PlatinumGames’ Sol Cresta is looking good and crazy

PlatinumGames’ Sol Cresta is looking good and crazy

Once an April Fool’s joke, now April Fool’s woke

PlatinumGames is known for the often offbeat or unexpected projects that it gets itself into (remember Transformers: Devastation?). The company will often even drop fake info about nonexistent concepts just to have a go at its fanbase. But now, one of those jokes has actually become… something.

Back in April 2020 (which is actually measured as decades ago at this point) the company revealed a “joke” game, Sol Cresta, as a sequel to 80s shooters Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta. But now, haha, the joke is actually on us as they’ve decided to actually make the game — and its coming this year. Sol Cresta is a retro shooter, a part of something that Platinum is calling its “Neo-Classic Arcade” and designed around nostalgia for quarter munching. The vertical space-plane shmup retains bullet hell design queues and plenty of explosions. It may be a side project, but the fact that the company is releasing it at all is something of a flex.

Sol Cresta arrives for Switch, PS4, PC and Steam later this year.