Coinciding with the game’s announcement, one of the directors of TooKyo’s new title The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy has posted some important details about the upcoming title on Twitter/X.
This is Tookyo Games’ first in-house IP game. We have invested all our money and human resources into this game, and in a sense, it is an epic indie game. I will also have an English dubbing ready for release. Your support is needed! We spread this game to the world!… https://t.co/YJYTxoJYvn
— Kazutaka kodaka/小高和剛 (@kazkodaka) June 19, 2024
Firstly, the game is the studio’s first properly in-house developed game, and it has set them back a lot of money. A currently untranslated famitsu interview corroborates this to say that the studio is in debt from the money invested into production.
Secondly, the game will have a english text and audio available upon release.
Finally, unmentioned by this tweet, but available on the game’s official website and steam page is that Media Vision will be assisting development. Media Vision are a japanese game development company that have worked on titles such as Digimon Cyber Sleuth and Valkyria Chronicles, confirming that the RPG elements for the game are in very good hands.
This project by the creators of Danganronpa (Kazutaka Kodaka) and Zero Escape (Kotaro Uchikoshi) features protagonist Takumi Sumino, an average teenager living in the Tokyo Residential Complex before monsters start attacking. However, a creature named Sirei appears and offers him the power to protect those he cherishes, but it requires him to stab himself in the chest.
Takumi then finds himself in the Last Defense Academy, a school in the middle of nowhere, where he and 14 other students are drafted into the Special Defense Unit. They’re tasked with keeping the school safe for the next 100 days.
Takumi’s choices can lead to 100 “extreme despair-filled endings,” and the SRPG battles that will need players to take advantage of each student’s Specialist Skills. Further, you will be able to bond with teammates and use items to craft gifts and get closer to them.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy launches in early 2025 for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam.
