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Shall We Date?: Demons' Bond - The Path of Exile

Toki no Kizuna: Sekigahara Kitan is an otome game developed by Design Factory and Otomate. It was released on July 19, 2012 for Playstation Portable, and it is said to be the prequel of Hakuouki. Known as part…

19 July 2012

Shall We Date?: Demons' Bond - The Path of Exile is a visual novel developed by Otomate, released 19 July 2012 on PlayStation Portable, Android and iOS.

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What Shall We Date?: Demons' Bond - The Path of Exile is

Shall We Date?: Demons' Bond - The Path of Exile is a visual novel game developed by Otomate and released in 2012. It was published by Idea Factory. It is available on PlayStation Portable, Android and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It’s a year after Toyotomi Hideyoshi died (1599), and the human world is once more falling into war. The head of the ten oni clans, Yase-hime, becomes worried about the future of the oni people. She travels to each of the ten clans, now scattered across the land, and asks them to retreat from human contact. On the night that they obey her and all gather in the Yase village, she’s kidnapped and put into a deep sleep. The oni heroine, Suzumori Yukina, is the head of the Suzumori household and was also strong enough to be the ninja guardian of Yase-hime. She’s serious and respects the old ways, and has a hawk companion. Throughout the game, she must decide whether to look for a cure for her…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Hakuoki series

Shall We Date?: Demons' Bond - The Path of Exile is the second of 7 entries we hold in the Hakuoki series. It arrived 4 years after Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan. The next entry was Toki no Kizuna Hanayuitsuzuri in 2013.

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What it launched against

Shall We Date?: Demons' Bond - The Path of Exile launched on 19 July 2012, within three weeks of Spelunky, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Deponia and Orcs Must Die! 2.

Released around the same time: Spelunky, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Deponia, Orcs Must Die! 2.

Official trailer

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Shall We Date?: Demons' Bond - The Path of Exile was released on 19 July 2012 for PlayStation Portable, Android and iOS.

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