Tanuki-sama Studios is happy to announce that their popular indie courtroom adventure game NINA AQUILA: LEGAL EAGLE, SEASON ONE is seeing a price reduction for the Winter 2021 Steam Sale.

From 10am PDT December 22 to January 5th, the game is reduced by 50% lowering its regular price of $8.99 to a sale price of $4.49

“NALE” is an indie courtroom adventure game, presented in the style of an episodic TV anime show. The game supports Windows, Linux and Steam Deck platforms.

This “Season One” release is an enhanced collection of three episodic titles that were originally released on a range of indie services such as itchio & Newgrounds, seeing a 5-star rating in over 200 reviews and earning recognition with a cash prize in the judging of “Best of Newgrounds, November 2020”.

The game’s most recent update added a range of additional features, including…

  • Steam Deck support & Linux support – via native Linux binaries (not using Proton)
  • Additional character art for the Anya Miller & Judge Tawny characters
  • Name-cards in dialogue sequences to help with player comprehension
  • Upgrade to a newer version of the nwjs framework for improved performance
  • Nina’s main OBJECTION pose is now animated

These new features bolster the Steam release from July, which provides the player with over 10 hours of anime-themed courtroom drama content, ‘set in a world where all anime genres exist at once’.

These improvements were crowd-funded with a successful funding drive back in Autumn:
“Our community are amazing,” says Ethan Fox, of Tanuki-sama Studios, “we planned for 7 weeks of crowdfunding. We could scarcely believe that they propelled us to the target in just 3 days.”

More info about the successful crowdfunding initiative can be found here:
https://twitter.com/NinaAquilaGame/status/1428434799409106956

TSS has been developing the Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle series since 2018, on a micro-budget funded out of their own pocket, supplemented with revenue from sales of the game’s episodic releases. In that time, the game has reached fans across the globe.

The game is presently available here on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1547290/Nina_Aquila_Legal_Eagle_Season_One/

A full presskit has been uploaded to this URL for media use: https://tanukisamastudios.wordpress.com/2021/07/06/presskit-nina-aquila-legal-eagle-season-one/

Press review codes available on request (email tanukisamastudios AT gmail DOT com)

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About Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One
This new release collects together and enhances all existing chapters of the popular ongoing indie graphic adventure/visual novel hybrid videogame series, Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle — a courtroom drama game which takes place in a world where all anime genres exist at once.

The collection includes ~10 hours of content, in which players take on the role of Nina Aquila, a rookie defense attorney, as she represents clients accused of capital crimes. In it’s three-faceted gameplay, players will INVESTIGATE crimes (examining crime scenes and speaking to witnesses), PARTICIPATE in activities relevant to their case (such as illegal street racing) and finally, step into court and DEFEND their client in the manner of a courtroom drama visual novel.

  • In Chapter 1, players defend a cosplayer accused of arson, due to her cosplaying as a fire mage
  • In Chapter 2, players defend a client accused of murdering the world champion at Dragon Fantasy Arena (a card-game similar in concept to Yu-Gi-Oh) on the eve of the national tournament
  • In Chapter 3, players defend three street racers, accused of causing the death of a fourth, in a homage to the classic mountain-road racing anime Initial D

NALE has previously appeared on services such as Newgrounds & itch.io in an episodic format (starting in winter 2018), where the releases have garnered praise, with Chapter I receiving “Best of November 2020” on Newgrounds and a 5-star review score on itch.io from over 200 user reviews.

This new collected release is significantly enhanced over the original episodic releases. Enhancements include a wide variety of audio-visual and feature improvements, including new character art, more & higher quality speech samples, reworked video sequences, Steam Achievements, an unlockable explorer mode and many more! This is the definitive NALE experience for both existing and new fans alike.

Veteran anime & gaming voice actor Rachael Messer (Azur Lane, Goblin Slayer, Forgotten Anne) provides the voice of Nina Aquila, the protagonist.

The game has an RRP of $8.99, with a free demo.

About Rachael Messer
Nina’s utterances in-game are voiced by Rachael Messer.
Rachael is an industry veteran, recently voicing Enterprise in Funimation’s Azur Lane dub. She has a long history of dub roles in both anime & videogames, including Paladins, Warframe, Akashic Records, Princess Principal, Knight’s & Magic, A Centaur’s Life, Infinite Dendogram and the remake of System Shock.
Ethan originally contacted Rachael after hearing her performance as the protagonist in Forgotten Anne, by Square-Enix, believing her voice would be perfect for the role.

About Tanuki-sama Studios
Tanuki-sama Studios is an indie videogame developer, based in the UK, owned and managed by the solo developer Ethan Fox, who came to the Visual Novel space from a Kindle author background.

Ethan’s games draw upon his past experiences living in Japan, as well as a lifelong love of anime & manga. This season, he is watching Fruits Basket and To Your Eternity.

NALE was conceived as a way to create a narrative experience that has plotting, pacing and direction similar to that of watching an anime show, as well as serving as a homage to multiple anime genres. TSS’s ambition is to see NALE realised as a fully-fledged anime production.

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