You know what time it is
In what is only the third ever piece of videogame-related media to make me weep at my keyboard, Volgar the Viking devs and retro specialists Digital Eclipse have announced a Power Rangers videogame - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind. It’s a 90s-style 2D brawler for up to five players, involves “time twisting”, and has mode-7-esque arcade shooter bits together with its own spin on the TV show’s climactic mecha transformation sequences.
I haven’t been this shaken by an announcement trailer sinceSonic Mania. Here it is.
“Celebrate three decades of Power Rangers in a new experience that blends brawling, blasting, fighting, and driving action,” readsa post on the developer’s site. “Experience the origins of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers again - for the first time!” Ack, I can feel the years peeling away.
The game tells an original story that “respects and remixes” Power Rangers with a mix of “classic game genres” and “favourite moments from the series”. The game’s big bad is a robotic reincarnation of legendary screechy witch Rita, who has formed an alliance with her younger self??? The classic power move. Robo-Rita’s ability to “rewind, rewrite, and remix the past” is, of course, the narrative basis for the game’s splicing of playstyles and scenarios.
