Players who clear the game are given the opportunity to start a New Game Plus, carrying over their experience from the previous round. Interspersed with travelling, the player can also collect rumors about money-making schemes and view randomly occurring conversation events with Holo that provide the chance to improve the player's relationship with her, a key mechanic in discovering one of three possible locations to clear the game. Gameplay consists of travelling between towns and villages, buying and selling goods while collecting information about the identity of Holo’s hometown, known only as the “Forest of the Ancient Wolves” (古狼の森, Ko Oinu no Mori), a name that has since fallen out of use over the centuries. Accordingly, the player is tasked with the job of delivering Holo, a girl with the ears and tail of a wolf, to her hometown whose location she has forgotten. A novice merchant seeking to expand his business, he signs a contract for ownership of a horse-drawn cart, which comes with some very unusual conditions. Ami Koshimizu also reprised her voice role as Holo and sang the game’s theme song, Next To You (隣にいるよ, Tonari Ni Iru Yo).Ī spin-off of the main story, the game takes place in an alternative world and follows the adventures of the player as an original character loosely based on the series’ protagonist Kraft Lawrence.

Developed by ASCII Media Works in collaboration with the Spice & Wolf Production Committee, the game had several key players involved in the anime help in its production, including the artists responsible for the graphics and cutscene art of Holo.

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