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Kyoei Toshi PS4 Game Reveals Evangelion Unit-01, Gamera, Fall Launch

This week's issue of Kadokawa's Weekly Famitsu magazine is revealing on Thursday that Bandai Namco Entertainment and Granzella Inc.'s upcoming collaboration game Kyoei Toshi (City Shrouded in Shadow) is slated to ship for PlayStation 4 in Japan this fall. The "science-fiction survival action adventure" game's official website also updated on Tuesday and confirmed that the game will be for PS4 only, although it was originally slated for PS4 and PlayStation Vita.

The magazine is also revealing that Evangelion Unit-01 and Gamera will appear as "giant shadows" in the game. In addition, Ultraman, Nise Ultraman, Alien Zarab, Godzilla, King Ghidorah, The Fourth Angel, and Legion will appear in the game. The magazine is teasing that a "highly mobile giant shadow" will appear from a fifth work. The magazine revealed an EVA Unit, Godzilla, and the heroine Yuki in March 2016.

The game's human characters include male and female protagonists, Yuki Kano, Hideyasukuni Ōtsuka, and Risa Kashiwagi. Players will be able to customize the protagonist and choose whether the heroine Yuki is a "lover" or "friend." The game will feature choices typical of Ganzella's games, and player's choices will determine Yuki's view of the protagonist. The works in the game will not crossover, and will be divided by stage. Although downloadable content is under consideration, there are currently no plans for downloadable content because the developers are focusing on completing the game.

Granzella Inc. and Bandai Namco Entertainment unveiled the game at Tokyo Game Show in September 2015. Disaster Report (Zettai Zetsumei Toshi) producer Kazuma Kujo is directing and designing the game. At Bandai Namco Entertainment, Takashi Watabe is the chief producer.

The game is unrelated to Granzella Inc.'s Disaster Report series, but will also be in the survival adventure genre. In the game players must survive in a city attacked by mysterious looming threats.

[Via Gematsu]