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TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#1: Sep 18th 2014 at 10:31:16 PM

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

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ekimmak Since: Nov, 2010
#2: Sep 19th 2014 at 12:45:44 AM

I saw the page in the last six hours: they still had $10,000 to go.

Did they make it?

TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#3: Sep 19th 2014 at 12:50:41 AM

They did, with about 10 minutes to go, in fact!

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ekimmak Since: Nov, 2010
#4: Sep 19th 2014 at 1:03:54 AM

Awesome.

I thought that looked like a great game, but I didn't have any money to pay directly for the kickstarter. Hopefully, there will still be a way to get the soundtrack along with the game.

BlazingGuns Since: Aug, 2013
#5: Sep 19th 2014 at 4:41:51 AM

So...big mech fights at the end of each stage? Will you ever get out of the mech/have a new mech?

TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#6: Sep 19th 2014 at 4:54:51 AM

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

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Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#7: Sep 19th 2014 at 8:54:31 AM

Platformers do have times when the boss is human scale. I hope they would give one fight like that just for the variety.

Ishntknew Since: Apr, 2009
#8: Sep 19th 2014 at 9:10:54 AM

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.

TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#9: Sep 19th 2014 at 8:10:05 PM

Ah, I almost forgot to add this stuff: Here is the game's page on Steam Greenlight. Give it a like if you can!

Also, here is a direct link to the game's first trailer!

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TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#10: Sep 24th 2014 at 3:30:01 AM

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

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TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#11: Oct 27th 2014 at 1:13:49 AM

Production has gone full swing as of the 7th, and we have our first look at Crow's ship base/game hub, the Sovereign.

edited 27th Oct '14 1:14:14 AM by TechPowah

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#13: Dec 25th 2014 at 8:31:58 AM

Boss fight preview, and the BGM inside the Soverign.

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TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#15: Mar 1st 2015 at 5:51:13 AM

The game cools off a bit with the reveal of the Russia-flavored kingdom, Winterdown.

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Ekimmak Since: Nov, 2010
#16: Mar 1st 2015 at 1:06:24 PM

It's nice to get these updates. I worry about most kickstarters that seem to vanish after their funding dries up.

TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#17: Mar 31st 2015 at 2:49:01 AM

The poster, the preview of the lava kingdom, and Winterdown's music.

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TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#18: May 2nd 2015 at 2:55:13 PM

Anyone like museums? Well, here's one anyway.

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Ekimmak Since: Nov, 2010
#19: Aug 16th 2016 at 9:33:59 PM

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?

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Ekimmak Since: Nov, 2010
#21: Jan 19th 2017 at 1:35:04 PM

According to the kickstarter page, some time this month. Which is almost over.

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#22: Jan 20th 2017 at 12:35:37 AM

I saw specifically 29th somewhere in googling.

Mechano Since: Jun, 2011
#23: Jan 23rd 2017 at 7:25:28 PM

Nefarious just came out today, actually! You can totally buy it on Steam right now!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/448290/

Ekimmak Since: Nov, 2010
#24: Jan 23rd 2017 at 9:44:46 PM

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

Ekimmak Since: Nov, 2010
#25: Jan 24th 2017 at 3:42:25 AM

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


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