It was announced by game company Prototype that KEY’s highly acclaimed visual novel Clannad will be coming to the Playstation 4 as a digital title. While an exact date has not been announced, it was stated that fans wouldn’t have to wait long as it will be available in late June! The United States isn’t the only country to receive Clannad as Prototype is making preparations to launch the game on the Playstation 4 in Europe as well.
A physical copy of the game will be available in Japan and will contain an English text option. If you prefer a physical copy, at least you have the ability to import it. The physical release of the game will be available on June 14.
Sekai Project already released Clannad on Steam back in September 2015 after raising funds to do so through Kickstarter. The game has been ported in Japan to the Playstation 2, Playstation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, PS Vita, and mobile devices. Clannad received a movie as well as two television anime series: Clannad and Clannad: After Story.
Wikipedia describes the series as follows:
Clannad‘s story revolves around Tomoya Okazaki, a third year high school student who dislikes his life. Tomoya’s mother (Atsuko) died when Tomoya was young, leaving his father (Naoyuki) to raise him. After the accident, Tomoya’s father turned to alcohol and gambling, and had frequent fights with his son. One day, Naoyuki, while arguing with his son, slammed Tomoya against the window, dislocating Tomoya’s shoulder. This injury prevents Tomoya from playing on the basketball team, and causes him to distance himself from others. Ever since then, his father has treated Tomoya nicely, but distantly, as if Tomoya and he were strangers rather than a family. This hurts Tomoya more than his previous relationship with his father, and the awkwardness of returning home leads Tomoya constantly to stay out all night. Thus his delinquent life begins. Tomoya’s good friend Youhei Sunohara, who was thrown out of the soccer club over a dispute with his seniors, is also a delinquent and often hangs out in his dorm room with Tomoya doing nothing much.
The story opens on Monday April 14, 2003 at the beginning of the school year, when Tomoya meets Nagisa Furukawa, a soft-spoken girl who is one year older than he is but is repeating her last year in high school due to being sick much of the previous year. Her goal is to join the drama club which she was unable to do due to her sickness, but they find that the drama club was disbanded after the few remaining members graduated. Since Tomoya has a lot of time to kill, he helps Nagisa in reforming the drama club. During this period, Tomoya meets and hangs out with several other girls whom he gets to know well and help with their individual problems.
