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Crunchyroll Releases Black Lily's Tale Yuri Visual Novel Adventure Game in English
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The game is set in Japan, in a vague near-future time eighteen years after a virus known as CLII killed over half the minors in the country, exacerbating the country's already widening age demographic and replacement rate issue. The government and its institutions have strongly encouraged heterosexual relationships. The story centers on the relationship between two teenage girls: protagonist Hana Sasamori, and her friend Ai Isshiki, whom Hana has a crush on. Despite the forces of their society, Hana cannot stop her feelings for Ai. In their last year at school together, Hana one day sees Ai die to a car crash, but abruptly wakes up some hours before the incident. With newfound determination, Hana realizes she has a chance to save Ai from death, and will try as many times as she can to do it.
The game partially plays like other visual novels, with players watching dialogue progress, but the game also has a text parser reminiscent of older adventure games, which allows the player to suggest actions to Hana, or urge her to remember important details. The text the player inputs guide Hana to certain actions, and can influence the ending.
1000-REKA released the game simultaneously in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean on PC in October 2023 as its first game. Ōgi Saya (Mary Skelter, Period: Cube ~Shackles of Amadeus~, Dairoku: Agents of Sakuratani, Winter's Wish: Spirits of Edo) wrote the game's story. Fukahire designed and drew the characters.
1000-REKA launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign on March 2 earlier this year to fund an English localization of the game. The campaign sought to raise 400,000 yen, and successfully raised 2,354,301 yen. The campaign had stretch goals for free DLC scenarios (2,500,000 yen) and a Switch version (3,500,000 yen) for the game, but it did not reach these stretch goals.
Source: Crunchyroll, 1000-REKA's X/Twitter account
