Today the developers of the Muv-Luv series had a few reveals to share about the future, starting with the previously teased Muv-Luv Tactics JRPG and its crowdfunding campaign.
During a livestreamed event from Japan, we heard that the crowdfunding for the new game, which is now titled “Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa” will start on
November 16 on the Japanese Campfire platform. It will end on December 27.
Above you can check out the new key artwork featuring an American F-4 Phantom TSF (Tactical Surface Fighter, Muv-Luv’s definition for combat mecha) in space with an interesting space elevator in the background.
We also get to see prototype gameplay, which you can enjoy below. As we already know, the gameplay system is a turn-based simulation/tactics/strategy JRPG.
Yet, that’s not all. The crowdfunding campaign will kick off the “Road to Integrate” plan, which is a series of games evolving the franchise and culminating with the fabled Muv-Luv Integrate, which was originally announced in 2019 and is an official sequel to the beloved visual novel Muv-Luv Alternative.
Below you can see an infographic showing how it’ll work starting with the visual novel Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien: Enhanced Edition, which will launch on November 22 on Steam and will bring back Muv-Luv’s beloved “prequel” in the AGES-MK.II engine and localized in English for the first time. The fans of the series have been waiting for this for 23 years.
Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa will be the second milestone, marking the birth of the Z-AGES engine and mixing visual novel storytelling with simulation RPG gameplay.
Muv-Luv Resonative will follow. It’ll mix visual novel storytelling with something else and the engine will evolve into ZZ-AGES. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it was announced in 2021 and it’s the sequel to the Muv-Luv Unlimited: The Day After series already available on Steam.
Next, we’ll get Duty: Lost Arcadia, which will once again be a visual novel mixed with something else, with the engine continuing to evolve into EX-S AGES.
If the name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s set in the same timeline as Alternative, but on the European front, tied with the Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles Aspiration visual novel (which is already available in English as part of the Muv-Luv Photonmelodies collection).
Lastly, we’ll get Muv-Luv Integrate, once again marking an evolution of the engine (In Unicorn Ages) and mixing a visual novel with another gameplay system.
Of course, this is just a concept of the future for now, and we’ll have to see how closely the developers will follow it.
Incidentally, today we also got the announcement of the staff working on Muv-Luv Tactics: Nightmare of Kalidasa.
Interestingly, the writer is Takaaki Suzuki, who not only worked on the Muv-Luv Alternative anime, but also on Strike Witches, Date a Live, Girls und Panzer, Violet Evergarden, and More.
The rest of the team includes veterans from the Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy Tactics series, Tactics Ogre, the Front Mission series, the Arc the Lad Series, and more.
