14 DAY TRIAL // The team at Hello Games is releasing Joe Danger on the PlayStation Vita, and has decided to post more information regarding the additions in the upcoming game.
The reveal was made via the PlayStation Blog, by Hello Games' Alex Wiltshire, informing that both Joe Danger and its sequel, Joe Danger: The Movie, are running on the PlayStation 3 at a very smooth 60 frames per second and feeling at home on the handheld console.
The work is nearly finished, and players will soon be able to take control of the colorful little stuntman in order to perform daring feats in the super-challenging racing platformer.
The team has revealed that Joe Danger looks as good as it does on the PlayStation Vita, and that they are pushing for 400k polygons per frame.
The porting job was undertaken by Four Door Lemon, who have been praised for being able to fit Joe Danger into such a small form factor.
The PlayStation Vita release will come with both games bundled together, offering players a grand total of 169 levels and 60 playable characters, including the first one's Director's Cut and Laboratory stages and the second one's 15 Undead Movie Pack that was originally released as downloadable content for the PlayStation 3 version.
The developers have also implemented all the improvements from Joe Danger 2: The Movie into the original, making both games automatically download ghosts to race against, and having online leaderboards as well as a full complement of PlayStation Trophies to collect.
Wiltshire reveals that Hello Games has spent a long time tweaking the controls in order for them to feel great on the Vita, as Joe Danger utilizes all the buttons on the DualShock 3, and have come up with a more simple control scheme.
They've added touch controls for all the menus as well as the editor mode, which makes navigating through the game extremely easy, and the only notable difference is that Circle both tricks as well as punches in-game, while Triangle will serve as a second Trick button, and the controls feel very natural.
The real surprise comes in the fact that, together with the fine folks at Media Molecule, Hello Games has managed to insert three new characters into Joe Danger 2.
The new characters are Tearaway's Atoi and Iota, and the final one is Sackboy, the lovable protagonist of LittleBigPlanet.
For now, there is no definitive release date for Joe Danger on the PlayStation Vita platform, but the official announcement will come really soon.