Idea Factory Announces ICONOLOGY For PC And Switch
Idea Factory is opening a second front alongside Otomate and Compile Heart with a brand built to sell conversation-style adventure games outside Japan, and it has paired that pitch with a PSYCHO-PASS screenwriter and a same-month manga launch in Ichijinsha's comic HOWL.
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Idea Factory's new adventure-game brand IFChronicle announced ICONOLOGY on September 30 for PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch Lite. The crime suspense ADV casts an art university student, Haruho Tsubakiya, who is scouted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Advanced Technology Investigation Division to read suspects' minds as paintings. Makoto Fukami writes the scenario and Tota designs characters. A manga serialization begins October 14 in Ichijinsha's comic HOWL.
ICONOLOGY is the first release from IFChronicle, the Idea Factory brand formed to spread conversation-style adventure games from Japan to a global audience. Its premise puts an art student, Haruho Tsubakiya, inside a top-secret police unit that pulls mental images from suspects as paintings; she deciphers them using art knowledge. The game carries multiple endings, and misreading a painting or making the wrong choice can leave a case unsolved. Makoto Fukami, who wrote for the PSYCHO-PASS series, handles the scenario, and Tota, credited on Fate/Grand Order, handles character design.
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