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Kaiji VR 'Steel Beam Crossing' Game Gets Switch Port on December 28
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Nintendo announced on Thursday that it will release Solid Sphere's Kaiji VR ~Zetsubō no Tekkotsu Watari~ (Kaiji VR ~Steel Beam Crossing of Despair~) game on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo will release the game digitally on December 28.
The game launched for the PlayStation 4 for use with the PlayStation VR on August 28.
The game is based on Nobuyuki Fukumoto's Kaiji manga and is based on part of the manga's "Despair Castle" arc where contestants attempt to cross four steel beams across skyscrapers, with the beams getting narrower the farther contestants go along. In the story, contestants are encouraged to push each other in an effort to be first. The VR game will also feature famous scenes from the manga.
In the Kodansha Manga Award-winning story of the original 1996-1999 Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji series, a consummate gambler named Kaiji bets on games ranging from janken (rock-paper-scissors) and human racing to falling pachinko balls and two-player mahjong.
The story inspired two television anime series and two live-action films with director Tōya Satō (live-action Gokusen, Gatchaman) and main star Tatsuya Fujiwara (Death Note's Light, Battle Royale's Shuya). A variety program featuring contestants taking on "life reversal battles" inspired by challenges in the manga will air on December 28.
[Via Otakomu]
