A new report via a renowned weekly Japanese publication has confirmed the release window for Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2, the fifth entry in developer CyberConnect2’s Little Tail Bronx series of games. In addition to the release window, several key details for the game were also revealed, including new gameplay features and other narrative design choices. Below is an outline of all the information gathered, translated from Japanese by a different publication.
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 will feature an improved battle system that includes new weapons and revamped battle operations.
- A “Turbo Mode” is available from the beginning of the game.
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 will feature branching paths, and players’ choices will influence the story through the “judgement system.” These choices will appear throughout the game, with a cumulative total of your decisions affecting the story and your relationships with other characters.
- Airship support has been implemented.
- Development is at 60% completion.
- The original plan called for Fuga to be a trilogy.
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2’s story is set one year after Fuga: Melodies of Steel’s “True End.”
- The in-game currency is confirmed, allowing players to buy items.
- A bonus will be supplied to players who have saved data from the previous game, or alternatively a “True End” save.
- Malt will be the game’s protagonist.
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 is double the scenario volume of that of the first game.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 is a direct sequel to Fuga: Melodies of Steel, which is itself a prequel to Tail Concerto and Solatorobo: Red the Hunter. In the series, the world is populated by anthropomorphic dogs and cats.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel features 11 child survivors from a village destroyed by a fascist nation called the Berman Empire. These survivors then band together and board a gigantic tank called the Taranis, a weapon from a more technologically-advanced civilization. Their plan is to travel across the landscape and rescue their families while weighing their choices concerning the Soul Cannon, a powerful weapon of mass destruction that they can use at the cost of one of their lives.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 will follow the “True End” of the first game where all children survive.