NIS America has announced a western release for Grasshopper Manufacture and Goichi Suda’s The 25th Ward: The Silver Case.
The upcoming sequel to The Silver Case will launch sometime next year for PC and PlayStation 4 in North America and Europe. Featured above, you can view the announcement trailer for the game.
Here’s some new artwork for the game:
Here’s a rundown on the game, via NIS America:
It is been five years since the events of 1999’s The Silver Case, set in the new 25th Ward that arose in the bayside area of Kanto. In a room of the “Bayside Tower Land” apartment complex, a woman is found murdered under mysterious circumstances. This sets off a series of seemingly random events bridging across multiple protagonists including The Silver Case’s Tokio Morishima. With all viewpoints assembled, a truly shocking pattern emerges…
Key Features
- A Suda 51 Trip – Set in the “Kill the Past” universe, the series continues its bleak look into a semi-futuristic world on the edge of collapse and the misfits and antiheroes that inhabit it.
- Brave New World – The return of the signature “Film Window” system is brought to The 25th Ward for the first time! New visuals, sounds, and controls capture the game in a fresh perspective.
- One Story, Many Sides – Explore this dark take on Tokyo from three different perspectives, “Correctness,” “Placebo,” and “Matchmaker.”
In case you missed it, you can find our review for The Silver Case here, for PC.