Today the crowdfunding campaign for the upcoming Muv-Luv strategy simulation JRPG Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa has concluded.
Supporters pledged 38,185,912 yen, which translate to just south of $242,000.
While this is only 63% of the stated goal of 60,000,000 yen, the crowdfunding type on Campfire was all-in and not the all-or-nothing more common in the West, which means that the developers will still receive the money pledged and the project will go ahead.
During a livestream marking the end of the campaign, the developers also shared another piece of concept art showing an anti-Laser Type re-entry shell capable of shielding TSF mecha dipping from orbit from the otherwise lethal fire from Laser-Type BETA.
You can check it out below.
This project is the beginning of a fairly extensive roadmap of Muv-Luv games envisioned by its creators. If you’re unfamiliar with the franchise, it was created by âge and it’s mostly focused on sci-fi visual novels that debuted in Japan in 2003.
The original game for PC (which actually includes two visual novels, Muv-Luv Extra and Muv-Luv Unlimited) was followed by Muv-Luv Alternative completing the original trilogy in 2006. It’s considered by many one of the best visual novels ever written.
The trilogy was ported to several platforms including PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita, Steam, and recently Nintendo Switch, and it was finally localized in English in 2016 following a very successful Kickstarter campaign.
Several additional visual novels have since expanded the franchise’s universe, and we also games featuring different genres like the action RPG Project MIKHAIL: A Muv-Luv War Story and the recent mobile game Muv-Luv Dimensions, which is unfortunately shutting down next year.
Incidentally, the enhanced edition of another of âge’s most popular visual novels, Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, which is widely considered Muv-Luv’s prequel, has recently been released on Steam with an English localization for the first time.
Full disclosure: the author of this article backed Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa’s crowdfunding campaign.
