Illusion City
Illusion City is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several distinguishing characteristics. Unlike most games of the genre, it has no overworld, and takes place entirely in a vast city divided into…
Illusion City is an adventure developed by Micro Cabin, released 1 February 1991 on FM Towns, MSX, PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-9800 Series.
What Illusion City is
Illusion City is an adventure game developed by Micro Cabin and released in 1991. It was published by Brother Industries. It is available on FM Towns, MSX, PC (Microsoft Windows), PC-9800 Series and Sharp X68000.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the beginning of 21th century a terrible disaster, called "demon-coming crisis", devastated the Asian continent. Hong Kong was most affected by the mysterious demonic attack. Terrible diseases turned the once prosperous city into a pale shadow of itself. But once people came back to see what happened to the isolated city, they saw it was ruled by a new order - a corporation called SIVA. The new order proclaimed New Hong Kong to be an independent state. People's Republic of China and United Kingdom signed an agreement in which they both renounced their claims over the city. The player takes on the role of Tianren, a "diver" (demon-hunter) who lives in Hong Kong. His place of birth and the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Illusion City launched on 1 February 1991, within three weeks of Lemmings, Sengoku, Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III and Wings of Wor.
Released around the same time: Lemmings, Sengoku, Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III, Wings of Wor.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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