Anchor revealed new gameplay of the upcoming tactics JRPG (or simulation RPG as they call it in Japanese) Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa.
The video that you can see below starts with a brief trailer, then at around 3:39 minutes in, you can see how the visual novel style narration is portrayed.
After that, we get to take a look at the TSF configuration menu, followed by battle gameplay.
You can check out below.
Interestingly, in the video, Muv-Luv series chief producer Kazutoshi “Tororo” Matsumura also talks about the feedback received after the Trial version has been distributed to backers.
Users were asked to express their satisfaction with a score from 1 to 5, with 50% viting 2, 25% voting 3, and 25% voting 4. Obviously, there’s still work to be done.
That being said, users were mostly pleased with the game systems, character design, and graphics, while sticking points are playability and user interface.
Muv-Luv Tactics is a tactics RPG coming to PC, and it’s the beginning of a fairly extensive roadmap of Muv-Luv games envisioned by its creators to revitalize the series. It was funded via a crowdfunding campaign that received over $240,000 from fans.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Muv-Luv 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 was followed by Muv-Luv Alternative, completing the original trilogy in 2006. It’s considered by many to be one of the best visual novels ever written.
The trilogy has been ported to several platforms over the years, including PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita, Steam, and recently Nintendo Switch, and it was finally localized in English in 2016 following a successful Kickstarter campaign.
A new Android port is coming soon, and one for iOS will then follow at a yet unannounced date.
Several additional visual novels have since expanded the franchise’s universe (many of them are available on Steam), and we also got games featuring different genres like the action RPG Project MIKHAIL: A Muv-Luv War Story and Muv-Luv Tactics itself.
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.
A new free-to-play mobile game titled Muv-Luv Girls Garden is also coming soon, although it’s to be considered a spin-off.
Full disclosure: the author of this article backed Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa’s crowdfunding campaign.
