Retro game revivals are more popular than ever, and while many, like Bubsy 4D, attempt to resurrect fond memories of old series, games like Silent Planet - Elegy of a Dying World try something more daring: to take all that nostalgia and make something new but familiar.
Co-founder and creative director James Alex Santoro talks about that lineage in pretty direct terms too, pointing to retro game console legacy releases, like SNES-era touchstones Super Metroid and Demon’s Crest, but also going further back into the Sega Genesis catalogue where things get rougher around the edges, more abrasive in the best way: “We were mostly influenced by games such as Flashback, Chakan: The Forever Man, and X-Men, all of them on Sega Genesis. There’s a distinct grittiness that elevates their visuals.”
