Spike Chunsoft has revealed a handful of new character details for its upcoming AI: The Somnium Files detective adventure.
Kaname Date
VA: Greg Chun (English)/ Taruske Shingaki (Japanese)
As a Psyncer, Date uses the Psync machine to dive into the minds of suspects or persons of interest. He lost his eye six years ago, but replaced it with a prosthetic eye which houses an advanced artificial intelligence known as an AI-Ball. He also lost all his memories past six years ago.
Aiba (2nd Form)
VA: Erika Harlacher (English)/ Akari Kito (Japanese)
An artificial eye equipped with an AI that usually resides in Date’s left eye socket. Her consciousness and Date’s are linked. In the real world, she looks like a small animal. However, when Date Psyncs to enter Somnia, she takes on a human form.
Boss
VA: Allegra Clark (English)/ Yuko Kaida (Japanese)
Boss is Date’s direct superior and long-time friend. She appears to be an easygoing optimist with a carefree attitude, but she is as cunning as a fox with a quick wit.
Pewter
VA: Sean Chiplock (English)/ Hiroki Goto (Japanese)
Pewter is ABIS’s engineer and a brilliant scientist. Currently, he is responsible for maintaining the Psync machine and preparing Psyncs. He also invented Aiba (and set her personality to his liking).
As previously reported, AI: The Somnium Files takes place in near-future Tokyo, where Date is on the hunt for a serial killer. Events kick off when Date and the Metropolitan Police Department arrive at a playground to find a woman’s maimed body and a young girl holding an ice pick.
The game will come in standard and special editions and launches July 25, 2019, for the PlayStation 4, Steam, and Nintendo Switch.
