Shin Megami Tensei Persona collection composer Shoji Meguro introduced a Kickstarter marketing campaign for Weapons Undarkness, his new 2021-announced gun RPG.
The brand new Kickstarter marketing campaign is launching in just a few days – on September 12, and could have a modest funding objective of $30,000 to make the sport for PC. There’ll naturally be stretch objectives to do ports on Xbox, Change (or a brand new Change), and PlayStation.
It’s price reiterating Weapons Undarkness is Meguro’s first recreation after leaving Atlus as a full employees member, and going freelance.
“By means of Kickstarter, I want to make Weapons Undarkness a fair higher recreation with the help and early suggestions of the followers,” Meguro stated in a press launch. “With the assistance of our backers, I hope to repair the visible issues and brush up on the whole lot, so please lend me your help!”
Right here’s a rundown on the sport:
Weapons Undarkness is a method JRPG that mixes stealth parts with command pushed turn-based fight in a futuristic sci-fi universe. The participant takes the function of a member of the PMC (Non-public Navy Firm) within the 12 months 2045 who should perform operative missions with their friends in a devastated world after a nuclear conflict. The sport’s story will concentrate on the primary protagonists as they battle to revolutionize the human race and transfer nearer to the concept of real love.
GAMEPLAY
On the sphere, the participant will management the primary character and as much as three allies. With the usage of hand sign buttons, gamers can instruct their allies to cover at cowl factors and use the “Go” button to get them organized to cowl their character.
When an enemy is noticed, the participant can open hearth. If the participant’s group engages the enemy whereas completely hidden, it would activate an assault bonus. The extra the participant fires throughout this bonus, the extra injury they are going to deal earlier than the battle begins. Hidden or not, as soon as the participant fires on the enemy, the sport will leap into turn-based battle.
In-battle instructions embody a variety of decisions resembling primary ATTACK and SKILL, which packs extra punch and prices SP. There will even be GUARD, MOVE, WEAPON, ITEM, ESCAPE and TAGS, which refers back to the character’s protection go well with.
Strategic gameplay might be employed by unleashing abilities whereas attacking from behind cowl, which can price no SP. If the participant manages to strike the enemy in a weak level, they will deal large injury and be capable to duck into cowl.
The affinity of the character’s weapon and that of the goal’s TAGS will decide how a lot injury is finished. Nevertheless, an enemy’s protection worth may cut back the quantity of injury they take. Along with highly effective abilities, there are additionally weapons with particular buff and debuff skills.
Profitable a will earn the participant’s group two varieties of expertise factors: Character EXP and Gun EXP. Leveling up boosts a personality’s stats and unlocks new abilities for weapons. Gamers will be capable to improve the weapons they personal by including components, and even purchase blueprints and supplies that may allow them to construct new weapons as they progress via the story.
Outdoors of missions, gamers will spend their time within the Maroon hub, an amphibious submarine that the group makes use of as their hideout, which they will use to simply accept quests, go to retailers or journey to different areas on the world map.
STORY
Within the 12 months 2045, humanity was in a state of abeyance that allowed expertise to flourish. Nevertheless it deepened the social divide between the wealthy and the poor, creating the “Haves” and the “Have Nots.”
Throughout the ranks of the latter grew a faction who deliberate the Nice Reset–an occasion steeped in primitivism that will change the course of humanity.
The Thousand Plateaus launched two weapons of mass destruction, triggering a worldwide nuclear conflict. And so, the Nice Reset was completed.
Enter the protagonist, a rookie member of a non-public navy firm tasked with dealing with the deteriorating scenario. It’s as much as you to find the reality of affection in a world wracked by devastation, and whether or not or not humanity is able to being revolutionized.
First revealed in November of 2021, Weapons Undarkness is Shoji Meguro’s first official post-Atlus venture as a contract recreation developer. Recognized largely for his compositional work on the Persona and Shin Megami Tensei collection, Shoji Meguro additionally served as inventive director for the Persona video games on PSP and has been creating indie role-playing video games by himself for numerous years.
Along with recreation design, Meguro can be composing and producing the entire music in Weapons Undarkness. At his facet on this venture are character designer Ilya Kuvshinov (Ghost in Shell: SAC 2045) and lyricist Lotus Juice (Persona collection) whose ties with Meguro date again to Persona 3 in 2006.
Options
- A turn-based tactical RPG impressed by video games like Steel Gear Stable and Persona
- A relationship system that enhances the primary character as they develop nearer with their teammates
- A narrative set in a futuristic world on the verge of world and societal wreck
- A gathering of the minds Shoji Meguro (Persona collection, Shin Megami Tensei collection), Ilya Kuvshinov (Ghost in Shell: SAC 2045, The Wonderland), and Lotus Juice (Persona Sequence)