{"id":13267,"date":"2018-02-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/retro_shmup_kyogeki_quartet_fighters_blasts_onto_the_japanese_switch_eshop_this_week"},"modified":"2018-02-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:00:00","slug":"retro-shmup-kyogeki-quartet-fighters-blasts-onto-the-japanese-switch-eshop-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/20\/retro-shmup-kyogeki-quartet-fighters-blasts-onto-the-japanese-switch-eshop-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Shmup Kyogeki Quartet Fighters Blasts Onto The Japanese Switch eShop This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese developer Happymeal is bringing retro-style shooter\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/kyogeki_quartet_fighters\">Kyogeki Quartet Fighters<\/a><\/strong> to Switch next week, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, which lists a\u00a0Nintendo eShop release for February 22nd, with a cost of 1,389 Yen.<\/p>\n<p>The game allows up to four players to participate at the same time, and features a <em>&#8220;<\/em>Kyogeki System\u201d which powers up your attacks by pooling the strength of your fellow players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/retro_shmup_kyogeki_quartet_fighters_blasts_onto_the_japanese_switch_eshop_this_week\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/retro_shmup_kyogeki_quartet_fighters_blasts_onto_the_japanese_switch_eshop_this_week\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\" alt=\"Kyogeki-Quartet-Fighters-Ann_02-20-18.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Visually, it looks a lot like the NES version of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/star_soldier\">Star Soldier<\/a><\/strong>, a comparison which is given more weight by the fact that\u00a0Star Soldier\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/milons_secret_castle\">Milon\u2019s Secret Castle<\/a><\/strong> composer Takeaki Kunimoto is in charge of the soundtrack. In case that&#8217;s not authentic enough for you,\u00a0<strong>Tiger Heli<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Twin Cobra\u2018s<\/strong> Tatsuya Uemura contributes the game&#8217;s theme song.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s <em>still<\/em> not enough to convince you, then hear this &#8211; also included is\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/denshikantai-knack\/id1004881877?mt=8&amp;at=1000lrZb\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Denshikantai Knack<\/strong><\/a>, a smartphone title previously released on the iOS App Store.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on a western release, but given how easy it is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/03\/guide_how_to_access_the_nintendo_switch_eshop_for_multiple_regions\">download Japanese games on any Switch<\/a>, that shouldn&#8217;t be a barrier if you&#8217;re interested in this unique-looking blaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese developer Happymeal is bringing retro-style shooter\u00a0Kyogeki Quartet Fighters to Switch next week, it has been revealed. The news comes in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, which lists a\u00a0Nintendo eShop release for February 22nd, with a cost of 1,389 Yen. The game allows up to four players to participate at the same time, and [&hellip;]<\/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-13267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267","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=13267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}