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Hold me closer Cannon Dancer...




Cannon Dancer is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 and Xbox for the first time ever, with a planned release in Q1 2023.

After being released during the 90s fighting-game hype Cannon Dancer, also known as “Osman” in the US, slowly began to fade out of arcades due to the small number of units. Over the years, the title became a video game legend, with fans around the globe interested in getting their hands on it. Almost 30 years later, ININ Games has teamed up with two key members of the original development team to finally bring the game to modern home consoles: the game designer Kouichi Yotsui (also known as "Isuke" and famous for his work on “Strider”) and the artist Takashi Kogure (better known as “Utata Kiyoshi”).

About Cannon Dancer:
Cannon Dancer is an Action Jump & Run set in a dystopian late 21st century, in which the world is under the control of a single federal government. One day, a new threat known as "Abdullah the Slaver" - an evil sorceress who wants to take control of the world - appears, causing widespread terror and panic. This fear incites the abandonment of all economic activity and corruption in the government, which now undermines the foundations of society itself. Judicial Affairs Director, Jack Layzon, fears the worst and summons a lone assassin.

The player controls a Cannon Dancer called Kirin; a top-class agent in a mercenary unit known as "Teki”, and a highly skilled martial arts fighter. As he travels, he has to face not only Abdullah the Slaver and the government forces but also the other members of the Teki, who want him dead for personal reasons.

Features:
- Ported on modern consoles for the first time in history
- Classic retro games mechanics, praised for their speed and agility
- A total of six stages set in different, exotic locations
- Three different types of power-ups
- Tons of bosses and enemies
- Variety of wondrous retro scenarios and graphics with bright and even psychedelic colors, related to the final bosses of each stage
- Rewind feature
- Save and Load feature

 

[baphomet]

Cool to see this finally get ported even if it's 25 years late.

 

[Toots]

Real cool !
I hope "Abdullah the slaver" doesn't rustle too much jimmies, this game needs to do well so we have other arcade gems ports.

Edit : Op it is nice of you to have adapted the plot summary in something you should have kept the wiki plot summary intact, it is a glorious mix of pseudo intellectual jargon and weird translation that made japanese 90s games stories so great

"It is the late 22nd century, and the world has come under the control of a single federal government. One day a new threat known as Abdullah the Slaver appears, causing widespread terror and panic. The fear in men's hearts incites the abandonment of all economic activity. The federal government, which is the foundation of capitalism and modern civilization, has become nothing less than an insidious idea that corrupts the foundations of society itself.
It destroys the idiosyncrasies and variations among national viewpoints, stifling them in the name of "freedom" and its own internal ideals."

 

[anthony2690]

I have never seen or heard of this game before, but this looks excellent!

I wish inin would bring pocky and rocky reshrined to Xbox though!

 

[Kuranghi]

This trailer cause me to enter the rare state of "craughing", which only happens when I think something is simultaneously very cool but also very silly. I think it's the music that tops it off.

Looks brilliant

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Another strider game?

 

[Soltype]

Wonder if they'll translate all the Japanese text?