Konami published on August 28its schedulefor Tokyo Game Show 2019, held from September 12 to 15 at Makuhari Messe. In the category for games from Konami’s business partners, a brand new IP is listed, titledEnzai Shikkou Yuugi Yurukill.
Enzai Shikkou Yuugi Yurukillcould be translated to “False Accusations Enforcing Game Yurukill”.Yurukillis listed for PS4 and is described as an “Escape ADV” and as a “Shooting” game. “ADV” are what visual novel-like games are called in Japan, and “Shooting” means it’ll include Shoot’em up gameplay.
On the Konami page,Enzai Shikkou Yuugi Yurukill’s website links refer toIzanagi Games.Izanagi Games is led byShinsuke Umedaand is a studio focusing on producing Japanese games and bringing said games overseas. This means it’s highly likelyYurukillwill be released outside Japan.
One of Izanagi Games' current public project is the production ofDeath March Club.
Death March Clubis the first work ofToo Kyo Games, helmed byDanganronpa’s Kazutaka Kodaka andInfinity Series' Kotaro Uchikoshi. TheZero Escapeseries, much more popular in the west thanEver 17and co, is also one of Uchikoshi’s works.Yurukillbeing an “Escape ADV” means it should be similar to theZero Escapeseries.
Enzai Shikkou Yuugi Yurukillwill be fully revealed during a TGS stage event held by Izanagi Games on September 13,Yurukillwill actually be playable during TGS as well. The stage event will feature Shinsuke Umeda and Hiroyuki Maruyama, the representative of G. Rev.
G. Rev is the studio behind the extremely original versus Shoot’em up seriesSenko no Ronde.They also developedUnder Defeaton arcade and Dreamcast, one of the console’s last and best shmups.
Taking all of this into account, we can make two conjectures aboutYurukill. Either it’s one ofToo Kyo Games' currently unannounced projects, or it’s one of G.Rev’s currently unannounced projects. The later is the most likely scenario.
The other big point worth mentioning is thatEnzai Shikkou Yuugi Yurukill’s scenario is penned by Homura Kawamoto, the author ofKakegurui.With Homura Kawamoto as scenarist and Tooru Naomura handling the art,Kakeguruiis one of the biggest successes of Gangan Comics, the manga publisher owned by Square Enix.Kakeguruialready got two anime seasons, two live-action seasons and a movie, and four different spinoff manga, three of which are still ongoing along with the main manga. The mainKakeguruimanga had over 4 million copies in print as of 2018.
Seeing its title and all of the above,Yurukillshould have an atmosphere similar toKakegurui.Kakeguruinever gets too dark, doesn’t mix up shock value with plot maturity, and never takes itself too seriously, so I particularly enjoy the manga. I’m not a fan of the character redesigns of the anime adaptation though.Kakegurui’s iconic “crazy lesbians sexually addicted to gambling” faces are too forced in the anime in my opinion, making them lose their charm.Kakegurui’s manga isn’t above flaws either, as it has too many boring shonen developments at times. There’s also the fact that the two most popular characters, Mary and Midari, having their own spinoff manga made them get less screentime in the main story.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to actually seeingEnzai Shikkou Yuugi Yurukillat TGS. you’re able to be sure whatever gets announced there will be covered on DualShockers. Our coverage probably won’t be the first one out, but it’ll come with as many details as possible.
