The Cosplayer of Kuopio

The Cosplayer of Kuopio- The Weirdest, Most Moe-Nazi-Alien-Badass-Draconic-Mindscrewish-Maniacal-Otaku-Japanese-Bizarre-Antihuman-Wretched-Postmodernist-Futurist-Obsessive-Paranoid-and-Mindnumbingly-Offensive RPG Ever Made- is an urban fantasy RPG made by Italian company Bushido games, with the explicit intent to create the weirdest game ever.
== Plot ==
The game is set in the city of Kuopio, Finland, during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, in the aftermath of an attack by the Finnish mafia known as Tsang Wu. President Tsao Zhou framed a group of "far-right COVID negationists" for the attack.
As people are "mysteriously" dying and becoming sterile due to the MRNA vaccine causing infertility, the Tsang Wu is importing clandestine immigrants from Africa and has allied with islamic terrorists who pretend to be "refugees". During the Lockdown, Kuopio has become a wretched hive of crime and terrorism, where corrupt policemen cover up the crimes of the Tsang Wu and shoot on the citizens who refuse to exhibit the vaccine passport. 
The game starts at Lingkai's house: while chatting with his ally in the police Xinggao Liang, he finds out about the disappearance of a boy named Gao Tse in his country. He had put on facebook a post that mentioned the Tsang Wu selling important stuff in the Fuhoi pachinko center and a video showing two men talking about top secret material from Hibana Technologies. Soon he dons the cloak of The Nazi, takes his pet owl Fururu with him and heads to said pachinko center, waiting for the henchmen to show up. The police comes and arrests him for "lockdown violation" (they're bribed by the mafia), however he awakens his J-Pop power and defeats them. When the truck comes, escorted by the police, mafiosi are waiting for it, however it goes berserk and attacks them: Xinggao was piloting it, and he had wanted The Nazi to take what was inside the truck. 
As he takes the smartphone contained inside, a fairy-like AI appears and starts smiling at him. He names her Mayushii, after the character from Steins Gate she resembles. As the mafiosi runs off, Mayushii parasites said truck and allows the Nazi to chase after them.
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It's revealed everything is happening in Lingkai's dreams as he hallucinates. Nothing was real. He was not an Asperger, but a hikikomori, he never lived any of those things, and had been sent to a psychiatric treatment center. After he had attempted to secretly take naked photos of the girl he liked (who never matched him, she had a boyfriend) she found out and called him a Nazi while attacking him. He was so hurt by that experience that he developed a psychosis and became a shut-in, often hearing the word Nazi as he hallucinates. Tsao Zhou was the psychiatrist that was looking after him, whom he perceived as a corrupt servant of his imaginary enemy Tsang Wu. In the end, as he's discharged from the psychiatric clinic, he goes to get vaccinated... And right after getting the shot, he dies by stroke. His last words are "I dreamt... I was... A Nazi...". 
Then the credits roll, and the news in the Finnish national TV mention that a Neo-Nazi from Kuopio, named Reiji Takamaki, was murdered in Shanghai. A Tsang Wu mafia henchman, disguised as a doctor, had taken him to a vaccine center and injected poison into him, pretending to vaccinate him. 
It's possible that while Lingkai was a hikikomori, he had seen the news of that Finnish Neo-Nazi murdered in China and saw him as a parallel to himself.
== Gameplay ==
The game is a turn-based RPG with frequent genre switchings. 
Most of the battles involve selecting an action and inputting commands like in a rhythm game to perform the attack: there are no crits or misses, everything depends on skill rather than luck. When the enemy attacks, you get to input commands to defend, allowing you to nullify all the damage. 
Magic is known in this game as Moe Arts, it's performed by singing J-Pop, works like a rhythm game and has various elements: Heat, Cold, Digital, Nature and Ether (which is something between the Dragon and Ghost types of Pokemon). Moe Arts are obtained by equipping and leveling up specific Moe Talismans (figurines of kawaii manga girls), each talisman contains four spells, in a manner akin to FF7's Materia. 
== Characters ==
Lingkai Hu: A 23-year old boy, who was expelled from university due to having refused to vaccinate. He is obsessed by mangas, sushi, anime, J-Pop (especially Hatsune Miku), and everything that is "moe", He acts as a vigilante, trying to uncover the conspiracy that links the mafia Tsang Wu with the government and the bankers. After having been expelled from university, the girl he was starting a relationship with left him and compared people who refuse to vaccinate to Nazis, which left deep scars in his mind and caused him to call his superhero identity "The Nazi" (he isn't an actual neo-Nazi, just an obsessed Otaku with Asperger's Syndrome and sociopathy who thinks Nazis are "badass moe man-eating fairies). As The Nazi, Lingkai wears an armor made of various pieces of his cosplay costumes, with a butterfly mask covering his face. After the ending, he's sent to a psychiatric treatment center. His weapon is a dakimakura and he controls Digital. 
Xinggao Liang: A policeman who has refused a bribe from the Tsang Wu and is secretly helping Lingkai. He's the one who secretly sabotages Mayushii so that she would bond to Lingkai. He often does various offscreen antics as he's trying to unite the rebel policemen in Kuopio and create a front against the mafia. His weapon is a pistol and he controls Heat. 
Tsishi Wei: A former friend of Lingkai's, who is also a J-pop idol, cosplayer and model, under the name Minako Sakurabana. He often stalks her and secretly takes photos of her, thinking of her as a "moekko". She and Lingkai were starting a relationship when he was expelled from university and she stopped caring about him due to fear of "antivax terrorists", which she compared to Nazis. She's the one who later sells him to Tsang Wu. Her weapon is a microphone, through which she sings, causing magical damage, and she controls Nature. 
Mayushii: An AI created by Japanese computer company Hibana Technologies and shipped to Finland due to a deal between Hibana and the Tsang Wu. When the allegedly-obedient policeman Xinggao Liang refuses to comply to the deal, She serves as Lingkai's spirit advisor and can mutate into various types of machines (car, washing machine, microwave oven, lawnmower, telephone): she doesn't wield any weapon but depending on her stance, she has different attacks. Lingkai named her after a character from his favorite manga, Steins Gate.
Fururu: Lingkai's pet white owl, which he explicitly named after an owl from Tales of Arise. His weapon is his beak and he controls Cold.
Reiji Takamaki: A buff mercenary who always wears a cat mask. He's meant to be a fabrication of Lingkai's psyche, created from his feeling like a manga hero when stalking a woman. He uses baseball bats. He does not control anything, but has a berserk state known as Moeness Overflow. 
== Trivia ==
* The game seems to be set in Kuopio, but Kuopio is an imaginary city created by Lingkai's mind, and where he actually is is Shanghai, China. Hints of this fact are interspersed throughout the game:
** The names of the characters are mostly Chinese. No character, except for Reiji and Mayushii, has a Finnish name. Mayushii was named after an anime character, while Reiji is the only character in the game to be actually from Kuopio.
** The river that flows near Kuopio is mentioned to be the Yangtze Kiang, which is not supposed to flow in the Savo region (where Kuopio is). 
** The verb "To Kuopio" is used where it's supposed to be "to Shanghai".
** The game has voice acting in Chinese, but not in Finnish.
** Mangas are, at a certain point, said to be "a type of manhua". Manhua aren't Finnish, but Chinese.
** Elize Ryd from Amaranthe is called a "J-Pop idol": since she's Finnish, she wouldn't be called that in Kuopio. An NPC even says "Korpiklaani songs sound epic, but I can't understand anything", which he should logically be able to, since they sing in Finnish.
** Shaolin Kung Fu is mentioned by another NPC. It's the Chinese national sport, and isn't practiced very much in Finland. 
** The currency is called Yuan. Finland uses Euros. 
** Mayushii has been taken from a Japanese company and has arrived to Kuopio in a truck: it would be much easier to illegally import experimental AIs from Japan to China in a truck, rather than to Finland.
** Tsishi sings in the KPO48, which do not exist but are based on an existing idol group from Shanghai, SNH48.
**People think the USA could nuke Kuopio. As Finland is in the EU, allied with the USA, it would be illogical to think that.
**An in-game legend is about the dark lord Chang-Kai-Shek who usurped the throne of Finland, but was then defeated by the Nazi Princess Hatsune Miku, who created the Holy Ground of Manshukoku. This is based on the real puppet state of Manchuria created by Japanese nazis, which was in China, not in Finland. 
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