Anonymous;Code director talks about the game's progress, development changes, new features, and more

This week's issue of Famitsu contains an interview with Mages’ Chiyomaru Shikura, who was more than willing to discuss the upcoming Anonymous;Code. Check out a recap of the interview below.

- the game is still scheduled to release “Next Winter”
- the game will get a new announcement in 2020, where we’ll learn more about its release schedul
- the game is gradually taking shape
- the game was announced 3 years ago, and there are many elements and jokes included in the past that are now outdated
- the team is taking time to fix that content
- the Science Adventure games aren’t sequels to each other, but they’re all in the same universe
- the team is making sure there’s nothing which contradicts the other games in the series
- the protagonist Polon has the supernatural power of being able to load and save
- these are the same load and save functions the players will use
- there are scenes when Polon talks to the player, noticing there are new saves in the data that he didn’t do himself
- if the player doesn’t save before a certain scene and Polon doesn’t either, you won’t be able to redo that scene anymore
- the game will have some sort of special trick to make sure the players never get stuck
- this will also serve to help players who never save and only rely on Polon’s saves
- the scenario branches depending on how you use Save and Load, and also other functionalities such as the Manga Trigge
- Anonymous;Code was made with the assumption that it’ll get an anime adaptation one day, so there are tons of action scenes
- as the game is an ADV, you’ll have to imagine said movement and action scenes with the text
- the game has adapted a manga style
- players are able to pick certain dialogue lines and frames appearing, influencing the story to a certain degree
- this system is called the Manga Trigger
- the character designer of Anonymous;Code, Haruhisa Nakata, is also a mangaka