Neo

The Dreamlock cover of the game.

The logo of the game.

***Neo*** is a role-playing game developed by Round 1 Industries and project to be published by Imaginate.

*Neo* was released on May 3rd, 2019.

The game is considered as a love letter to the *Persona* series, most notably, *Persona 5*, by Atlus.

## Gameplay

*Neo* is a role-playing game, in which the player chooses dialogue for the named protagonist "Reo"/"Bionic" and fights with enemies by running up to them. During cutscene sequences, the player chooses what the named protagonist, Reo/Bionic, would say for specific questions and answers. In battle sequences, 4 characters are placed in a battlefield against a group of enemies or a boss, who is trying to stop them from saving the day. The battle menu contains 6 options; Special, Attack, Item, Defend, Weapon and Flee. The "Special" option leads you to a menu where it places your special attacks, the "Attack" options let your character attack the enemy with a basic 3 rhythm punch/kick or slash (with a sword/knife), the "Item" option lead you to a menu full of items you collect throughout the game, the "Defend" option makes your character(s) defend themself(s) from harm, the "Weapon" option makes your character(s) pull out their weapon such as a sword or a gun, although some characters wields a sword/knife for their "Attack" option and the "Flee" option makes your party back out from a fight. While dialogue happens, you can (sometimes) pick a choice of what Reo is going to say to his peers.

The gameplay was inspired by the like of the gameplay from *Persona 5*, but with a few bits and bobs. There is no relationship system (like the Confidant system from *P5*), you don't go back to the real world from the Neomultiverse, no alert meter (where in *P5*, there is one depending on the difficulty of enemies when spotting the player or when fleeing the battle), no handicap feature (which is the Third Eye feature, where the player can figure out puzzles or analyze the enemy's strength) and no money, especially no break rooms. Although there is a day system like *Persona*. In August 2019, they updated the game to give the Evil Neo Squad's a break room where the player can finally take a break and save a playtime file.

## Development

Creator Yoji Komo was going to make the project for Bandai Namco Entertainment. But he changed his mind and decided to make the project for Imaginate since there is alot of Japanese/anime-inspired games. The reason he want to make the project for Imaginate is that he thinks that there are a lack of japanese/anime-like games from the company, even though there are some franchises that are like that such as the *Peaceful* series and the *Jack & Bella* series.

Development began long after the release of *Heroes RPG*. Komo want to make the game stylish like *Persona*.

## Plot

The game follows a 6th grade boy named Reo (Neo name: Bionic) as he became a Neo by joining in a Neo Squad lead by a adult Neo named Rottweiler. As a Neo, he and his squad must defeat 10 evil Neo squads that were sent by a evil mentally ill Neo named Blood Lord.

## OST

The OST was originally made by Kidtendo in May 3rd, 2019. After the deletion of BrawlBRSTMs3's channel, he then made a separate "remastered" version of the playlist known as "Neo OST (Remastered)".

## Trivia

* It's unknown if a sequel is planned for the game. Even though the first one is in development.
* It's unknown if the sequel is going to continue the events after the first one with the same cast of characters or it's going to be entirely different with a different cast of characters.
* The OST of the game was made in May 3rd, 2019, before the game was actually made.
* An updated versions of the OST was made in August 2019, after the deletion of BrawlBRSTMs3.
* The game took inspirations of a bit of My Hero Academia and Persona 5.
* Although *Neo* is (sort of) based on *Persona 5*, it doesn't feature backup helpers such as, of course, the Personas.
* A upcoming enhanced version of the game title *Neo: Enchanted* (formerly going to be titled as *Neo: Diamond Edition*), will be released sometime in 2021/2022. It will be a remastered version of the game featuring new bosses and a brand new character named Uchise Kokichi, whose Neo codename is Rockstar.