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Rose Faction (Japanese: ローズ：チームＲ ) is an upcoming project that will serve as the second reboot to 's Rose Warriors series. As with its predecessors, it is an umbrella role-playing game.

Gameplay
Rose Faction is a real-time role-playing game with some puzzle elements.

Overworld Gameplay
Overworld locations are usually static locations in which enemy creatures travel. Outside enemies that wander throughout the overworld - which begin battles once contact is made with them - there exist various puzzles or challenges that may exist in order to unlock hidden areas that may contain secret [recruitable] boss characters or items. Certain puzzles may need to be completed in order to progress through the game.

In order to solve these puzzles, players are granted a small overworld inventory of only three slots. As well as this inventory system, players can enter a "puzzle solving" mode, in which the player is put in a first-person perspective in which they may interact with the world around them.

Battle Gameplay
The battle system primarily consists of three buttons: a guard button, a combo button, and an attack button.

Holding down the guard button slightly decreases the amount of damage taken from attacks, and allows the player to dodge in the four primary directions. Tapping the guard button with correct timing can reflect certain projectile-based attacks back at the caster.

The combo button can be tapped up to five times in order to unleash a quick attack combo that increases in damage over time. Combo attacks can also increase the damage of special attacks when they are chained together through combo attacks. Special attacks can be used by, as expected, pressing the attack button. Five special attacks can be set through the character menu, with the control stick's directional input determining the special attack that can be used: up, down, left, right, and default.

Setting
Rose Faction takes place in an amalgamation of worlds known as January Carmina. The world of January Carmina is said to be located in a limbo suspended within a temporal vortex exempt from the laws of time and space.

January Carmina was created only a short time prior to the events of Rose Faction, despite appearing as if it had been created several millennia ago.

The main area of January Carmina in which the plot takes place is known as the Baile an Caillte Agus Dearmad ("B-CAD"), a large but mostly-abandoned urban metropolis.

Characters
Characters form various Factions after the creation of January Carmina. The Rose Faction serves as the main Faction in the game, and is the only one to be playable throughout the game, with a single exception.

Rose Faction includes a myriad of characters from various established franchises. All major characters are members of a Faction, and have all been corrupted by the Excoquam, granting them certain powers.

Cheats
Cheats are small collectibles that can affect the game in minor or major ways, depending on the Cheat. Cheats are entirely optional to collect and use, though once all are collected, the player is granted a "Cheater" trophy.

In the lore of the title, Cheats are described as corrupted Excoquam Fragments, that have the ability to warp the fabric of the universe in different ways. The player is warned to not turn on more than five Cheats at once, as it could cause the fabric of the universe to tear, and be unstable.

There are two types of Cheats: Actual Cheats (A Cheats), which genuinely affect the gameplay in certain ways, and Fake Cheats (F Cheats), which affect the game solely in its aesthetics.

Fake Cheats:
 * Yang - Gives every character a wig that resembles Yang Xiao Long's own hair style.
 * Unlocked by: Completing Rose Faction -Demo Zenpen- once.
 * Chibi - Gives every character a large head.
 * Spooky - Transforms every character into a generic ghost.
 * Headache - Inverts every colour in the game while active.
 * Cricket - Transforms every character into a Kricketune, and all sound effects are replaced with its cry.
 * Miasma - Gives every character the "miasma" graphic effect (black glow with purple shards that travel upwards off their body).
 * Foreign - Changes all the text to be in another, random, language.
 * ACD - Gives everyone a deerstalker cap.

Actual Cheats:
 * Weakling - Halves the amount of damage the player deals.
 * Impossible - The player can only deal one damage per attack.
 * Broken - The player takes double the amount of damage as normal.
 * Loser - The player does not take any damage.
 * Geronimo - Enables fall damage.

Rose Faction -Demo Zenpen-
Rose Faction -Demo Zenpen- (Japanese: ローズ：チームＲ -始まりデモ- ) is the pre-release demo for the game. The game features content exclusive to the demo, primarily a prologue that far precedes the main title. The main protagonist of Demo Zenpen is Yang Xiao Long, the elder step-sister of the main title's protagonist, Ruby Rose. The demo intends to introduce the puzzle mechanics and some of the more basic battle mechanics.

Completing the demo grants the Miasmic Staff trophy in the full game, as well as the Yang Cheat.

Plot
Spoiler warning!

After the Battle of Beacon, Yang Xiao Long was left heavily injured in that her right arm was severed off. Bedridden, Yang continually took painkillers and anti-depressants to keep her sane while she is immobile.

After waking up from a long sleep, Yang finds herself in a void, where nothing but a castle sits. As she wanders through the castle's hallways, solving puzzles in order to progress through the rooms, she comes across a large miasma-based creature. While she initially tries to flee, as she is not in a state where she can battle, she comes across a small staff that she decides to use as in self-defence.

Initially failing, as she never previously used a staff, she discovers the Excoquam power residing within her. The Excoquam within her transforms into a fake arm for her, and, while confused, uses this to her advantage; taking down the miasmic being with punches that emulate her fighting style with Ember Celica.

After defeating the miasmic being, the castle begins to dissipate, and Yang struggles to escape from the castle, only to be dragged with its remains into a fissure within the void.