Kanon
The remastered version of Kanon, which features the CGs in high definition and color corrected and includes full voice-acting utilizing both recordings made in the Dreamcast/PS2 and PSP releases of the game…
Kanon is an adventure developed by Key, released 20 April 2023 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Kanon is
Kanon is an adventure game developed by Key and released in 2023. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Luca System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Yuichi Aizawa is a second-year high school student who visited the city where the story takes place seven years before Kanon's beginning. The story opens on Wednesday, January 6, 1999, when Yuichi arrives in the city and is very detached from it and its inhabitants. Before his return, it is decided that he is to stay with his first cousin, Nayuki Minase, and her mother, Akiko. After his long absence, Yuichi has forgotten almost everything except minor details of what happened seven years before and needs to be reminded of what he left behind. Nayuki initially tries repeatedly to jog his memory but is unsuccessful. Throughout the story, as he learns about the supernatural undertones of the…
How it plays
Its themes are drama, fantasy, romance and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Kanon launched on 20 April 2023, within three weeks of Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dredge and Honkai: Star Rail. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dredge, Honkai: Star Rail.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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