Data East's Gory '90s Brawler 'Night Slashers' Is Getting A Remake Later This Month

That main image is pretty ugly. I watched the video and commented on NintendoLife. It looks better in motion. Back to the main image, the black outlines on the werewolves and hockey guy against that background just make them look like flat paper cut outs. Backgrounds seem overly bright and clean for a horror game. Same for the character shading. It's very basic(especially the werewolves) but it's missing a focus on light and shadow that you'd expect from something with a horror theme. As I said, the game looks better in the video, and it is a work in progress, so we'll see how it goes.

This looks really bad.
Terrible sound effects and the graphics are ugly.
Hope we can switch to chunky sprites.

Not feeling this tbh. Sprites have that horrid tweeny earnest evans look to them and everything is super saturated and rusty looking, all the originals personality is p much lost here. No clue why anyone would buy this over the original which is available via Johnny turbos arcade or on mame for free with better accuracy.

Especially with those amazing shadow of the ninja and hebereke/ufouria remakes out likely at the same time and Mario rpg plus paper Mario on the horizon, this is just pathetic in comparison.

Already have the old game on switch, I don't like this new version, the old pixel graphics are better I think 😕

I think developer NatsumeAtari are the best at remaking 2D games, just make the sprite nicer for 1080p resolutions and make the game widescreen, and that's it.

Example of their games: the ninja saviors: return of warriors, pocky & rocky reshrined, and their upcoming shadow of the ninja - reborn (trailer below).

I adore the original. That being said, this looks like a 2008 Adobe Flash game you play in a web browser. Flat, cheap, boring.. all of that.

@Azathoth Exactly my thoughts. It has that "newgrounds" look, if anyone's old enough to remember that platform. All flash games and short films. Castle Crashers also looks like this, but is a way better game and the aesthetics fit way better than with a horror-themed game.

Can you imagine Splatterhouse in this boring flat cel shaded look? Ugh...

One of my sources, close to the development team, told me that an option to select the original art style will be available in the game.
I hope so, because the original art is amazing.
(also, new levels)

https://www.freegameplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Night-Slashers-X-game-download.jpg

I'm going to support this because I love the original but I don't have high hopes for this. Bummer that they pulled the original from the eShop. Even with it being a poor port, I have a feeling it'll be better than whatever this is. Lol, hope I'm wrong.

im starting to warm up to how this looks tbh. obviously the og pixel art looks better but this still doesn't look bad, it's certainly better than cheap 3d models or fugly pre rendered sprites lol

Yes not convinced by the visuals as usual. Can't beat 2D pixel art.

forever entertainment seem to specialise in making remakes worse than the original game. Someone needs to stop them.It's a real shame the original was removed from sale.

It was a good pick for a remake. I wouldn’t play this over the original because the original arcade looks great and is more of that fantastic Japanese pixel art from the 90’s. This is an illustrative style that’s stiffer than the original pixels, it’s not fun looking.

It’s too bad they pulled the original from the shop. I’ll continue to consider it, but in the meantime will be rocking it on mame cab.

I hope The Flying Kick was right in the comment above regarding switching between the old and new art style. That’d be pretty cool!!

Can't wait for the Twitter retro-grifters to pull a Grummz over this.

I'm interested. I love a good beat em up