I have seen no hype for this game but it's coming to XBLA and over the last few months as I have watched videos, it's become possibly my 2nd most anticipated 2013 release only behind Bioshock Infinite. It's basically like Contra only with a time travel function. When you die, you go back to the last checkpoint and play again, only now you're playing alongside your ghost. And the ghosts do exactly what you did, they even still fire their guns and kill enemies. So if you die 4 times, when you start again, you're basically playing 5 player co-op with yourself as 4 of your ghosts are running around. Checkpoints are added by saving the lives of ghosts who have died. So if some enemy kills you and you go back to the checkpoint and then kill that guy before he kills your ghost, you can touch that ghost to make a new save point.
This adds a ton of strategy to the game as you can pick and choose which character to use and what they do and then set up awesome combos of ghosts that help you go through the level. For example there is a shield guy that is a defensive character. If some area is giving you trouble with a ton of enemies, pick the shield guy and just go through the area with your shield up. Then die and respawn as the machine gun guy and run behind your shield ghost. Suddenly you're working with yourself to clear the stage. Awesome.
MS gave the game some award at an Indie games festival so it gets a spot on XBLA. So kudos to MS for scooping it up and bringing it to console(s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAq4TG6gx-Q
Funny trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X2NP2o49i0
