Nordic Games has announced that Legend of Kay: Anniversary- a remastered of the 10-year-old game- will be released this Summer.
The PS2 original Legend of Kay was so well received that a Nintendo DS version was developed soon after. That one was much less well received and fans feared that it might be it for the adventures of their favorite cat martial artist, but this Anniversary Edition is giving hope for the future. The Anniversary edition is coming to Wii U, PS4, Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and Mac, (sorry, Xbox One players) and will retail between USD/EUR 19.99 and 29.99 depending on platform.
“It has been a pleasure to work with KAIKO and having the opportunity bringing Kay back to life again," comments Gennaro Giani, producer & localization manager at Nordic Games. “Legend of Kay is pure action-gaming with fantastic 3D Platformer Elements and a wonderful Soundtrack. My personal tagline for Legend of Kay: Easy to learn, hard to master.”
"Legend of Kay was a true gem on the Playstation 2 platform,” adds Reinhard Pollice, business & product development director at Nordic Games. “Our strategy is to focus on our IPs and make them available to as many players as possible and also on the current generation of consoles. We keep our options open to expand on the Legend of Kay franchise in the future."
"Working on Legend of Kay Anniversary was and still is quite remarkable," comments Peter Thierolf, founder and managing director at KAIKO. "We were able to rediscover the attention to detail with which the original game had been crafted and pushed ourselves to be true to that original spirit. This was about the best time we had within the last couple of years.
As you can see from the screens, it looks like the entire game has been overhauled to take advantage of the new systems' power.
In the game you play as the titular character, a kung-fu fighting cat who is equally adept with his paws and his weaponry. The original was praised for its combination of great fighting gameplay and platforming action as you saw Kay fight against the gorillas that are orpressing his cat people.
More details about the game's release are coming shortly! You can check out its Steam page here for more.
