Kadokawa Games streamed a new trailer for the upcoming Relayer mecha strategy JRPG introducing the characters and tactics they used. Relayer will release simultaneously worldwide (including Japan, Asia, North America, and Europe) on March 24, 2022, for PS5 and PS4.
The newly released trailer, titled “Character Editon,” introduces the different types of mechs players can use, accompanied by the narration of Yuki Fujiwara, who plays the Observer. The trailer also focuses on the roles of each of the available tactics. An english trailer introduces showing the various types and models of mecha are also revealed.
Relayer is a next-generation robot strategy RPG set in a sci-fi alternate reality, in which Starchildren—humans who have been granted special abilities—take on an extraterrestrial threat.
Its battle system focuses on combat robot types and jobs, which represent a unit’s unique characteristics, and aggro, a stat which visualizes how easily they are targeted by enemies. Relayer also features exciting special attacks such as Backstab, a pincer move, and Big Bang, a move with a vast area of effect. Approximately 100 unique cutscenes play during battles throughout the game, and stage maps are all illustrated in high-quality, full 3D.
▍Introduction Trailer: Character Edition (Jap)
▍Introduction Trailer: Robot Edition (EN)
▍ Relayer Story
The story takes place on Earth in the year 2051, in a future where humanity’s expansion into outer space is in full swing. Earth is in the midst of an invasion by mysterious extraterrestrial beings called Relayers.
Humans with special abilities, called Starchildren, have also appeared, along with the legacy of an ancient alien civilization that is said to have died out centuries ago. Players command a squadron of Stellar Gear, humanoid weapons developed from the technology of that extinct alien civilization, and the Asterism, a ship capable of interstellar travel, to defend Earth from the invading Relayer aliens.
