Tsukihime went through an extensive trial phase that lasted for well over a year, seeing prototype releases at Comiket winter in 1999, giving away copies for free. During this time, they made several revisions based on the trial period, and had to make more cuts to the story in order to release it on time. Unfortunately, there are no surviving images of this, due to so little copies made in the first place. Fortunately, there is another prototype edition that came out just before the game officially came out that included 2 routes. (The only ones that were finished at the time), called the Half-Moon edition. The Story of Tsukihime sets many series prescedents for the Nasuverse, becoming the inspiration for many other stories and Video Games. Tsukihime is the very first published visual novel by Nasu under the Type-Moon moniker. Just like Fate/Stay Night, its’ origins were quite different from the first idea to final publication. Originally planned as a regular novel, it would have told the story of a vampire princess named Arcueid Brunestud, and another vampire who has been has been trying to hunt her down for generations. No Prototype material would be made of this aside from character names. The main character, Arcueid was supposed to have a “noble, spoiled princess type” personality, which overlapped much with another character and didn’t make her stand out. She was eventually revamped to be more mysterious, elusive, and conniving closely aligned with her goal, hunting down an ancient, murderous vampire. After the resounding financial success of Fate, Nasu and Takeuchi expressed interest in going back and fixing up parts of Tsukihime that were rushed and restore content that was originally cut for time. As such, in June of 2008, Type-Moon officially announced that they were working on a remake with enhanced visuals, updated soundtrack, voice acting, and an added route for a fan favorite character :Satsuki Yamizuka. News faded on the project as Type-Moon worked on other projects. However, there was more news during the 10th anniversary event in 2015 during Type-Moon Fest, which released brand new character designs that matched Takeuchi’s modern art style.
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