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Archetype Arcadia
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Sealed: the original seal is intact. Any flaw in the seal is noted here and shown in the photos, which are our own, taken from our stock of this game. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
In a world gutted by a disease called Peccato Mania, the last safe place is inside a video game. Archetype Arcadia, the dark visual novel from Water Phoenix and Kemco, follows Rust, who full-dives into the online game of the title after his younger sister is struck down, because playing it is the only thing known to hold the illness back. What he finds there is a game that demands far more of its players than their time.
The cleverest idea is how combat works. In Arcadia, players fight with their memories, which take shape as avatars that battle on their behalf, so the people and moments a player holds dearest become the weapons they wield. Losing in this world can cost far more than a match, and the story treats those memories as something that can be lost. Every fight carries an emotional cost that a hit-point bar alone never could, and the story makes sure you feel it.
Choices matter, and the game is not shy about punishing the wrong one. Decisions can steer the story toward grim outcomes, so it pays to save often and revisit the branches you did not take. Along the way you meet a cast of players carrying scars of their own, allies and enemies alike, each shaped by the memories they fight with and the ones they have already lost.
This is a long, fully voiced read with mature, often disturbing themes: grief, trauma, self-harm and the pull of escaping into an online world. It takes the full-dive premise familiar from Sword Art Online and gives it real teeth, asking what you would be willing to forget to save someone you love. On Switch it becomes a story to sink into chapter by chapter in handheld mode, and a meaty addition to the physical visual-novel shelf for readers who like their fiction dark.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2021
- Publisher
- Kemco
- Developer
- Water Phoenix
- Genre
- Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Visual Novel
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The world has fallen to Peccato Mania (original sin), which causes self-harm and other problems. To save his younger sister Christine, who has been stricken by the disease, Rust full-dive into the online game "Archetype Arcadia", which is the only way to stop the progress of the symptom. Hope, pain, joy, betrayal, and inevitable "death" are found in this game, where the memories of the players turn into avatars and fight. A fully-voiced text novel adventure game that tells a terrifying story of the overwhelming volume, led by memories that should have been lost.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayArchetype Arcadia on Switch
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Archetype Arcadia
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Archetype Arcadia
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