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[pixelarcstudios]

The Bushiden Kickstarter is live! Check out the trailer below and you can view the Kickstarter here: https://t.co/fVYuLhGSLw





Story

Your sister has vanished and rumors swirl that Gaoh has been resurrected with an evil army at his command. Explore for cybernetic upgrades until you are powerful enough to defeat the diabolic Gaoh and his cybergentic army once and for all in this futuristic, action platformer!

Features  
    

• 7 levels to explore plus a prologue area!
• Survive epic boss fights to unlock new traversal and combat abilities!
• Unique "crowd control" combat system gives the player powerful options for dispatching hordes of foes!
• Revisit levels with upgraded abilities to unlock new areas and become more powerful!
• Beautifully drawn and animated pixel art! They don't make games like this anymore!
• Purchase upgrades and Chi Spell Attacks from the Tech Shop!

Media

Story Trailer:





Gameplay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoQjh6PYivQ

Music:

Michael Kelly (of VA-11 HALL-A fame) is composing the soundtrack for Bushiden. He's just released a couple of snippets from the OST. You can listen to them here:

https://twitter.com/garoadmusic/status/966444226354597888

https://twitter.com/garoadmusic/status/966446147031257088

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Vv_kF_UCo&t=51s

Gifs:

Shop (WIP)



Screens:















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[joey4track]

Hell yeah! Giving me them Stryder feels!! I imagine you already have the music but if not check me out, I love making music of the 'cyber' variety 

[surt]

Them arts are all sorts of sexy.

[Bad_Dude 2017]

looks good

[jg.camarasa]

This looks fucking good honestly

[B]

Dang those sprites look great, I can't wait to see it in motion!

[pixelarcstudios]

Thanks, everyone! We are super excited to share the game with all of you Footage and all kinds of exciting announcements are coming REALLY soon. I'm not sure how well the description gets it across, but I wanted to share with all of you how the game is set up. It's basically Mega Man meets Metroid. You can play the initial 6 levels in any order and you get upgraded traversal and combat abilities when you clear a level. However, you can revisit levels that you cleared with your new upgrades and gain access to areas that you previously were unable to enter. Completing all 6 levels unlocks the final area of the game

All of the exploration elements are completely optional and you can play through the game without doing any of it. Although, you'd miss out on a lot of cool stuff if you did that :p

[DrDerekDoctors]

Yum! Followed!

[BrashMonkey]

WOW! This game looks fantastic!  It would look even better (sprites showing up more easily and more sense of depth) if you tweaked the palette to lowered the contrast of the far and mid background a bit more. Not to reduce detail or saturation, just to make the darks a tiny bit less dark and the highlights a little less bright. Right now everything in the far and mid BG layers is almost demanding as much attention from the eye (also because it's gorgeous) as the important foreground platform areas and sprites.

Of course, this would be like polishing an already near flawless gem.


Regardless of my 2 cents, this is one of the most beautiful and exciting pixel art game projects I've ever seen. I'll certainly make sure all my friends follow the progress and I'll be among the first in line to get the full game once you release it.

[Roel]

Spectacular! Love the arcadey vibe. Best of luck to you!

[Fat Pug Studio]

This one's a gem, it's beautiful 

[pixelarcstudios]

New city environment for Bushiden:

[SolarLune]

Hah, the art's fantastic. Very well done, indeed.

[pixelarcstudios]

Bushiden lab environment. Stay tuned for some cool stuff coming later this week!

[jctwood]

The kind of scanline effect is really great! It would be amazing to see the game in motion, is there some gameplay somewhere?

[joey4track]

Dude IKR I am in love with those scanlines. And there is so much depth in those shots for a pixel game, wow   

[pixelarcstudios]

Bushiden desert area:

[pixelarcstudios]

Bushiden Gameplay snippet:

[darrenagar]

woah! everything about this is so my jam. how much inspiration are you taking from Strider? and if so, which does it resemble most in terms of gameplay progression: single levels like 1, split into stages like 2?   

[fskn]

Frikken beautiful!