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Spike Chunsoft Releases Crystar Game in the West on PS4/PC in August

Spike Chunsoft announced on Friday that it will release Furyu Corporation's Crystar game in the West for the PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam on August 27. Spike Chunsoft also announced that it will release the Suda51 downloadable content for the Fire Pro Wrestling World game.

Crystar will have an English dub, and will also include the Summer Collection Costume DLC. Those who pre-order the game's "Day 1 Edition" for the PS4 will receive a mini-artbook for the game.

The game shipped in Japan for the PS4 last October.

Naoki Hisaya handled the game's scenario, Riuichi was the character designer, ntny handled the character designs and also served as the character modeling lead, Hajime Ueda was in charge of insert illustrations, Sakujo composed the background music, Gemdrops developed the game, and anime studio SHAFT animated the game's opening sequence.

In the game's story, Rei and her younger sister Mirai find themselves in the afterlife world "Hengoku." While they are both confused and trying to find their way home, they are attacked by strange and fantastical beings. In order to protect her sister, Rei awakens supernatural abilities and defeats the enemies, but her power becomes uncontrollable and she accidentally kills her sister. It is then that a demon whispers to Rei, telling Rei, "If you reap the souls of the dead in another world, if you sacrifice the suffering of your shed tears, the dead Mirai will be 'revived.'" Rei then makes a deal with a demon, and fights with her life on the line.

Source: Press release