Koei Tecmo has confirmed a launch date for Venture Zero: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse – often called Deadly Body: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse in North America – on Nintendo Change.
This has seen the developer look to revive and remaster the traditional Japanese horror journey, which was launched completely for Wii in Japan again in 2008. Since turning into “one in all Koei Tecmo’s most requested remasters for over a decade,” it’s now destined for the transportable house console.
The sport is ready a decade after 5 ladies mysteriously disappeared at a competition on Rōgetsu Isle, an island located in southern Japan. Whereas they have been finally rescued, their reminiscences have been misplaced, solely faintly remembering “a single melody and a seemingly possessed masked girl dancing within the moonlight.”
Nonetheless unable to recollect the occasions surrounding their disappearance, two of the 5 ladies have since died and have been found with their faces lined and positioned in a tragic, crying pose. The three ladies that stay select to return to the eerie island with the hope of fixing the thriller behind their associates’ deaths and the reminiscences that they left behind.
Counting on the moonlight and a faint flashlight to seek for clues, the story progresses as you uncover relics – similar to previous newspaper articles and notes – that can enable the ladies to unravel the secrets and techniques in regards to the island’s previous.
The women will probably be confronted by vengeful spirits as they discover, coming to depend on the Digital camera Obscura to repel them – sealing away their energy by photographing them. You’ll need to equip stronger lenses and use completely different movies to seize the extra highly effective spirits, utilizing the digicam to seize “issues that can not be seen” to assist get well the proof wanted to recollect the ladies’ haunting previous.
The remastered sport has an all-new Picture Mode, new and altered costumes, enhanced graphics – similar to improved rendering of shadows and lightweight – with the in-game films and character fashions “brushed-up to ship a narrative that shines, each narratively and aesthetically because the three remaining ladies try and rediscover their previous earlier than turning into victims as soon as once more.”
Alongside the usual model of the sport, KOEI TECMO Europe additionally revealed a particular PROJECT ZERO: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse Digital Deluxe Version. Out there digitally, this distinctive version of the sport consists of the Rogetsu Isle Dinner Celebration Costume Set, and a digital artwork e book (unique soundtrack included).
As well as, anybody who purchases the digital copy of the sport by twenty second March 2023 may have the power to obtain the early buy bonus: Ruka Unique Costume “Marie Rose Outfit” from the Useless or Alive collection. Followers who preorder the sport by the discharge date may also obtain quite a lot of costumes, together with the Ruka Restricted Version Costume “Fox Masks” (white/pink), the Misaki Restricted Version Costume “Fox Masks” (black/pink), the Choshiro Restricted Version Costume “Fox Masks” (black/blue), and the Ruka Misaki, and Choshiro Restricted Version Costume “Spirit Stone Flashlight Hat”. There’ll even be a particular save bonus costume for followers who’ve already performed PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water. Play PROJECT ZERO: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse on the identical gadget that has saved information from PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water to obtain the Save Information Bonus, the “Digital camera Obscura Hat”.
Venture Zero: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse will launch digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Change worldwide on 9 March 2023.