Compile Heart and Megami Tensei Co-Creator Kouji Okada Reveal New School RPG Villion: Code

Idea Factory and Compile Heart have announced Villion: Code, a new “school RPG” by Megami Tensei and Persona series co-creator Kouji “Cozy” Okada. Villion: Code will launch on June 25 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 in Japan. The PlayStation 4 version is a digital-only release.

Here’s a breakdown of pricing for various editions:

• Standard Edition
  • PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch – 8,580 yen
  • Switch 2 – 9,680 yen
• Digital Deluxe Edition
  • PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch – 10,780 yen
  • Switch 2 – 11,880 yen
• Special Edition
  • PlayStation 5, Switch – 17,380 yen
  • Switch 2 – 18,480 yen

Villion: Code is set in a near-future university town that’s on a floating island in Tokyo Bay. On the island, students and teachers mutate into monsters. Dungeons in the game are procedurally generated and allow for 360-degree movement in every direction. This is possible in the dungeons’ tube-shaped environments with no ceiling. Combat is described as “real-time speed action.”

The game is teased as “Kouji Okada’s final message to the next generation.” Okada is the producer of the new school RPG, and he’s joined by scenario writer Tadashi Satomi, who previously wrote the stories of Revelations: Persona, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment. Megami Tensei series composer Tsukasa Masuko is the sound composer of the new RPG, and Ilya Kuvshinov (Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045) is the character designer. FRAM performs the theme song. 

The voice cast includes:

• Kengo Kawanishi
• Aimi
• Shunsuke Takeuchi
• Atsushi Tamaru
• Aoi Nagatsuki
• Asami Shimoda