Compile Heart's Villion:Code Game Heads West in 2027
Idea Factory International announced on Thursday that it will release Villion:Code, developer Compile Heart's new school RPG, in the West for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam in 2027. The PS5 version will have physical editions in North America and Europe, and the Switch and and PS4 versions will get physical editions in North America. The company streamed a trailer:
The game's story is set in the near future where humanity is facing its approaching destruction. To find a solution to this certain doom, the "Advan Resilience Research Academy City" is established. One day, an anomaly appears in the city, which spawns strange beings known as GEM that begin attacking people, and generates a "bubble" that cuts it off from any contact or travel in or out. In this new isolated state, people begin to confront their roles as they pursue the truth of the anomaly in the academy city.
FRAM performs the game's opening theme song "Rebirth Code" and the ending theme song "Echoes of Tomorrow."
Atlus co-founder and Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series co-creator Kōji Okada is the planning producer for the game. Tadashi Satomi, the scenario writer for the first two Persona games and The Caligula Effect, is the scenario writer for the game. Tsukasa Masuko — the sound composer for many of the early Shin Megami Tensei games as well as The Caligula Effect, Monark, and Varlet games — is credited as sound creator. Ilya Kuvshinov (The Wonderland, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, Death Stranding Isolations) is the character designer.
The game's tagline on the website reads "Kōji Okada's ultimate message to the next generation."
Source: Press release
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