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  |       Title : Dark Auction (Update v1.0.6)                              |
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  |   Publisher : IzanagiGames                Platform : Nintendo Switch    |
  |   Developer : IzanagiGames                  Origin : eShop              |
  |       Genre : Adventure                   Title ID : 010029A0250DE800   |
  :        Date : June 2026                     Format : 32x100MB / NSP     |
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  |     R e l e a s e   N o t e s                                           |
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  |   The Auction of Dark Memories Begins Now. What truths await beyond a   |
  |   bid made with your life?                                              |
  |                                                                         |
  |   STORY:                                                                |
  |                                                                         |
  |   1981, Somewhere in Europe.                                            |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Eighteen-year-old Noah, who still carries the memory of being         |
  |   abandoned by his mother as a child, lives with his father Leonard,    |
  |   a struggling novelist obsessed with collecting items related to the   |
  |   mysterious "Dictator X".                                              |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Although Noah wishes his father would give up this bizarre hobby,     |
  |   Leonard refuses to stop - no matter how dire their financial          |
  |   situation becomes.                                                    |
  |                                                                         |
  |   One day, Leonard receives an invitation to an exclusive auction.      |
  |   Ignoring Noah's protests, he leaves for the old castle where the      |
  |   event is to be held, promising, "I'll tell you everything once I      |
  |   return".                                                              |
  |                                                                         |
  |   But the promised day comes and goes - Leonard never returns, and      |
  |   Noah cannot reach him. Worried, Noah sets out for the castle          |
  |   himself. There, he witnesses a shocking scene that changes            |
  |   everything.                                                           |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Before long, Noah finds himself trapped inside the castle along       |
  |   with the other auction guests. At the auctioneer's invitation, he     |
  |   is drawn into participating in this strange and sinister auction...   |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Characters:                                                           |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Noah Crawford (VA: Kengo Kawanishi).                                  |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Leonard Crawford (VA: Rikiya Koyama).                                 |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Edgar Schulz (VA: Daisuke Namikawa).                                  |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Christoph Treheim von Berg (VA: Nobunaga Shimazaki).                  |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Otto Klein (VA: Shunsuke Takeuchi).                                   |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Karla Becker (VA: Maaya Uchida).                                      |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Lorraine Klopp (VA: Yui Ishikawa).                                    |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Hell (VA: Akira Ishida).                                              |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Auctioneer (VA: Show Hayami).                                         |
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  |   Game features:                                                        |
  |                                                                         |
  |   - Explore freely within an ancient castle rendered in 3D.             |
  |                                                                         |
  |   - Use your reasoning skills to piece together clues from the Word     |
  |   Cloud system.                                                         |
  |                                                                         |
  |   - Join an auction where the truth is revealed about the past.         |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Information gathered during the exploration phase is stored in a      |
  |   feature called the "Word Cloud".                                      |
  |                                                                         |
  |   These collected keywords can then be used during the auction phase    |
  |   to help solve its many mysteries.                                     |
  |                                                                         |
  |   In this world, what you need to bid on an item isn't money - it's     |
  |   memory.                                                               |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Participants use a memory-reproduction device known as EPO,           |
  |   offering fragments of their own memories as payment to compete in     |
  |   the auction.                                                          |
  |                                                                         |
  |   However, memories burdened by secrets or trauma are often             |
  |   distorted, blurred, or even rewritten into false versions of the      |
  |   past.                                                                 |
  |                                                                         |
  |   If the memories offered are incomplete or corrupted, the auction      |
  |   will fail.                                                            |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Acting as a supporter, Noah must step in to restore each target's     |
  |   memories to their true form.                                          |
  |                                                                         |
  |   When an auction succeeds, a hidden truth is revealed - and with it,   |
  |   the strange and fateful stories behind each auctioned item are set    |
  |   free.                                                                 |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Original story / scenario: Rika Suzuki.                               |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Character design: KOHSKE.                                             |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Soundtrack: Yuko Komiyama, Tsukasa Masuko.                            |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Directed and produced: Shinsuke Umeda.                                |
  |                                                                         |
  |   This game tells the story of a group of young people who resolve to   |
  |   pursue a peaceful future after learning the truth of the past.        |
  |   While historical, war-related recollections appear as motifs          |
  |   throughout the narrative, this game does not, in any way, seek to     |
  |   glorify or justify the crimes of war.                                 |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese (simplified) and Chinese        |
  |   (traditional).                                                        |
  |                                                                         |
  |   Update Notes: v1.0.6 (v393216). Firmware 21.2.0 and master key 18.0   |
  |   are required.                                                         |
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  |     G r e e t i n g s                                                   |
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  |                                                                         |
  |      Abstrakt . Anthrox . Bad Karma . Capital . Caravan . Complex       |
  |    Dual Crew Shining . Duplex . Echelon . Eurasia . Kalisto . Legacy    |
  |    Lightforce . Menace . Miracle . Mode 7 . Money . Mystic . Napalm     |
  |    Nightfall . Oldskool . Paradox . Premiere . Project X . Protocol     |
  |      Quartex . Quasar . Rising Sun . Scoopex . Sneakers . Triforce      |
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