Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy has re-emerged, 5 years after its launch, with a brand new Change 2 model… and a few followers hope it might result in a sequel.
Throughout right now’s Nintendo Direct, followers had been shocked to study that Eidos Montreal’s Guardians of the Galaxy recreation is coming again. It is getting a brand new “Encore Version,” unique to Nintendo Change 2, which not solely brings the sport to a brand new platform, but additionally provides new content material like particular outfits for the cosmic heroes. This information got here as a little bit of a shock, for the reason that recreation missed gross sales expectations regardless of having nice opinions, so followers assumed that we would by no means see this iteration of the Guardians ever once more.
Now, this new launch has some hoping that the Guardians might stay on. Over on social media, excited followers are pleading to Marvel and Eidos Montreal to provide a sequel. Perhaps a Change 2 model could possibly be used to check the waters, but it surely’s onerous to say. Both means, it is nice to see such a beloved recreation discovering its means again into the market, and hopefully, it may create some demand for one more entry within the sequence.
“Don’t sleep on this recreation, Change gamers. It’s fu**ing dope,” mentioned one fan. “Do your self a favor and choose this up! It’s a GREAT recreation! I hate the truth that this gem received neglected (and Midnight Suns as nicely btw),” famous one other.
“Can we simply get a sequel? The folks have been asking for years,” requested one other fan. “Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy 2, please,” one other pleaded.
These are removed from the one folks asking for a sequel or begging new gamers to test it out; the feedback beneath the announcement posts from Marvel Video games and the recreation’s official account are flooded with related responses.
Guardians of the Galaxy has seemingly had legs through the years. A yr after its launch, the group behind the sport introduced it had reached 8 million gamers, partially because of the sport’s inclusion on providers like Xbox Recreation Move. It is unclear how many individuals have performed it since then, but it surely’s ceaselessly deeply discounted, so the numbers have seemingly solely grown a good bit within the final 4 years. Eidos Montreal additionally said that it had no regrets over the sport, regardless of it not being an enormous vendor.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Version will hit Nintendo Change 2 on November 5. Whether or not it will get overshadowed by the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time stays to be seen, however hopefully it may discover a new viewers on the platform.
Cade Onder
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