Do not Nod, the studio that created the Life is Unusual franchise in partnership with Sq. Enix, has introduced that it will likely be delaying its upcoming self-published title Misplaced Information: Bloom & Rage into 2025. Misplaced Information was initially introduced at The Recreation Awards final yr, with the discharge window on the time given as “late 2024”.
If you happen to’re the gossipy sort, it is in all probability not arduous to invest on why this may need occurred, since Sq. and LiS’s adopted step-developer Deck 9 just lately introduced a brand new recreation within the collection. Whereas a brand new Life is Unusual was at all times understood to be a probability, few anticipated the fifth essential recreation to return fairly so strongly to the collection’ roots, with unique protagonist Max Caulfield returning because the participant character in Life is Unusual: Double Publicity, as a result of launch this October.
What’s pleasantly shocking, although, is that Do not Nod hasn’t taken the circumspect route close to their causes for suspending Misplaced Information, with CEO Oskar Guilbert saying fairly plainly: “We all know that a lot of our followers are eagerly awaiting this recreation, simply as they’re the just lately introduced subsequent instalment of Life is Unusual. Let’s give each video games the house they should shine. The wait will likely be price it.”
Misplaced Information: Bloom & Rage does certainly appear to be it’ll scratch the itches many LiS followers have been feeling since the collection’ final launch all the best way again in 2021, and Do not Nod has been fairly clear about the truth that it intends to take what it realized from LiS and apply it to its new, unbiased IP. And whereas Do not Nod’s repute as the unique creator implies that a brand new LiS would not routinely overshadow Misplaced Information within the eyes of many, there was an actual threat of splitting followers’ focus if the 2 video games launched up towards one another — particularly on condition that Max’s return may properly attract some gamers who dropped off of Life is Unusual’s current anthology-style follow-ups.
It is good to see Do not Nod acknowledge the elephant within the room, in addition to give its tacit assist for Deck 9’s ongoing work on its child. Beforehand, Do not Nod and Deck 9 handed off every LiS instalment alternately and pooled property and concepts throughout the franchise, so it is heartening to know that Do not Nod hasn’t disavowed its creation now that they’ve seemingly left it in different palms for good.
Misplaced Information: Bloom & Rage is now anticipated in early 2025, and focuses on a bunch of 4 feminine buddies throughout two time durations: throughout their highschool years within the mid-’90s, and as middle-aged ladies within the modern-day after an extended estrangement. The trailers have additionally hinted at queer romance and supernatural parts, so the Life is Unusual DNA is bound to be strongly felt.