Déraciné

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Déraciné
Promotional artwork
Developer(s)	FromSoftware
Publisher(s)	Sony Interactive Entertainment
Director(s)	Hidetaka Miyazaki Shigeto Hirai Takaaki Yamagishi
Producer(s)	Yuzo Kojima Masaaki Yamagiwa Teruyuki Toriyama
Programmer(s)	Jun Ito
Artist(s)	Kozo Maeda Taisei Nakagaki Yuki Nakamura
Composer(s)	Tsukasa Saitoh Shoi Miyazawa Yuka Kitamura
Engine	Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)	PlayStation 4
Release	November 6, 2018
Genre(s)	First-person adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Déraciné is a virtual reality adventure game developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation 4's PlayStation VR accessory on November 6, 2018. In the game, players take the role of a fairy in an isolated boarding school who attempts to solve a mystery. The game received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot[]

The Faerie wakes up in an orphanage and learns from another that they possess a red ring on their hand that stores life energy, and a blue ring on their left that manipulates time. Faeries possessing a golden wand can use it to drain a human's remaining time span and travel back in time. The Faerie then meets a girl named Yuliya, who requests that the Faerie convince the orphanage's other children that the Faerie exists. The Faerie manipulates artifacts and objects to convince the other children, but it also becomes clear that Yuliya died a long time ago; the Faerie was speaking with her spirit. The Headmaster, the orphanage's caretaker, appears and hands a gold wand to the Faerie, asking it to use his remaining time to prevent the incident that broke Rosza's leg. The Faerie does so, healing Rosza's leg.

Yuliya approaches the Faerie and informs it that the children have wandered into the forest, pleading the Faerie to save them. The Faerie follows the children's trail and discovers that they learned the faeries' abilities; they ventured into the woods in search of something large enough to revive Yuliya. The Faerie travels deeper into the forest, but is too late to prevent an evil faerie from sucking their life energy. Lorinc survives and sacrifices himself for the Faerie. The Faerie travels in time, attempting to dissuade the children from entering the forest, who are unconvinced. The Faerie travels further back to revive Yuliya, discovering the body of another caretaker, Margerita, who committed suicide after her daughter Alexis died. Taking the red ring from Margerita's corpse, the Faerie places it on Yuliya's, who transforms into an evil faerie, stealing the life force of the children and Headmaster. A remorseful Yuliya allows the Faerie to use the life force she has accumulated for the Faerie to travel to the night of Yuliya's death. The Faerie learns the Headmaster and Margerita were scholars from the city of Rohn studying faeries, but the city burned down and evil faeries stole life force through the land. The Headmaster and Margerita set up the orphanage to continue their experiment. Concluding that humans with regrets will become evil, and that a newborn is the perfect candidate, they attempted to turn Alexis into a faerie, resulting in her death. The Faerie realizes that it is the faerie version of Alexis, summoned when Yuliya stole the Headmaster's golden wand and wished to see Alexis again, inadvertently trading her own life force.

The Faerie is left with three choices: never take Yuliya's life so the wish never comes to be, take Yuliya's life and remain trapped in the cycle of futilely trying to rescue the children, or take Yuliya's life and return it to her. If the third option is chosen, Yuliya comes to the realization of how special her own life is, and resolves to live her life to the fullest. However, this means the Faerie sacrifices its own ability to interact with the world, slowly fading away into nothing.Yuliya lives happily with her friends and the Headmaster.

Development[]

Déraciné is virtual reality (VR) adventure game developed by FromSoftware, with production assistance from Japan Studio, and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 via its PlayStation VR add-on peripheral. It was announced at E3 2018 and directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, better known for creating the Souls series of action role-playing games.^[1] Miyazaki's goal for the game was to recreate the first-person adventure game genre in VR.^[2] Miyazaki sought to explore the theme of "existence versus non-existence," which he felt would only be possible via VR. Due to the change in perspective, the development team placed more focus on facial expressions in comparison to previous FromSoftware games, which presented a challenge.^[3] Déraciné was developed using Unreal Engine.^[4]

Reception[]

Déraciné received mixed reviews from critics according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[5] It debuted at number thirteen on the Japanese charts, selling 3,086 copies in its first week.^[12]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website