Put together your coronary heart, as a result of EastAsiaSoft is bringing two of the Hakuoki video games to Change as a part of Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom. It’ll bundle collectively 2017’s Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds with 2018’s Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms.

Again in 2020, I used to be nonetheless poking away within the background of Destructoid, ready to get my huge break and discover my place. Throughout that point, I did a sequence of 9 articles on my private weblog overlaying courting sims and romantic visible novels. I solely stopped as a result of I had exhausted my enthusiasm for the style, however I nonetheless had an inventory of video games to check out, and amongst them was the Hakuoki video games.

The Hakuoki video games truly date again to the PS2 in 2008 with Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan. The pair of video games on this compilation, Kyoto Winds and Edo Blossoms, are remakes of that recreation, splitting it in half and increasing it. As such, it’s optimum to have each video games collectively as they’re an entire, singular narrative.

In case you’re questioning what the hook is right here, it’s that your character is out so far the members of the historic group, the Shinsengumi. If that sounds acquainted, the Shinsengumi had been the main target of the story of Like a Dragon: Ishin, with characters from the Yakuza/Like a Dragon sequence standing in for the historic figures. The Shinsengumi was an actual group that existed throughout Japan’s Bakumatsu interval and into the Boshin Conflict. Right here, nevertheless, they apparently combat demons.

I by no means bought round to the video games, however they’re fairly well-respected romantic visible novels. If the truth that they’ve been remade isn’t proof sufficient, the sequence was spun off into an anime sequence, in addition to a stage manufacturing, apparently.

The person Hakuoki video games can be found on PC through Steam. Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom will arrive on Change someday in 2024. In keeping with the press launch, that is an “up to date model” that features “revised textual content.” A particular bodily model will probably be out there for preorder on play-asia.com on January 11.