{"id":64422,"date":"2018-11-24T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/prepare_for_more_shmup_action_when_hucast_releases_ghost_blade_hd_on_switch_in_2019"},"modified":"2018-11-24T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T04:30:00","slug":"prepare-for-more-shmup-action-when-hucast-releases-ghost-blade-hd-on-switch-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/prepare-for-more-shmup-action-when-hucast-releases-ghost-blade-hd-on-switch-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare For More Shmup Action When Hucast Releases Ghost Blade HD On Switch In 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/65601ba8f37c2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/65601ba8f37c2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Ghost Blade HD1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/65601ba8f37c2\/ghost-blade-hd1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/65601ba8f37c2\/ghost-blade-hd1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Blade HD1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As niche as the shoot &#8217;em up genre might be, on the Switch it\u2019s growing in size by the day. If <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/ghost_blade_hd\">Ghost Blade HD<\/a><\/strong> sounds familiar, that\u2019s because the developer Hucast Games previously released this bullet hell shooter on the Wii U eShop in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The German-based developer has now announced the game will be revived in 2019 for the Nintendo Switch. No exact date has been locked in. The game will support TATE mode for vertical play and will also include leaderboards, achievements and a two player mode. Publishing will be handled by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eastasiasoft?lang=en\">Eastasiasoft Limited<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the official tweets confirming the game\u2019s arrival on Switch:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Be prepared for Ghost Blade HD for Switch #2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GhostBladeHD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GhostBladeHD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Shmup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Shmup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eShop?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eShop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Switch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Switch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ZwWwydOxE\">pic.twitter.com\/8ZwWwydOxE<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Hucast Games (@HucastGames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HucastGames\/status\/1066036449118756864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ghost Blade HD for Nintendo Switch is coming 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2Dream?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#2Dream<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eastasiasoft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Eastasiasoft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Shmup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Shmup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Game?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Game<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Switch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Switch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i7dGDpTbWv\">https:\/\/t.co\/i7dGDpTbWv<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Hucast Games (@HucastGames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HucastGames\/status\/1065952342095392769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As noted in the tweet above, the game will receive both a digital and physical release. In our Wii U eShop review, we gave Ghost Blade HD seven out of ten stars and said it&#8217;s one for hardcore arcade shmup players.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you interested in another shmup on Switch? Did you play this title previously on the Wii U? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As niche as the shoot &#8217;em up genre might be, on the Switch it\u2019s growing in size by the day. If Ghost Blade HD sounds familiar, that\u2019s because the developer Hucast Games previously released this bullet hell shooter on the Wii U eShop in 2017. The German-based developer has now announced the game will be [&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-64422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64422","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=64422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}