Eclosion shooting 'em up on Wii, PSP, XBLA, and PC

by JC Fletcher on Jan 14th 2010 2:00AM

Pyroblazer development teams Candella Systems Ltd. and Eipix Entertainment have announced another flashy multiplatform downloadable title. Eclosion is a vertical shooter for Wii, PC, PSP, and XBLA with something called "Co-op Single Player," which, we're guessing, means either an AI partner or an Echoshift-style mechanic in which you play with previous instances of yourself.

To us, the most interesting part of this game will be its soundtrack. According to the press release, Eclosion features "a blend of modern and authentic retro music created on analogue retro synthesizers like the original SID chip on the Commodore 64."

Oh, and "eclosion" is the hatching of an insect from its egg or pupa case. We had to look it up.

Eclosion (Wii/PSP/XBLA/PC)

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Tags: candella, eclosion, eipix, Microsoft, Nintendo, psn, shmup, Wii, wiiware, xbla, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (3)

its probably coming on psn as well right?

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOFOKsuaCXE

For a moment, I thought we were getting a vertical scrolling shooter which would give us reason to turn the PSP 90 degrees, but the screenshots don't support that. Maybe the co-op single-player is one guy playing 2 ad-hoc-connected PSPs, super Ikaruga-style?

By the way, speaking of the SID, the music that plays when you have Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection in the PS3, with the game's icon highlighted but not yet selected, sounds a lot like SID music to me. It doesn't sound very Genesis-like at all to me and does tricks I typically hear from SID tunes. Am I just imagining things?