Today, February 22nd 2024, marks the official release of Key‘s LUNARiA – Virtualized Moonchild in English for the Nintendo Switch! The release date for the PC version is still TBA.
Story
The Moon and Earth: a love story spanning 384,400 kilometers.
Skyout is a cutting-edge VR action-battle race.
T-bit is not your ordinary high school student. He’s also an undefeated genius gamer.
Day in and day out, he logs into Skyout, winning lots of prize money.But one day he ends up wandering into a mysterious area.
Lunar World, a Moon server whose existence no one knows about.
There T-bit meets an AI avatar who introduces herself as LUNAR-Q.It turns out that she’s a rejected mascot character for a lunar terraforming project, and she dreams of seeing the Earth some day…
-Official Synopsis
LUNAR-Q
VA: Tanaka Minami
A self-proclaimed learning companion AI that was supposed to be the mascot of the lunar solar power project “Project Serene” …….
She lives alone in “Lunar World,” a corner of the lunar server.
She has an energetic and vivacious personality, but she is not very good at grasping a sense of distance from others and is strangely familiar with them.
Since she has been alone for a long time, she is very curious about everything.
Her hobby is watching live video games.
Key/Visual Arts is a team that needs no introduction: they are industry veterans with 20 years of experience responsible for many beloved works such as Kanon and CLANNAD. Originally released in 2021, Lunaria is one of their more recent projects. Lunaria is a kinetic novel, that is, it does not feature branching paths, focused around a virtual reality world, with characters alternating between a ‘Virtual’ (in-game avatar) self and a ‘Real’ self (flesh and blood).
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