{"id":132650,"date":"2023-03-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-146603"},"modified":"2023-03-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:00:00","slug":"feature-there-is-a-deep-respect-for-japans-proud-mecha-anime-culture-hidden-in-every-conceivable-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/23\/feature-there-is-a-deep-respect-for-japans-proud-mecha-anime-culture-hidden-in-every-conceivable-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: \u201cThere Is A Deep Respect For Japan’s Proud Mecha Anime Culture Hidden In Every Conceivable Part\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Assault Suits<\/strong> mecha action games arguably deserve a little more attention than they enjoy here in the West. Back in the 1990s, their distinct blend of platforming and run \u2018n\u2019 gun design did indeed see ports from their native Japan to the rest of the world \u2013 sometimes in a heavily localised form \u2013 and they generally impressed critics of the era.<\/p>\n

There have been somewhat more recent re-releases of Assault Suits games too, including to the Wii and Wii U Virtual Consoles. And yet mention of their name on these shores doesn\u2019t quite court the same warm, nostalgic response enjoyed by loosely comparable titles such as Contra<\/a> or Metal Slug<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That may well be because Western players have never been treated to a defining port of the series\u2019 highlight, Assault Suits Valken<\/a>. In 1993 it came to PAL territories in a heavily censored, edited form as Cybernator<\/strong> \u2013 and it is that version that has previously been ported here. In mere days, however, that is all set to change.<\/p>\n

Retro revival maestros M2 \u2013 the talent behind the staggeringly polished, ambitious ShotTriggers<\/a> line of shmup ports \u2013 have teamed up with Rainmaker Productions to deliver Assault Suits Valken Declassified<\/a> on Switch. Bundling up a faithful, uncensored port of the original Japanese release with all manner of additional materials such as a translated recreation of the game\u2019s 80-page guidebook, a developer interview, and pre-production artwork, Declassified aims to finally provide the Assault Suits Valken this part of the world has always deserved.<\/p>\n