Tamashii: Chronicle of Ascend- Le Chapitre Interdit

Tamashii: Chronicle of Ascend - Forbidden Chapter, a Rural Escape into the Secrets of AI

Tamashii: Chronicle of Ascend—The Forbidden Chapter is an expansion for the cooperative game Tamashii: Chronicle of Ascend, published by Awaken Realms Lite, for 1 to 4 players. As in the base game, the goal is to combat and hack the forces of the artificial intelligence Ascend by building data patterns on a personal launcher and switching mechanical bodies to gain a tactical advantage.

This expansion shifts the action away from the megacities of the base game to rural provinces and isolated villages, where secrets lie hidden that Ascend seeks to suppress. Its originality lies in the presence of a special AI with its own movement rules on the map, as well as the introduction of new hacking tokens—the Inari and Destabilization tokens—which enhance the base game’s hacking system.

New Classes, New AI, and Hacking Tokens

The expansion adds ten new rural-themed district tiles, such as a shrine, a rice paddy, Mount Fujiyama, gardens, and a port village, as well as a starting tile specific to this chapter. Six new character classes are added to those from the base game, including the Sumo Warrior and the Fortune Teller, each with their own unique abilities.

Forty-eight new enemy cards and upgrade packs for the Amaterasu and Basilisk factions round out this content, alongside training protocol cards specific to this standalone mini-campaign consisting of four scenarios.

Honor Score and the Conclusion of the Forbidden Chapter

Throughout the four scenarios of the Forbidden Chapter, players’ decisions are tracked by an honor score that determines their alignment with one faction or the other, leading to different epilogues depending on the choices made.