Trailer of the month: an extended look at Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Found, appropriately, via Phil Fish, who called out the original teaser trailer in his Indie Games Summit session as one of the best examples of hooking an audience with an unmissable video: a new, extended look at Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, the forthcoming game from artist Michel Gagne and FuelCell's Joe Olson.
Based on the world Gagne created for the Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets animations shown on Nickelodeon in 2005, Fish is right: there isn't a single second of this video that doesn't make me want to play, though it's still unclear when we might be able to. New posts at the game's blog seem to all but ensure an eventual Xbox Live Arcade release alongside the previously planned PC version, which could put it months away.
But that's a bit beside the point: the point is it's trumped its own record and become one of the most bluntly wicked trailers I've laid eyes on since The Last Guardian, and re-rocketed the game back up my most-anticipated list.
gabrielm
#1 – 4:26 PM July 15, 2009
That looks great!
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On a completely different subject: The drop shadows on bbgadget link:hover are really annoying.
Forrest L Norvell
#2 – 5:52 PM July 15, 2009
It's like they went and made a game just for meeeeeeeeee! So pretty!
brownkidd
#3 – 8:35 PM July 15, 2009
Awesome trailer, indeed. The music totally added to the intensity.
It seems like a lot of indie developers are adopting the Loco Roco/Patapon aesthetic in their games, which is totally find by me. I just hope it doesn't get run into the ground to the point that I'm sick of seeing it.
And for GabrielM's comment, I like the drop shadows!
SamSam
#4 – 9:15 AM July 17, 2009
Trailer dead from copyright claim.
Is there a legal version?
blackhound
#5 – 9:52 AM July 17, 2009
I'm a huge fan of Michel Gagné's work in the Flight anthologies. I've used them to introduce my little sister to comics, and she keeps asking me when the next "Rexy" comic is coming out.
This game, true to form, looks fantastic.
Brandon Boyer
#6 – 10:42 AM July 17, 2009
I've replaced it, let's hope this one holds.
Brandon
#7 – 10:42 AM July 17, 2009
Working link to HD and standard def trailers:
http://michelgagne.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-hd-trailer-on-gametrailercom.html