■ About

Penny Blood presents a satellite twisted successful gothic fearfulness and nightmarish imagery seldom seen successful Japanese RPGs. In Penny Blood, players travel the communicative of Matthew, an researcher who embarks connected a acheronian planetary probe done the iconic Roaring Twenties, amassing allies and confronting trauma successful a satellite twisted by cosmic horror, malice and mayhem.

Players volition circumnavigate the globe, from the USA to Europe and Asia, and research nations either recovering oregon basking successful the aftermath of 1 of history’s bloodiest conflicts, oblivious to the turmoil that brews beneath the surface.

Penny Blood’s communicative begins with Matthew Farrell, a lone wolf backstage detective successful New York moving for the Bureau of Investigation. Despite hating the accursed powers helium inherited from his father, helium utilizes his fusion translation abilities to hunt down monsters astatine the behest of the Bureau.

One day, Matthew is tasked with investigating a unusual incidental that occurred astatine a intelligence asylum successful New York. After rushing to the asylum, helium finds it teeming with grotesque, rampaging creatures. Utilizing his hidden power, Matthew manages to execute a constrictive victory.

In bid to unearth the information down the bizarre incident, Matthew’s probe volition instrumentality him from America to the distant continent of Asia, including Japan and China, arsenic good arsenic to the acold corners of Europe. Along the way, helium volition brushwood those who combat for vengeance, those who question to utilize the aberrant horrors for their ain gain, and those who simply privation to destroy. Penny Blood tells the communicative of a antheral who indispensable go that which helium seeks to vanquish.

Penny Blood’s overworld maps springiness a bird’s-eye presumption of cityscapes and towns that volition teleport players to the 1920s, wherever they volition acquisition the satellite arsenic it was, unaware of the gruesome events soon to unfold.

From engaged streets to haunting sanitariums, players volition delve into cautiously elaborate tract maps arsenic they acquisition items paramount to their quest, analyse supernatural happenings, and conflict stygian monstrosities.

The casual to learn, hard to maestro Psycho Sigil conflict strategy combines accepted turn-based Japanese RPG strategy with twitch-trigger absorption clip successful bid to maximize the imaginable of attacks, keeping players connected their toes with each encounter. Players tin clasp the acheronian wrong by utilizing Fusion to telephone upon the abyss and combat occurrence with fire, harnessing the powerfulness of the acheronian to hurl demons backmost from whence they came.

Interactions with the demonic volition impact the heroes’ Sanity Points. If players suffer excessively galore Sanity Points, their allies volition succumb to madness, gaining spot and losing composure. However, that boost successful powerfulness mightiness beryllium conscionable what is needed to crook the tide successful battle.

Returning to the helm arsenic composer is Hirota Yoshitaka (of Shadows Hearts and Shadow Hearts: Covenant fame) to inject a consciousness of dread and eerie unease befitting of the atmosphere. And accompanying him is Akari Kaida of Breath of Fire 3, infusing a dense dose of jazz into the Roaring Twenties setting.

“This is my 2nd chance. Chances to marque different crippled similar this are rare, truthful delight springiness maine your support,” says pb crippled decorator Matsuzo Machida.

With absorption from Matsuzo Machida, quality plan by Miyako Kato and euphony and dependable composed by Yoshitaka Hirota and Akari Kaida, Penny Blood promises to descend its claws into players arsenic it revives the darker broadside of Japanese RPGs.

■ Background Art

The Unsettling Landscape of North Tarrytown

Located 30 miles northbound of New York, positioned close connected the eastbound slope of the Hudson River. Some telephone this tiny colony Sleepy Hollow owed to a fable astir a headless knight that roams the area.

In bid to lick the enigma of the monster that appeared successful Golgotha Asylum, Matthew visits Tarrytown to talk with Oswald Craig, the section innkeeper. But what awaits Matthew wrong Tarrytown’s eerily heavy fog…?

The Imperial Capital of Tokyo – Asakusa Rokku and Ryounkaku (1923)

After achieving triumph successful some the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, Japan basked successful glory arsenic 1 of the Far East’s astir formidable empires. This affluence besides led Tokyo to physique the Ryounkaku operation successful Asakusa—the tallest operation successful each of Asia, which Tokyo natives called the “Asakusa Twelve-Story.”

After an battle happens successful Asakusa involving the American ambassador to Japan, Matthew rushes to Tokyo and catches a glimpse of a menace that aims to plunge the full satellite into darkness.

■ Characters

Matthew Farrell

An Irish-American calved successful 1895. Now 28, helium lives successful New York and works arsenic a backstage detective. After serving successful the large war, helium returned to the US and traveled to assorted states to analyse a bid of eerie incidents. One day, William J. Burns, the manager of the Bureau of Investigation, tasks him with a apical concealed ngo that takes him to Japan.

Normally, Matthew uses a sawed-off shotgun and martial arts to subdue his foes—but erstwhile successful peril, helium tin alteration into a fusion monster, allowing him to eviscerate his enemies successful a assortment of ways. Those who cognize this concealed telephone him the knightwretch, but helium doesn’t care.

As Matthew searches for Emilia, he’s gradually drawn deeper and deeper into a warfare against creatures from different plane.

Demna, the Crownless Knight

An element-less fusion monster, and a awesome of the loneliness and emptiness that lurks heavy wrong Matthew’s heart.

Well-balanced successful presumption of onslaught and defense, Demna tin beryllium utile successful each mode of situations. Both its sword and shield are inscribed successful past Goidelic. The sword’s substance reads “The powerfulness to bestow endless slumber connected the sinful,” portion the shield reads “The powerfulness to judge immoderate mode of hardship.”

Demna is the archetypal fusion monster that Matthew transformed into aft inheriting the quality from this father, and inactive hides further potential…

Emilia Dawson

Born successful London successful 1898. Now 25, Emilia presently serves arsenic a subordinate of the UK Secret Service. After being lauded for her fierce passionateness and unthinkable skills, she was promoted to a peculiar cause who specializes successful overseas affairs.

In her past mission, she was made a bodyguard for Mr. Tubbs, the American ambassador to Japan. Shortly after, Mr. Tubbs died successful an incidental wrong the Tokyo territory of Asakusa, portion Emilia went missing.

One of her eyes and 3 of her limbs person been replaced with robotic implements, granting her superhuman abilities susceptible of mowing down each mode of monsters.

Suseri Otsuki

Born successful Tokyo successful 1906. Now 17, Suseri serves arsenic an advisor priestess to Kamuzumi, the Japanese empire’s monster extermination force.

As her parent came from a household of spiritualists talented successful kidō magic arts, Suseri has the quality to consciousness otherworldy creatures arsenic soon arsenic they appear. She was to beryllium the eyes of the Shinteigumi, Kamuzumi’s beforehand enactment brigade, but she ne'er hesitates to dispatch the monsters herself erstwhile the request arises, utilizing the large reserves of spiritual powerfulness that swirl wrong her.

After Matthew and Emilia prevention her successful the imperial capital, she joins their origin successful bid to repay them. Suseri’s weapons of prime are her seimakyo magic mirrors.

■ Monsters

Motofuji

The sanction fixed to the horrifying grotesquerie discovered wrong Golgotha Asylum.

The Motofuji discharged copious amounts of malice, a benignant of vigor calved from antagonistic quality emotions. This malice is allegedly the culprit down the asylum patients’ monstrous transformations. The antagonistic miasma that seeped retired from each pore of the hideous Motofujis invaded the patients’ bodies and minds, awakening despicable desires wrong them.

After Matthew rushed into the asylum, helium engaged successful a furious conflict with the carnal and managed to destruct it… But it’s inactive anyone’s conjecture arsenic to wherefore the monster appeared determination successful the archetypal place.

Maliferous Patient

The malice released from the Motofuji has caused immoderate patients of Golgotha Asylum to acquisition monstrous transformations.

Long devoid of each quality and emotion, these zombies present person lone 1 extremity successful mind: to devour arsenic overmuch surviving soma and captious vigor arsenic they tin get their rotting hands on. Spurned by the instinct to drown their bodies successful malice, these patients shocked the NYPD with a brutal, bloody onslaught.

Atam

A manifestation of acheronian that has taken roost wrong Matthew’s psyche. Unbeknownst to Matthew, Atam is the Lord of Death who commands the Seven Deadly Sins: demons that correspond the sins of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.

Originally an inhabitant of the ‘other side’, oregon the basal of the Tree of Life, arsenic immoderate telephone it, Atam has recovered sustenance connected ‘our side’ done hiding itself wrong the souls of humans who person divine blood. And so, aft galore agelong years of feeding disconnected these souls, Atam gained a wealthiness of cognition that steadily transformed it into thing much akin to an omnipotent god.

Several years ago, Atam failed successful its effort to curse and execution its erstwhile big and was alternatively beaten wrong inches of its ain life. Now, Atam lies dormant wrong a caller host, focused connected thing but regaining its powerfulness until it tin 1 time beryllium reborn anew.

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