Publisher Spike Chunsoft announced that the first two The Quintessential Quintuplets console games will launch next week in North America and Europe on May 23, 2024 for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and, for the first time ever, PC via Steam. Both titles should be playable on PS5 via backwards compatibility.
The two games, The Quintessential Quintuplets – Memories of a Quintessential Summer and The Quintessential Quintuplets – Five Memories Spent With You, will be available only digitally and either separately at $34.99 (£28.99 / €34.99) each or together in a Double Pack for $59.99 (£49.99 / €59.99).
A 10% discount will be available for each game separately or the double pack during the games’ first week from May 23, 2024, until May 30, 2024.
Developed by MAGES (formerly 5pb), these two Quintuplets games are point-and-click visual novels allowing you to make various choices and build bonds with characters that can result in one of over a dozen endings in each game.
It’s great to see more anime franchise games being unexpectedly brought over to the west! Perhaps if these two Quintuplets games are successful abroad, the west will see the release of the third Quintuplets console game that launched in Japan in September last year.
The Quintessential Quintuplets began as a 14-volume romantic comedy manga series by Negi Haruba that ran from 2017 to 2020. In January 2019, an anime adaptation began, resulting in two TV anime seasons that culminated in the The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie hitting theaters in 2022 in Japan and in 2023 in the west.
While the movie covered the manga’s ending (and served as a touching finale, in my opinion), the franchise saw a surge in popularity that resulted in more anime being produced. A two-episode anime special The Quintessential Quintuplets ∽ released in 2023 with a theatrical release in Japan before being broadcast later. A new anime project titled The Quintessential Quintuplets* was announced at the end of last April at a 5th anniversary live event in Yokohama.
Crunchyroll’s synopsis of the anime series reads, “Uesugi Fuutarou, a high school second-year from a poor family, receives a highly appealing offer to work part-time as a tutor… but his students turn out to be girls from his own class! What’s more, they’re quintuplets… and all five are beautiful, but happen to be problem students who have borderline grades and hate studying! Looks like his first assignment will be to win all the sisters’ trust?! Every day is a wild party in this rom-com centering around the quintuplet sisters of the Nakano household!”
Information about The Quintessential Quintuplets games from Spike Chunsoft:
About The Quintessential Quintuplets – Memories of a Quintessential Summer
It’s summer vacation! Futaro (VA: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) and his younger sister Raiha (VA: Natsumi Takamori) have been invited to the quintuplets’ private island.
But a sudden storm turns what was supposed to be a three-day, two-night vacation into two weeks of survival!
What fate awaits in this edge-of-your-seat island adventure with the quintuplets?
The five heroines are fully voiced by popular Japanese voice actors: Ichika Nakano (VA: Kana Hanazawa), Nino Nakano (VA: Ayana Taketatsu), Miku Nakano (VA: Miku Ito), Yotsuba Nakano (VA: Ayane Sakura), and Itsuki Nakano (VA: Inori Minase)!
The game is also packed with newly drawn illustrations created specifically for the game!
Enjoy visuals of the heroines in their swimsuits, wedding dresses, and the various expressions they show during their days on the island.
About the Gameplay
- Play as Futaro and progress through the story via point-and-click visual novel-style gameplay.
- Socialize with quintuplets via the story events and decisions to strengthen your friendship in this light-hearted romantic comedy.
- With over 15 different endings, the choices you make will matter, and the overall bond between the quintuplets will affect the ending.
About The Quintessential Quintuplets – Five Memories Spent With You
Ichika Nakano, Nino Nakano, Miku Nakano, Yotsuba Nakano, and Itsuki Nakano are going on a graduation trip to Okinawa with protagonist Futaro Uesugi (VA: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) and his younger sister Raiha (VA: Natsumi Takamori).
In preparation for a long-distance relationship after graduation, Futaro wants to restate his feelings to the girl he confessed to.
His goal is to kiss her during a graduation trip.
What will become of their love?
The five heroines are fully voiced by popular Japanese voice actors: Ichika Nakano (VA: Kana Hanazawa), Nino Nakano (VA: Ayana Taketatsu), Miku Nakano (VA: Miku Itou), Yotsuba Nakano (VA: Ayane Sakura), and Itsuki Nakano (VA: Inori Minase)!
The game scenario is totally new, allowing players to confess their feelings to any of the quintuplets.
The game also features the color setting of Okinawa, along with original illustrations and other features that express the allure of a graduation trip!
About the Gameplay
- Similar to the last installment, play as Futaro and progress through the story via point-and-click visual novel-style gameplay.
- Socialize with quintuplets via the story events and decisions to strengthen your friendship in this light-hearted romantic comedy.
- This installment features an all-new activity schedule mechanic in which you manage the activities the quintuplets do. You can have them study, cook, put them in charge of getting the ingredients around the island, or rest. In addition to this mechanic, the characters themselves now have parameters such as academic ability, cooking skill, and ingredients they excel at obtaining.
- With over 14 different endings, the choices you make will matter. The overall bond between your friends, as well as the parameter mechanic introduced in this installment, will affect the ending.
Source – [Spike Chunsoft press release, Gematsu, Anime News Network]