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Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus (電撃学園RPG Cross of Venus, Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus^?) is a Japanese action role-playing video game developed by ASCII Media Works for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console,¹ and will first be released in Japan on February 26, 2009 in limited and regular editions. The game is being produced in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of ASCII Media Works' light novel imprint Dengeki Bunko.² The player assumes the role of an unnamed protagonist attending Dengeki Academy who stumbles into a fight between heroines from Dengeki Bunko novel worlds and the evil organization Zetsumu. The reality-based world of Dengeki Academy and the novel worlds have become connected and the player is able to help the Dengeki Bunko heroines fight the Zetsumu by going between the worlds. Eight heroines are presented including Shana from Shakugan no Shana, Kino from Kino's Journey, and Kana Iriya from Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu. Each heroine fights with her own unique style of weapon, combos, and special attacks. The protagonist is designed by Kouhaku Kuroboshi, and his childhood friend Kizuna Kasugai is designed by Noizi Ito.²

Setting and plot

The main characters of Dengeki Gakuen RPG: the protagonist (left) and Kizuna Kasugai (right).

Dengeki Gakuen RPG is set primarily at Dengeki Academy, a Japanese private school that the main characters attend. The story revolves around an unnamed protagonist who one day hears a recent rumor that a ghost has been appearing during the night at school. While he does not have any real interest in the occult, he uses searching for the ghost as an excuse to sneak into the school campus one night. However, his childhood friend Kizuna Kasugai comes with him to search for the ghost, and the two decide to search around the bench in front of the campus store. In the silent darkness, the two gradually arrive to open the door of the store and before them they see a person's shadow move in the room. By straining his eyes, the protagonist sees that the person casting the shadow is eating melon bread, and realizes that this must be the cause of the ghost rumor; the shadow is in fact cast by Shana from Shakugan no Shana. This is possible due to one day the reality-based world of Dengeki Academy and the worlds of the Dengeki Bunko light novels to suddenly become connected allowing people from both the real-world and the novel worlds to cross over.

By meeting Shana, the protagonist and Kizuna become entangled in a struggle by the members of the novel worlds to protect their worlds from the unidentified evil organization known as Zetsumu (絶夢, Zetsumu^?) who have been changing story details from the novel worlds and creating disorder in them. Their goal is "to snatch away the smiles from every person". In order to combat Zetsumu, the protagonists will help the fighters from the novel worlds by traveling between the real-world and novel worlds.

Characters

The player assumes the role of an unnamed sixteen-year-old protagonist attending Dengeki Academy as a second-year high school student. He does not often give deep thought before he acts, but is also a softhearted person.³ He is accompanied by his seventeen-year-old childhood friend and classmate Kizuna Kasugai (春日井 キズナ, Kasugai Kizuna^?, voiced by: Eri Kitamura) who he met during kindergarten.³ In contrast to the protagonist who does not read much, Kizuna is the library committee chairman and loves to read. She is described as a fan of Dengeki Bunko light novels, and a dream of hers is to read all the novels under that imprint which exceeded 1600 volumes in June 2008.⁴ She takes the initiative in everything she does, and is the type to be responsible for keeping the peace. She is a caring person, but she is a little unyielding.³ Dengeki Gakuen RPG will feature eight main female characters from Dengeki Bunko light novel series, who include: Shana (voiced by: Rie Kugimiya) from Shakugan no Shana, Kino (voiced by: Ai Maeda) from Kino's Journey, Kana Iriya (voiced by: Ai Nonaka) from Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu, Index (voiced by: Yuka Iguchi) from To Aru Majutsu no Index, Taiga Aisaka (voiced by: Rie Kugimiya) from Toradora!, Dokuro (voiced by: Saeko Chiba) from Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan, Haruka Nogizaka (voiced by: Mamiko Noto) from Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, and Misao Minakami from Asura Cryin'.⁵

Gameplay

In Dengeki Gakuen RPG, the story is progressed through the player exploring Dengeki Academy and the novel worlds and conversing with the characters in the game.² When an enemy is encountered, the game switches over to the action RPG aspect of gameplay. During these times, the player can choose one of the novel heroines at a time to fight the enemy. Each of the heroines has a life bar denoting how much health the character has, and an energy bar denoting the energy still usable for attacks.² Each of the fighters use weapons specific to them, such as Shana from Shakugan no Shana using her katana, and Kino from Kino's Journey using her firearms. Combos are possible for the heroines to execute, and each character has her own unique combo and special attack. Enemies originally featured from the heroines' novels also make appearances.²⁶

References

External links

• Official website (Japanese)