Horror-themed action-adventure game Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami announced for Switch
Qureate has announced Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami, a side-scrolling action-adventure game with a horror game. A release is planned for April 15 in all regions.
Here’s a whole bunch of information about the game plus a trailer:
About
Can three streamers get away from the sudden chase of a mysterious mascot and escape from an abandoned leisure hotel with their lives?
In this side-scrolling action-adventure game, you’ll need to scour the inside of an abandoned hotel, looking for clues to solve the mystery of the hotel and ensure your escape from a mysterious, murderous mascot intent to kill. The fate of the girls’ lives will change dramatically depending on your actions in the game.
Story
Online streamers Mio Ikoma, Nana Sakurai and Azusa Shiraishi travel to the locally famous haunted resort, the Hotel Izanami, at Nana’s request to shoot a video there. It would be a film shoot at an average haunted location with no particular legend attached. To finish shooting without a hitch and get an end result that was vaguely horror-esque…was all they wanted.
During filming, Mio gets separated from the group, and suddenly gets attacked by a mascot costume that has come to life. From that point on, the trapped girls are at the mercy of numerous horrors throughout the hotel. Why is a mascot trying to harm them, and why have they been shut in to the hotel with no escape? Can the three girls escape from the hotel with their lives?
A livestream set in an abandoned hotel begins…
Characters
Mio Ikoma (CV: Haruka Yamazaki)
A member of the livestreaming group Nana Channel.
After seeing how withdrawn and lonely she seems, Nana and Asuka invite the friendless Mio to join their livestreaming channel.
While overcoming some of her shyness after joining in on the two’s videos, she still prefers to work behind the scenes, without appearing on camera.
In the hotel, disregarding the risk to her own life, Mio rouses herself to save her friends Nana and Asuka.
Nana Sakurai (CV: Asuka Nishi)
The face and founder of Nana Channel. Coming up with a plan to shoot a video in an abandoned hotel, she becomes the instigator of the livestream shoot in the abandoned hotel ruins.
While she originally started streaming reaction videos as a hobby, as her audience grew, she became more conscious of the number of views on her videos.
The filming and planning of her current videos reflects her new-found resolve that anything goes as long as it gets views. (Mio and Azusa always stop her before she goes too far.)
Her goal is to reach one million subscribers!
Azusa Shiraishi (CV: Satsumi Matsuda)
Gifted with brain, brawns, and beauty. She has a large number of female fans. She has been friends with Nana for years, and the two are now inseparable.
At Nana’s request, Azusa started helping with video editing and filming, but once Nana got it into her head to start raising her female follower count, Azusa was dragged into appearing in videos as well. Ever since, Azusa has been making more and more appearances in Nana’s videos.
With a cool and mature exterior, she is the channel’s mediator.
For some reason, she doesn’t seem too pleased with the current shoot in the abandoned hotel…
???
A mascot character who suddenly appeared before Mio and the girls while they were filming in the leisure hotel. He appears and disappears without warning, chasing the girls with a hatchet as his weapon.
System
Run from the mysterious mascot chasing you, and escape from the abandoned hotel!
While exploring the inside of an abandoned hotel, a mascot swinging a bloody hatchet suddenly appears and starts chasing after the three streamers!
When you encounter the mascot, run away quickly, hide yourself, and escape from its pursuit. One hit from the mascot’s hatchet will lead to instant death (game over).
Use hints and items to help you find clues on how to escape!
While exploring the hotel ruins, you will come across various items and hints. Search every nook and cranny of the rooms to get items and hints that will help you survive! Some items will greatly change the fates of the girls…
To escape from the abandoned leisure hotel, you will have to solve many puzzles. Use the items you pick up, and hints as clues to solve them!
Is this a curse?! The livestreaming girls are cornered by the descent of a life-threatening horror!
You’ll be met with various frights while exploring the hotel ruins. Investigate your surroundings to get hints and use items you find to help the girls escape from desperate situations.
You can even touch the girls, regardless of their plight… Is this also the work of the curse?!
Calmly assess the situation to escape from life-threatening horrors!
Boundless despair lies in wait for these girls!
Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami will cost $19.99 on the Switch eShop. English, Japanese, and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) language options will be supported.
Access the official website for Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami here.
