Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing (LWAVR) is going to be bringi💞ng your fantasies of racing through the air at high speeds on a broomstick to life.
Japanese developers UNIVRS are the folks behind this one, which will be a game based on Studio Trigger's popular Little Witch Academia anime series and films. LWAVR has a pretty solid crew and cast backing its development, including director Junichi Yamamoto (who worked on The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Batman Ninja), and sound supervisor Yukio Nagasaki (Love Live!, Arc the Lad). ꦅThe anime's voice cast will be returning, along with the TV series' songwriter and compos🐻er Yuiko Ohara, and singer YURiKA.
LWAVR will let you enroll as a guest student at the Luna Nova Witchcraft Academy, home of familliar characters such as Akko, Lotte, and Sucy. It's here where you'll get to hop on a broomstick and soa🌄r through the skies across moℱre than 10 tracks. You'll also get to customize said broomstick and purify some ghosts while you're at it.
Check out the trailer below:
And if the mere thought of whizzing through the air at high speeds in VR makes your stomach turn - there could be some hope for you. Hold onto your broomsticks, because it turns out that UNIVRS has some under their belts which they'll be implementing in LWAVR.
Obviously, when it comes to cybersickness, things are still uncertain and even methods found to work for one person might do nothing for another. But from the looks of things, the devs seem committed to researching and uncovering the most promising reduction methꦚods that will enhance VR accessibility, which al𓄧one is something we can commend.
“The fans are the lifeblood of the Little Witch Academia series, and that principle guided us at UNIVRS when creating VR Broom Racing,” said Naoya Koji, COO at UNIVRS. “We strived to make th🐎is as accessible an experience as possible for the fans, even if it’s their first virtual reality experience, and we know we will live up to their expectations.”
LWAVR will be voiced in both English and Japanese by the anime’s voice actors, and will support online multiplayer modes. The game will release during the witchiest time of the year on October 13th, 🌟2020, for the Oculus Quest. PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, and SteamVR will be getting their releases in early 2021.
Source: UNIVRS Press Release