Today the developers of Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa have revealed the first detailed look at the gameplay of the upcoming strategy JRPG.
We get to see a couple of turns of gameplay with then player moving and attacking with their TSF mecha followed by the BETA aliens controlled by the AI.
We see how all the actions are decided in advance and then executed at the same time. On top of that, different TSFs have different roles (the classic Muv-Luv roles, Storm Vanguard, Strike Vanguard, Gun Sweeper, Gun Interceptor, Rush Guard, Impact Guard, and Blast Guard) that influence their abilities and armament.
You can check out the video below. Luckily, this is much more detailed and extensive than the glimpse we saw a few days ago. As a result, it also looks a lot better.
The developers also promised to provide more information and the story in the near future.
The game is currently being crowdfunded on Campfire with 29% of 60 million yen currently pledged and 17 days to go. If you want to contribute, you’ll be able to do so at the campaign’s official page.
If you’d like to know more, you can check out how this project is the beginning of a fairly extensive roadmap of Muv-Luv games envisioned by its creators.
If you’re unfamiliar with Muv-Luv, it’s a franchise created by âge 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 then followed by Muv-Luv Alternative completing the original trilogy in 2006. It’s considered by many one of the best visual novels of all time.
The trilogy was then ported to several platforms including PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita, Steam, and recently Nintendo Switch. It was also localized in English in 2016 following a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Several additional visual novels have expanded the franchise’s universe, on top of games from different genres like the action RPG Project MIKHAIL: A Muv-Luv War Story and the recent mobile game Muv-Luv Dimensions.
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 just been released on Steam localized in English for the first time.
Full disclosure: the author of this article backed Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa’s crowdfunding campaign.
