{"rewrite":{"id":"r_ec0d185b6baee1151646957c","clusterId":"c_5019e92f78c6845732b1df33","slug":"mages-announces-shikai-occult-suspense-game-for-february-25-2027","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"MAGES. Announces Shikai Occult Suspense Game for February 25, 2027","summary":"MAGES. announced on October 30 that Shikai, an occult suspense adventure game, will launch on February 25, 2027 for PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2. The standard edition is 6,380 yen including tax, and the limited edition is 9,680 yen. Shikai comes from the staff of the Science Adventure series, which includes STEINS;GATE and CHAOS;CHILD, and is billed as a \"non\"-science suspense game. The scenario is by Ryo Yasumoto, whose credits include CHAOS;CHILD and STEINS;GATE 0, with planning and original concept by Fumihiro Kitahara and music by Takeshi Abo. Tomokazu Sugita voices protagonist Shigeaki Nogawa, a 37-year-old editor at the occult magazine Choujou Idra who investigates the ghost story \"The House with the Red Roof\" after a woman claiming to be a person from the story appears. Azusa Aoi, Rikako Aida, Ryotaro Okiayu, and Mariko Honda round out the cast. An opening movie set to Kanako Ito's \"REDRUM\" was released, and reservations opened the same day.","whyItMatters":"The Science Adventure staff are applying their serialized mystery structure to a ghost story that MAGES. already published on YouTube in 2024 through Mariko Honda's recitation video, so the game extends a story the studio has told outside games.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eTwo modes split the investigation. Observation Mode follows Nogawa as he looks over scenes for points of interest, and a late-night \u0026#34;Shikai (SEEKER EYE)\u0026#34; mode has the player become the eye of the supernatural and choose which person connected to \u0026#34;The House with the Red Roof\u0026#34; to watch. What turns up in that mode includes secrets and conflicts the characters have never spoken of.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMei Miyoshi (Azusa Aoi), 23, a timid rookie editor assigned to Choujou Idra as Nogawa\u0026#39;s assistant.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAkane Orihara (Rikako Aida), 20, who says she is A-chan from the ghost story and is looking for its narrator, S-san.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShinichi Matsunaga (no voice credit listed), 20, Akane\u0026#39;s childhood friend and the narrator S-san, out of contact with her since elementary school.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTaizan Ichinomiya (Ryotaro Okiayu), a temple-born exorcist and Nogawa\u0026#39;s university junior who speaks in Osaka dialect.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKei Matoba (Mariko Honda), 33, a Metropolitan Police Division 1 detective called an iron mask who dislikes the occult.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ghost story itself was posted on the MAGES. Horror Channel in 2024 as a recitation drama read by Mariko Honda, and the game builds on the play of being pulled in by it. Kanako Ito sings the opening theme \u0026#34;REDRUM,\u0026#34; written by Katsuwo Kawasumi with composition by Toshimichi Isoe, and Masatoshi Ono sings \u0026#34;IN DELETE.\u0026#34; ZIZZ STUDIO produced the music, and Takeshi Abo composed the score. Tatsuya Matsubara and Naotaka Hayashi are listed as supervisors, and Tomonori Fukuda, character designer on ROBOTICS;NOTES, drew the standard edition package art. The limited edition adds a setting materials book styled as an issue of Choujou Idra, with a new short story by Yasumoto, plus a 41-track soundtrack on DVD-ROM.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Shikai is billed as a \"non\"-science game from the STEINS;GATE staff, but Ryo Yasumoto wrote STEINS;GATE 0. The premise is the contrast: an occult magazine editor, not a lab, as the entry point.","twitterPost":"Shikai pulls the Science Adventure staff into occult territory, with STEINS;GATE 0 writer Ryo Yasumoto and a 37-year-old magazine editor as lead.","threadsPost":"Shikai is pitched as a \"non\"-science game, yet it carries the Science Adventure pedigree: Ryo Yasumoto on scenario, Takeshi Abo on music, Tomokazu Sugita as a 37-year-old occult magazine editor. The shift is the setting, from lab to ghost story.","newsletterBlurb":"MAGES. dated Shikai for February 25, 2027 on PS5, Switch, and Switch 2, with a Science Adventure staff lineup behind it. 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