IzanagiGames held an event forDeath Come Trueat cinema Shinjuku Wald 9 on February 6, and the event was streamed onYouTube by Famitsu. Here’s what we learned.
The event featuredDeath Come TrueProducer Shinsuke Umeda, Scenarist, Game Director Kazutaka Kodaka, Film Director Hayato Ando, and the cast revealed so far:
The event featured all the cast revealed so far except Jiro Sato.
Death Come Truewill be available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese.
The theme song ofDeath Come Truewill be handled by rock band Kamisama, Boku wa Kizuite Shimatta. The group, known as KamiBoku, already did theme songs for mobile gameStar Ocean Anamnesis, the animeChiruran Nibun no Ichi, and the TV dramaAnata no koto wa sorehodo.
Death Come Trueis currently scheduled to launch in June 2020, on PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
The last and most surprising announcement is thatDeath Come Trueis scheduled to be sold for 1900 Yen, around 18 dollars, which is incredibly cheap. Producer Shinsuke Umeda explained the game is cheap so that movie fans can try it out. They made the game’s price similar to a movie’s ticket price. UmedaP stressed out this is what they’re planning to do but it’s not set in stone yet, so the price might change a bit.
The cast members also shared spoiler-free impressions onDeath Come True. Kanata Hongo mentioned how it has many gimmicks you could only do in a game and is full of Kodaka-ism stuff, meaning you’ll really enjoyDeath Come Trueif you liked Kodaka’s past stuff.Danganronpafans should look forward to it. Yuki Kaji also mentionedDCThas a lot of content if you’re aiming to 100% it as there are really a lot of different routes with all the choices you can pick.
Jiro Sato, who couldn’t make it to the event, also recorded a video message for it. In a nutshell, he praised the game’s originality as it mixes games and movies, and mentioned how brilliant the other members of the cast were for managing to handle and act all the different routes. He also joked about how he doesn’t know much about games but he knowsDeath Come Truewill definitely turn out to be fun.
When the cast and staff shared some last words as the event was ending, Chiaki Kuriyama, in particular, mentioned she’s a huge fan of Yuki Kaji and Kazutaka Kodaka so she was at 200% during the game’s shooting.Death Come Trueis definitely promising.
The new trailer, narrated by Yuki Kaji, is included below, along with the whole stream if you’re a Yuki Kaji fan and wanna hear his cool voice and brighten your day.
You can read more onDeath Come Truewith our previous coverage, including trailers and comments from the cast and staff,here,here,here, andhere.