very much!
Yes they do. The developers making these new games for old consoles are doing a grand job.
I didn't even think the Genesis was capable of generating voices that
sound clear like that
then you probably missed space harrier 2, e-swat, mickey mania, mega turrican, speedball 2, dynamite headdy, NBA jam, demolition man and so on...
recent sound drivers sure make it easier to do clear voices on mega drive/genesis but it's a baffling misconception to think that it wasn't already the case back then!
It's amazing to hear the clarity.
How they've put so many dialogue wow
It's amazing
Very nice walkthrough Mike! 👍🙏 The visuals look amazing and you pointed out interesting elements which I didn’t notice. I was amazed with how much vocal they could afford to put into a MD game intro, incredible!
I was surprised by that as well, it felt almost like a Mega CD game.
I love the new intro scene you've got. It's fun and makes you a part of your favorite games.
It still needs a little work, but it is better than the previous version.
Thank you Mike. I'm checking daily to see once the pre-orders are up. You you purchasing one for the collection as well?
Anthony..
Yup I have my pre-order in.
Considering how few Mega Bytes can a cartridge hold how the hell did they manage to do a full intro with full animations and voices?
It's coding wizardry