WrestleQuest was shaping as much as be a breath of recent air primarily based on trailers and previews, however gamers will now have to attend an additional few weeks to get their arms on it. The turn-based, wrestling-themed RPG was delayed on the final second after its builders discovered a bug that would destroy gamers’ save information.
The pixel artwork journey follows beginner wrestler Randy “Muchacho Man” Santos as he climbs the underground wrestling circuit to develop into a world champion like his real-world idol, Macho Man Randy Savage. The ring-side theatrics are all in service of tag-team matches full of things, taunts, and particular strikes. It was set to launch at midnight on August 8, however just some hours earlier than showtime, Mega Cat Studios pulled the sport.
“When performing closing checks on considered one of our launch platforms, we found it was attainable for gamers to lose their save sport progress when enjoying WrestleQuest on a number of totally different units,” the event workforce posted on Twitter. “As a result of this can be a sport full of hours of content material and participant progress is so vital, we might by no means bodyslam our followers like that.”
That’s higher than some video games that get launched just for gamers to find save points or different bugs for themselves and see their progress get ritually sacrificed within the course of. August 22 is precisely two weeks away, and nonetheless provides WrestleQuest time to sneak out on to PlayStation, Xbox, Change, and PC earlier than Starfield hits the week after (it’s additionally free on cell with a paid Netflix subscription).
Whereas the sport itself was delayed, early evaluations weren’t, and thus far opinions on the sport have been blended. Just a few evaluations have known as it a good, nostalgia-fueled RPG with a novel take on the wrestling sport style. Different assessments have been much less glowing. GameSpot lauded WrestleQuest’s “vibrant environment” however known as it a “irritating expertise” general. Gamers can discover out for themselves later this month.