Aiko Mori works the night shift at the Daily Lantern. Same aisles. Same fluorescent hum. Same old woman in a grey cardigan, buying sweet bean buns at exactly the same time every night.
Her brother Kenji has one parcel left: a small, heavy box with no return address.
Three men in suits walk in and knock over the magazine rack. They don't want the till. They want the box. Inside is a mirror made in the age of myth, and in the fight it cracks.
When the light fades, Aiko is standing on a street she has only ever seen in old photographs.
Kenji is gone.
Every hour he's lost in the past, he exists a little less in the present: first in photographs, then in records, then in memory.
So you follow the mirror's pull backwards through time, era by era, looking for the messages he's carving into things that might survive.
Play as Aiko and you search for Kenji. Play as Kenji and you search for Aiko.
Each era changes everything: the streets, the money, the food, the music, who'll help you, and who'll try to stop you. Your phone still works, until the battery dies.
Neon, cranes and street gangs fighting over the alley bars. You need a phone charger in a world without them, and a cocky kid in a leather jacket who seems to know your enemy's name.
Isamu of the Neon Wolves · Sachiko from the radio shop
Arsonists are setting fires to loot the chaos. You join a firefighting brigade run by a widow everyone told to stop. In a back-lane pawnshop waits a note in your sibling's handwriting.
Okiku, the brigade leader · Hanbei, the bitter pawnbroker
A small castle under siege. A warlord with a strange new champion: a giant in gold-painted armour with ox horns on his helmet, who sings karaoke songs that won't exist for four hundred years. He has someone you love.
Lord Takanami · Goro "The Ox"
An invasion fleet on the horizon. A stone wall, a fishing village behind it, and a quiet samurai who teaches you to shoot from horseback. And a masked rider in black armour, always one step ahead.
Tadamune, the archer · Chiyo, the village head
Where the mirror was made, by the woman who's been following you all along, in a different disguise in every age. She has one wish: bring the mirror home, and unmake it.
She always wears a bronze bracelet with seven rings. Watch for it.
Their parents died when Aiko was sixteen. Kenji gave up university to raise her. Whoever you play, the other is the one you're crossing history to find.
23 · Night shift at the Daily Lantern · Studying to be a paramedic
29 · Delivery driver · Knows every back street in the city
Head of the Kurosawa-gumi. Quietly spoken. Never raises his voice. Carries his family's lineage scroll everywhere he goes.
For eight hundred years the Kurosawa name has carried one word: coward. It began with a samurai who abandoned his post on the night of the great typhoon, and every generation since has fallen a little further.
He took a shard of the broken mirror. He's going back to fix it, and he doesn't care who he has to go through.
★ Finish the story to play as Ryuji, and learn what really happened on that wall.Freeze a thug mid-swing and stack blows that land all at once. Rewind a thrown bin. Send an arrow back to the archer who fired it. Chain powers into named combos.
Save Edo from the fire, or let it burn, then walk modern Tokyo and see what changed: a plaque, a shop that shouldn't exist, a bell that was never there before.
After a big choice, see what every other player decided. Hang a wish plaque at a shrine for strangers to find in their game. Race other players' ghosts.
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