Sentou Gakuen is the very first Online Visual Novel that combined with MMORPG elements.
Youtube OP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUZNsVmhx58
In Sentou Gakuen, you are free to choose your own path. You can just study and study, doing bad things at school, protect the weak, or exploit their weakness. Spend your money to help your friends, or horde it, they can take care of themselves. Form a club and become the most respected group of students in the school. Declare war on an enemy, or an innocent bystander, the choice is yours.
Still don't know what is this?
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world. As in all RPGs, players assume the role of a character (in this case, a student) and take control over many of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player RPGs by the number of players, and by the game's persistent world, which continues to exist and evolve while the player is offline and away from the game.
How about visual novel? A visual novel is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art, or occasionally live-action stills or video footage. As the name might suggest, they resemble mixed-media novels or tableau vivant stage plays. This will be the very first Online Visual Novel that ever exist.
The concept of this game will be similar like that, combining both visual novel and mmorpg in one. Just like usual mmorpg, player will have each stats. To increase stats they have to take some lessons and attending class (For example if you want to increase your strength you have to take PE Physical Education class). Another stats are such as Energy, its required if you want to do training. Willpower, this is the efficiency of your actions. Will would be bigger if you bought a more luxurious dorm room. Action Points, you need this to perform actions. Experience, progress of the levelling. Health, if u run out of this you will be sent to infimary.
There are "Story Mode", where the story of the game will be told in Visual Novel-way. The tutorial part also will be explained in this mode. The story mode, are optional, this will be you might say 'Quests'. Players are free whether to do it or not. After the player finished the story, the game didn't ended, but they can continue the game, thus this game is open ended.
More Explanations
As for money, there are various ways to get this. The good way are obtaining it through part time job or studying. The bad way are obtained through brave-taking actions such as peeping at girls and then sell the photos, steal the exams answer and then sell it to your friends, or etc. But beware this can make you imprisoned at Detention Center. In order to protect yourself (Or PvP cases), the students can equipt theirselves with deadly weapons such as pencils, ball point pens, tweezers, rulers, staplers, scissors, pepper spray or etc. And armors. For more intense gameplay, the students can form their clubs which require some fees to be established. Clubs are a group of students that band together to work for a common purpose.
[size=11]Additional notes, there are special club where the members are appointed specially by staff such as :
A. Newspaper club, they are in charge of publishing School Newspapers
B. Student council, alias moderator, they will be in charge of discussion forums-in-game. Led by Student Council President alias Super Moderator.[/h]
As for now, registration is closed again, and will be reopened after we reached several checkpoints.
Expected release date: 1 January 2012
Screenshots
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Story_Mode.jpg
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http://gakuen.org/screenshots.php
Characters
These are the characters that will be introduced in game.
Fujita Eiko 藤田 æ „å
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Sasaki Yukiko ä½ã€…木 由希å
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Matsumoto Fumiko æ¾æœ¬ æ–‡å
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Kiyomizu Ichirou 清水 一郎
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Kojima Takayuki å°å³¶ 隆行
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Takeuchi Iwao 竹内 巌
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Additional Chara
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Current Team
http://gakuen.org/contact_us.php
Additional Informations
http://gakuen.org Our official site
http://vndb.org/v8145
Have anything on your minds? Any feedbacks? Feel free to send email to them admin@gakuen.org! :)
Open Registration
We are opening the registration again for the next phase at
24 October 2011 | 09:00AM - 03:00PM PST. Feel free to explore around the game and report any bugs you may encounter. For anyone who cannot register at that time period, you can send email to sentougakuen@gmail.com with your desired username, I will save the slot for you. Good Luck!