#project lux

Sekai Games announced several new console titles at E3 2019, including a Switch port of Regista’s Root Double: Before Crime After Days, a PlayStation 4 revival of Mr. Tired Media’s Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love, and updated release windows for previously announced projects such as World End Economica and Narcissu for consoles.

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Project LUX

Developer: forgevision, Sekai Games, Mighty Rabbit Studios

Platform: PlayStation VR

Release Date: June 2019

The crime… is murder.

The story takes place in a court trial, set in a futuristic world where most humans have cyberbrains. The defendant on trial is an agent who coordinates with artists to create the data for cyberbrains to interact with people’s emotions. The victim is a girl artist named Lux. The jury has to investigate what really happened by reliving the memory data of the defendant.

The multi-end virtual reality adventure will finally be available worldwide on PlayStation Network in late June 2019.

Root Double: Before Crime After Days

Developer: Regista

Platform: Switch

Release Date: Winter 2019

The year is 2030. Business is as usual in the isolated research city of Rokumei—that is, until several explosions suddenly go off in the nuclear research facility known as “LABO.” The city sends in “Sirius,” an elite rescue squad, to deal with the situation. But the situation only gets worse when LABO’s nuclear reactor melts down, sending the facility into lockdown—with members of Sirius and survivors still trapped inside.

With lethal radiation leaking everywhere and not enough anti-radiation medication to last until lockdown lifts, the survivors make discoveries that are more and more grim. In their struggle for survival, in a deathtrap full of fire and radiation, they learn that doubt is their greatest enemy, and trust their greatest asset.

The incredible adventure game from Japanese studio Regista is finally coming to Switch in cooperation with Sekai Games, and will be available on the Nintendo eShop in winter of 2019.

Fault: Milestone One

Developer: Alice in Dissonance, Sekai Games

Platform: Switch, PlayStation 4, PS Vita

Release Date: Summer 2019 (Switch) / Fall 2019 (PlayStation 4, PS Vita)

Who were the attackers and what was their goal?

Where did Selphine and Ritona end up?

Will the two make it home safely?

And more importantly, what has happened to their homeland?

Follow Selphine, the bubbly, happy-go-lucky Princess and her sharp-witted but slightly misanthropic Royal Guardian Ritona, on their journey of a lifetime back to their homeland of Rughzenhaide.

The long-awaited console version of the Fault series comes to Switch this summer! Featuring brand new music and artwork, this version of fault is the most beautiful and crisp adventure yet, and is sure to be one of the best visual novels available on consoles so far. The PlayStation 4 and PS Vita versions will be available this fall!

Tokyo Chronos

Developer: MyDearest

Platform: PlayStation VR

Release Date: August 2019

An empty, deserted Shibuya where time has frozen over. A suspenseful mystery woven by eight childhood friends trapped inside.

Lost memories; A strange message: “I am dead. Who killed me?”

Who is “I”? Why did we lose our memory? Who is the killer?

Fragments shattered like a broken mirror.

Where does the truth lie?

To kill, or not to kill ─ YOU decide.

Featuring the all-star staff of Haruki Kashiwakura (Expelled from Paradise), Kou Segawa (Kimi ni Korosareta to Shitemo), Kazuma Miki (Sword Art Online), MyDearest delivers one of the most engaging and unique adventures ever in VR! Tokyo Chronos will be available worldwide in August 2019.

Heart of the Woods

Developer: Studio Elan, Sekai Games

Platform: Switch

Release Date: Q1 2020

Maddie Raines has had enough. After years of serving as manager, editor, and general business-handler for her best friend Tara’s popular paranormal vlog channel, she’s finally ready to move forward with her own life. But when she agrees to take one last trip with Tara to the mysterious village of Eysenfeld, she’s suddenly swept up in a dangerous supernatural crisis that will change the course of both of their lives forever.

Heart of the Woods is coming exclusively to the Switch eShop, bringing Studio Elan’s emotional smash hit to the console for the very first time.

World End Economica

Developer: Spicy Tails, Sekai Games

Platform: Switch, PlayStation 4, PS Vita

Release Date: Winter 2019

Set in the far future on the moon, 16 years after humans have begun to colonize it. A young boy named Haru has been chasing his wildest dream. His dream is to stand where no man has stood before, and in order to do so, he needs capital, a ludicrous amount of capital. What better place to get that amount of capital by using the stock market? There are two key rules that govern the stock market.

The first rule: Never take a loss.

The second rule: Never forget the first.

Only those who follow these rules are able to obtain enormous wealth…

The full collected package of Hasekura Isuna’s riveting adventure novel will come to Switch, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita in winter of 2019.

Narcissu: Lumiere Eternelle Edition

Developer: Sekai Games

Platform: Switch, PlayStation 4

Release Date: Winter 2019

“Life is like a waiting room, except people don’t leave in the order they enter.”

So when it is time to leave, where will it be? And will you be able to smile in the end?

Narcissu is a thought-provoking visual novel series about terminal illness, living, dying, and the relationship between those leaving and those left behind. There are no miracles, no heroes, no villains in this story. Just life and the characters finding their own ways of facing death in an indifferent, relentless, ever-impartial reality.

Featuring music from two video game legends: Chris Huelsbeck of Turrican fame, and Hiroki Kikuta of Secret of Mana fame, this console edition collects all stories from the official Narcissu series into one game.

Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love

Developer: Mr. Tired Media

Platform: PlayStation 4

Release Date: Q4 2019

Undead Darlings ~no cure for love~ is a happy-go-lucky dungeon-crawling visual novel RPG about a group of zombie girls and Reginald “Reggie” P. Happenstahnce.

Reggie’s father was involved in the creation of the zombie virus and gave his son the only known cure along with this command: “Take this cure to where it can be mass produced.”

Since they don’t know how to use the cure in its current state, the zombie girls and Reggie travel together throughout a funpocalypse wasteland where they explore dungeons, fight weird monsters, and learn more about one another along the way.

CHARACTER INTRO: HALLIE & LUX

Warning: Contains 100% snark and fantasy-doubting. 

It was probably not a dragon egg.

Probably…

Now, it’s not like I’d ever seen a dragon egg before, so I could hardly compare this egg to the multitude of dragon eggs I’d very much not collected over the years.

But that said, as I stood there contemplating what it could be, I was very aware that the large egg in my hands was still as obnoxiously hot as when I’d first picked it up. I looked down, examining it again: the rough, lumpy shell looked like it was made of rock, but scattered across the surface were angular patches of dark, shining colours. Reds and greens, blacks and blues, jewel-like in how they caught the sun. The egg itself was the size of a laptop, or perhaps a small dog, and if anyone spotted me in this very public park, I’d not exactly be inconspicuous.

All of this was what had contributed to my initial assumption that it was a dragon egg, but I wasn’t sure how much strength that claim held, on account of dragons not actually existing.

My eyes shifted back up to the tear in the air in front of me – which, if anyone asked, I certainly, definitely, 100% did not cause. Or at least, I don’t think I had. There were a hell of a lot of time-space tears being opened up across Earth recently, and the Department of Dimension was starting to get more than a little antsy with the people who were opening them up by accident. And considering I worked for said Department, it would probably look really bad on my yearly work review if I had indeed opened up one the very things we were trying to stop.

In my defence, despite the lack of understanding surrounding these tears that had started appearing thirty years or so ago, I’m pretty sure a sneeze wasn’t enough to rip a hole in the fabric of time and space to another dimension… But the fact remained: I’d sneezed, the tear tore, and a dragon egg rolled out of it.

You know, that was still probably not a dragon egg.

Looking around, I tried to piece together what it was I was supposed to do in this moment. The tear before me wasn’t a massive one, so it wouldn’t be a priority that would send the whole Department into a flurry of panic; it was about my height, jagged and sharp, the bottom being… well, about as big as this probably-not-a-dragon-egg egg, and narrowing towards the top. It hovered above the ground, distorting the air around it so that the woodland on the other side looked a little off, and it had a sort slightly silvery shimmer, just to up the whole ‘other-worldliness’ of it, I suppose. You can’t see through tears, that’s a common misconception that authors and film-makers have amplified: they’re not open doorways straight into other worlds, but instead you just see this dull, grey, misty nothingness that is the shattered fabric of space and time. Small tears like this are actually almost pretty. The big ones – like the one that opened up above Wimbledon at Christmas that was the size of football pitch, and kind of ruined my holidays – were terrifying.

I should have called up and reported it immediately, even anonymously, but the egg in my hands made me second-guess that idea. It was rare that things fell out of tears, but they were seen as highly dangerous objects that needed to be destroyed immediately. Why? I didn’t know. It was just an order from far higher than I could ever hope to get. So far, the only things that had fallen through were tiny stones or a branch of a tree.

Super dangerous, I know.

At the very least, nowhere near as dangerous as an egg was.

I looked back down at it again, my face probably as twisted in doubt as my stomach felt. I couldn’t leave this egg to be destroyed or picked apart by scientists. I had to protect it. Irrational, yes. But a sensation I couldn’t shake.

So I just left.

Great job, Hallie. No way you won’t get that promotion now…

I pulled my sketchbook out of my bag to awkwardly fit the egg inside – I’d get a lot less stares carrying that than a dragon egg – you see a lot of weird crap in London, sure, but I wasn’t going to risk it. I started towards the edge of the city park. I wasn’t completely stupid, however. Tears were dangerous, even when they weren’t spitting random bejewelled eggs at you; I could only imagine the horror that would happen if some child wandered into one. So, once I was out of the woods (literally, but not figuratively), I grabbed my phone.

“Thank you for calling the Department of Dimension. If you have a query about out services or policies, you may find your answer on our website.”

I groaned. It had been a long time since I’d been on the other side of the awful automated greeting. It took an embarrassingly long time to actually get to a human speaker, which did at least give me a chance to work out my story.

“Hello, this is the Department of Dimensions Report Hotline, how can I help you?”

I grinned, recognising the voice immediately.

“Benny! Thank God it’s you…”

“Hallie?” Benjamin asked, sounding happily surprised. “If you’re calling because you left chocolate in your desk, I already ate it, and you shouldn’t use the report hotline to threaten me off it.”

“You ate my–” I clamped my mouth shut. Priorities, Hallie… “No, I’m calling because I actually have a tear to report.”

That seemed to get his attention. I could already hear him beginning to type –filling in a statement. “You spotted a Deviation?”

Oh, so we were in official terminology territory? “In Ashbury Park, over by the graffiti wall down from the fountain. It’s pretty small, probably Level 4. 3 at a push. Looks pretty new, but I don’t know how it was made. I didn’t see anyone else nearby.” I could be forgiven for a few white lies to save my own skin, surely?

“Damn, I love having a confident idea of the level,” Benjamin laughed. I could relate: most of the public, didn’t know what the levels even were. I was probably Benjamin’s favourite caller ever. “Any debris?”

I cursed inwardly.

“Nope,” I answered in my most forcefully-normal, totally-not-high-with-nerves tone.

“Awesome, we’ll send a team out to sort it. Thanks Hallie! Are you in tomorrow?”

“Bright and early. Someone’s gotta input that tear!”

“Well, I better send this to the cleaners. See you.”

“Bye, Benny!”

With the goodbyes finished, I hung up, and groaned to release all the stress that had built up in my stomach. If you opened a tear, no matter how accidentally you did so, you were put through a brutal interrogation, but if lying about it was that stressful, I’d take the interrogation any day. I adjusted the strap of my bag as the egg weighed heavily on my shoulder: it better have been damned grateful I’d done that to save it.

Project LUX is the latest from Spicy Tails, this early access game is coming to steam this Thursday! 

‘Project Lux’ Creators Announce New VR Visual Novel ‘Spice & Wolf VR’

SpicyTails is the studio behind the popular VR visual novel experience Project LUX (2018). Today they announced a new VR story experience called Spice & Wolf VR, based on the manga and anime series Spice and Wolf, to be released in 2019. The new release will support all the major VR hardware.

While gaming is one of the dominant uses of commercial VR, virtual reality storytelling is emerging as a…