Right now Aksys Video games hosted a livestream to announce upcoming video games, together with the localization of Nihon Falcom’s JRPG Tokyo Xanadu eX+ for Nintendo Swap.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the sport, it initially launched in 2015 as Tokyo Xanadu, and was then ported for PS4 and PC in 2016 and 2017 with the title Tokyo Xanadu Ex+ as Nihon Falcom added new story content material, characters, and options.
The Swap launch was introduced in March 2023 and launched in Japan in June, together with all of the DLC that have been launched for the PS4 model and a helpful high-speed mode, closing the circle and returning the sport to a transportable console after 8 years.
Now it is coming to the west alongside a 4-CD set offered individually that includes all 88 songs from the sport, which shall be obtainable solely from the Aksys retailer.
The western launch shall be in June 2024, just about precisely a 12 months after the Japanese launch.
The story is about ten years after a large earthquake significantly damages Tokyo. The hero is a high-school scholar named Kou Tokisaka who instantly will get concerned with a mysterious group that’s trying to shut vortexes connecting actuality with one other dimension named “Eclipse.”
One of many fascinating parts of the sport is that, not like Nihon Falcom’s extra fashionable Trails and Ys collection, it is set in a sensible setting, particularly a suburb of Tokyo known as Morimiya.
What makes it much more fascinating is that Morimiya is a fictionalized model of Tachikawa, which is the placement of Nihon Falcom’s headquarters. The sport contains loads of acquainted landmarks of Tachikawa like the enduring Tama Monorail that crosses the city and Showa Memorial Park, renamed Morimiya Memorial Park for the event.
If you would like to learn extra concerning the recreation, you’ll be able to learn our overview of the PS4 model.
After all, it would not be an Aksys reveal with out an considerable dose of Otome visible novels. Despera Drops by RED Leisure is coming to Nintendo Swap in 2025. Radiant Story‘s fandisk Radiant Story -Fanfare- by Thought Manufacturing unit is coming for Nintendo Swap in the summertime of 2024, and Virche Evermore -EpiC: Lycoris- is coming within the fall of 2024.
We’re additionally getting one other visible novel, and it is Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch, the localization of The Witch of the Ihanashi by Fragaria. It is coming for PS4 and Nintendo Swap in Summer time 2024. Weirdly, the press launch from Thought Manufacturing unit would not point out any PC model, which is peculiar contemplating that the sport is already obtainable on Steam, however solely in Japanese.
We have now reached out to Aksys to ask about this omission, and we’ll let you already know if we hear something significant.
You possibly can watch all of the trailers within the recording of the livestream beneath.
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