Metal Canary Shown Off In New Footage.

Hello! First off, sorry for the delay; we’ve had a fairly huge computer crash so that set things back plus life has got in the way, but here we are.

Some months ago, you may remember that we talked about an upcoming shump by Titan Game Studios which would be releasing on the Dreamcast some time this year. As it stands, there now is a few gameplay previews of the work in progress build, as you would expect there’s plenty of hectic bullets flying around the screen and tonnes of action already. Hopefully when the game is nearing release, Titan can find a publisher for the game in Europe, retaining that stunning cover artwork. 

The Dreamcast certainly has it’s share of shooters, most of which have released in the years after it’s commercial death in 2001. At one point, every independent release seemed to be shooter, but that has stagnated in recent years with Pixelheart mostly handling that genre and even then, there hasn’t been a game released this year so far that covers this category, Andro Dunos 1 & 2 still pending at time of writing. It’s good then to see another team from another side of the world stepping in to provide DC fans with another game for their library. 

 

If you’re on Twitter, feel free to check out the Metal Canary updates over there where new gameplay and features are shown off fairly regularly. 

https://twitter.com/metal_canary

Metal Canary Heading to Dreamcast in 2022.

It hasn’t been terribly long since a slew of new Dreamcast software was announced, gone are the days where we would be waiting years for a new project to show up for our beloved retro console of choice, but the times have changed and more games make their way over to the console thankfully.

One such game is Metal Canary, an interesting looking vertical shooter which looks to play like Capcom’s best efforts for the Dreamcast back in 2000. The game is built from the ground up using the KallistiOS, supporting VMU saving, rumble pack and most likely VGA output too.

The game is being developed by Titan Game Studios and what looks to be a developer named Frost Byte.

Keep an eye on the Facebook page, Sega Ultimate for more details on this promising looking game which includes some off TV footage of the slick intro and introductory level.

A demo is set to be released later this year, we can’t wait to give this one a try!

In other news, it would appear that the recently released Dreamcast game, The Textorcist has shipped with a bug in the software. A number of players of the game have reported that both the limited edition and standard edition discs experience a lock up on the game’s third battle which requires the player to defuse bombs that the enemy character has deployed. Thankfully video footage has been sent to GameFairy to help rectify this situation but one has to wonder the logistical nightmare surrounding a potential fix should all the discs in fact be faulty. Let’s hope the situation can be worked around in a simple manner. Ironically, the video footage we used to initially review the game was previous to this point – had I not pressed the wrong button which caused me to restart, this glitch would have happened in the footage also.

Despite the bug, the game is actually very promising and with all this ironed out, we strongly recommend the game.