They’ve gone a bit backward over on the official Sony blog. Obvious and unfunny puns aside, the developers of Retro / Grade have posted the above video and talked a little bit about their upcoming game.
It’s a shooter crossed with a rhythm game – and everything’s going backwards. As Matt Gilgenbach of 24 Caret Games explains:
Ace fighter pilot Rick Rocket… has just saved the universe. Unfortunately, the massive destruction he left in his wake has caused a temporal anomaly that reversed the flow of time. You must assume control of Rick’s spacecraft and fight through the epic space battle… in reverse!…
…In order to protect the health of the space/time continuum, Rick must undo his actions exactly the reverse of the way he performed them in the first place. That means he has to get in the appropriate space lane from which his shot was fired and press the shoot button at the appropriate time. As well, he must avoid blocking the path of the enemy shots as they return to the enemy’s guns. If he blocks their path, it creates a paradox since he is stopping the shot before it was ever fired.
It’s also confirmed that the title will support Guitar Controllers, completing that rhythm game feel.
