Reverse: 1999
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| Developer(s) | Bluepoch |
| Publisher(s) | Bluepoch |
| Platform(s) | iOS Android Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing, turn-based tactics |
Reverse: 1999 (Chinese: 重返未来：1999; pinyin: Chóngfǎn Wèilái: Yījiǔjiǔjiǔ) is a turn-based tactical role-playing video game developed by Bluepoch.[1] The game has been available in Mainland China since May 31, 2023[2] and was released globally on October 26, 2023.
Plot[edit]
Setting[edit]
The game takes place in a universe where magic exists, and humans live side by side with Arcanists, a race of magic users able to use the powers of Arcane. On the last day of the year 1999, a mysterious phenomenon known as the "Storm" caused anything it touched to disappear (be "reversed"). As a result, time does not progress beyond 1999 and different eras throughout history are disappearing.
Synopsis[edit]
The player controls Vertin the Timekeeper, an Arcanist from the St. Pavlov Foundation, an Arcanist organization that protects humanity. As the only person immune to the Storm, she can travel throughout time and protect those under her care from the Storm. As Vertin time travels through different eras, recruiting arcanists from other countries and trying to learn the truth about the Storm, she must also battle other Arcanists including The Manus Vindictae, an Arcanist-supremacist group that wants to use the power of the Storm to rewrite history to create a world ruled by Arcanists.[3]
The story begins with Vertin and her coworker Sonetto rescuing a girl named Regulus from the Storm. They arrive in 1929 to stop a group of humans from attacking some Arcanists. However, they find a girl named Schneider shooting the humans, and stop her.
After talking further with Schneider, they learn that she is being housed by Manus Vindictae and does whatever she is told in exchange for a place to stay. Vertin, Sonetto, and Schneider head to a bar that is being managed by a member of Manus Vindictae and has a few dozen people inside it gambling money. However, the stock market crashes and the Storm begins to affect some of the people of this era, causing them to eat money and consequently sickening them.
As the Storm reaches its very end and begins to completely "reverse" the people of the era, Schneider informs the crowd that she is not a real Arcanist, but has been able to use some Arcane powers for unknown reasons. She hugs Vertin and asks her to comfort her before disappearing. Vertin becomes distraught and wakes up in a hospital bed in the St. Pavlov Foundation. The game then shows a prologue of the current events involving Vertin's early childhood when she was 12 years old.
She became the Timekeeper after an incident in her St. Pavlov Foundation-managed school when she wanted to see the world outside the school, but was prevented from doing so for reasons that she was not told. She investigated and learned that the rule was because of the Storm and the risk of being reversed, which the Foundation has been attempting to keep secret. However, she realizes that she is one of the few Arcanists who cannot be reversed in the Storm, while other Arcanists must take special measures to stay alive during the Storm. She decided to invite her classmates outside before the Storm arrived.
The director of the Foundation realizes this and decides that to best punish her, she should allow the plans to continue, but cause a disturbance in the maintenance schedule that would force Vertin to reschedule the time to a point that she did not realize would be when the Storm occurs. Vertin falls for the trap and heads outside during the Storm, leading to her classmates but not herself being reversed, leaving behind only their clothes. Then, Madam Z of the Foundation arrives and asks her to become the Timekeeper.
The game then goes back to the present, showing that while Vertin is asleep, employees of the Foundation break into her hospital room and get her out of an induced sleep that was preventing her from waking up, then pass a new Foundation policy that will grant Vertin the ability to rescue Arcanists from the Storm by going back in time without the need for Foundation approval.
Gameplay[edit]
Reverse: 1999 is a turn-based RPG with combat designed around a card system. Each character has their unique passive skills, two incantation cards, and one ultimate card. Each card ranges from one to three star-level, and players can merge cards with identical stars, advance them to a higher star level, and deal additional damage.[4]
Each character is classified in one of the six Afflatus (being: Mineral, Beast, Plant, Star, Spirit, and Intelligence)[5] dealing either Reality or Mental Damage. They cyclically interact and inflict 30% more damage to enemies with weaker Afflatus.[6] Additionally, Spirit and Intelligence deal 30% more damage to each other.
There are also two sets of "Tuning Skills" which allow comprehensive strategy through Card randomization or upgrades promptly without the cost of AP.[7]
In combat, there may only be three Characters at a time (except for some special cases), with the fourth one being labeled as a substitute if a character is defeated.
Development[edit]
The game's first beta test began on January 7, 2022, and the second began on June 10, 2022.[8] On March 23, 2023, Reverse: 1999 was granted an ISBN, which means a permission for its official release in mainland China. The game started a third beta test on April 14[9] before officially released in China on May 31, 2023. The global version beta test ran from August 4 to 13, 2023, and the game rolled out fully on October 26, 2023.[10]
References[edit]
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- ^ Khaw, Claudia (2023-10-27). "New gacha RPG Reverse 1999 has been getting lots of hype, here's our early review". Vulcan Post. Archived from the original on 2023-10-31. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
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- ^ "Introduction to the game | Reverse: 1999 | Prydwen Institute". www.prydwen.gg. Archived from the original on 2023-10-31. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
- ^ "《重返未来1999》即将开启二测". view.inews.qq.com. Archived from the original on 2022-10-18. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
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