The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story, Square Enix and the creator of The Naked Director unveil a surprising live-action mystery game

It was introduced during Nintendo Direct Japanese version, but will be released internationally: The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a new original project signed Square-Enix and hand, inc. (Disney Magic World, NEO: The World Ends with You). It will be a live-action puzzle adventure game, way Full Motion Video.

It will be led by an interesting technical team, between Koichiro Ito (Manager on the Metal Gear Solid V) to the realization, Junichi Ehera (NieR: Automata) to production, and above all Yasuhito Tachibana (producer of The Naked Director for netflix) photography and script. The story will revolve around the cursed family of Shijima, which has seen unexplained deaths over the past century. We will embody author of detective novels Haruka Kagamiwhose talents of deduction will allow him to analyze scenes from different eras to gather clues and create logical connections to find the culprit(s).

The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story comes to life with performances by Nanami Sakuraba as the protagonist, Haruka Kagami, and Yuta Hiraoka as Eiji Shijima, the Shijima family’s second son returned home to help unravel the mystery that torments his family. Talented Japanese actors and actresses give substance to this enigmatic adventure in which they interpret several characters from each era.

“This is a puzzle game that we threw ourselves headlong into after an intense discussion between game director Koichiro Ito, who has created many adventure games, and Yasuhito Tachibana, producer of The Naked Director on Netflix, themed “live-action gaming made for gamers”. An elaborate storyline, a game experience in which you use your powers of reasoning to unmask the culprit, and the enormous secret that connects several murders that occurred in different eras… We have started the last phase of the development and want to make it a puzzle game that everyone can enjoy. I hope you can’t wait to find out! said producer, Junichi Ehara.

If you are intrigued, know that The Centennial Case will be released on PS5, PS4, Switch and PC via Steam May 12, 2022.

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