The official Space Channel 5 Twitter account has some news for💖 us: the long-dormant franchise will be coming back in Spring of 2020. The account, which mostly posts in Japanese, made a couple rare English-language tweets announcing the game's return.
The announcement appeared to be linked a , Space Channel 5 VR Kinda Funky News Flash. The game was promised to be more than a simple remake of the original game, which starred musical reporter Ulala as she attempted to take on the Morolians who invaded earth and forced its inhabitants toౠ dance.
The original announcement had no release date, though it said that the new VR release would completely rebuild the game from the ground up, both in story, graphics and gameplඣay.
One major change, the announcement said, was that players would not play as Ulala, bu🐬t rather work alongside her. The reason for this change was that the team creating the game felt that players should be able to inte🎃ract with the series' iconic protagonist, in hopes of getting them to "feel that they’re working with her to dance against the aliens to save the earth and march to the end of the galaxy together."
The new announcement also featured a link to Space Channel 5 VR's new , which touts the game'💞s features of moving your body to the rhythm using the game's motion controllers, and the ability to strike poses in order to dodge enemy beams and gain viewer ratings.
In case the descriptions above didn't make it clear, Space Channel 5 is a bit of an odd game. It's the byproduct of the short-lived Dreamcast era, where Sega went all out with a sort of 𒐪hyper-colorful, quirky absurdism that didn't end up jiving with the subdued, "real is brown" way that the games industry ended up heading at the turn of the millennium. Whether or not audiences will be more receptive to this sort of experimental neo-90s attitude in the new decade remains t♒o be seen.