Blade Jumper, jump-based action-adventure game, coming to Switch

Publisher CFK, along with developer paradigm, today announced that Blade Jumper is heading to Switch. The game will launch later in 2023.

Blade Jumper is officially described as a jump-based action-adventure game where players have to use a simple mechanic to navigate complex obstacles after quickly judging the situation. While the title has been on other platforms, stages have been adjusted for difficulty and there’ll be a few quality-of-life improvements, such as UI modifications and bug fixes.

Further details can be found in the following overview:

In 2030, the people of Seoul suffered a “blue-demic” as a massive wave of depression spread like a virus, resulting in one in every five citizens taking their own lives.

Fifteen years later… a massive skyscraper called Kukuru Tower was built in Yeouido, Seoul, a building where a measly one percent of the people who suffered from the pandemic were selected to live. There, in a tower big enough to house all of those in the surrounding Yeouido area, they’re allowed to live out their happy lives, separated from the outside world.

Unreality, the authoritarian governing company with its foothold in Seoul’s Kukuru Tower, controls the people of Seoul through its highly addictive but highly pleasure-inducing Kukuru Candies. Ground Z, a guerilla force set on overthrowing Unreality, gets ready for their final push and, to that end, locates you, an agent who made a name for himself in the past.

You now stand in front of the looming Kukuru Tower and all the mysteries held within.

▲ Characters – Agent Ray (Ryu-hyeon)

Two years before, he took a leave of absence from Ground Z following the death of his sister, Yeri, during an operation they both took part in. After two years of aimlessly drifting from one illegal video gambling center to another, he receives orders to go on one last mission into Kukuru Tower.

Pige-bot
An AI-powered robot created by Ground Z in the style of the dollbots created by Unreality. As it departs on its first mission, it locates Agent Ray and sets out on a journey through the floors of Kukuru Tower as his guide.

Agent Robert (Cheolsoo)
A new Ground Z agent who received his first mission to enter Kururu Tower. He greatly admires the senior agents of Ground Z, especially the protagonist, Agent Ray. His youth and inexperience lead to him being easily swept up by the stories of those he encounters.

Agent Octavia (Yoojin)
The agent in charge of internal affairs, putting her respectable skills to good use. As such, she’s responsible for gathering information on the baffling secrets behind Unreality, the Kukuru Tower, Kukuru Candies, and the candy’s effects. She climbs the tower under the belief that doing so will uncover the truth.

Key Features

• Blade Jumper features a ‘jump attack slash,’ combining movement and attack into a single motion. Players need only climb the tower as they face off against a veritable army of dollbots that wish to see you fall back down.
• Players can control protagonist, Agent Ray, to do away with his enemies in style or suffer the consequences and helplessly watch their character plummet all the way back down.
• The interior of Kukuru Tower, cut off from the outside world, is full of insanity. The cute yet crazy and cruel dollbots wait for players, each carrying their own special trick that’s meant to stop you on your climb up the tower.
• Nine floors of the Kukuru Tower await, each carrying a different design concept. As such, players must be ready to tackle each stage differently, adapting to the obstacles each floor presents.
• Players will meet a wide cast of characters and pour through the records they come across as they climb Kukuru Tower.
• As players climb higher and higher, they’ll uncover the truth that only brings with it more unease. Why are all these people climbing the tower? Players will meet all sorts of characters with their own reasons for going higher, slowly uncovering the truths the tower holds.

Get a look at a trailer for Blade Jumper below.