Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight

Masayuki Furuya is returning from htoL#NIQ -Hotaru no Nikki- to direct Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight, but the game is a completely new work. Furuya also designed the game's characters. Hajime Sugie is also returning from htoL#NIQ -Hotaru no Nikki- to compose the music.

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• developer: Nippon Ichi Software
• original title: ロゼと黄昏の古城 (roze to tasogare no kojou)
• platform: Vita (physical, digital)
• genre: Action, Puzzle
• release: (JP) 04.26.2016, (Asia) 06.23.2016, (US/EU) ???
• price: ¥6458(Premium Box), ¥4298(Normal Edition), ¥3086 (PSN digital)
• size: 893MB
• rating: Cero C
  
• official website: http://nippon1.jp/consumer/rose/
  

The game's protagonist is Rose, who awakens in the ruins of the Old Twilight Castle, which has lost both color and time. The player controls Rose as she manipulates time and the color red with the "Power of Thorns" and aims to escape the Old Twilight Castle.



Along the way, Rose meets a Giant with superhuman strength, who helps Rose reach her goal.








Rose and the Giant work as a team and traverse the castle in search of objects that will help them escape. You fight all kinds of enemies, solve difficult puzzles and try to avoid/overcome deadly traps.












first trailer
second trailer
75min gameplay footage

English Let’s Play [Kotaku, Twitch]

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part2/2




PSN user rating 4.71/5 stars

Famitsu 31/40 (7/8/8/8) [Silver Award]
The reviewers praised the unique art design of the game where cute-looking characters clash with bleak, sepia-colored backgrounds and gruesome depictions of death. They generally liked the gameplay concepts of Rose and the Giant combining their powers to fight, solve challenging puzzles and overcome deadly traps that seem impossible to solve when you first get to them. One of them mentions a fast-travel option via a map for exploring the castle.





Is this a follow-up to Hotaru no Nikki? htoL#NIQ2?
Speaking with Dengeki PlayStation, Furuya said that he heard concerns about The Firefly Diary being too difficult and wanted to adjust the balance during development for Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight. Furuya notes that this isn’t The Firefly Diary 2, as a sequel was hard to envision, and that he’d want to remake the first game before doing a followup.

Will this game get localized?
As far as I know, there hasn’t been an official announcement yet; the spiritual predecessor was localized and released last year.

edit: will there be an Asian version? Will it be in English?
The Asia version will be released on Jun 23rd, but Import stores have it listed with Chinese as the only available language option.

Is the limited edition worth the higher price?
I think it looks great and comes with some nice extras like an artbook and the full OST. Here's an image of the contents.

Is there a demo?
YES! a free demo is available on the Japanese PSN store.



OK GAF, let's post some impressions and help Rose escape!



sources, quotes, images:
dengekionline
gematsu
animenewsnetwork

Any idea if this will be available on the Asia PSN store? I'd like to give the demo a chance. Couldn't find it on my Asia account Vita.

Also I love how they do these nice limited editions even for smaller releases.

Where is the best place to buy the limited edition

Grim Patron said:

Any idea if this will be available on the Asia PSN store? I'd like to give the demo a chance. Couldn't find it on my Asia account Vita.

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the Asian version will be out on Jun 23rd. The demo might be up on the Asian PSN store closer to release.

bestpersonevar said:

Where is the best place to buy the limited edition

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I ordered it from playasia, looks like they still have it in stock.

takoyaki said:

the Asian version will be out on Jun 23rd. The demo might be up on the Asian PSN store closer to release.



I ordered it from playasia, looks like they still have it in stock.

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Thank you.

If this has the same amount of text as Firefly Diary (which only had text in the menus/credits), I would assume this would be very import friendly. Once someone beats it in a day, it should probably be posted just how much text is in it.

It takes Nisa too long to localize these smaller games, even though I'd assume Yomawari is only taking so long so they have it for October.

Kotaku article with a full Let's Play for the game, it took the player around h to beat the game

SPOILERS the-up-all-night-stream-plays-rose-and-the-old-castle-of-twilight

Kotaku Import Review

Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight Is a Perfect Melding of Cuteness and Gore

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Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight is a great piece of interactive visual storytelling. Not only is it a tale of friendship and innocence colliding with the eldritch, but also a well-built puzzle platformer. Like Yomawari before it, Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight is a game that was simply a joy to play—even if the final boss destroyed me for hours on end.

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