Kazuma Kaneko, the legendary \u201cDemon Designer\u201d and art director behind the Shin Megami Tensei series, every mainline Persona game and, most recently, Metaphor: ReFantazio, has just revealed his new card game with AI-generated card art, Kazuma Kaneko\u2019s Tsukuyomi. Like with the earlier game Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter, Kaneko isn\u2019t just involved in aspects like game concept and character design but actually appears in-game, or at least an AI recreation of him does.
Coming from mobile game developer Colopl, it\u2019s set to land on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on April 23, and it\u2019ll cost you $24.99. Or roughly $640, if you want to shell out for the special \u201cShinma Artist Box\u201d edition.<\/p>\n
This reveal was made alongside the announcement that Colopl\u2019s previous free-to-play partnership with Kaneko, Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter, will be coming to a close on April 22 (a day before the release of Kazuma Kaneko\u2019s Tsukuyomi). This was all announced during a livestreamed event<\/a> on Colopl\u2019s official YouTube last night.<\/p>\n Tsukuyomi: The Divine Hunter allowed players to create their own AI artwork cards through the use of its \u201cAI Kaneko\u201d mechanic. The in-game Kazuma Kaneko would analyze players\u2019 playstyles and gift them AI-generated cards, based on a library of Kaneko\u2019s work. Kazuma Kaneko\u2019s Tsukuyomi won\u2019t feature the same mechanic, but will instead port 3,600 of the developer\u2019s favourite AI Kaneko-produced cards over to the new version of the game.<\/p>\n We know this because a Colopl representative reached out to Gematsu<\/a> to clarify: \u201cThe Switch version takes a curated amount of those AI generated cards from the previous game and includes them in the new game. The Switch version does not include the generative AI model to create new cards beyond the cards that the team has put into the Switch version.\u201d<\/p>\n