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During the first Identity V Reveal Show of 2025, NetEase announced an crossover event with Ib. It’ll start from April 17, 2025.

The official X (formerly Twitter) has posted a picture of the key visual, which shows the logo for both Identity V and Ib in a cracked photo frame that’s surrounded by red roses. While the global versions of the game haven’t given a lot of information on the crossover, the Chinese version of the announcement already revealed the characters who’ll receive collaboration outfits.

• Coordinator: Mary
• Journalist: Ib
• Ripper: Garry

Of the three crossover characters, Garry is the only Hunter. NetEase likely chose the Ripper for him due to the Rose Cane (Blue) accessory. It’s harder to pinpoint why NetEase chose Mary for Coordinator and Ib for Journalist, though.The Ib skins will appear in the shop, and one of them will be free after completing event quests.

Ib is a 2012 indie adventure horror RPG Maker 2000 game that kouri released for the Windows PC. Today, many view it as a cult classic and a highly influential title, with remakes and ports appearing since 2022. It follows the titular Ib, who’s a young girl visiting an art gallery with her parents. After a blackout, she finds herself in an otherworldly version of the gallery that’s full of hostile creatures. While trying to escape with fellow unfortunate soul Garry, they come across a bizarre girl named Mary, who seems to know more than she’s letting on.

Identity V is readily available on the Windows PC and mobile devices. The Ib crossover will start in Identity V from April 17, 2025.

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To commemorate the release of the Ib Nintendo Switch port, the Parco in Shibuya will open up a real-life Guertena Exhibition. You can find it in the Gallery X By Parco, which is on B1F. Visitors will have until March 12, 2023 to check out Guertena’s works for themselves. Shibuya Parco also noted that it does not guarantee that you will find yourself swept away in some otherworldly adventure. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

Tickets cost 1,000 JPY, which is around $7.35. All of the artworks that you will be able to see are pieces that are present in Ib. The creator of the game, kouri, personally overlooked all of the recreations. Aside from paintings, you can also find vases like in in the game. There are also exclusive goods, as well as a special version of Ib (for the Nintendo Switch) that you can find at the gallery.

Merchandise that you can find at the exhibition include acrylic dioramas, acrylic stands, scarves, and postcards. Online Parco does offer overseas shipping so it is possible that international customers can purchase them without actually visiting Shibuya. Not only can you buy the physical Switch copies of Ib at Parco, but the special limited edition will come with an artbook and a lace handkerchief. In total, the limited edition will cost 4980 JPY, which is around $36.70.

Ib will come out on the Nintendo Switch on March 9, 2023. You can also play it on Windows PC. The Ib Guertena Exhibition in Shibuya PARCO will run from March 2-12, 2023.

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Playism announced during the Nintendo Direct livestream on September 13, 2022, that a remastered version of Ib will appear for the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch version will be the first time that Ib is available for a platform other than Windows PC. It will come out in Spring 2023.

It is unknown if the Switch version will have any new or exclusive content in it, or if it will be a faithful port. You can watch the trailer for Ib on the Nintendo Switch (via the Nintendo JP YouTube channel) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIW6B0qpCfQ

Ib first came out in 2012 and has since become a cult classic. kouri is the developer, and Playism published a remake in 2022. It received an English localization a few months after its initial Japanese release. This is the version of Ib that will appear on the Switch in 2023.

The game follows the titular Ib, who visits an art museum with her family. When she stands in front of a certain painting, she accidentally enters a dangerous mirror-world version of Guertena’s gallery. In it, she encounters monsters, but also meets Mary and Garry. With their help, she must navigate the museum in order to escape to the real world.

Ib for the Nintendo Switch will come out in Spring 2023. A more concrete release date will appear in the near future.

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