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Light Fairytale Episode 1 is coming to Switch

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Paris based studio neko.works announced Japanese-style RPG Light Fairytale is coming to Switch.

While Light Fairytale Episode 1 is coming to Switch on April 28th, pre-orders available on the eShop. Playable in English, French, and Japanese, Light Fairytale is episodic series with previous episodes already available on other platforms.

Light Fairytale Episode 1 has been available for PC via Steam, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

Here is a rundown of the game.

Light Fairytale

Light Fairytale is a turn-based Japanese-style RPG series set in a dying underground world ruled by an evil empire.

The goal of this project is to bring back the immersion and emotion of 90’s era JRPGs on current platforms with the expected evolution in both design and technique.

Each episode is a standalone game, approximately 3 hours long for a first play-through, double it for a full completion of all the achievements and secrets.

Episode 1 is the start of the adventure. Play as Haru and his childhood friend Kuroko as they fight a dark empire in the underground ‘Lower City’.

Features

  • Classic turn-based battles that happen directly on the field.
  • Modern real-time 3D graphics.
  • Cute chibi characters.
  • Playable in English, French and Japanese.
  • Enhanced on Xbox One X / Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 4 Pro / PlayStation 5.
  • Ultra-wide and stereoscopic 3D support on PC.

Characters

Haru
A bit lazy and a lot naive, Haru nonetheless is a kind soul and knows how to handle himself if push comes to shove.

Kuroko
She might be short and cute (sometimes), but don’t let that fool you: Kuroko is exceedingly capable in battle and always willing to step up. She’s also fond of technology – maaaybe a bit too much so.

Story

A long time ago, the world was prosperous. Technology and sciences were quite advanced, and people lived in great pleasure and casual excess. However, this proved their undoing when the world as they knew it, seemingly in an instant, was destroyed forever.

Desperate and forlorn, the survivors of civilization resorted to fleeing to the only place on the planet where it was still possible to live – deeply underground. And so there they stayed, and survived.

Thousands of years later, the history of the surface has been forgotten, left to dust, and the wealth of the past lost to time. Even the very word “sky” has lost all meaning…

And then, a young boy named Haru wakes one day, fleeting dreams of vast green plains and a clear blue void locked in his memory; deep rooted, unshakeable… and driving him to know just what he saw.

Now, he must embark on a great adventure in order to discover the mysteries of the lost world, confronting the rulers of this dystopian society and beyond with the aid of a mysterious, silver haired girl…

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