If you’ve played Kaizen Game Works’ wonderully weird cosmic-horror-tinged vapourware deduction adventure Paradise Killer, you’ll know the studio isn’t afraid to mix things up, and its newly announced Promise Mascot Agency looks to be an equally wild, genre-bending ride.
Kaizen Game Works describes Promise Mascot Agency as the “world’s first (and best) open-world mascot management crime drama”, and it charts the adventures of a disgraced yakuza lieutenant – Michizane “Michi” Sugawara – after he’s exiled to a cursed town and forced to turn a bankrupt mascot agency into a profitable business.
And things only get weirder from there. As Michi, players must explore the town of Kaso-Machi in their run-down truck, making friends, striking deals, and recruiting mascots (here “living creatures that have coexisted with mankind since the dawn of history”) by satisfying their dreams and demands – whether that be a rice ball or something rather less benign.
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