Sometime soon, the 16-bit-styled pixel-art adventure game Omega 6 The Triangle Stars will be released for PC and Switch. But there will be more than one way to experience the game’s world….a manga book is being produced at the same time and will be released after the game. Both the manga and the game are products of Happymeal, the Japanese studio behind Omega 6. In the US, the manga will be published by Dark Horse.
Takaya Imamura, a former Nintendo art director who has worked on the Star Fox and F-Zero series, created Omega 6 and its main characters, Thunder and Kyla. They’re android bounty hunters who have a unique method of tacking their job: by eating a special kind of fruit, they are able to power up and become nearly invincible. The tradeoff, since there always is one, is that when the effect wears off they’ll age at an accelerated pace unless they can get to their rejuvenation pods and heal in time. You can see how this would be a good mechanic for a game, but what about the manga?
In the printed version, they have a specific target: an assassin named Petrogaze with a $300 million credit bounty on his head. “The job seems easy: the duo plans to power up, bag the bad guy, and be home before dinner,” reads he synopsis. “But Petrogaze is much tougher than anticipated! Forced to consume their fruits early, the bounty hunters are suddenly on a life-or-death timer. Dinner’s gonna have to wait!”
“The video game version is a totally different story,” says Junji Seki, Game Director and President of Happymeal. “Set in the same world as the Omega 6 comic, full of drama-infused encounters and battles with the 100 plus unique aliens created by Imamura-san. I hope you enjoy the adventures of Thunder and Kyla in the game as well as the comic; you may even discover characters making an appearance in both!”
Omega 6 The Triangle Stars will be released for PC and Switch February 28; a physical version of the Switch game will be produced by Limited Run. The manga comes out October 21 for $14.99, and preorders are open at all major retailers.
