Dec 272023
A couple months ago, it was announced that Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative would be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2024.
Now we have a release date.
According to Gematsu, Japanese retailers have listed the Switch versions with a release date of March 28.
There will be a special edition called the “Muv-Luv 20th Odyssey Box” that includes both games, a carabiner handle mug, a Gate Guard badge, a 20th anniversary medal, a download code for Muv-Luv Unlimited: The Day After, and an art book. It costs 32,780 yen, which is approximately $230, so that’s quit a pricey collector’s edition.
The most perplexing part of the collector’s editions contents is the inclusion of Muv-Luv Unlimited: The Day After. There’s been no announcement of The Day After coming to Switch yet, so either this is a quiet announcement of that or it’s a PC code. Including a PC game as a bonus with a Switch collector’s edition sounds strange, but the official website links to sites for all three games, and the Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative pages show the Switch as a platform while The Day After’s page does not.
Either way, at least this is positive news for the series!
For a while, the fate of the series was looking pretty grim, with reports that its future depended on the success of a gacha game and other things like that, so I’m happy to see it coming to Switch!
It’s unclear if the Switch versions will get an official release outside of Japan or not, but they will include English. So if you’ve been waiting on the Muv-Luv series and would prefer to play it on the Switch, you’ll be able to when Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative are released for the Switch on March 28!
Hopefully that means Resonative and Integrate are still on the table. In the meantime, I really should get around to finishing Total Eclipse and its prequel…