Roguelite card-based battle RPG Card-en-Ciel shares lengthy Story Trailer

Inti Creates has released a new trailer for Card-en-Ciel, giving a lengthy overview of the narrative for this upcoming roguelite card-based battle RPG.

The trailer can be found below, alongside a description via Inti Creates.

James had a chance to check out Card-en-Ciel at Anime Expo, saying the demo has played “left an incredible first impression”.

Card-en-Ciel is set to release on October 24 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC (Steam).

“Please save the world.”

…This case begins with a single e-mail. It arrived in the mailbox of Neon Nanashiki, the “Gaming Chair Detective,” straight from an in-development full-dive VR game. Filled with curiousity, Neon gets to work hacking into the unfinished title. When Neon manages to log into the game, Rust Tactics, he meets a lone young woman. “Ancie,” a developer on the game, was investigating powerful data run rampant inside the virtual world —Mad Obstructive Data, or MODs for short.

Neon is not one to turn down a case, and accepts without hesitation. He promises Ancie to fix RT’s world, and ventures into the dangerous MOD Dungeons investigate. As the two begin to restore order to RT’s world, they find strange data in the dungeons, called “Error Fragments.” Suddenly, a mysterious man called “Selevan Nanakt” appears to steal the fragments from them.

Nanakt disappears as suddenly as he arrived, and uses the Error Fragments to create a MOD Dungeon in the real world. Neon and Ancie rush to log out and investigate, running into each other in the process. The two of them follow Nanakt straight into the real-life dungeon, where Nanakt is waiting at the end, together with a mysterious girl…