Heavy metal fantasy.
“Zone Profile Fantasy”? “Zoom Port Focus”? Nobody knows whether ZPF is an acronym or not, except perhaps the three-man development team behind it: Perry Sessions, Mikael Tillander, and Jamie Vance. Prior to ZPF, Sessions and Vance created a contra-style NES demo called Cavity Destroyer for Vance’s brother’s dental practice. From there, the two joined with Tillander, a coder, to repurpose some of Sessions’ old graphics work for a new Mega Drive shoot-'em-up project.
ZPF was first teased all the way back on Christmas Day 2020, with a playable demo surfacing in 2023. Declaring itself a “Future Metal Fantasy”, it bears similar stylistic hallmarks to 1993’s Lords of Thunder for the PC Engine, marrying shooting action with fantastical landscapes and cyberpunk elements.
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