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.

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 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.