Space Soccer - Rhythm Heaven [HD WIDESCREEN] - Gameplay Demonstration

...it's been a while? I feel like I say that more often than I should. Anyway, here's another animation.

A good friend of mine (who goes by "Luxury") helped me with finishing up this old project I started a long time ago. It's from so long ago, in fact, that it pre-dates my Drummer Duel animation as the first one I ever... attempted to make.

If it wasn't obvious, I had clearly underestimated the difficulty of drawing the Space Kicker. Despite that, I had still managed to draw all of the assets (poorly) - it was my lack of experience with animation at the time that made this project too much for past me to complete.
Eventually Luxury offered to help out with this sort of thing, so I brought up Space Soccer and sent over the files. The fine-tuning they provided added some much-needed polish to some of the frames, and the flame animation they drew looks fantastic. They also provided an alternative style for how the character's head looks, being more closely inspired by the original sprites, rather than whatever I was doing those many months ago.
I... didn't end up using those, but whenever I choose to release these animations publicly, I will include their designs for that as an alternative version of sorts.

These descriptions always get quite long - I do apologise. I've had a lot of things on my mind over these past few... months now. A lot has happened, for better and for worse, but luckily things are mostly looking up, so hopefully I can get back to uploading more regularly, and finishing other work that I need to get on with. There's always so much to do.

Anyway, another big thanks to Luxury for dealing with my nonsense and helping out.

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Game: Rhythm Heaven (DS)
Rhythm Game: Space Soccer
Original Developers: Nintendo SPD, TNX Music Recordings
Original Publisher: Nintendo

Illustration, Animation, Video: GENERIC
Additional Edits and Illustration: Luxury
Sound Effects: RHRE Database
Space Soccer "Tutorial" Music: GENERIC

Luxury (Discord): Luxury # 1998
(provided with permission)

My Twitter:   / generic_wav