Neon White is an anime speedrunner full of camp, cards, and colour

2 years 1 month ago

"It'll be a game for freaks," said Ben Esposito of Neon White in a gameplay trailer when it was announced for Nintendo Switch last July.

Really, it's a game for people who like fun, campy, melodrama alongside their speedrunning. In a video preview of the game, Esposito describes Neon White as a speedrunning first person shooter meets visual novel that's "nostalgic but not in a superficial way".

"We really wanted to make a game that felt cool and it really felt like the self-indulgent Y2K anime game of our dreams," he says.

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Ed Nightingale

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