Exploration-based action adventure game Chronoscript: The Endless End will launch for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam this fall, publisher Shueisha Games and developer DeskWorks! announced.
Alongside the announcement, a “Prologue” trailer offering a first look at the character designs for the mysterious writer and the protagonist, an editor, as well as the new stage “Ancient Egypt.”
Here is an overview of the game, via Shueisha Games:
About
A thousand years of words… waiting for your final mark.
Chronoscript: The Endless End is an exploration-based action-adventure game where you, an editor trapped within a manuscript, must unravel a thousand-year story that writes itself beyond its end—across 2D pages and a 3D manor.
Prologue
The year is AD 2026.
After finally bringing his long-running series to an end, a certain Editor receives a mysterious summons from a new Author.
He makes his way to the Author’s grand residence, sequestered deep in the mountains. There, he is bitten by a mosquito and instantly loses consciousness.
When he wakes, he finds himself trapped within The Endless End, a manuscript penned by the Vampire Mistress of the estate.
Discover Chronoscript: The Endless End
Chronoscript: The Endless End is an innovative exploration-based action-adventure game set in two worlds: the cluttered, manuscript-strewn manor of a writer rendered in 3D and the intricate, pen-and-ink-illustrated pages of that manuscript rendered in 2D.
Explore a 2D world stitched together from thousands of manuscript pages, each its own unique location. Fight fearsome enemies who, when sowing the seeds of destruction, have departed from this world. Grow stronger with every discovery made and victory won. Lose yourself in the story of a writer and her editor.
This original form of spatial expression is now for you to experience.
Key Features
- Hard-Hitting Action – Rooted in the satisfying challenge of classic 2D action platformers, the game evolves as you play, unlocking dynamic ink-traversing moves, as well as unique abilities to be used in exploration and combat.
- Confront “The Ruined” – Souls who met gruesome deaths in life have been resurrected and now stand in your way as twisted, corrupted versions of their past selves. Defeat them to unravel the tragic threads of their fate.
- Traverse the Many Eras Depicted within the Manuscript – Within the manuscript pages lies a vast world of stories, tales written by the Vampire Mistress across a thousand years and countless lands.
- Intricate Artwork – The story’s protagonist, enemies, and backdrops are all hand-drawn with pen and ink. The frame-by-frame animation style gives them an eerie sense of life.
Characters
- Vampire: Viola S. Chambers – An author cursed with immortality, she has been writing an “endless story” for a millennium. Having lived for so many centuries, and undertaken so many stories, she has lost sight of the end.
Now, she calls upon our Editor in hopes that he will be able to uphold his ancestor’s promise and finish the tale.- Editor: Frederick G. Muller – A taciturn editor who has brought many a long-running publication to a concise finish. After answering a summon to a secluded manor from a new author, he becomes trapped within the thousands of pages of her manuscript. He must now dive deep to make sense of each bewildering story, while also attending to the Author’s anguish and loneliness to bring the “endless story” to its conclusion.
Watch a new trailer below. View a new set of screenshots at the gallery.
Prologue Trailer
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