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Virgo Vs The Zodiac is a sci-fi/fantasy JRPG coming to PC. The game features traditional turn based combat with a twist: Guarding, countering and timing your actions carefully as well as trying to predict your enemies moves will greatly help on Virgo’s twisted cosmic quest to bring back the Golden Age, a period of peace, symmetry and balance. In this galaxy where every action means a reaction, you’ll play as Virgo, the Holy Queen, or so-called Dreadful Queen, bringing mayhem to the Zodiac Realms and leaving on your way a trail of stardust in Virgo’s rage against the Heretics.
Embark on a cosmic quest to dethrone the Zodiacs and revive the Golden Age, if the galaxy survives your wrath, that is.
Virgo is determined to purge the whole Zodiac of their sins, based on her own ideals of perfection in order to bring back the Golden Age – a period of prosperity and harmony to the sacred celestial system, who’s in chaos.
After stealing the Talaria, winged shoes of Mercury, her father, she marches in her crusade towards the Temples of Saturn in search of Capricorn, her first adversary. Along her journey to find perfection and purity, she will encounter many foes whom she deems heretics, but also those she finds friendship in, such as her trusty companion, Gingerbread Man, a delicious cookie who assists Virgo on her journey.
In Virgo Vs The Zodiac, you’ll count with the Zodiac Qualities System, which will track Virgo’s Zodiac Quality allignment, divided into MUTABLE, FIXED and CARDINAL. Through your choices in game, Virgo’s personality will also change as you go, based on one of the Qualities. This will also help you dive into the minds of the 12 Zodiac archetypes through the game’s quirky characters giving a deeper experience and making the world to feel more organic.
No obvious Good/Evil choices! You’ll never feel guilty for the options you choose throgh the course of the game. The decisions you make will greatly impact the world around you, changing your path and other character’s destinies, as Virgo’s strives to trick FATE!
Unlike most traditional JRPGs, Virgo Vs The Zodiac features heavy commitment to every action taken in combat, and therefore, their effects are always significant. No turns will feel wasted as you fight your way through the galaxy.
Being mostly based on a simple but powerful Guard/Counter system, you’ll be able to protect blows and retaliate right away with a multitude of different Guards and Counters-attacks by equipping different shields. Every piece of equipment will grant you new abilities in addition to stats, and mix-matching to find a perfect combo of abilities is freely available, also adding a lot of replayability! Classes in Virgo will be tied to a Zodiac Quality but won’t strictly limit your equipment availability or build variations.
Enemies fight based on the Zodiac Qualities system as well, displaying their strengths and weakness through their color-coded sprites in battle; a foe wielding a purple-ish weapon will likely strike you down with Cardinal abilities, but one who whields a pink-ish shield will defend Fixed attacks much better!
Combat in the Astrological Realms is unforgiving and every encounter has the possibility of resulting in defeat if your actions aren’t timed carefully against your foes! Constant adaptation of strategies to face different opponents is required to achieve victory over the Heretic! Expect no attack-spam, unless you just want to enjoy the story in the Stress-free mode, with no drawbacks other than a more forgiving combat playthrough.
In addition to regular turn-based abilities, you’ll also come across certain real-time precise-hit attacks and other sorts of timed hits, such as combos of different degrees of complexity, but more info on those will come later!
Thank you all for reading this gigantic post and keeping up with me for so long! It’s been 4 months since this development began taking shape and way more than that from the prototype stages! I feel eternally grateful for being able to make this game and share with you. Working alone on a project this big is really hard sometimes, and you all helped me a LOT along the way. I really feel like my work is appreciated and that it was worth it thanks to all of you!
I hope you’ll enjoy playing the demo and that Virgo will be as fun to play as it was to make. If you do enjoy it, maybe consider donating on the campaign in the future to help the full project come to life without me having to struggle too hard with adulthood (also, so I can buy more gingerbread cookies to raise this family ;0)
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