Compile Heart's Villion: Code Launches June 25 With a Mutant School RPG
The game reunites a team known for classic RPGs and carries Okada's stated intent as a message to the next generation, arriving on multiple platforms including the newly announced Switch 2.
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Compile Heart will release the school RPG Villion: Code on June 25 for PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch 2, and Nintendo Switch. Created by veteran RPG developers Kouji Okada, Noriyuki Sato, and Tsukasa Masuko, the game is set in a floating academy city where students investigate urban legends and fight monsters called GEM. A drug in the sprinklers causes arm mutations that give the protagonists combat abilities.
The story opens in 2050, with humanity facing a sixth mass extinction. The Advan Resilience Research Academy City compresses a 21-year doctoral program into 12 years. The protagonist, a basketball ace nicknamed Pahlawan, is recruited by his cousin Rinka Hayashi to investigate a Red Cloak urban legend and a Phantom Lady. A quantum AI called Alaya manages the city, and students access it through a device called the Marina Helix.
The plot turns when a suspicious message from the Everyone's Genome app triggers a series of events. Sprinklers in a lab release a drug that turns humans into GEM monsters. The protagonist and his roommate Sushiro suffer arm mutations but are able to fight the GEM using a suppressor enzyme. The game launches June 25 across PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch 2, and Nintendo Switch.
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