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Idea factory International announced during its IFI Summer Festival event nearby Anime Exhibition on saturday that it will bring Touhou Spell Carnival, Dead End re;Quest: Code Z, Neptunia Riders vs Dogoos, Temirana: The Happy Princess and the Tragic KnightsAnd Battlefield Waltz to the west.
Idea factory Will release internationally Touhou Spell Carnival digital and physical for Switch, Play station 4, and Play station 5 this year. The company also has a playable demo for the game available at Anime ExhibitionThe game was released in Japan for the same platforms on April 18.
The company describes the story:
Gensokyo — A remote land, isolated from the outside world, where humans and youkai live side by side.
One day, the maiden of Hakurei Shrine, Reimu Hakurei, sees mysterious pillars towering over various places in Gensokyo.
These pillars marked the beginning of the Spell Carnival, a festival organized by Yukari Yakumo where one had to throw one’s Spell Cards into battle.
In order to investigate the true intentions of Yukari Yakumo, who so suddenly initiated the Spell Carnival, Reimu Hakurei joins the fight for the Spell Cards.
The release will have Japanese audio and text in English, French and Spanish (Spain). The release will have a standard and limited edition.
Idea factory Will release internationally Dead End re;Quest: Code Z physically and digitally on Switch, PS4, and PS5 in 2025. The game will be released in Japan on September 19 on the same platforms.
The company describes the story of the game, which is the latest in the Dead end road re;Quest series:
Step into a story about parallel universes…
Iris was born on World DE-1, a world that mirrors Earth in the 2000s. Her birth set in motion a series of tragic loops that were gradually unraveled by the efforts of Arata Mizunashi and his team.
With her goodwill restored, Iris created a copy of World DE-1 called World DE-1.5. Here, feuds gave way to friendship, each person a perfect cog in a perfect world. But a new crisis threatens the peace…
A mysterious man has entered the fray, leading a group of people who appear identical to the world’s former heroes. Our new hero, Sayaka Hiwatari, confronts the growing chaos, where friends and foes seem impossible to distinguish.
And so the battle with another world enters a new phase…
The release will feature Japanese and English audio and English text. Idea factory Internationally, the game will be released in a standard and limited edition.
Idea factory Will release internationally Neptunia Riders vs Dogoos physically and digitally on Switch, PS4, and PS5 in 2025. The company also has a playable demo for the game available at Anime ExhibitionThe game was released in Japan for the same platforms on June 27.
The company describes the story:
This dimension is different from Gamindustri…
A large number of Dogoos appear and threaten to cover the land.
To escape this alien realm, a lone rider explores the mysterious world in search of an exit.
Idea factory International will release the game with English and Japanese audio and English, French and Spanish (Spain) text. The game will have a standard and special edition.
Idea factory International will release Ichi Column’s Temirana: The Happy Princess and the Tragic Knights (Temirana Koku no Tsuiteru Hime to Tsuitenai Kishi Dan) otome game visual novel will be available physically and digitally for the Switch in 2025. The visual novel was released in Japan on April 27.
The company describes the story:
In this world, a person’s status and profession are determined by the month they were born. About 15 years ago, in the eastern kingdom of Temirana, the third princess was born: a baby with a birthmark on her forehead.
Rumors spread that this child was the “Cursed Princess” and that she was forced to live in a house far from her family, far from the castle.
But things are going to change.
As her 16th birthday approaches, she visits the Helis Duelm duel tournament, where she sees five men glowing with a blindingly strong light.
The “Cursed Princess” did indeed possess a special and fortunate power. When her life was in danger, people and places would shine as if warning her.
Those who know her power warn that perhaps those men shone because they were dangerous… but she knows their light is unlike anything she has ever seen before. Trusting her intuition, the princess invites the five men to join her knightly order.
However, some of them have no experience with the sword, and others have no interest in knighthood at all. Can the princess and her small company of five knights overcome the tragedy on the horizon?
Idea factory International is releasing the game in a standard and limited edition. Anyone who buys one of these editions in the store will receive a collector’s card.
Idea factory Will release internationally Tomato‘S Battlefield Waltz (Senjo no waltz) otome game visual novel physically and digitally on the Switch in 2025. The visual novel was released in Japan for the Play station Vita in November 2014 and then the Switch in March 2023.
Idea factory International describes the story:
A girl loses everything, all in one day. Her village, and even worse: her father…
In their place, she is given a new power. When she picks up a sword to protect herself and her loved ones, she discovers that it is “cursed” and possesses immense power.
Now that she has acquired something that could shake the foundations of the country, the girl has no choice but to live on the battlefield.
The ultra-nationalist military academy Nirvana becomes her new home, where young men and women who excel in combat come together to compete and hone their skills, regardless of their background.
She meets new people, forges strong bonds and finds what she thought she had lost: a place where she belongs.
This is the story of the girl and the talking, cursed sword at her side.
Idea factory International is releasing the game in a standard and limited edition. Anyone who buys one of these editions in the store will receive a collector’s card.
The company also released a promotional video for the 9 Rest in peace visual novel, due out in English this year.
Source: Press release