A brand new Touhou Project-inspired sport has launched onto Steam’s Early Access program. Valkyrie of Phantasm is billed as a “high-speed aerial versus fighting game” involving characters from the Touhou Project video games.

Check out the sport’s Early Access launch trailer under.

Touhou characters like Patchouli Knowledge, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, and Youmu Konpaku all seem within the Valkyrie of Phantasm trailer. The premise of the sport sees the residents of Gensokyo buying particular weapons referred to as “Valkyrie Arms” – highly effective units of mecha gear that allow intense aerial assaults. Brought to Gensokyo on a mysterious meteor, the Valkyrie Arms connect themselves to the realm’s strongest inhabitants, together with shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei.

Each character has a novel set of Valkyrie Arms suiting her talents. Gameplay includes two gamers flying and boosting round an area, firing projectiles and beams at one another. Similar to video games like Gundam VS and Virtual On, gamers can lock on to one another to make it simpler to purpose weapons. Online play is supported, and four-player battles are deliberate for addition.

Developers Areazero count on Valkyrie of Phantasm to stay in Steam Early entry for about one other 12 months, as testing, suggestions, and changes are wanted to make sure that all deliberate playable characters are accurately balanced and tuned. The Early Access model of the sport affords about half of the deliberate story content material. When full, the total story mode will embrace a number of endings over greater than 30 phases. The preliminary roster is proscribed to 4 playable characters, however through updates, the roster shall be expanded to eight complete.

Valkyrie of Phantasm is offered on PC through Steam Early Access. one hundredth Black Market, the newest official Touhou Project title, lately launched on Steam in Japanese.