| Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash | |
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| Developer(s) | Grounding Inc |
| Publisher(s) | Grounding Inc |
| Director(s) | Noboru Hotta |
| Producer(s) | Minoko Okamura |
| Designer(s) | Atsushi Aoshima |
| Programmer(s) | Naoya Kurihara |
| Artist(s) | Yumiko Miyabe |
| Writer(s) | Takumi Yoshinaga |
| Composer(s) | Naofumi Hataya |
| Series | Space Channel 5 |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 4 Oculus Quest Viveport Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Music |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash[a] is a 2020 music video game developed and published by Grounding Inc for virtual reality (VR) platforms on PlayStation 4, Oculus Quest, Viveport and Windows. Following a new reporter assigned to assist Space Channel 5 protagonist Ulala during an alien threat covered by the titular news network, players engage in motion-based combat by mimicking the actions of opponents in time to musical tracks.
Space Channel 5 VR began production in 2018 following positive feedback of a VR demo created by Grounding in collaboration with KDDI using the series characters and gameplay. Several original staff returned including Yumiko Miyabe as a lead artist, original writer Takumi Yoshinaga, Minoko Okamura as producer and the voice of Ulala, and Naofumi Hataya as sound director. The game met with mixed reviews from video game journalists, praised for its translation of the series gameplay and art design into VR, but widely faulted for its lack of content.
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