• Full list of all 20 Perfect Dark achievements worth 200 gamerscore. It takes around 50-60 hours to unlock all of the achievements on Xbox 360.
• (Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB) Perfect Dark: Rare's classic sci-fi tale of firefights and first contact. First released in 2000, it comes to Xbox LIVE Arcade with all its established qualities bolstered by modernised visuals, extra framerate fluidity and the opportunity for global multiplayer shootouts.
• The Perfect Dark universe refers to the Super Smash Bros. Series' collection of properties that hail from the Perfect Dark series of first-person shooters developed by Rare. Due to Rare's sale to Microsoft and resulting lack of presence on Nintendo platforms afterwards, Perfect Dark only received limited representation in the Smash series.

The Perfect Dark series, beginning with Perfect Dark for the Nintendo 64, has been a fan favorite for years. The initial Perfect Dark won Nintendo 64 gamers over by being eerily similar to another beloved classic, Goldeneye 007. Perfect Darkplayed similarly to the James Bond game, but it also offered up a woman-led story and inventive gadgets. Over the years, fans have wondered if they'd ever get another chance to see Joanna Dark's story unfold.

There's no need to wait any longer. Microsoft announced at The Game Awards 2020 that its Santa Monica based studio The Initiative is developing a new Perfect Dark game. While not much is known about the latest installment in the series, there is still plenty to dream about as fans wait for more information.

In an interview posted after the trailer's premiere, game director Dan Nueburger discusses how the game 'reinvent[s] the franchise' while continuing to deliver the details that Perfect Dark fans enjoy. Nueburger mentions that developers are committed to keeping elements that made the previous Perfect Dark game special, like the inclusion of inventive gadgets which were forward thinking for their time.

A new Perfect Dark reboot is on the way form the developers at The Initiative. This time around, the game will be focused on telling an 'eco sci-fi' story about a world run by shadowy corporations. Perfect Dark is a first-person, blockbuster spy thriller being developed as the first project by The Initiative, a relatively new part of Xbox Game Studios that was first founded in 2018 with.

What is the release date for Perfect Dark?

The trailer for Perfect Dark does a pretty great job of getting fans hyped for a new adventure with Joanna Dark, but it doesn't offer much in the way of answers. One of the biggest mysteries left at the end of the trailer is the question of when the game will be released.

What is known is that the game has probably been in the works for a bit longer than fans may realize. In mid-2020, Xbox registered Twitter accounts for the Perfect Dark and Fable series. At the time, Xbox said that these accounts were not connecting to any new games in development, but a new Fable was announced during the July 2020 Xbox Games Showcase.

With that in mind, and including the fact that the developing studio, The Initiative, was formed two years ago, it can be assumed that Perfect Dark has been in development for a good while. Hopefully that means that the game is far enough along that fans will be able to see more footage and a tentative release date soon.

What platforms will Perfect Dark be on?

When Perfect Dark releases, it will be exclusive to the Xbox Series X, and will likely stay exclusive. It's difficult to imagine that Microsoft would be willing to release Perfect Dark on another console considering that they created an entire studio to craft the game (or at least work on it as an initial project). Then again, fans have had the same questions regarding the exclusivity of future Bethesda Softworks releases, ever since the company was acquired by Microsoft.

Now, fans have an answer to what the mysterious Santa Monica based game studio has been working on. The Initiative has hired some of the most talented writers and game designers in the industry, leading fans and critics alike to expect big things from the games the studio creates in the coming years. While there's not a release date announced for Perfect Dark, we do know that you'll only find it on Xbox when it launches. In the meantime, fans can watch the trailer and speculate about what corporations Joanna Dark will topple this time around.

Is there a trailer for Perfect Dark?

Luckily, fans have a cinematic trailer to analyze while waiting for new information about Perfect Dark. The release trailer, which appeared at The Game Awards 2020, features a cinematic look at Joanna Dark as she plunges into the world of corporate espionage and ecological disaster.

There's a lot for fans to be excited about in the trailer, like the gorgeous visuals and inventive weapons. The game also seems to feature a focus on ecological disaster. The trailer's narrator mentions that the world changed with floods, storms, and other environmental disasters, while also discussing how humans have embraced technology as a solution to these disasters.

However, the narrator explains, 'some laws are not meant to be broken.' Perfect Dark's trailer hints at lots of action, but it doesn't fully explain what mission Joanna Dark could be focusing on this time around. Regardless, we do know that Perfect Dark takes place in the near future, in a sprawling city, with lots and lots of weapons on hand.

'Perfect Dark (パーフェクトダーク) is a peer-to-peer file-sharing (P2P) application from Japan designed for use with Microsoft Windows.'
- Wikipedia English

In short, it's your best way to acquire obscure Japanese stuff, such as DLSite files, various doujin media, audio files₀ and other obscure Japanese lewd entertainment.

₀Except for new releases, since new voice works seem to be uploaded into Perfect Dark rarely these days (there's still plenty of older ones though). Check Baidu instead.

System requirements:

• 40 GB hard drive space₁
• 100 KB/sec minimum upload speed₂
• 512 MB RAM

₁Perfect Dark as a P2P system distributes files between its users. This cache is called unity, and the minimum you'll be able to limit it to is 40 GB.
₂As an example, my maximum upload speed is barely 100 KB/sec, and the software works fine for me.

Perfect Dark Walkthrough

Install instructions

Generally you don't need to worry about getting the latest version, since the program updates itself automatically. The latest version at the moment of writing this is 1.22, available here:

https://www21.atwiki.jp/botubotubotubotu?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=28&file=Perfect+Dark+v1.22.zip

• Extract, run perfect dark.exe, accept the EULA, next.
• Click ok (you should see the following image), and specify the speed of your internet connection.

• Set your language to English & enable auto-update.
• Specify the ports. You need to forward the main port (not the interface port). The method for doing this varies depending on your router/modem/firewall, so Google it. It's like setting up a torrent client, if you're familiar with that.
• Press ok.
• Next add nodes. Copy and paste the following lines to the 'encrypted text:' text box and click add.

• Click close
• Perfect Dark should now look like this. The program by default starts separated into two panels. You can close either one with the box in the upper left corner, you don't necessarily need both.
• Check if your port is forwarded properly in the information tab. If the text is red, go back to step four.

Searching and downloading

Your main interface you'll be using is the search tab. Type a search word in the upper left white box and click add. Perfect Dark will now begin searching for any files with the specified text. Searching may be slow immediately after installing, because you don't have a decent sized cache built yet. You can still download regardless.

Example search words to use:

• 同人音声 (doujin voice)
• RJ123456 (DLsite catalogue numbers)₃
• Circle names (ajaib suara, シロクマの嫁, 俺だけが得する音声工房, etc.)
• Voice actor/actress names generally don't work. Use DLsite to search for works they've appeared in instead.

₃All uploads don't necessarily have DLsite numbers, so search by name too to be sure.

• After you've found something you've liked, right click on it in the big right area and click download.
• The file will be moved to the download tab, where you can check its progress.
• After the download is finished, it will be moved from the download tab to the complete tab. At this stage, the file will be ready to use in a subfolder called 'download' in the directory where the main executable of the program is. You don't need to leave it in the folder and can move it freely.

Perfect Dark Pc

Occasionally Perfect Dark may notify you about your complete list growing too big without any reviews. In that case go to the complete tab, select a bunch of files and review them from the right click context menu. Right click again and choose clear reviewed item. I'm not sure how the grading works to be honest.

Don't expect gigabit download or upload speeds. Usually you'll be seeing 100-300 KB/sec download speeds. I'm running one instance of PD on a server with 100MB-1GB connections and it still doesn't use much bandwidth.

Linux, Wine and Servers

Perfect Dark Game

Perfect Dark works fine on Linux under Wine. Some things to remember:

Perfect Dark New

• Use a Japanese locale (for example ja_JP.UTF-8 on Debian-based systems) to avoid font issues.
• The executable doesn't like being renamed, start it with 'wine perfect dark.exe'.