It appears that PS Vita’s exclusive title htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary may be heading to Steam. As Steam’s database revealed, an entry for this title has been added and was updated 8 days ago. Now this isn’t an old entry or a placeholder, and we all know that Steam’s database rarely lies.
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary was developed by Nippon Ichi Software.
In HtoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary, players take the role of a young girl who has lost her memory through levels in tandem with two fairies that function in light and shadow.
“By shifting between a world of light and a world of shadows, these two fireflies must work together to recover Mion’s memories and
lead her out of the ruins, where voracious shadow beasts, ancient machines, and treacherous traps lie in wait to bar her path.”
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary took advantage of PS Vita’s touchscreen and rear screen, so it will be interesting to see how this control scheme will be ported to the PC (most probably via mouse and a button to switch worlds at will).
Kudos to our reader ‘Nagato’ for informing us!
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The artwork is pretty, but that’s about it. It’s another 2deep4u 90 minute puzzle-platformer.
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Edit: “htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary took advantage of PS Vita’s touchscreen and rear screen, so it will be interesting to see how this control scheme will be ported to the PC (most probably via mouse and a button to switch worlds at will).”
It also had regular control options (partially because the touch controls were finnicky as hell). Porting that over won’t be an issue.
Seeing how complaints about the Vita’s touch controls weren’t all that uncommon, it will be interesting to see keyboard + mouse proving to be a superior alternative here.
Either way, it’s good how Nippon Ichi is giving the platform another go after their previous attempt didn’t go down all that amazingly (not unexpected for a first try by a Japanese company). Assuming they’ll fulfill the minimum expected effort for a decent PC port, I’m predicting a lot of money in their future once the Disgaea titles start hitting; Strategy RPGs such as those should be a perfect fit for the PC audience.
It’s their very first attempt though. There has been no other NIS game on Steam before.
There’s a reason why you might think that, and this is it: http://store.steampowered.com/app/206250
A PSP port that uses more resources than it rightfully should and as good as never goes on sale. Only sold ~10.000 copies since August 2012, so its mismanagement and the resulting lack of buyers are why we haven’t gotten more from them so far.
Developer: System Prisma. This has nothing to do with NIS.
Which has been owned by NIS since 2007, so it has everything to do with them.
Even beyond that, NIS(A) is the one to have published it on Steam, so they’re ultimately responsible for “maintaining” it – mostly just putting it on sale once in a while, like right now, so it might actually sell some more.
They’re still only a branch of NIS, not the main company. Same as NISA. This is why Cladun is not getting any discount despite NIS porting the Firefly Diary game right now.