SHOWA AMERICAN STORY | A Brand New RPG from NEKCOM GAMES will take you on a wild journey in an alternated reality
A brand new RPG and an enthusiastic love letter to the 80s pop culture that features a strong taste of B-Movie.
Created by NEKCOM Games, SHOWA AMERICAN STORY (SAS) is a brand new RPG and an enthusiastic love letter to the 80s pop culture that features a strong taste of B-Movie.
Players will play as Chouko, a teenage girl miraculously and mysteriously revived from the dead, and embark on a journey of truth and revenge across the United States, the country under Japanese "Cultural Colonization" long before a mysterious catastrophic incident changes the whole world drastically, while meeting different people, overcoming difficulties and trying to live a better life in this long post-apocalyptic adventure.
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GAME INFO
TITLE: Showa American Story
GENRE: RPG
PLAYER: Single Player
PLATFORM: PlayStation 4 / PlayStation 5 / PC
VOICE: Japanese
SUBTITLES: Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese / English / Japanese
DEVELOPER: NEKCOM Games
PUBLISHER: 2P Games / Game Source Entertainment
STORY
"Showa America" in the Post-apocalyptic World.
Showa 66, Japan has bought out most of the United States with its strong economic power. A surge of immigration has firmly planted Japanese culture within the American continent.
The United States, once a world leader, has become an unofficial colony of Japanese economics and culture, and the two cultures are rapidly amalgamated. Although conflicts are inevitable, citizens gradually adapt to a life never imagined as time goes by.
However, a mysterious catastrophic incident changes the world drastically. Zombies and monsters only seen in the movies appear everywhere. The social order is long gone.
Revived from the dead, a teenage girl seeking truth and revenge.
19-year-old action movie stuntwoman Chouko and her sister have come to Hollywood, now named New Yokohama, to audition for a part in a new film. Assassinated on arrival by mysterious agents, Chouko's body is buried in the wilderness on the outskirts of New Yokohama, and her sister is nowhere to be found.
An unknown amount of time passes, and air fills Chouko's lungs once more as she rises from the soil. By some miracle, she's still alive, but... something about this world is very wrong. Zombies roam the streets, monsters and a few remaining humans compete for scarce resources. Criminal underworlds are at war with each other while a mysterious organization fights back to rebuild social order.
Who killed me?
How could I come back to life?
Where is my sister? What happened to the world?
With many questions in her mind and trying to find answers, Chouko recovers a vehicle from the movie studio ruins and embarks on a journey across the United States to find her sister, all while seeking truth and revenge.
GAMEPLAY
Fast-paced Exciting and Strategy-based Combat
Second life is not the only thing given to the girl, but also a mysterious and frightening power…
SAS features a free-flowing and brutal combat style. Players will fight against hordes of zombies and monsters, moving, attacking, and dodging in countless fast-paced combat situations. Get ready to dive into the ocean of ketchup!
Melee weapons, ranged weapons, and some... strange weapons. Players are encouraged to choose all kinds of distinguishing weapons that satisfy their combat style and use different attack moves and abilities to fight their way out among different types of zombies, monsters, and bosses.
"Living and become stronger" in "A Journey of 80s Pop Culture"
It's more than just combat in Chouko's long journey.
SAS will take the player back to the 80s, a golden era filled with good old memories, to experience the unique scenery of post-apocalyptic "Showa America", while exploring stories of people and survivors of different backgrounds through main and side quests. Such as:
A Pervert who likes young girls to sit on his face.
A Psychological Counselor who tells porn stories to calm down ladies.
A Crazy Inventor who wearing a bamboo dragonfly hat and walking on stilts.
A Thinker who founded countless cults in the apocalypse but all ended in failure.
A Quack who researches how to turn zombies back into humans but fails to save patients‘ life.
A Porn-movie-director who suffers from Hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
Using a big RV as Chouko's new home, players will be able to customize and upgrade it, as well as enhance Chouko's status and unlock abilities through various enjoyable "Living Activities" gameplay with all kinds of resources found during exploration and combat, such as new weapons, costumes, collectibles, EXPs, and last but not least, unexpected nostalgic mini-games.
Those interested in the 80s and 90s pop culture will enjoy the game's aesthetic, obscured yet beautiful.
Live a better life and become stronger, even if it is the end of the world!
