WrestleQuest was shaping as much as be a breath of recent air based mostly 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 grow to be 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 only a few hours earlier than showtime, Mega Cat Studios pulled the sport.
“When performing ultimate checks on one in all our launch platforms, we found it was doable for gamers to lose their save recreation progress when taking part in WrestleQuest on a number of completely different units,” the event staff posted on Twitter. “As a result of it is a recreation stuffed with hours of content material and participant progress is so essential, we may 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 strictly two weeks away, and nonetheless offers WrestleQuest time to sneak out on to PlayStation, Xbox, Swap, 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 opinions weren’t, and to date opinions on the sport have been combined. A couple of opinions have known as it a good, nostalgia-fueled RPG with a novel take on the wrestling recreation style. Different assessments have been much less glowing. GameSpot lauded WrestleQuest’s “vibrant ambiance” however known as it a “irritating expertise” general. Gamers can discover out for themselves later this month.