Dusk Diver 酉閃町
Dusk Diver is an anime style beat-em-up action game. You will be playing as Yumo, an ordinary high school girl, to fight with the Guardians against those Phantoms who dare to enter the realm of men.
■ Combat & Guardian Support SystemUse light and heavy attacks to chain up combo moves, summon Guardians and use your ultimate to eliminate all enemies.
Guardians have their specific traits and purposes, use them wisely to help you in the glorious battle.
■ Game sets at Taipei Ximending, famous tourist spot realistically brought aliveBacked with local merchants’ support and permissions, the streets of Ximending are depicted vividly. On top of it, you can as well travel freely to experience the storyline in the surface, “Ximending” or to slay the Phantoms in the hidden world, “Youshanding”.
■ Professional voiceovers, making the characters come aliveWith experienced voiceovers dubbing the right characters in both Japanese and Mandarin, you can choose your preferred language in game at anytime.
Japanese / Taiwanese CV dubbing lineups
Protagonist – Yang Yumo JP CV : Rina Sato / CH CV : Hsuan-Ming Mu
Guardian – Leo JP CV : Ryota Takeuchi / CH CV : Poko Ko
Guardian– Bahet JP CV : Masahiro Yamanaka / CH CV : Shao-Lun Lu(MR.XY)
Guardian– Le Viada JP CV : Atsumi Tanezaki / CH CV : Angel Lin
Schoolmate – Liu Yusha JP CV : Yuina Yamada / CH CV : Amber Guo
Boss – JP CV : Arisa Shida / CH CV : Jui-Chin Wang
Nemea JP CV : Kate Mizukiri / CH CV : Giiny Shen
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
A fun little musou-style game set in Ximending, Taiwan. A typical plot of “high schooler discovers they have super powers and must save the world”, but the fun, fast-paced combat makes the game easy to recommend.
I actually played this on PS4 on release day (I still own the collector’s edition even though I don’t have my PS4!) and had a lot of fun the first time I played. Now replaying it, it’s not quite as amazing as I remember, but I still had a fun time completing it for the second time.
Story & Characters
I mean, it’s a very basic “high schooler ends up in a life-or-death situation and discovers they can beat up bad guys”, “gods messed up and now bad guys are invading the mortal realm and the human hero must beat them” plot. The overarching plot is nothing we haven’t all seen before, but I think that’s okay, as the joy of the game is in the combat rather than the plot.
The characters are quite one-dimensional and they don’t really go through much in the way of character growth. They’re also quite typical stereotypes, but it actually works well, and the interactions between them all are quite fun at times and did make me chuckle on a few occasions.
Gameplay
This is where the game truly shines. It’s just really fun. Everything is bright and colourful to look at, and although the map design isn’t the most interesting (it’s a grid that’s all the same colour in the battle areas, although the shops are quite good in the main overworld), you’re not really focused on it for long.
If you like musou-style beat-em-ups, this one plays super well. You’ve got your basic light/heavy combo attacks, of which you can unlock more by leveling up your skills, as well as special attacks where you use the guardian god to end a combo. You can switch between guardians on the fly, to use the best option for your current situation (life drain, enemy gathering, or hard-hitting). This is the best bit of the game for me, seeing them jump in to whack the enemies, while you start a new combo. You also unlock new moves for each guardian by completing their social events.
There’s also your standard burst mode where you go super saiyan to beat up enemies even faster, which has its own special move for each guardian.
The game is definitely on the easier side, and you can pretty much button mash your way through if you want to, although learning the good combos for each guardian makes combat take less time and improves your rank for the stage. You can easily get a 999 combo, which just feels so satisfying. You can also buy items in between stages, either food buffs or consumable items, so that you can be super-powered and ready to go at any time, although you can complete the game without needing these if you don’t want to use them.
The bottom line is - the game is just such good fun to play, and I’d recommend it based on that alone.
Steam Deck
The game plays wonderfully on the Steam Deck, I have no complaints. I actually think it was probably better to play on the Deck than the PS4 if I’m honest. Never had any crashes or frame rate drops, and the controls all work perfectly as they did on console.
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Steam User 0
As an avid Musou game player, this was pretty neat. It does a good job at carving its own identity and is not just "another" musou game. It also tries to tell its own unique story with visuals that kind of remind me of Tokyo Mirage Sessions. The combat move set, however, is very barebones which unfortunately causes the game to get very monotonous very early. Some of the boss battles also take way too long to get through as they have up to 6 or 7 health bars, making them very tanky for no real reason.
I imagine this was a very small team with a very small budget however, so I can comfortably say that they did a good job!
Not worth it at full price in my opinion but if it's on sale, I'd say to give it a chance!
Steam User 0
A nice little Musou/Warriors type of game by a small team out of Taiwan. Love the 2D artwork both within the story and in the gallery, not very tough to complete and doesn't really overstay it's welcome in doing so.
Music is a good time and the various cutscenes are entertaining.
There are some translation hiccups in the text that is a bit noticeable, and I would've appreciated an option to have the mandarin dub in the options menu (based on the primary location setting for this game).
If you were to pick this up I would recommend doing so on sale, full price is a little too much but $20-25 ain't bad
Steam User 0
This game is phenomena an nostalgic. Its great for a simple casual adve i definitely recommend this to anyone who likes to beat shih up
Steam User 0
Good game