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| - Ether Vapor is a cinematic Shoot'Em Up created by Japanese indie game company Edelweiss and released in 2007. It is known for its rapidly changing gameplay, shifting from a vertical shooter to the side shooter and even a rail shooter. In 2011, it got an Updated Rerelease known as Ether Vapor- Remaster, with updated visual effects. Nyu Media is working on localizing this version of the game for overseas PCs with a planned release date of early 2012. Caldea, a small fictional nation, was able to successfully discover Artificial Intelligence. This was found during a project when several of the nation's researchers created the Adviser, an AI computer used to solve Caldea's problems. Instead of being controlled manually, the Adviser was given an artificial personality through endless enormous databases. Although the computer went insane, it was used greatly for the Caldean military, where it successfully waged war on other nations with new weapons and technology. In reponse, several other nations and rebel forces coupled together to create the nation of Lydia. Despite their union against Caleda however, they were already fighting a losing war. A young Caldean boy named Luca Earlgrey, whose father lead the work on the Adviser (now commonly known as the Decider), then began a personal fight against his nation. Given a super prototype called the Ex-tio by his father, Luca is determined to crush the Caldean forces and destroy Decider to end the war and free the nation's dependence on the sadistic supercomputer. He encounters both allies and enemies, including a young pilot of the Lydian navy named Sana, a cyborg mech-using scientist named Daniel, and new heavily-armed version of Decider known as the APITEX. Translation and information of the story is found here.
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