Crystal Arclight Romance (video game)

Crystal Arclight Romance is a 2007 independent-influenced role-playing visual novel game developed by American-Russian indie-influence anime game studio Clerestory on Pearls and published by (in Carnival Zero only) for. The game follows 19-year-old boy Gray Albrecht, a student with a 36-year-old man Luis Sacramento, a pianist Gray's love interest. The player controls Gray as he meets new people, tries to finish his homework each day, levels up his conversation topics, and his fight Angeline a former Luis' befriend corrupted into bipedal alien. The game was first released in North America on May 1, 2007, with a Korean translation released on July 17, 2007.

An expanded for the game Crystal Arclight Romance: Carnival Zero was released for the, , , and Windows on January 1, 2010. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for its side stories and gameplay on consoles, but some criticism for its lack of changes. Unlike the original 2007 release, Carnival Zero is a freemium game.

Plot
In April 1982, Joshua Sacramento was a brilliant scientist who had dedicated his life to studying extraterrestrial life. He had made a breakthrough discovery of an alien egg, and was determined to find out what was inside. After months of research and experimentation, the egg finally hatched, revealing a baby alien girl.

Joshua was ecstatic and immediately named her Angeline (Sierra Demi Kane). She bit Joshua on the hand. He was shocked and confused, but he didn't think much of it. Little did he know that Angeline had injected him with a deadly toxin. Within minutes, Joshua was dead. She was studied for years, but no one could figure out why she had killed Joshua. Eventually, Angeline still remembers the day she killed Joshua.

25 years later in January 2007, in, , a 19-year-old boy Gray Albrecht recuperate with his father Klaus Albrecht  aboard a private in Saxon. Gray and Klaus travels to to unveil the truth and find the cause of Joshua's death. In a sudden effort, he develops the ability to rewind time and saves him, revealed to be his ex-fiance Cyril Kurobane, a 23-year-old boy necromancer.

Music
Prigozhin also composed the game's score. The introductory composition, "Crystal Arclight Romance", is primarily performed by saxophone with accompaniment by industrial metal instrument. The composition "Q and A, was him?!" has two different versions, three of which are performed by different musical instruments that represent each of the two male characters. Luis's version emphasizes the gut guitar, Joseph's version is played by church organ, and Gray's version is played by piano and trombone. The track "Fracción Nombre" has even been taught to festive people as part of the music curriculum. The soundtrack for Crystal Arclight Romance was released digitally on May 10, 2007; featuring 38 tracks from the game's original score and two songs from South Korean industrial girl group Das Desphere.