There’s likelihood you’ve by no means heard of Darkish Public sale, a launch introduced final yr with an idea created by Rika Suzuki, who’s finest identified for writing Lodge Nightfall: Room 215 and One other Code.
This recreation – a form of point-and-click escape room-style visible novel – is due out on the PS5 later this yr in Japan, and it has a really wild premise.
The story’s set in Germany in 1981, and it revolves round a personality referred to as Noah Crawford, whose father is obsessive about Hitler. When his Dad units off for an uncommon public sale involving a few of Adolf’s private results, he guarantees to return promptly as a way to share his findings together with his son. However he by no means returns, main Noah himself to go to the fort the place the bidding is alleged to have taken place, and caught up within the thriller.
It’s a very uncommon however attractive premise, and we’re intrigued to be taught the place the story goes. Judging from the trailer, you may anticipate puzzle fixing and visible novel-style gameplay, considerably just like a launch like, say, Danganronpa.
However it’s the plot that’s caught our consideration right here.
“This recreation tells the story of a bunch of younger individuals who resolve to attempt for a peaceable future after studying of the previous,” the blurb cautions. “Whereas historic war-related recollections seem as motifs at instances in the course of the story, this recreation doesn’t, in any method, search to glorify or promote the crimes of battle.”
Contemplate this one to observe.