Limbus Company
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| Name: | Limbus Company |
| Abbreviation(s): | LCB |
| Creator: | Project Moon Studio |
| Date(s): | Released February 27th, 2022 |
| Medium: | Gacha Video Game |
| Country of Origin: | Korea |
| External Links: | https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Limbus_Company_Wiki |
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Limbus Company is a Gacha Game developed by Project Moon and released on February 27th, 2022. The gameplay uses Turn-Based Combat, while story is conveyed in a visual novel format.
The game follows after the events of Library of Ruina and Leviathan, following the employees of the Limbus Company Bus, or LCB for short, as they attempt to collect the "Golden Boughs," powerful artifacts with large stores of energy that can be used to perform great feats. The story is divided into Cantos and Intervallos, Cantos being main story events usually centering on attempting to retrieve the next Golden Bough and intervallos being shorter side stories that often lead into the next Canto or explore other aspects of the setting. Each of the thirteen protagonists is based on a classic literary work, and twelve of them have been or have confirmed as the focus of one of the game's Cantos.
Characters
In the order of their sinner number, the thirteen protagonists of the game are as follows:
- Yi Sang, an allusion to Yi Sang, the pen name of Kim Haegyŏng, and based on his works, especially The Wings.
- Faust, based on the character and German legend of Faust, and more specifically the Goethe play.
- Don Quixote, based on the eponymous protagonist Cervantes novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
- Ryoshu, based on the character Yoshihide from the short story Jigoku or Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
- Meursault, based on the protagonist and narrator of book The Stranger by Albert Camus.
- Hong Lu, based on a character from the book Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin.
- Ishmael, based on the narrator of the book Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
- Heathcliff, based on the main character of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
- Rodion, based on the protagonist of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Dante, the manager of the Limbus Company Bus and based on the pilgrim from Dante's Divine Comedy.
- Emil Sinclair, based on the protagonist of Herman Hesse's Demian.
- Outis, based on the character of Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey and Illiad.
- Gregor, based on the main character of Kafka's Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa.