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The Wonderful 101: Remastered Game Releases in India

Platinum Games launched The Wonderful 101: Remastered game in India on Friday on Steam and the PlayStation Store. The action-adventure game launched in North America for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC on Tuesday and in Europe on Friday.

Platinum Games confirmed in a statement to the Indian video game news website The Mako Reactor on Wednesday that The Wonderful 101: Remastered will have a digital release in India along with its European release. The company has not confirmed a physical release for India. The game's physical release is scheduled for June 30 for North America and July 3 for Europe after a delay.

The Wonderful 101: Remastered is a remastered version of The Wonderful 101 Wii U action game for the Switch, PS4, and PC.

Platinum Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for the remastered game on February 3. The company began streaming the trailer for the game on March 18 after surpassing its Kickstarter goals.

Hideki Kamiya (Bayonetta) directed the "mass-hero action" title at Platinum Games. In the story, aliens are invading the Earth, and a group of unlikely heroes must join forces and work together to stop the invasion, since the aliens are too powerful for the heroes to fight alone. Each hero can transform into powerful weapons to attack the aliens, or they can transform into other objects such as a bridge to help the team traverse environments. Players work to recruit citizens to join their hero team and to broaden the team's transformative powers.

The Wonderful 101: Remastered's Kickstarter campaign was the first of four announcements on Platinum Games' "Platinum4" teaser website, which the company opened on February 3.

Platinum Games producer Atsushi Inaba had revealed in May 2017 that the company was planning to publish its own titles, in addition to its existing planning and development operations. Inaba stated that the first title that the company was planning to publish on its own would be small in scope but "purely platinum-colored," and would deliver on the game elements that the company had focused on. Platinum Games is known for developing titles such as Bayonetta, Vanquish, Astral Chain, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Star Fox Zero, NieR:Automata, and The Wonderful 101.

Sources: Steam, PlayStation Store via The Mako Reactor