Hideki Kamiya discusses The Wonderful 101: Remastered's "Luka's First Mission" content, and how it has him thinking of Viewtiful Joe

The Wonderful 101: Remastered's Kickstarter has been a huge success, knocking out a handful of stretch goals after clearing its initial goal on the very first day. One stretch goal we can look forward to is "Luka's First Mission," a brand-new 2D side-story that'll accompany the game.

Wondering what we can expect from that adventure? In an interview with Dtoid, Platinum's Hideki Kamiya addressed the side game, and also discussed the fan reaction to the content.

"The Wonderful 101 is already one of our largest games, so we didn't feel it was appropriate to add anything to it, as that might be a bit overblown. So with that in mind, the Kickstarter stretch goal content has manifested as a more of a spin-off and less like something that we'd think of as an additional part of the main game. Knowing that it would be its own thing, we had a lot of different ideas for it.

It could have been a shooting game or a 3D action game, but we eventually decided on a 2D action game starring Luka. And like you said, when the fans heard "2D action game" and "Kamiya", they immediately started talking about Viewtiful Joe, so now I'm actually thinking about that. I'm thinking (holds hand to his chin) 'Hmmmmmmm, could we do something like Viewtiful Joe again?' Of course, I can't promise anything, but for now, I really hope fans of Viewtiful Joe enjoy Luka's side-story in The Wonderful 101 Remastered."