This is from April 2022 - looks like one Toaplan-crazed content creator might have spilled the beans all the way back then.jehu wrote:There's an (as far as I can tell) unsubstantiated rumor floating around that Zero Wing / Hellfire are up next. I hope this doesn't end up being true, because I'd much rather have Tatsujin / Oh! - and ZW/HF are already working fantastic on mister. (And, even though I have the option, I never really feel like playing them there. Will still pick 'em up, though.)
It would be a departure from the initial promise of K. Tiger, Hishouzame, Tatsujin, Out Zone. But, from a hardware perspective, it seems to make sense. They've done Fire Shark, so both Zero Wing and Hellfire - all sharing a common underlying architecture - shouldn't require a ton of new technical investment. They'll have to figure out how to implement their gadgets for the new screen format, but I'd guess that's easier than getting Tatsujin Oh working. Maybe we can expect something similar to the Darius gadgets, but I hope they adapt the scrolling map thing somehow.
I'd love to be wrong. My true self wants Tatsujin / Oh! + Demon's World, too.
Though user "redfox" takes the prediction cake prior to me, and without the privileged information - as long as Dash Yarou ends up being the bonus game. I'm still pulling for Demon's World. The bonus artwork of the blond haired, mustachioed protagonist as a grotesque, hyper-realistic roided-up terror might sooth my scorned desire for literally any other pair.
It occurred to me that Zero Wing / Hellfire have the advantage of having easy-to-emulate console ports - they need this for the DLC. Selling the DLC ports is part of their business model. Porting over Outzone/Fixeight would jam that up. Puts into focus why they were considering a Tatsujin/Daisenpuu collection rather than Tatsujin/Ou.
I hope they mess around with the Zero Wing MD endings. I think the recent Retro-Bit rerelease translated all the endings into English. Hard to imagine those translations would be included in M2's famously JPN-only releases, but it would be nice if they mess had a selection menu to let you see some of the #35 variants.