Tokyo Game Show 2025

MIRESI: Invisible Future Has a Cool Time Travel Premise, If Especially Fanservice is Your Thing

Time travel stories: they can be super fun at their best or contrived at their worst. In video games this is almost doubly ture as time travel can feel like a gimmick if not handled with the up most care. And then there's MIRESI: Invisible Future, a game with a beta build presented at the Tokyo Game Show.

While little has been released about MIRESI: Invisible Future, the broader story finds the player taking on the role of a Councilor. As the Councilor you are tasked with saving the timeline and era of Yggdrasil with three women: Ende, Isuka, and Tieria.

There's not much of a story to work with in the MIRESI: Invisible Future demo we were presented at the Tokyo Game Show. However, what we get is told through dialogue. When you have lines such as, “The commander died five minutes from now,” you know you're in for some great time travel shenanigans.

The combat is a combination of semi-automated attacks with elements of turn-based RPGs. There is a combat timer at the bottom of the screen, which shows when a character can perform a special maneuver, but while you wait, the characters, both friend and foe, perform auto-attacks.

This allows players to gauge what sort of special maneuver is needed at any time during combat. These range from healing to special attacks to evasive maneuvers. This sort of combat creates a certain tactical element to the gameplay--and requires you to pay attention to what's happening. It's almost as if the combat in MIRESI: Invisible Future is an evolution of the combat system seen in Square Enix's Chrono Trigger.

That said, one thing makes me uncomfortable about MIRESI: Invisible Future. The character designs for Isuka and Tieria. It's not that I don't appreciate a bit of scantily clad women, but rather it skirts the line of erotic content. All in all, your mileage may vary when it comes to the character designs in MIRESI: Invisible Future--and the more power to you if they're what you're looking for.

I really enjoyed my time with MIRESI: Invisible Future at the Tokyo Game Show. I'm curious to see the full extent of the story and am excited for more dialogue that plays with the nature of time travel. However, it may be a while as no release date for MIRESI: Invisible Future has been announced.