is a four-part Japanese ''

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visual novel A , often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with sta ...

series produced by 07th Expansion and playable on

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PCs. The first game in the series, ''Season 1'', was released on August 11, 2012, and the fourth game, ''Last Season'', was released on December 31, 2013. There have been six

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

adaptations based on ''Rose Guns Days'' published by

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

and

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Gameplay

As a

, the

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in ''Rose Guns Days'' is spent on reading the story's

narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (ge ...

and

dialogue Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is c ...

. The text is accompanied by character sprites over background art made from altering real-world photographs. Throughout gameplay, the player encounters a

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minigame A minigame (also spelled mini game and mini-game, sometimes called a subgame or microgame) is a short game often contained within another video game. A minigame contains different gameplay elements, and is often smaller or more simplistic, than th ...

of a

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battle sequence that resembles a

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. The outcome of these minigames does not influence the progression of the story, and the player even has the option to skip them. The minigame has two parts: attack and defense. After the player successfully attacks three times, the player can then perform an overkill attack whose power is determined by the choice of one of six cards. How well the player performs in the minigames determines the total score and emblems awarded, and as the score increases, so does the player's

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, which increases the difficulty of the minigames.

Development and release

''Rose Guns Days'' is 07th Expansion's fourth visual novel series. The scenario is written entirely by

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, who also provides some of the character designs, which are divided between three additional artists:

Jirō Suzuki is a Japanese manga artist. She is the writer and illustrator of the manga ''MAGiMAGi'', and has provided illustrations for the manga adaptations of the ''Tatarigoroshi-hen'' chapter in ''Higurashi When They Cry'' and the ''Turn of the Golden Witch ...

, Sōichirō and Yaeko Ninagawa. The music of ''Rose Guns Days'' is provided by various music artists including both professionals and ''

'' artists including: Dai, Luck Ganriki, Rokugen Alice, M. Zakky and Pre-holder. The first game in the series, titled ''Season 1'', was released on August 11, 2012 at Comiket 82 and is playable on

PCs. ''Season 2'' was released on December 31, 2012 at Comiket 83. ''Season 3'' was released on August 10, 2013 at Comiket 84. The fourth and final game in the series, ''Last Season'', was released on December 31, 2013 at Comiket 85. A version of ''Season 1'' playable on

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devices was released on November 9, 2012, followed by a version playable on Android devices released on December 13, 2012. All four seasons were also distributed by

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between February 7, 2014 and April 25, 2015 for explicit use with the English translation patch.

Related media

Manga

adaptation of ''Rose Guns Days Season 1'', illustrated by Sōichirō, was serialized between the September 2012 and March 2014 issues of

's ''

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'' magazine. Four ''

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'' volumes for ''Season 1'' were released between December 22, 2012 and April 22, 2014. A manga adaptation of ''Rose Guns Days Season 2'', illustrated by Nana Natsunishi, was serialized between the February 2013 and April 2014 issues of Square Enix's ''

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'' magazine. Three volumes for ''Season 2'' were released between August 22, 2013 and April 22, 2014. A manga adaptation of ''Rose Guns Days Season 3'', illustrated by Yō Ōmura, began serialization in Square Enix's ''

Gangan Online is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese m ...

'' magazine on September 19, 2013. The first volume for ''Season 3'' was released on April 22, 2014. A manga adaptation of ''Rose Guns Days Last Season'', illustrated by Mitsunori Zaki, began serialization in the May 2014 issue of Square Enix's ''Big Gangan'' magazine.

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licensed the manga for release in North America. A spin-off manga, titled and illustrated by Yūji Takagi, was serialized in ''Big Gangan'' between December 25, 2012 and October 25, 2013. Two volumes for ''Aishū no Cross Knife'' were released between August 22 and December 21, 2013. A prologue manga, titled and illustrated by Mei Renjōji, was serialized between the June 2013 and June 2014 issues of

's ''

Monthly Shōnen Sirius is a Japanese monthly ''shōnen'' manga magazine published by Kodansha, and first issued in May 2005. It is issued in perfect-bound B5 format and retails for 580 yen. ''Monthly Shōnen Sirius'' is aimed at readers aged 16–21. The magazine a ...

'' magazine. The first volume of ''Fukushū wa Ōgon no Kaori'' was released on November 8, 2013 and the second and last on July 9, 2014.

Music

The opening theme to ''Rose Guns Days'' is by Rojak feat. Mayumi. A soundtrack titled ''Rose Guns Days Sound Tracks 1'' was released on August 11, 2012, and a soundtrack titled ''Rose Guns Days Sound Tracks 2'' was released on December 30, 2012.

References

External links

Official website
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