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Danish gaming studio Professional Villains announced on 11 October “Monkfishwill be released on November 10th local time. The corresponding platform is PC (Steam). The game appears to support Japanese. The trial version currently in distribution also supports Japanese.
Monkfish is a horror game. A work friend is getting married and the protagonist will attend a bachelor party with other single colleagues. For some reason, old people end up dressing up as high school girls. Under the pretext that the person who gets the most phone numbers can become the groom’s assistant, the battle of the old begins. The place of the decisive battle is the monkfish. Just when you think a joke is about to break, suddenly a monster appears and the atmosphere of hell takes over.
The game is developed with horizontal scrolling as an axis. Go to various places, get items and talk to the NPCs. Use new items to explore unexplored places, shoot monsters to death with your shotgun and unravel the mysteries of this strange bar.
The characteristic of this work is that “the situation changes according to how you die”. First, the main character dies quite often in this work. But death is the beginning, not the end. When you die, you will be returned to the state you were in before joining Anglerfish. In other words, it’s a time jump. Furthermore, the situation changes according to the mode of death. If a new flag is raised and you die, the situation will naturally change and a new event will occur depending on how you die along the way. Every time you die, or depending on how you die, the hellish world changes dramatically. Dying over and over to reveal the secrets of the bar.
“Anglerfish” has gained popularity due to its unique gameplay, gaining popularity among some streamers and creators, as described by ManlyBadassHero overseas and Retort in Japan. There are a lot of playful elements, including settings like a bachelor party for high school girls cosplay men. On the other hand, there is a sense of tension due to immediate death and the design is such that it cannot predict what will happen next. What awaits at the end of the world that changes with each death?
“Monkfish” is a PC (Steam) will be released on November 10th.
