Does demo progress from Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess carry over to the full game?

Anyone excited about the intriguing dance-inspired combat in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess can try the game out for free by playing its demo early. This small slice of the game gives fans a taste of what they’re in for when the full release drops on July 19, 2024.

The demo for Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess has a selection of levels for players to explore and fight their way through. This will help you get your head around the two stages that you’ll need to master each time you enter a location. First, you must prepare for the battle by placing units and freeing those trapped by monsters. Then, once night falls, you’ll need to defend the location using everything you have at your disposal, including swordfighting skills that resemble dance moves.

Does demo progress from Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess carry over to the full game?

No, demo progress from Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess won’t carry across to the full game. This is because the demo is a selection of stages from the main game and isn’t representative of what you’ll play through in the full story.

In the game’s final version, you’ll follow a more specific path that will ease you into the game’s mechanics much better than this demo does. The result is that this demo, while enjoyable to play, doesn’t follow the path you’ll take, so the progress you’ve made can’t count for much.

The developer confirmed this on Twitter, among the myriad of fans asking if their progress would be useful in the final release. Unfortunately, playing the demo isn’t a complete waste of time. While it’s live, players have been working together to find Lucky Mallets and collect Crystals. At the time of writing, Okami-inspired bonus items have been unlocked for all players and will be delivered in a day-one patch.

If you play this demo and collect any number of Crystals, you’ll help the community reach its goal and unlock bonus items everyone can benefit from in the full version. It’s an interesting way of making a demo worth playing despite the fact that progress does not carry over, and it is more of a showcase of various levels.

What I love about Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is the music and the way you’re fighting artfully. It reminds me so much of Okami, in part because some of the original development team are also working on this title, and I can’t wait to see what the full release is like once we get our hands on it.