Taiwanese game developers JERA Game Studio revealed their upcoming game Dusk Diver. It takes place in the Taipei shopping district Ximending. Apparently the devs walked all around Ximending and captured pictures to make sure the game environment looked liked it almost 1:1. The game takes place in Ximendin due to ancient castle once built and tons of folklore stories around it and Ximending intersecting with tradtional and modern Taiwanese culture.
Here is a summary of the games plot from their website
In the concepts of mortal humans, the Gods reside in the sacred place named Kunlun.
The Phantoms, in the mortal imaginations, were born in Dimension of Chaos.
To mortal humans, the dimensions of the Gods and the Phantoms were distant but familiar.
Ximending, a crossroad of ancient and modern, where history and fashion intertwine; noisy and clamorous. And for that reasons, this place is full with endless vigor and also attracted the Gods and the Phantoms to set foot here.
As the time goes, the energy of different dimensions converges, resulting in an appearance of an unstable dimensional rift.
This unpredictable rift became one of the possibilities for the Dimension of Chaos (Phantoms) and the Human Realm (Human) to connect and to travel to the Kunlun.
For this, the troubled Kunlun has decided to vigorously intervene such phenomenon.
Thus, everyday afternoon from 17:00 to 19:00, so called the moment of dusk from the legend; is when the energy flows tend to become chaotic and violent. It is trivial for the Phantoms and the Mortals to enter the Kunlun realm unintentionally.
Therefore, the Kunlun has named such dimension as Youshanding.
Here is the trailer and 50 seconds of early gameplay footage.
Unfortunately from the looks of the gameplay it seems its going to be a musou type of game and not a Devil May Cry/Bayonetta type so my interest is low. But if you like Musou types of games than I guess you can keep an eye on this.
Anyway its good that not only China but Taiwan is starting to develop more single player games for PC and consoles since their market for singleplayer and premium games was incredibly small like China's too.
The game will be launching in Spring 2019 and will have English language support not sure if it will English voice acting though.
some art and screenshots
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