Kadokawa Sneaker Bunkoannouncedthat theRecord of Lodoss War2D side-scrolling game developed by Tema Ladybug will be launching in Spring 2020, on PC via Steam. In the meantime, an early access version of the game will be launching in Fall 2019.
Team Ladybug also published a short pitch for the game, along with the two new screenshots above. The second screenshot shows Deedlit facing off against Pirotess.
Deedlit finds herself in a labyrinth, separated from her party. Enduring the loneliness and fending off the labyrinth’s enemies and traps, Deedlit seeks out her friends… What awaits her at the end of the labyrinth?
Coming soon! An action adventure game starring Deedlit as she uses her full powers to solve the mystery of a labyrinth which can freely change its form!
TheRecord of Lodoss War2D game starring Deedlit wasannounced back in April 2018. The game celebrates the 30th anniversary of theRecord of Lodoss Warfranchise. Team Ladybug is the team behindShin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity PrologueandTouhou Luna Nights. The game’s introduction trailer is included below.
On August 1, a brand newRecord of Lodoss Warnovel volume was also released in Japan, titledRecord of Lodoss War: The Pledged Diadem 1.For the occasion, author Ryo Mizuno held astreamed tabletop RPG sessionwith theRecord of Lodoss Wartabletop RPG.In an interview with 4Gamer following the session, Ryo Mizuno chatted about the new novel’s conception.
Ryo Mizuno mentioned how he wrote the kind of story he wants to write now, so it might be a bit different than the previous novels, and he’s looking forward to the readers' impressions. He also mentioned how writingLodosstakes him a lot of time. Writing a character as iconic as Deedlit makes him polish every one of her lines to the limit, to not disappoint the fans.
As such, Mizuno said it’ll probably take at least one year for “Record of Lodoss War: The Pledged Diadem 2"to release.
Mizuno also talked about his writing style, and how he always imagine his stories from beginning to end before writing them. He jokingly mentioned how stretching a popular series with the same characters and setting for 10 or 20 volumes yields more money, but he can’t manage to write that way. However, Mizuno added that it’s not like he always sticks to what he initially imagined. He tries to extend his stories as much as possible, confident he’ll always be able to wrap it up nicely. His stories are written in a way that their ending will always be the logical conclusion of everything built until then.
Record of Lodoss Warwas born through the records of tabletop RPG sessions of Group SNE, a company which develops tabletop RPGs.Record of Lodoss War’s author Ryo Mizuno is one of Group SNE’s founding member, and he started the original novel in 1988.Record of Lodoss Waris a huge part of Japanese pop culture and a pioneer in European fantasy-themed Japanese media. If you’re ever seen a blonde elf girl or a white-haired dark-skinned elf girl in a Japanese thing, there’s a 99% chance they’re inspired byLodoss' Deedlit and Pirotess respectively.
