{"id":117770,"date":"2020-09-09T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/were_getting_a_new_pocky_and_rocky_game_on_nintendo_switch"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:45:00","slug":"were-getting-a-new-pocky-rocky-game-on-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/09\/were-getting-a-new-pocky-rocky-game-on-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re Getting A New Pocky & Rocky Game On Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taito and Natsume Atari have just announced that a new entry in the KiKi KaiKai<\/strong> series (known as Pocky & Rocky<\/strong> in the west) is coming to Switch.<\/p>\n

According to Weekly Famitsu, KiKi KaiKai: Kuro Mantle no Nazo<\/strong> (that’s a tentative title) is being developed by Tengo Project, a team within Natsume Atari which is formed of staff who worked on the 1992 SNES title KiKi KaiKai: Nazo no Kuro Mantle<\/strong>, including Toshiyasu Miyabe.<\/p>\n

Miyabe had this to say about the announcement:<\/p>\n

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We started work on a sequel with the thought that if we didn\u2019t respond to requests for a remake now, we wouldn\u2019t have the chance in the future considering the staff\u2019s age. While you may think it\u2019s a remake, it\u2019s a completely new title. It\u2019s loaded with new elements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The KiKi KaiKai series began life in arcades in 1986. The aforementioned SNES title gave the franchise global fame and would inspire a 16-bit sequel called KiKi KaiKai: Tsukiyo Soushi<\/strong> (Pocky & Rocky 2<\/strong> in the west) as well as a Game Boy Advance entry called KiKi KaiKai Advance<\/strong> (Pocky & Rocky with Becky<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Tengo Project also worked on The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors<\/a><\/strong> and Wild Guns Reloaded<\/a><\/strong>, both of which updated existing series for a new generation, to great success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taito and Natsume Atari have just announced that a new entry in the KiKi KaiKai series (known as Pocky & Rocky in the west) is coming to Switch. According to Weekly Famitsu, KiKi KaiKai: Kuro Mantle no Nazo (that’s a tentative title) is being developed by Tengo Project, a team within Natsume Atari which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}