Today the developers of Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa revealed the design and first details of the game’s protagonist.
Her name is Chisa Misato and she is the commander of the 429th Private Mercenary Unit “Umibato” that operates on the Southeast Asian front.
She is a gal-type pilot who hates asymmetry, bothersome stuff, and things that aren’t cute. She comes from an ancient naval samurai family and she takes pride in her heritage, unlike her father who hated the samurai.
She is naive, emotional, and childish, but having been raised on the battlefield where death is simply an everyday occurrence, she has no empathy for and no respect for the dead.
When she is on the battlefield, she displays the fighting instincts of a demon. Her rational and cold-hearted leadership has earned her the respect and admiration of the mercenaries of her unit and the nickname “princess.”
She is 17 years old, 157 cm tall, her blood type is B, she likes cute things and sweets and she dislikes uncute things (doh) and people who prefer ninja to samurai.
No. I’m not joking. You can see what she looks like below.
The game is currently being crowdfunded on Campfire with 30% of 60 million yen currently pledged and 15 days to go. If you want to contribute, you’ll be able to do so on 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 and take a look at some battle gameplay.
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 followed by Muv-Luv Alternative completing the original trilogy in 2006. It’s considered by many one of the best visual novels ever published.
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 very successful Kickstarter campaign.
Several additional visual novels have since expanded the franchise’s universe, and we also 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 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.
