AURORA REQUIEM: The Lullaby of Calvaris

Year 41 without the sun. Calvaris is a city built inside the bones of a sea creature so large its ribs are districts and its skull is a neighborhood for the rich. There is no sun here, only lighthouses — and the lighthouses don't burn oil. They burn memories. Every family pays its tribute to the Lighthouse Intendancy, one memory at a time, so the lamps stay lit and the dark stays out. Down in Spina, in the shadow of the iron Plate, a mechanic named Zero Solace takes a job he says is "just for the money": help a rebel crew called Undertow slip a bomb into the heart of a lighthouse before the countdown hits zero.

He's cocky. He's warm. He's stubborn. He never breaks a promise — "Mechanic's honor."And he remembers a trip into the sealed Nadir Lighthouse that nobody else in Calvaris seems to remember at all.A new adventure with an old soulAURORA REQUIEM is an original JRPG built to feel like the ones you played on a CRT at the end of the 90s: fixed cameras over pre-rendered backgrounds, chunky polygon heroes with big heads on the field, blue menu windows, a 3D world map, grainy "pre-rendered" cutscenes and a MIDI-orchestra soundtrack.

Every character, story beat, graphic, song and sound effect is original. It's also a game that knows what it is. It comes on three discs.…