Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness Releasing on September 2

Made in Abyss is a fantasy manga by Akihito Tsukushi since 2012 and releases 11 volumes up till now. The manga got an anime adaption and first aired in 2017 with 13 episodes. Following the release was three movie film titled Made in Abyss: Journey’s Dawn, Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight and Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul. A second season of the anime has just premiered on July 6 and released until the 8th episode for now.

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Made in Abyss has a gentle art style combined with a dark and brutal storyline. In the town of Orth lies the deep Abyss. Many lost artifacts and remnants of civilizations lies below, forming a popular hunting zone for Cave Raiders.

Diving into the Abyss can be dangerous as the “Curse of the Abyss” would bring fatal damages to the body. The deeper one dives, the more critical it is. Only a few who descended into the lower floors have returned to tell their stories.

According to the level they dive, different colors of whistles will be gifted. Only the legendary Cave Raiders will earn the White Whistle and one of them being Riko’s mother, Lyza. From Lyza’s last descent into the Abyss, she has never returned and presumed to be dead.

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The story surrounded around Riko, who lives in the Belchero Orphanage. Riko has always wanted to follow her mother’s footstep to become a White Whistle but due to her age and lack of experience, she is only allow to collect invaluable scraps of relics on the surface of the Abyss.

She felt that if this keeps going on, she will never reach her mother’s achievement. One day, where she went on her daily scrap searching with the orphanage, she meet Reg, who is a robot resembling a human boy. Everything starts here where she sneaks Reg into Belchero and then decide to send him back into the depth of Abyss, where they think Reg is from.

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In Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness, the story begins with Riko and Reg’s meeting. This marks the start of their adventure. The will be travelling into the second layer of the Abyss and discover the Seeker Camp. On their journey, they will need to endure the Curse of the Abyss, survive from primeval creatures and glimpse the astonishing world of the Abyss.

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In the game, a brand new story will be told as Aki will be joining on her quest. Aki is the protagonist where the player will be playing and the appearance can be customized to the player’s liking.

There will be two game modes which are “Hello Abyss” and “Deep in Abyss”. In Hello Abyss, the player will be playing as Riko and experience her story in the anime, while in Deep in Abyss, the player will be playing an original story as Aki.

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While playing as Aki, the story will progress as requests from Jiruo and the Cave Raider Guild are done. The player will be able to gather relics from various location, fight primeval creatures, and gather items through various ways. Last but not least, every Cave Raider will need to endure the Curse of the Abyss.

The game is being developed by Chime Corporation and will be published by Spike Chunsoft, while Numskull Games will be the publisher of physical copy in Europe. It is also fully supervised by the original author Akihito Tsukushi and fully voiced in both English and Japanese.