ANCHOR announced that it will release the Nintendo Switch versions of Muv-Luv Remasterd and Muv-Luv Alternative Remasterd games for the West on July 11th, 2024. Players can buy the games separately or as a bundle from the Nintendo eShop. The visual novel games were released for Nintendo Switch in Japan on March 28th, 2024.
The original Muv-Luv visual novel was released as an adult game for PC in 2003, followed by Muv-Luv Alternative in 2006. Both games were later released for Playstation and Xbox consoles.
Muv-Luv: Takeru is your average high school senior whose entire world gets turned upside down one morning when he awakens to find himself in bed with the heiress of one of the world’s largest conglomerates. She calls herself Meiya, and – despite never having met him before – she insists that they are destined for one another. This comes much to the chagrin of his childhood friend Sumika, the girl next door who’s always had feelings for him, who realizes that if she doesn’t act fast, she might lose him forever. But just who is Meiya? And do his feelings for Sumika run deeper than he thought? Ultimately, he’ll need to decide between the girl who’s been with him through thick and thin or the stranger who claims they’re bound together by fate. But that’s only one side of the story.
Muv-Luv Alternative: Three years have passed since the day Takeru suddenly awoke in a world not his own — a war-torn alternate reality in which mankind was locked in a decades-long struggle against the ruthless extraterrestrial invaders known as the BETA. In that time, he’s been through an awful lot — enlisting in the military, meeting parallel-universe versions of his old friends, and even falling in love.
But it seems that fate has bigger plans for Takeru because, after a disastrous failure, he wakes up to find himself back in his childhood bedroom once again. Not in his own world, mind you — but back where he was three years prior. This is no dream; this is a recurring nightmare. But then it hits him: this is a second chance. Perhaps he can use his knowledge to warn Professor Kouzuki, and together, they can somehow find a way to prevent Alternative V from ever being enacted. If he can change history, then maybe — just maybe — he’ll find the answers to all of his questions. Why has he gone back in time? Why isn’t Sumika here? And most importantly, what IS Alternative IV?
