Card-en-Ciel details story, rivals, subjugation, dungeon rewards

Inti Creates provided another wave of details for Card-en-Ciel today which go over the story, character rivals (Nanakt and his partner RiTa), subjugation, and dungeon rewards. A new story trailer was released as well.

Here’s the full roundup, as provided to us by Inti Creats:

Story

…This case begins with a single e-mail.

It arrived in the mailbox of Neon Nanashiki, the “Gaming Chair Detective,” straight from an in-development full-dive VR game. Filled with curiousity, Neon gets to work hacking into the unfinished title.

When Neon manages to log into the game, Rust Tactics, he meets a lone young woman. “Ancie,” [ahn-see] a developer on the game, was investigating powerful data run rampant inside the virtual world—Mad
Obstructive Data, or MODs for short.

Neon is not one to turn down a case, and accepts without hesitation. He promises Ancie to fix RT’s world, and ventures into the dangerous MOD Dungeons investigate.

As the two begin to restore order to RT’s world, they find strange data in the dungeons, called “Error Fragments.” Suddenly, a mysterious man called “Selevan Nanakt” appears to steal the fragments from them.

Nanakt disappears as suddenly as he arrived, and uses the Error Fragments to create a MOD Dungeon in the real world. Neon and Ancie rush to log out and investigate, running into each other in the process.

The two of them follow Nanakt straight into the real-life dungeon, where Nanakt is waiting at the end, together with a mysterious girl…

Character Rivals

• Selevan Nanakt (VA: Jack Ayres): A mysterious man who suddenly appears in RT’s world. He steals the Error Fragments that Neon has found and uses their power to open up a “security hole,” a dimensional rift, creating a new MOD Dungeon. Nanakt seems to know something about the MOD phenomena that Neon is investigating… He wishes to “overwrite the world” using the Error Fragments.
• RiTa (VA: Jackie Lastra): A powerful MOD in the form of a young woman, summoned by Nanakt. Her song has the power to interfere with reality itself. RiTa has no will of her own and moves solely on Nanakt’s command.

Game System: Subjugation

Get acquainted with Card-en-Ciel’s card-battling gameplay by watching the gameplay trailer! Today, we’ll introduce a key system in Card-en-Ciel’s gameplay: Area Subjugation.

Area Subjugation and its Rewards

• Clear out a room and reap the rewards! Eradicate all enemies from any room in the dungeon, and you’ll get a choice of 3 different rewards.
• Recovery: Recovery will restore a portion of your HP. There are very few ways to restore your HP during a dungeon, and this is the most reliable.
• Position: Choose a card from your deck or a Muse you have acquired to position them in the dungeon room. When you choose a Muse to position, they will perform from the very beginning of battle in nearby rooms, granting their powerful passive bonus and Special Skill energy immediately. Any cards you Position will be temporarily removed from your deck and will return when moving to the next floor. Having an ally on the field will grant you a bonus while battling in nearby rooms.
• Enhance: Choose this to apply a “Cheat Code” to one of 3 random cards in your deck. Cheat Codes are powerful additional effects that apply not only to the card you choose, but also every copy of that card in your deck. They can grant additional damage, reduce the card’s playing Cost, or even buff your damage simply by drawing it! You’ll be able to stack up to 3 Cheat Codes on a single card, so the Enhance option is always useful for powering up your deck.

Game System: Dungeon Rewards

Defeat the boss waiting at the end of a dungeon to clear it and earn a slate of rewards. Based on how you clear the dungeon, you’ll accelerate Neon’s growth, unlock new difficulty levels, and progress the main story.

Dungeon Results

Aim for as few turns as possible! Your goal in each dungeon is defeat the powerful boss waiting at the end. Achieve that, and you’ll see the Results screen where you’ll get your well-earned rewards. The score you earn at the end of the dungeon is largely determined by how many turns you took in battle. Winning battles in as few turns as possible is certainly important, but skipping battles entirely is an even bigger step to improving your score. This will also let you run through dungeons even faster! However, fight too few battles, and your deck and Muses may not be strong enough to take on the boss and Elite foes awaiting you. Striking this delicate balance will earn you a top score!

Dungeon Rewards

Clearing a dungeon will unlock new difficulty levels. Higher difficulties will not only increase enemy stats, but also add new and interesting twists to battles with special rules. Earn a high enough score when clearing a dungeon to unlock up to 3 new difficulties at once! Clearing a dungeon will also earn “Decode Tokens” which are used to power up your player character. Each new difficulty level you tackle means more tokens to earn. You can spend them to improve the odds on every dungeon you tackle, to improve your drop rates, Cheat Codes, HP, and more!

Revealing Card-en-Ciel’s theme song, “To the Promised Sky”!

Card-en-Ciel features 50 vocal songs performed by the Muses in-game. These songs are created for the fictional game universes as if they were the real theme songs, battle themes, and endings, all composed in the style and genres of the appropriate eras.

Today, we are revealing the theme song of Card-en-Ciel itself, performed by Ancie’s Japanese voice actress, Ruriko Noguchi, with a special music video!

Closing everything out today, as mentioned above, Inti Creates prepared a new story trailer for Card-en-Ciel. We’ve attached the video below.

Story Trailer

Card-en-Ciel arrives for Switch on October 24, 2024. We have plenty more on the game here.​