{"id":55112,"date":"2025-12-19T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=55112"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:37:45","slug":"goddess-of-victory-nikke-artist-announces-new-game-about-a-31-year-old-office-lady-turned-magical-girl-saving-the-world-from-a-gigantic-tuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/goddess-of-victory-nikke-artist-announces-new-game-about-a-31-year-old-office-lady-turned-magical-girl-saving-the-world-from-a-gigantic-tuna\/","title":{"rendered":"Goddess of Victory:\u00a0NIKKE artist announces\u00a0new\u00a0game about a\u00a031-year-old\u00a0office-lady-turned-magical-girl\u00a0saving\u00a0the world from a gigantic tuna\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Korean illustrator DDUCK KONG, known for creating several&nbsp;<strong>Goddess of Victory: NIKKE<\/strong>&nbsp;characters such as the fan-favorite bunny girl Alice, has announced that his latest&nbsp;indie&nbsp;title,&nbsp;<strong>Killing Magician<\/strong>, is set to release on December 30&nbsp;for Windows via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4202570\/Killing_Magician\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>.&nbsp;If the idea of&nbsp;scantily-clad&nbsp;female androids saving the world&nbsp;wasn\u2019t&nbsp;outlandish enough,&nbsp;this new title centers on a 31-year-old woman who becomes a&nbsp;magical&nbsp;girl in exchange for a hefty recruitment fee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u300e\u30ad\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u30fb\u9b54\u6cd5\u5c11\u5973\u300f\u2728<br>12\u6708STEAM\u767a\u58f2\u4e88\u5b9a\u3067\u3059\uff01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mhj57Iwmfq\">pic.twitter.com\/Mhj57Iwmfq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; DDUCK KONG \/ 12\ucf54 BY_07 (@dndmgpgpd2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dndmgpgpd2\/status\/1980197870893678836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Post translation:<\/em> <em>Killing Magician&nbsp;is scheduled for release on Steam in December!<\/em>&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;In this linear visual novel, players take on the role of Iris, an office worker who&nbsp;encounters&nbsp;a magical girl named Gregory.&nbsp;Lured in&nbsp;by&nbsp;an upfront payment of 100 million JPY (roughly $650k),&nbsp;Iris decides to&nbsp;change&nbsp;careers and become&nbsp;a&nbsp;magical&nbsp;girl herself.&nbsp;Bestowed with newfound powers, the story follows Iris as she discovers that life as a magical girl&nbsp;isn\u2019t&nbsp;all&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;cracked up to be,&nbsp;especially when you&nbsp;have to&nbsp;save the world from a giant tuna.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1510\" height=\"849\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1510px) 100vw, 1510px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251218-55112-001.jpg\" alt=\"Killing Magician\" class=\"wp-image-55117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251218-55112-001.jpg 1510w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251218-55112-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251218-55112-001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from Gregory, Iris will interact with other magical girls, a demon king, and several animals, all of whom&nbsp;were designed&nbsp;by DDUCK KONG.&nbsp;Though the game&nbsp;does not feature multiple branching storylines, it does have sub-stories&nbsp;that&nbsp;delve deeper into the personalities of its characters. 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Unfortunately,\u00a0just like DDUCK KONG\u2019s\u00a0previous\u00a0game\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3357470\/Superbunnys_adventure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Superbunny&#8217;s adventure,<\/a>\u00a0it\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0have English audio or subtitles (at least for the time being), so you might want to hold off on buying it unless you can\u00a0understand\u00a0Korean or Japanese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Killing Magician is set to release on December 30 for Windows (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4202570\/Killing_Magician\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nikke-character-designer-to-release-original-new-game-on-steam-in-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NIKKE character designer to release original new game on Steam in December<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/goddess-of-victory-nikke-designer-says-their-character-isnt-wearing-any-pants-because-pantless-fashion-is-a-thing-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Goddess of Victory NIKKE designer says their character isn\u2019t wearing any pants because \u201cpantless&nbsp;fashion\u201d is a thing now<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing Magician is a new indie game by Korean illustrator DDUCK KONG, famous for his NIKKE character designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":55115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-55112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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