Yay! Yuji Naka’s Rodea the Sky Soldier still exists!

3DS version is reportedly 70% complete

Oh, wow! Never thought I’d hear about this guy again! What a pleasant surprise!

About two and a half years back, Yuji Naka’s Prope studio announced a new Wii / 3DS title called Rodea the Sky Soldier, which looked like a much more action-oriented NiGHTS into Dreams. The title sounded promising enough that I named it one of my most anticipated games of 2012, but unfortunately, publisher Kad🍃okawa Shoten decided to sit on the and ♏offer no further details on the state of the 3DS version.

In a recent with 4Gamer, Kadokawa president Yoshimi Yasuda revealed that the game is still coming and that the reason for the silence was simply a lack of media interest (Hey! I was interested!). Since the Wii version relies heavily on the Wii Remote, the past year or so has been spent working with the 3DS to figure out a sensible con🐼trol scheme. The 3DS build is currently 70% complete, and more information will arrive in the near future.

I’m super stoked that Rodea wasn’t scrapped, though I wonder what Prope and Kadokawa plan on doing with the Wii version. Perhaps they’ll use the knowledge gleaned from their 3DS experience towards a Wii U up-port, which will of course still allow the option to use the Wii Remote as originally intended. I don’t care what they decide on; I just want this game.

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