Man I can’t wait, hope it doesn’t suck.

“BOH is an original, retro-flavoured game of exploration and action.
You move in claustrophobic, traps-packed, mind-boggling battlefields searching for the Evil Masters, who throw countless enemies at you until you discover and face them in the final battle. Although your quests are made slightly less hard by the bonuses and power-ups scattered all around, carrying out the missions demands lots of concentration and quick reflexes. ”

FEATURES

* immediate & thrilling gameplay;
* 35 missions divided in 5 levels of difficulty;
* multi-phase missions;
* multi-floor battlefields of any size and shape;
* mind-blowing puzzles;
* deadly traps;
* 7 kinds of enemies, each with its own characteristics;
* hand-pixelled 2D graphics;
* real-time field of vision and lighting;
* atmospheric audio;
* 6 themes;
* full expandibility (themes, missions, translations);
* English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish translations.

You can get the full game from their website. It’s had a big update as of Jan 26 2010.
* adds secret missions, i.e. missions that remain hidden until one or more other missions are completed;
* reworks hidden passages so that they follow the orientation of barriers and are / can be perfectly unified with them;
* re-adds trembling to fixed lights;
* improves video modes suggestions by indicating also the optimal zoom factors;
* forces recalculation of global time also when 0:00;
* retouches themes;
* improves missions “getting started” and “unequal alternatives”;
* fixes mission “watch your step!” (it had been left in a test/altered state);
* fixes pits near barriers (in some cases they may have looked weird);
* adds two new missions;
* adds the latest expansions;
* updates the manuals;
* applies various other changes.

Nicholas Puleo over at Co-Optimus has some nice words to say about Kino One. Here’s a bit of an excerpt:

“While we tend to cover a lot of popular co-op games on Co-Optimus, there’s a whole indie scene where cooperative gaming is just as popular. Xbox Live has their Indie Channel, we’re starting to see iPhone titles pop up as well, but the place where this movement is most evident is on the PC. This week we take a look at a small title from developer ItBGames called Kino One.

Kino One has great attention to detail right from the start, you can see the developers really wanted to convey a certain style and atmosphere to the game. The first screen you are greeted with is an 8-Bit Department of Justic Seal and a don’t do drugs message. This was something that was popular back in the 1980’s in arcade games, so it’s definitely a nice touch. This not so serious theme is carried into the game’s story, which uses over the top voices and MANGA style animation…”

Read the Full Review here: This Week in Co-Op: Kino One

And to all of you with out a lover but still want one…

The guys over at Gnome’s Lair checked out Kino One, and gave it a ‘thumbs up’.

“Kino One can be described, in a nutshell, as the illegitimate child of a classic single screen shoot-em-up arcade game with a late 90s bullet-hell Japanese shmup, conceived after a particularly wild night of sake drinking. This is of course a good thing. Or at least it should be considered one by most indie-minded retro gamers, that tend to appreciate both these sub-genres and the overall anime aesthetic of the game. Especially as some R-Type inspired mechanics have also been thrown into the mix.

After all, Kino One, knows and loves its audience, and doesn’t try to appeal to the casual gaming crowd. It features lovely cell-shaded graphics to appease the little Japanese loving nerd that lives inside you, excellent comic book styled cutscenes, great video game humour, an intricate scoring system, and a brilliant virtual arcade sporting some truly well remade versions of Pong, Pac-Man, Arkanoid and more…”

To read the full review go here: Gnome’s Lair: Kino One Review

Now you can buy Kino One on GamersGate, if you don’t already have a copy.