No Joke, PlatinumGames Is Releasing Sol Cresta On The Nintendo Switch
Update [Fri 2nd Apr, 2021 06:35 BST]: Well, if you had any doubts about yesterday s announcement, PlatinumGames has now published
another tweet - this time on April 2nd, Japan time. It reconfirms the
Sol Cresta will arrive on Switch, PS4 and Steam at some point this year.
Here s the official tweet from PlatinumGames English Twitter account:
#SolCresta, the first title in PlatinumGames NeoClassic Arcade series, is coming in 2021 to Nintendo Switch, PS4 & Steam!
It s not an April Fool s joke anymore, it s really happening! pic.twitter.com/TTHAbNI59t PlatinumGames Inc. (@platinumgames) April 2, 2021
Published 1 Apr, 2021
After announcing retro-styled shoot em up Sol Cresta as an April Fool s joke last year, Bayonetta devs PlatinumGames have used this April Fool s Day to. announce retro-styled shoot em up Sol Cresta? Supposedly for really reals this time? A collaboration with Hamster Corporation, it s inspired by 80s shmups Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta, and supposedly launching this year. For real. Maybe. April Fool s Day is bad.
Platinum first announced Sol Cresta in a video on April 1st, 2020, then turned and said it was a joke. Now they ve announced Sol Cresta again, and this time it looks more real?
Sol Cresta has been announced by PlatinumGames, not a joke this time
Neo-Classic Arcade Series Vol. 1 emerges, whatever that means.
Project G.G., and the opening of the PlatinumGames Tokyo studio. The fourth and final announcement, however, turned out to just be a really weird April Fools’ Day joke for a nonexistent shooter game with Hamster called
Sol Cresta. But a year later and in another twist of fate, PlatinumGames and Hamster have announced that
Sol Cresta is now an actual game in development for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam. The game will be “bearing the soul of the classic docking and shooting games
April 1st, 2021
PlatinumGames / Hamster Corporation
How do you follow up an April Fools Day gag that broke the hearts of old-school arcade fans the world over? If you re legendary developer PlatinumGames, the answer is by making that joke into a reality. Exactly one year after teasing
Sol Cresta, the studio announced the game is now in development and plans to release it later this year on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (via
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The game will continue the decades-old Cresta shoot em up series. The first title in the franchise came out all the way back in 1980 and has spawned multiple sequels over the years. You can play two of those,
Sol Cresta. It’s a sequel to the 1985 arcade game
Terra Cresta, and yes, apparently it’s real, despite today’s date.
PlatinumGames announced
Sol Cresta Thursday with a trailer that reveals the game is currently in development for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC. The developer actually “announced”
Sol Cresta on April 1, 2020, a reveal that was widely presumed to be an April Fools’ Day goof. But
Sol Cresta is apparently real, and being developed in collaboration with Hamster Corp. maker of the Arcade Archives brand of retro games which owns the rights to the Cresta series.
The first game in the vertical-scrolling shmup series was