Summary
- Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star is a psychological romance-horror visual novel.
- An autobiographical story of dysfunctional love with multiple endings.
- Available today for Xbox Series S|X.
Hi, I’m Lorenzo, I’m the creator of Milky Way Prince, which is more of a personal diary than a simple game. To me, working on this project was a cathartic experience, as I needed to overcome, exorcize, and analyze a complex and challenging time in my life.
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I chose to do it through a video game because I think it’s the perfect tool to do it, as it allowed me to write what had happened to me, and analyze it from different points of view. I was able to re-explore my experiences according to precise logic and explore what could have happened if I had made different choices.
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Our times are teaching us how important it is to approach specific themes with the right sensitivity, and since I was dealing with a thorny subject like mental illness, especially borderline personality disorder, I needed the right metaphorical veil. I chose stars and astronomy because to me being involved in a relationship with a BPD partner felt like being in love with a star. The more the love grew and the connection intensified, the more unstable and unpredictable our system became.
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Vampire stars, or symbiotic binary stars, seemed like the perfect metaphor for mutual and obsessive co-dependency, a symbol for parasitic abusive and submission dynamics. Relationships are obviously a two-way bridge, where it’s all about exchanging, they are not exempt from mechanics of power and control. So, what happens if I am too harsh? Or too submissive? And could I manage to break a toxic cycle? Are relationships a way to compensate for each other’s weaknesses, with the risk of giving up too much, or too little, of oneself? These are the questions at the core of the game.
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It’s wonderful to finally have a version running at full resolution, showing the drawings in their native resolution at full framerate, and playable on the TV with a controller! Milky Way Prince is available on Xbox today, and I hope it will feel meaningful to its players, taking them on an intense journey through the evocative rawness of our need for love and connection.
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Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star
Fantastico Studio