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Press release:
Abylight and Locomalito choose Xbox One as their release platform after the success of Cursed Castilla in the Microsoft consoles.

The time to face the menace that threatens the galaxy in Super Hydorah is approaching. Abylight and Locomalito announce from their headquarters the first launch platform for their expected shoot’em up. Super Hydorah will come first to Xbox One during this spring (final release date shall be announced soon). This hectic non-linear game will put your piloting skills to a test in a single player mode as well as in two players co-op.

Thus, Xbox One will be one more time the launch platform for a game by Abylight and Locomalito after the success of Cursed Castilla. This acclaimed arcade has been considered one of the best Xbox One games in 2016 (Metacritic). Now, Xbox One players will be able to enjoy the space challenge of Super Hydorah sooner than anyone!

In Super Hydorah you take control of a Delta Lance fighter ship and face the menace of the Meroptians, a race of biomechanical beings who attacked the star Omnios and put the whole galaxy in danger. Super Hydorah is designed to offer a challenging and memorable experience, just as the traditional SHMUP classics did, and offers you a wide set of different combat situations and unique content that will surprise you and keep you engaged for hours. Super Hydorah is a non-linear game, and there are alternative routes – with multiple endings for better replayability. You will have to become a true master of space warfare with your Delta Lance in order to unveil all the secrets and alternative routes of this challenging SHMUP!

And that’s not all: Super Hydorah features both single and cooperative multiplayer modes. In its intense co-op mode, you will have to work together with a friend in order to overcome the Meroptian threat!

Key features:
– Old-school gameplay: easy to learn, damn hard to master!
– 16-32 bit era look and feel
– 21 levels divided into 35 sublevels, 35 bosses and more than 100 enemies
– 3 games modes: single player, co-op multiplayer and a robot control spin-off mode
– Super accurate analogic control for your Delta Lance fighter
– Non-linear level layout with route selection
– Dangers of different nature in each level (not just bullets!)
– Weapon selection menu, power ups and unlockable new weapons in every mission
– Original soundtrack with more than 60 tracks
– Secret objects and a special heroic ending
– Secrets, achievements and a rank system
– CRT Monitor effect

ABOUT ABYLIGHT STUDIOS
Abylight Studios is a digital entertainment publisher whose career goes back to 2009. Initially focused on Nintendo platforms and smartphones, since 2016 Abylight is striving for platform diversity and including other big creators in its catalogue. Their most recent project is Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX), a remastered version of Locomalito’s classic retroarcade Maldita Castilla. For more information on Abylight Studios, visit their official website, Facebook, and follow @abylight on Twitter.

ABOUT LOCOMALITO
Locomalito shares background with many other kids from the 80s: he grew up playing arcade machines and dreaming about creating his own games. He had ideas and wanted to work on them with a passion. Years later, this vocation drove him to work on those ideas and shape them in his own spare time. His goal: creating video games with an old school flavor – adventures that you could play on a straight run, created with pixel-art and chiptune music and sound.