Senseï is the undisputed chieftain. His followers are used to every martial, extortion and infiltration practices. Pony and Biki are his best students, his true pride. This duet masters the chakra technique on the fingertips and hoofs. Together, they rule on the city and its surroundings. Although everyone respects and fears them, they are hunted by the law enforcement.
They are Ninjas.
Crouching Pony Hidden Dragon is an Action/RPG type of game, totally novel and initially developed for SNK’s Neo-Geo console.
Under his false look of simple arcade game, CPHD hides a persistent world of rich and various rules, where « run’n gun » mechanics like Shock Troopers or Ninja commando, mix themselves with playful « RPG » ones, like in Zelda or Secret of Mana. Indeed, in CPHD, you absolutely have to explore every level to find the necessary resources for your progression (life bonus, resurrection potion or special Ninja techniques). Treasure chests are hidden everywhere. You’ll have to find them to afford equipment upgrades in the shops. By confronting your enemies, you’ll win some experience points that will make you level up and become stronger.
Be careful, you’ll have to use your life and money resources wisely as they are limited and if you don’t prepare yourself in the armory you highly risk going through a hard time.
Try to play in Cooperation, it’s even more funny and strategic. The resources number stays the same, will you know how to share?
Good adventure !
Why choosing to create a game on Neo-Geo?
Several reasons have pushed us to develop on this console. The Neo -Geo is a legendary console that made us dream throughout childhood and teenage years. So when we decided to bring our character Ninja Pony to life, we wanted his early adventures to take place in the universe of Neo-Geo. Being born into this world, the “Rolls Royce” of consoles, is a welcome gift we offer Ninja Pony. In addition, it made sense in relation to the character's story. Crouching Pony Hidden Dragon (CPHD) narrates the teenage years of Ninja Pony. If we make a parallel with the story of video games, Neo-Geo represents the teenage years of video gaming.
It allows us to register him in the story of videogames, as a Sonic or a Mario. A way to go back in time!
Finally, there was also a technical challenge we were willing to take up. We realized there were very few traces and tools to develop a game on Neo-Geo. We found that knowledge was disappearing... As archaeologists, we then investigated how these games were developed. We created our own production chain, reworked directly in pixel art, etc. We benefited from the acquired experience and then returned to the old methods, to remove the dust from their slots! It was an exciting job, a video game craftsman job!
Why PC?
When we announced the Neo-Geo game, many have expressed their regret of not being able to play CPHD. As Cortex ambition is to offer original playful experiences to the largest number, we did not want to be elitist, nor save this experience for older gamers who had experienced the Neo-Geo. So we have decided to adapt the Neo-Geo experience on today’s gamers platform: PC.
It's a interesting little game, have to match colors (Red or blue attack.) or the attack gets deflected or you can melee but that puts you in greater risk. (Since you only have red and blue you need to melee purple objects/enemies.)
Quite a difficult game or at least I've not had much luck getting anywhere, you only have one life and when that's depleted (Health is rare unless you go to a store and buy it there.) you start over from the beginning of the current stage and the levels are pretty large and quite open too.
It's a interesting little game, have to match colors (Red or blue attack.) or the attack gets deflected or you can melee but that puts you in greater risk.
Sounds like Ikaruga
I hadn't even heard of this but I'll definitely check it out when I can, thanks guys.
thx for impressions JB
was kinda surprised when i saw that they are releasing it on NeoGeo aswell as steam in this day and age They even ensured that they have prepared all cartridges prepared for NeoGeo version to match with steam date
It's not the only new NG title, it's an old - but still powerful - machine so there's been a number of homebrew/3rd party titles released over the years. NG.DEV.TEAM, in particular, are an indie studio that have put out five newer titles on NG and DC. The costs for the carts are INSANE though ... so... really.. not much different to 1995, heh.
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They even ensured that they have prepared all cartridges prepared for NeoGeo version to match with steam date 
) and strong language in the game.
