Stranger Than Heaven Streams Showbiz Video Ahead of January 15 Launch
Sega is building out the non-combat half of Stranger Than Heaven before launch, treating music and performance as a pillar of the game rather than a side mode, and pairing that with a cast that stretches from Japanese screen actors to Snoop Dogg, Ado, and Tori Kelly.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Sega streamed an in-depth video for Ryu ga Gotoku Studio's Stranger Than Heaven, previously codenamed Project Century, covering musical inspiration, song creation, and show promotion. The game launches January 15 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam, and will be available via Game Pass. Its story follows Makoto Daito across Japan's modern history, from 1915 Kokura to 1965 Kamurocho.
The video details how players find musical inspiration, write songs, and promote shows, a system Sega is foregrounding ahead of the January 15 release on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam, with Game Pass availability. The game moves through Kokura in 1915, Kure in 1929, Minami in 1943, Atami in 1951, and Kamurocho in 1965. Sega's story description calls it a 50-year saga about people with nowhere to go. The cast includes Yū Shirota as Makoto Daito, Snoop Dogg as Orpheus, Moeka Hoshi as Tae Matsumoto, Tori Kelly as Suzy Day, and Akio Ōtsuka as Heigo Yashima.
- Yū Shirota: as Makoto Daito
- Snoop Dogg: as Orpheus
- Moeka Hoshi: as Tae Matsumoto
- Tori Kelly: as Suzy Day
- Akio Ōtsuka: as Heigo Yashima
- Tokuma Nishioka: as Kiyoshi Otsuru
- Satoshi Fujihara: as Takashi
- Cordell Broadus: as The Veiled Stranger
- Ado: as Keiko Shirai
- Bunta Sugawara: model basis for Genzo Iwaki
- Takashi Ukaji: voice of Genzo Iwaki
- Takaya Kuroda
- Kouhei Tsuji
- Yasukaze Motomiya
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- Anime News Network News Stranger Than Heaven Game Streams In-Depth Video Highlighting 'Showbiz'