Project Awakening

Project Awakening is an upcoming action role-playing game in a fantasy setting being developed by Cygames, and initially announced for the PlayStation 4 in September 2018.

Project Awakening
Developer(s)Cygames Osaka
Publisher(s)Cygames
Director(s)Junji Tago
Producer(s)Kenichiro Takaki
Artist(s)Ryosuke Aiba
Platform(s)PlayStation 4
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

History

Development of Project Awakening as a 'high-end console game' was announced at Cygames Next event (Tokyo) in Nov 2016, under development at Cygames Osaka studio.[1]

A short gameplay video was shown in a closed session at the E3 2018 expo.[2] The game was described as showing some influences from games such as Monster Hunter and Dragon's Dogma.[3]

The game was officially announced as an action fantasy RPG in Sep 2018 for the PlayStation 4 system, with Junji Tago as Director, and Ryosuke Aiba as Art Director.[4]

Producer Kenichiro Takaki described the game as an open-world game, containing some RPG elements, with a focus on combat, including co-op multiplayer aspects - the game has a traditional high fantasy setting. The game was intended by Cygames as an attempt to break into the western console market - the name was also confirmed as only a working title. Takaki also discussed the possibility of the game becoming a PlayStation 5 title if development extended into the next generation of consoles.[5][6]

In Aug 2019 a potential demo version was registered (16+) with the European ratings board PEGI.[7][8]

References
  1. Romero, Sal (21 Aug 2018), "Cygames announces high-end console game Project Awakening", Gematsu
  2. Romero, Sal (13 Jun 2018), "Cygames' Project Awakening early gameplay video shown behind closed doors at E3 2018 [Update]", Gematsu
  3. Khan, Imran (14 June 2018), "Cygames Shows Project Awakening Behind Closed Doors", Game Informer
  4. Romero, Sal (10 Sep 2018), "Cygames' Project Awakening announced for PS4", Gematsu
  5. "Project Awakening Interview With Cygames", fextralife.com, 27 June 2019, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2019
  6. Ramsey, Robert (12 Jun 2019), "E3 2019: Project Awakening, That Stunning RPG From Last Year, Is Open World, Probably a PS5 Game", www.pushsquare.com
  7. James, Allisa (31 August 2019), "Project Awakening May Get Demo Soon According to New Rating", www.dualshockers.com
  8. Khan, Zarmena (1 September 2019), "Project Awakening Demo Rated By European Board, PEGI", www.playstationlifestyle.net
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