Koei Tecmo has confirmed a launch date for Challenge Zero: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse – often called Deadly Body: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse in North America – on Nintendo Change.
This has seen the developer look to revive and remaster the basic Japanese horror journey, which was launched completely 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 residence 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 finally 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 lined 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 associates’ 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the moonlight and a faint flashlight to seek for clues, the story progresses as you uncover relics – corresponding to outdated newspaper articles and notes – that may enable the ladies to unravel the secrets and techniques concerning the island’s previous.
The ladies might 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 digital camera to seize “issues that can’t be seen” to assist get well the proof wanted to recollect the ladies’ haunting previous.
The remastered sport has an all-new Photograph Mode, new and altered costumes, enhanced graphics – corresponding to improved rendering of shadows and light-weight – with the in-game films and character fashions “brushed-up to ship a narrative that shines, each narratively and aesthetically because the three remaining women try and 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. Accessible digitally, this distinctive version of the sport consists of the Rogetsu Isle Dinner Occasion Costume Set, and a digital artwork e book (unique soundtrack included).
As well as, anybody who purchases the digital copy of the sport by twenty second March 2023 could have the power to obtain the early buy bonus: Ruka Unique Costume “Marie Rose Outfit” from the Useless or Alive sequence. Followers who preorder the sport by the discharge date may also obtain a wide range of costumes, together with the Ruka Restricted Version Costume “Fox Masks” (white/purple), the Misaki Restricted Version Costume “Fox Masks” (black/purple), 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 system that has saved knowledge from PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water to obtain the Save Information Bonus, the “Digital camera Obscura Hat”.
Challenge Zero: Masks of the Lunar Eclipse will launch digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Change worldwide on 9 March 2023.