6.4 /10 1 Votes
6/10 Destructoid Writer(s) Dario Fuji Initial release date 2016 Mode Single-player video game | 68% Metacritic Artist(s) Mino Taro Composer(s) Takashi Nitta Developer Kadokawa Corporation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Adventure game, Visual novel Platforms PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita Publishers PQube, Kadokawa Corporation Similar Kadokawa Corporation games, Visual novel games, Other games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Game review root letter
Root Letter (stylized √Letter) is a visual novel adventure video game developed and published by Kadokawa Games for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. It is the first entry in the Kadokawa Game Mystery brand.
Contents
- Game review root letter
- Root letter review ps4 ps vita
- Gameplay
- Story
- Development and release
- Reception
- Sales
- References
Root letter review ps4 ps vita
Gameplay
The game plays as an adventure visual novel. In the game, the player must figure out what happened to the character of Aya, a girl who mysteriously vanished after receiving a particular letter. The gameplay will be split into two distinct parts; the adventure part, where the player interrogates characters who knew Aya in order to find more information about her, and the simulation parts, where the player relives and plays through prior interactions with Aya.
Story
Root Letter is set in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, where the protagonist arrives in search of Fumino Aya, a pen pal friend from high school who had disappeared for 15 years. After he finds a letter dedicated to him from her that was never sent, he sets out to interrogate her classmates as he wonders if everything Aya had told him had been a lie. The game contains multiple endings based on the player's choices throughout the game.
Development and release
The game was first announced in November 2015, with a worldwide release sometime in the first half 2016. A Chinese release is planned as well. Its announcement occurred at the same time and event as God Wars: Beyond Time. The game was introduced as the first title in a new line of adventure video games by Kadokawa Games, the Kadokawa Game Mystery series. Each entry in the series are planned to contain the same "fictional actresses" playing different roles across different titles. Key staff from Konami's LovePlus series of dating sim games will contribute to the game, including character designs from Mino Taro, and producer Akari Uchida.
Root Letter was released for the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita by Kadokawa Games on June 16, 2016 in Japan, and is planned to be released by PQube in 2016 in North America and Europe.
Reception
Root Letter received "favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
Sales
During its opening week in Japan, 8,907 copies were sold, of which 4,855 were of the PlayStation Vita version, and 4,052 of the PlayStation 4 version. The two versions were, respectively, the eleventh and fourteenth best selling games of that week in Japan. Despite the game not appearing on the weekly Media Create charts again in Japan, worldwide sales passed 200,000 copies sold by January 2017, making it a commercial success. Geraint Evans, the head of marketing of PQube, called their Root Letter sales "phenomenal", with the vast majority sold on the PlayStation Vita.