Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind brings the 1990s home this December

You tin observe everything that is nan 1990s connected December 10, 2024, erstwhile Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind launches crossed PC and consoles, developer Digital Eclipse announced Tuesday.

The game, which was announced during Summer Game Fest 2024, is now disposable for preorder crossed each platforms: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Steam, and Nintendo Switch for $35.

Digital Eclipse is known for its remaster-museum games for illustration The Making of Karateka and nan upcoming Tetris Forever. Rita’s Rewind is simply a spot of a guidance displacement for nan studio, arsenic it’s a much modern brawler pinch a retro bent. What starts disconnected arsenic a classical 2D beat-’em-up raises nan stakes by letting you really aviator a Megazord successful epic leader battles reminiscent of nan TV show by transitioning to a 3D Z-axis perspective. Then, erstwhile you conclusion nan first boss, it’ll displacement into a 2.5D fighting game.

In a PlayStation Blog post, Digital Eclipse said nan crippled came retired of wanting to make nan Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 16-bit arcade crippled that nan fans ne'er got. The crippled will return you done scenes and acquainted moments from nan show acknowledgment to Rita’s caller clip recreation abilities, truthful it’s some a twist connected classical genres and a nostalgic flashback.

“Our extremity pinch Rita’s Rewind is to make a crippled that could person existed, and surely should person existed, but astir apt wouldn’t person existed pinch each this assortment successful 1 place,” nan station reads.

As for each these gameplay styles, nan studio’s contented editor wrote that it wanted to alteration up nan repetitive quality of side-scrolling brawlers. Rita’s Rewind is still astir 70% beat-’em-up, but it wanted to make judge players wouldn’t get bored.

“Mixing each these different genres felt for illustration nan correct point to do to support Rita’s Rewind perpetually fresh, but it was a heck of a batch of nosy for us, too,” nan station reads. “We’re hoping that mixing successful racing, blasting, and punching will make Rita’s Rewind a thrill for players who person ever dreamed astir what Jason, Trini, Zack, Billy, and Kimberly’s crippled would person been for illustration had they walked into an arcade successful nan mid-1990s.”