Well, we already know that Crow has at least a different mech for both of the boss fights we've seen, but we don't know if he ever goes through a boss without a mech to just fight a hero mano-a-mano, though given that this is a platformer I wouldn't rule it out.
That said, since this the point of the game's boss fights is to have Crow be in a giant machine to slap a comparatively-tiny hero that can only use their powers and weapons, I imagine he'll stick to having mechs.
edited 19th Sep '14 4:58:03 AM by TechPowah
The New Age of Awesome is here! Not even the sky is the limit!Man, that was intense. I was on the edge of my seat during the last minutes of the campaign. Gonna be honest, as the deadline crept closer, I began to lose hope. The final push was insane.
I'm super glad this got funded. I've always wanted a game like this. I was a huge fan of Dr. Eggman growing up, and always wanted a game starring him. Mad scientists are one of my favorite character archetypes, so I already love the concept.
I'm interested to hear more of Matthew Taranto's music, too. Plus the character designs are really great and the game looks beautiful. I can hardly wait.
Some more news has popped up recently:
-Given the customary 2-week holding period on backer funds from Kickstarter, production will officially go into full swing in October.
-The game now has a PayPal account set up for post-funding backers. However, certain reward tiers are still limited, and tiers involving physical rewards are all but discontinued for now (but may come back later.)
-The first stretch goal for the game has been revealed: a musical level involving a group of heroes called the Treble Rangers trying to foil Crow's plans. Of course, being a musical, this level would have the accompaniment provided by Matt Taranto.
-Sorry if I either missed it happen or just didn't see it the first time, but beyond the news on Kickstarter, Nefarious also got Steam Greenlit, so at the very least the game is guaranteed a PC version.
edited 24th Sep '14 3:34:47 AM by TechPowah
The New Age of Awesome is here! Not even the sky is the limit!edited 27th Oct '14 1:14:14 AM by TechPowah
The New Age of Awesome is here! Not even the sky is the limit!Boss fight preview, and the BGM inside the Soverign.
The game cools off a bit with the reveal of the Russia-flavored kingdom, Winterdown.
The poster, the preview of the lava kingdom, and Winterdown's music.
Anyone like museums? Well, here's one anyway.
Don't know when, but they've added a store page to steam for the game, and a new trailer.
I wonder how the RPG style reverse boss fight will work... maybe by determining what That One Attack is, and spamming it on the healer?
Nefarious just came out today, actually! You can totally buy it on Steam right now!
Part of me wants to go buy it straight away, but part of me is wondering if I preordered it through slacker backer or not.
Edit: Literally as I made that post, my pre-order key arrived in my inbox, so it's a good thing I didn't buy it the moment the notifications appeared.
edited 23rd Jan '17 9:45:53 PM by Ekimmak
We'll definitely need to take a pass at the character page. I've mostly beaten the game (not 100%, but seen the good and bad endings), and there's a lot more to it than the initial glance gave it. Princess Mayapple, for example, can end up dating a female villain (or at least, shows in interest in it), Princess Tephra will actually backhand Crow out of the room when he tries to kidnap her, and so he has to go with her brother instead, Becky will betray you if you take the secret good ending, and Princess Farrah Day temporarily becomes a goddess with the power to wipe out all life as we know it.
At the very least, Mayapple has a tsundere "I'm going to beat you senseless" sprite that doesn't match up with any incarnation of Princess Peach I know of, so I'm thinking that she's an expy in image only.
edited 24th Jan '17 4:15:35 AM by Ekimmak

Straight from a freshly-funded Kickstarter campaign
comes Nefarious, a side-scrolling platform game by StarBlade Games that ignores goody two-shoes heroes to focus on premier supervillain Crow.
Plotting world domination, Crow (assisted by his secretary Becky and an army of henchman) goes across the globe snatching princesses from out of their kingdoms! To do that though, Crow needs to use ingenious use of platforming skills and various explosives to avoid the law.
The most intriguing aspect of the gameplay comes at each world's closing times; at the end of a world, a superhero challenges Crow to try and save the princesses, serving as the game's boss fights. In a change of pace for the genre, however, instead of just you against a giant robot contraption by various game's villains, Crow himself being the bad guy means its you in the big bad mech stomping those crummy heroes out, turning "play as the boss" events from an unlockable feature into standard procedure.
With a traditionally-animated art style inspired by Earthworm Jim and musical knowhow by Matthew "TriforceBun" Taranto (Brawl in the Family, Tadpole Treble, Phoenix Wright Musical Project), its a good time to be bad.
The main site for the game can be found here
edited 24th Sep '14 3:39:19 AM by TechPowah
The New Age of Awesome is here! Not even the sky is the limit!