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Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

A game by Bombservice for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch, originally released in 2016.
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is the fourth entry in the Momodora series, and its story is a prequel to the others. The game stars Kaho, a priestess whose village has been attacked by evil spirits. Kaho leaves her village and heads toward the Kingdom of Karst, hoping to gain an audience with the queen and find some way to end the curse. But when she arrives, she finds the land no better off than her own, as some dark force has begun to merge the worlds of the living and the dead, and monsters roam the streets.


As in the previous games, the player encounters a number of NPC’s who have each been affected by the curse. Some have chosen to fight against the evil, some have become overwhelmed by what has happened to the world around them, and others are lost and wandering. Kaho has a number of opportunities to aid these people, and her decisions lead to new bits of narrative, an optional boss encounter, and the possibility of reaching the game’s true ending.


Momodora 1-3

Games by Bombservice for PC, originally released in 2010, 2011, and 2014, respectively.
The Momodora series was created and developed by Guilherme 'rdein' Martins and finds its influences in classic video games as well as many of the core designs of Cave Story. Momodora was released as freeware in 2010, offering a fairly linear action platformer experience with some optional side paths. Momodora II was released as freeware in 2011 and falls firmly into the metroidvania category with an open world and backtracking to reach new areas. Momodora III was released as a paid download in 2014 and returns to the series’ roots as a more linear action platformer.