Free Ghostwire: Tokyo Visual Novel Will Help Set Up the Main Game's Story

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It's March, which means it's once again another hectic month for video game releases as Q1 2022 continues to be one of the most intense first quarters of any year for video game releases yet. One of the biggest titles launching this month is Ghostwire: Tokyo, the newest title from Tango Gameworks, the beloved Japanese horror studio behind The Evil Within, led by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. Ghostwire: Tokyo is somewhat of a departure for the team however, with the horror setting taking a backseat to more action gameplay, and to ease players into this shift the studio has just launched a visual novel prequel to the game on PS4 and PS5.

Ghostwire: Tokyo was first announced during Bethesda's E3 2019 press conference, which is where fans were first introduced to the games eccentric creative director Ikumi Nakamura, an understudy of industry legend Shinji Mikami. After Nakamura departed the project later that year, there was some skepticism leveraged at the game until it was re-revealed at Sony's PS5 showcase in 2020 as a timed PlayStation 5 console exclusive, which became an even more bizarre situation once Microsoft acquired ZeniMax Media and, by association, Tango Gameworks in early 2021.

Why Ghostwire: Tokyo's Departure From Horror Could Be A Good Thing

Now, after a seemingly eventful development cycle, Ghostwire: Tokyo is finally gearing up for release later this month, and to celebrate Tango Gameworks has launched Ghostwire: Tokyo — Prelude: The Corrupted Casefile, a visual novel prequel to the game that is free to download on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 titles. According to Tango Gameworks, the narrative introduced in The Corrupted Casefile leads directly into the events of Ghostwire: Tokyo, and introduces