In a new role-playing game, it is not a hindrance if one of your characters dies in battle – quite the opposite. This has been received “extremely positively” by players in the demo on Steam.
What game is this about? The game in question is The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-. This JRPG will be released on April 23, 2025, for PC on Steam and for the Nintendo Switch. The game is being developed by Too Kyo Games, which was founded in 2017 by former Danganronpa developers, including the creator of the series, Kazutaka Kodaka.
A free demo of The Hundred Line -Last Defense- is currently available on Steam. It is already well-received – out of the current 703 reviews, 96% are positive.
You can watch a trailer for the game here:
100 days besieged by monsters – and that in a school
What is the game about? Takumi Sumino is actually a quite normal teenager and does not lead the most exciting life. However, this changes abruptly when his city is attacked by grotesque monsters. In the midst of this attack, a strange creature appears and offers him the power to protect his loved ones – but it comes at a price.
Afterwards, Takumi wakes up in the Academy of Last Defense: A school in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by mysterious flames. He is to protect it along with 14 other students – for a full 100 days.
The battles against the school invaders are turn-based. You move your characters, of which you only bring a handful to each fight, around like on a chessboard. If one of your characters dies in battle, it’s not that tragic – they will simply be revived later.
Here, dying is not just an option; you are even encouraged to do so: If a character’s last moments have come, they use their last reserves of blood for an ultimate attack and grant you bonuses for the remaining duration of the battle.
Sacrificed units return at the start of a new wave from the dead and even improve your score. So it’s not always the smartest decision to protect your characters – sometimes you gain more by throwing them headfirst into destruction.
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