Eternal Metal

Eternal Metal, known in Japan as Trusty Growl: Chester Bennington's Dream, is a PS6 Japanese role-playing game.
It's a sequel to Eternal Sonata, with the similar premise of a real-life musician dying and hallucinating. 
Unlike Eternal Sonata, it stars Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington instead of Chopin, and the world is post-apocalyptic and much edgier, inspired by the "In the End" video. Characters are also named after metal music artists, instead of music terms. 
Like Eternal Sonata, it features cutscenes with real paintings and photographs to detail things happening in the life of Chester. 
== Combat ==
The battle system is shared with its much less edgy prequel.
While the main combat system is turn-based using only 3 characters within the party, it incorporates elements of an action game. Each character's turn is preceded by "Tactical Time", a period of time which the player can use to decide the course of action to take with that character. Once the player initiates an action or "Tactical Time" expires (a function of the Party Class Level), the player then has a limited amount of time denoted by an Action Gauge to move the character, attack the enemy, and use recovery skills or items. Regular attacks are made at melee or ranged distances depending on the weapon choice of the character, and add a small quantity of time back to the Action Gauge, and additionally add to the party's "Echoes" meter. Special skills which can include both offensive attacks and recovery skills will consume whatever Echoes have been generated to that point, and will have a more powerful effect relative to that number. When a character defends against an attack, there is a short period before the attack strikes where the player can press a button to block some of the damage for the attack, or to possibly even counterattack the blow and interrupt the monster's turn. Recovery and other one-time-use items are kept in a common pouch with a limited capacity; the player must "set" items in the pouch so that they can be cycled through and triggered during battle.
Light and dark areas on the battle field generated by the time of day, environment, and shadows of the characters and monsters will affect combat. Each party character has one or more special skills that are active in lit areas, and a similar number but with very different effects in a dark area. Monsters themselves may have a dissimilar set of powers in the area of the battlefield they are in, while other monsters will actually change form when they move between lit and dark areas. The player can manipulate the nature of areas using special items, but this can also be affected by the monsters themselves, or through dynamic changes on the battlefield such as the shadow of a cloud moving across the ground.
As the player progresses through the game, they will increase their Party Class Level. Each improvement in level grants some bonuses while also imposing additional limits on combat. For example, one Party Class improvement increases the number of slots for special skills for each character, but at the same time, cuts down the amount of Tactical Time and time available in the Action Gauge. This Level cannot be altered by the player in their first playthrough, but can be adjusted to the player's choice in Encore Mode.
== Party Members ==
Elize Hahn (instrument: sho mouth organ- multi-barrel hand cannon): An Ardito sent in the wastelands to look for Chester alongside the experimental cyborg Burzum. She has the most healing capabilities, but can also use skills based on her gun. Named after Amaranthe vocalist Elize Ryd. 
Chester Bennington (instrument: Divine Voice): A nu metal singer, frontman of Linkin Park, who had killed himself. He now finds himself roaming the Disharmonia Mundi, which is a purgatory created by his mental problems and deep inner traumas. He's looking to purify the wasteland and defeat the parasite ruling it, only then can his soul be cleaned from its filth and ascend to heaven. In the Disharmonia Mundi, his voice allows him to cast Divine Songs, spells which are extremely powerful against Xasthur-type enemies. His species counts as Xasthur. Like Chopin in Eternal Sonata, he's the final boss. 
Burzum the Phoenix/Yoshiki Vikernes (instrument: guitar-axe): An experimental Mayhem cyborg, created by Metallica Corporation in a secret project, and showing himself to be much more powerful than the other normal cyborgs that are mass-produced. It has a secret "Phoenix Mode" allowing him to sprout wings made of fire. He later remembers that he was created from the infected remains of a human, Yoshiki Vikernes, who had fought alongside Will Bathory, but then shot him in order to save him from Myrkskog's possession (which failed and caused Yoshiki to be killed instead). His species counts as mechanical. Named after Varg "Burzum" Vikernes and Yoshiki Hayashi from X Japan.
Markus Delson (instrument: drum- heavy cannon): A captain of the Arditi Defense Corps who had survived the Xasthur attack on the Byakko Sector. He decides to join Elize's team due to owning her his life. Named after Markus Hirvonen, drummer of Insomnium. 
Amy Bourdon (instrument: turntables- disc shooter): Named after Amy Lee of Evanescence.
Yuko Shinoda (instrument: shakuhachi flute-naginata lance): Named after WagakkiBand vocalist Yuko Suzuhana.
Matthias Greydaze (instrument: shamisen-katana): An optional party member, who often appears as a non-controllable guest. He can only be gotten after a sidequest, where you learn his backstory, otherwise he'll die from the wounds sustained in a fight against the Slayer. He's a samurai who protects the temple and acts as Yuko's bodyguard. He was actually saved by Yuko . Named after Matthias Sollak od metal band Harakiri for the Sky. 
== Antagonists ==
Myrkskog: The king of the Xasthur, a giant alien parasite that crashed on the planet many years before and now rests in the Darkthrone, draining the planet of its life force. It's said that the man with the Divine Voice will destroy him. 
Slayer/Will Bathory: An Ardito from 20 years prior, said to have inflicted great losses on the Xasthur and challenged Myrkskog, but then disappeared. He never died, instead he made a pact with Myrkskog for power, became the Xasthur Sovereign known as Slayer. He maintained his own will during the mutation, and is planning to seize control of the Xasthur from Myrkskog. 
Ulver
Naglfar
Cruachan
== Story ==
The game is set on 20th July 2017, when Chester Bennington committed suicide, in the world of his dying dream.
Said world is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk wasteland filled with radiation called the Disharmonia Mundi, inhabited by demons called Xasthur. Only one human city still survives, the city of Nordvargr, shielded by a dome and the Arditi troops. Very few people roam the world outside the city. Far away from Nordvargr is the Darkthrone Abyss, where the king of the Xasthur lies and drains the planet of its life force. 
The Ardito Elize Amaranthe is sent outside the city to look for a particularly dangerous person who is shown by a sentry drone to have defeated a powerful Xasthur alone using a weird power. The experimental Mayhem cyborg Burzum, created recently, shown to be powerful, and whose information is completely classified, is sent to assist her, in order to test it against a strong opponent. 
The miko priestess Yuko Shinoda said that a man with the voice of a god will ultimately regenerate the world and completely destroy the Xasthur, but will do that at the cost of his own life.
=== Chapter 1: Hybrid Theory ===
=== Chapter 2: Meteora ===
=== Chapter 3: Minutes to Midnight ===
=== Chapter 4: A Thousand Suns ===
=== Chapter 5: Living Things ===
=== Chapter 6: The Hunting Party ===
=== Final Chapter: One More Light ===
== OST ==
Unlike the Chopin music of Eternal Sonata, this game uses Linkin Park songs as its OST, with vocals. 
The menu theme is "One More Light", while the main theme is "In the End". "The Catalyst" is the battle theme, while "Crawling" is the boss theme.
== Trivia ==
* This game is explicitly intended as a Linkin Park vanity project
* Proposed future entries in the Eternal/Trusty series are a game focusing on Avicii (Eternal EDM/Trusty Console: Avicii's Dream), on Kurt Cobain (Eternal Lo-Fi/Trusty Lo-Fi: Kurt Cobain's Dream), on Richard Wagner (Eternal Opera/Trusty Piano: Wagner's Dream), or on Karlheinz Stockhausen (Eternal Electro/Trusty Synth: Stockhausen's Dream).
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