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Gargantia Gets PC Online Game from DMM in 2014
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The video rental service and PC game developer Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet television anime series.
The official website is currently streaming a commercial for the game.
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The game include both an an original story mode based on the world within the anime, and a simulation game mode that will allow players to create and customize their own naval fleet. The game will feature characters from the Gargantia fleet, and will include prominent scenes from the original television anime series.
Kaito Ishikawa) and his humanoid mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a distortion of time and space. Waking from his artificially induced hybernation, Ledo realizes that he has arrived on Earth, the long forgotten planet. On this planet that was completely flooded by the seas, people live in fleets of giant ships, salvaging relics from the seas' depths in order to survive.
Ledo arrives on one of the city fleets called Gargantia. With no knowledge of the planet's history or culture, he is forced to live alongside Amy (Hisako Kanemoto), a 15-year-old girl who serves as a messenger aboard the Gargantia fleet. To Ledo, who has lived a life where he knows nothing but fighting, these days of peace continue to surprise him.
With this project, manga artist green-lit.
licensed the first series and plans to release it on home video in North America next year.
[Via Yaraon!]
