City Connection [128 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/city-connection”>City Connection will re-release CAVE Interactive [49 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/cave-interactive”>CAVE Interactive-developed Shoot ‘Em Up [519 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/shoot-em-up”>shoot ’em up Aka” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/aka”>Akai Katana in 2022, the company announced. Platforms were not announced, but the game was shown running on Switch [11,286 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo/switch”>Switch.
The re-release is being handled by a new, shoot ’em up-centric team within City Connection named TAKExOFF, which is led by City Connection planner Takehiro Eda (Chantake) and Zerodiv [52 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/city-connection/zerodiv”>Zerodiv Fukushima Factory, which is made up of former SPS staff. The same team also handled the December 2021-released Deathsmiles I & II [6 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/deathsmiles-i-ii”>Deathsmiles I & II. The “TAKE” in the name comes from “Takehiro,” and the “OFF”—or “0FF”—comes from “Zerodiv Fukushima Factory.”
Further details were not announced.
Watch the first gameplay footage below (from 33:38 to 36:14).