{"id":897111,"date":"2024-07-05T16:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/?p=897111"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:44:21","slug":"despera-drops-launches-in-spring-2025-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2024\/07\/despera-drops-launches-in-spring-2025-in-the-west","title":{"rendered":"Despera Drops launches in spring 2025 in the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Otome visual novel <em>Despera Drops<\/em> will launch for Switch in spring 2025 in the west, publisher Aksys Games announced. Previously, the game was only confirmed for a general 2025 release window. <!--more-->\n<p><em>Despera Drops<\/em> first launched for Switch on November 30 in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an overview of the game, via Aksys Games:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the summer of 2028, Mika Amamine, studying abroad at a university in Bologna, Italy, visits Rome for a short trip with friends to celebrate the end of exams. However, during that trip, she encounters a murder incident and is subsequently arrested as a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>While being transported in a police vehicle, it suddenly overturns in an accident, freeing Mika along with six other criminals and they all become fugitives. Mysterious attackers appear, targeting the unique &#8220;power&#8221; that Mika possesses, and the group finds themselves pursued by both the police and the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>The secret hidden within Mika&#8217;s power, the identity of the attackers, and the truth behind the murder incident that started it all&#8230; Can they unravel these mysteries and reclaim a normal life?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otome visual novel Despera Drops will launch for Switch in spring 2025 in the west, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7269],"tags":[1032,22455,21704,7094,3842,7021],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Despera-Drops_07-05-24.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897138,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897111\/revisions\/897138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}