Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen coming to PC this month

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Isaac Todd
January 8, 2021
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Shiravune (formerly known as ShiraVN) has announced that Aquaplus‘ SRPG/VN Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen will be arriving on PC via Steam later this month.

Prelude to the Fallen is a remake of the original Utawarerumono, featuring enhanced visuals and gameplay. It’s already available on PS4 and Vita, having been localised by NIS America in 2020. According to Shiravune, the PC release will use “a re-polished version of the translation used previously in the console versions.”

Utawarerumono Prelude to the Fallen PC screenshot

Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen releases January 22 on PC, with patches to “include the new auto-save functionality, along with some minor improvements and fixes” arriving for Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and Mask of Truth at the same time.

Utawarerumono series summary via Shiravune:

The series traditionally starts with the protagonist awakening in an unfamiliar landscape

in the care of a girl with animal ears and a tail. The protagonist and that girl form the core of the party before recruiting a wide, varied cast of friends and allies. Eventually, more serious themes develop as the player and the protagonist learn more about the world, its people, and how things came to be as they are.

In Japan, the series has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, sometimes within a week of a new game’s launch.

So what’s so great about Utawarerumono? Well…

Kick-ass, gut-punching story with long builds and hard twists
Spectacular, almost instantly nostalgic soundtrack
Deceptively deep sci-fi/fantasy setting rooted in native cultures
Contemplative themes about humanity and the world
Turn-based tactics combat with a cast of immediately-likeable characters

All three of the games in the trilogy are story-heavy visual novels with occasional grid-based tactical battles in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics.

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