Azure Striker Gunvolt



Azure Striker Gunvolt is a 2014 action-platform game developed by Inti Creates and directed by Yoshihisa Tsuda.

In a near future, a lot of humans begin to develop special abilities. These people are known as the "adepts". These "adepts" were soon victimized and treated as a threat by mankind.

The Sumeragi Group, a Japanese conglomerate, soon began to make illegal and unethical research on the adepts to use them as source of energy. In a country devoid of big energy sources like Japan, the energy they managed to produce from adepts gave them a lot of power. Still, the dehumanization of Adepts didn't reach a point where they can openly use them as batteries, so their crimes are kept a secret from the general population, treated at best as a conspiracy theory. Soon, however, underground groups began to form to fight against Sumeragi's rule.

Our protagonist, Gunvolt, works for one of these groups, called QUILL. In a mission to destroy a so called "Muse", an pop idol that Sumeragi uses to control the population, Gunvolt discovers that the Muse wasn't some kind of computer program but the projection a female Adept. Being an Adept that was rescued by QUILL from a similar situation, Gunvolt takes the decision of rescuing the girl instead of killing her and leaves QUILL to give the girl a chance of living a normal life instead of eliminating her as QUILL orders him. But the girl, now named Joule, is too valuable for Sumeragi to give up on taking her back....


 * Electric Torture: Gunvolt is tortured in this manner at the beginning of the game, but it is useless because of his electrical powers that give him immunity against electricity.
 * La Résistance: QUILL serves as this against Sumeragi.
 * Locomotive Level: The first level, where Gunvolt is searching for the Muse.
 * Meaningful Name
 * Gunvolt, because he uses a gun and uses electric and magnetical powers, get it?
 * Sumeragi means "emperor" in japanese, and they control the country of Japan like an absolute emperor.
 * Mega Corp: Sumeragi, that controls Japan with an iron fist.
 * Shock and Awe: One of Gunvolt's powers is to generate electricity.
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Gunvolt decides to defect from Quill because he don't wants to kill Joule just because Sumeragi can use her powers for evil.
 * Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: QUILL is treated as terrorists by the general public.