Koei Tecmo has confirmed a launch date for Mission Zero: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse – often called Deadly Body: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse in North America – on Nintendo Swap.
This has seen the developer look to revive and remaster the traditional Japanese horror journey, which was launched solely 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 moveable house console.
The sport is about a decade after 5 women mysteriously disappeared at a competition on Rōgetsu Isle, an island located in southern Japan. Whereas they have been ultimately 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 women have since died and have been found with their faces coated and positioned in a tragic, crying pose. The three women that stay select to return to the eerie island with the hope of fixing the thriller behind their mates’ 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 may permit the women to unravel the secrets and techniques concerning 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 will want to equip stronger lenses and use totally different movies to seize the extra highly effective spirits, utilizing the digicam to seize “issues that can not be seen” to assist get better the proof wanted to recollect the women’ haunting previous.
The remastered sport has an all-new Photograph Mode, new and altered costumes, enhanced graphics – similar to improved rendering of shadows and lightweight – with the in-game motion pictures and character fashions “brushed-up to ship a narrative that shines, each narratively and aesthetically because the three remaining women try to 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. Obtainable digitally, this distinctive version of the sport consists of the Rogetsu Isle Dinner Celebration Costume Set, and a digital artwork ebook (authentic 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 Lifeless or Alive collection. Followers who preorder the sport by the discharge date may even obtain a wide range 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 Knowledge Bonus, the “Digital camera Obscura Hat”.
Mission Zero: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse will launch digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Swap worldwide on 9 March 2023.
