You are exactly right! Thanks for the assistance.
Now to get stuck trying to find other endings...
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428: Shibuya Scramble |OT| Today Was A Good Day
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Now to get stuck trying to find other endings...
I finally got around to trying the demo, and this is actually pretty neat.
The production style is really sleek, and it feels more like an interactive J-drama than an interactive anime like most visual novels. I'll probably check this out, after I finish Zero Escape and Silver Case.
The production style is really sleek, and it feels more like an interactive J-drama than an interactive anime like most visual novels. I'll probably check this out, after I finish Zero Escape and Silver Case.
Man, the ending of the 17:00 block got me all pumped up. Things are getting really intense now.
I am not sure if you're still stuck, but I finally get the chance to check. There should be another Jump towards Minorikawa's route from Tama's at 13:20. Is it not there?
Love it so far, just bought it and started it up. Took me a bit with figuring out jumping back and forth between characters and changing an action to affect another person's timeline.
Looking forward to more of the story, I'm only about 3 hours into it.
Looking forward to more of the story, I'm only about 3 hours into it.
Cleared the dreaded 13:00 - 14:00 block yesterday. Story just keeps getting better. Also I totally knew that
Tama was the sister! Aside from the fact that she was supposedly good looking this was based on nothing, but it just felt like the sort of twist they'd do lol.
It is there but I can't use it. I get the Jump prompt when Tama comes across Minorikawa in the hallway after the Burning Hammer event but there is a red X over Minorikawa and I can't Jump to his timeline. I've tried a bunch of different choices but no luck so far. I don't know what I did wrong.
Naw, that's the one at 13:40. The Jump I was talking about is at 13:20, when
Tama just rushes into the conference room carrying the Burning Hammer boxes. She observes that Yanagishita is beside "a man she doesn't recognize", which you should be able to use to Jump to Minorikawa's route.
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Finished. I say it again the final block was soooooo goood
Now I suppose there is Canaan to watch, but I heard its god awful.
All the Keep Outs constantly keeping me on the edge of my seat, then introducing the Tateno and Stanley into the mix. The chilling revelation of who Alphard really was. That really caught me off guard. Little surprises like that are appreciated. Hell, I still remember at the shock of who Tama was and seeing her name title change to Maria. The true ending was a cute little bit of icing on the cake. I had a smile on my face when Kano leaped in the air from the good news of Shizuo willing to accept him. The trials of the day was really felt. 4/28 was an extremely long day with so many ups and downs for our protagonists. Seeing a "Happy" ending like that was well deserved.
Now I suppose there is Canaan to watch, but I heard its god awful.
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It's also a pun, Shibuya is read as '428' according to a hint about Yotsuya.
Finished everything and got all the trophies! I'm not typically a trophy/achievement guy but I loved the main story so much I needed to see everything. The bonus content is really good, ranging from silly to heartbreaking. Without a doubt, this game was well worth the $50 asking price.
I'm glad Spike Chunsoft put out a demo for this because without it, I might not have checked the game out and now it's one of my all time favorites.
I'm glad Spike Chunsoft put out a demo for this because without it, I might not have checked the game out and now it's one of my all time favorites.
Hit the touch pad on PS4 (no idea for PC), turning it on triggers the tutorial (whoops)
I was rewatching Hero recently due to judge eyes and recognized Kimizuka as the bartender from it. I couldn't help but say "aru yo" whenever he showed up.
I'd kinda love it they ever did a full voice edition of this. It's be so comedical with the Minorikawa parts.
Glad to see everyone enjoying this. I'm still around the 13:00-14:00 block but I just can't seem to put the game down.
To the ones that got the platinum: without spoilers, what's the hardest trophy to get? Just all the bad endings?
To the ones that got the platinum: without spoilers, what's the hardest trophy to get? Just all the bad endings?
Oh, holy shit. I've never seen Blade but he was the principal in Fourze? Huh. Huh.
I didn't recognize him, so thanks for pointing that out! Huh.
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So 428 basically was sent out to die or something. Steamspy only shows owners in-between 0-20k. But looks more like 2k at most, I know it's not accurate, but looking at the fervor (lack there of) online for it. It's looks like it's bombing hard.
The Visual Novel audience in general isn't very big, and 428 is one of the priciest releases the genre has seen in recent years. I can't imagine that they were expecting much more than that in the launch window.
With good word of mouth it should hopefully have a decent performance with sales later on.
That's how almost all visual novels sell. It's a niche of a niche. This was never a game that was going to sell 50k or whatever.
I bought it on PS4 so I could remote play to the Vita, which is where I prefer to play VNs
Having recently finished up Chaos;Child, I feel like I'm never gonna escape Shibuya
He's one of my favorite characters in any game I've played this year, and hour by hour he's only gotten better.
Hi, I live in Japan. I bought the game when it came out on wii because I loved Machi so much, which is the ancestor. I also bought PS3 version to enjoy the game with 5.1 sound and HD pictures. And this time, I bought the US version. It's just arrived at Narita airport and it's on its way. I'm interested in hte localization. Some lines have Japanese puns. Japanese language has many variations to say one thing. Just to say "Come with me." it has many variations depending on characters, their backgrounds, genders and emotions. It's an advantage. Just one phrase brings much informations.
When I heard the news about the release in the US, I got worried a bit. I know the game looks cheap and weird. But I also know that once you take a ride, you'll realize it's well-constructed with great twists and you'll find it difficult to stop playing it halfway. I'm really glad to know you enjoy and love this game.
Here are videos you might want to check. There may be spoilers.
Minorikawa and Chiaki walk around in actual Shibuya.
https://youtu.be/uyoqlld6Szg
Making
https://youtu.be/GWfcHwQmORI
When I heard the news about the release in the US, I got worried a bit. I know the game looks cheap and weird. But I also know that once you take a ride, you'll realize it's well-constructed with great twists and you'll find it difficult to stop playing it halfway. I'm really glad to know you enjoy and love this game.
Here are videos you might want to check. There may be spoilers.
Minorikawa and Chiaki walk around in actual Shibuya.
https://youtu.be/uyoqlld6Szg
Making
https://youtu.be/GWfcHwQmORI
Finally started playing this the other night, meant to only play for about 30 minutes before going to sleep and ended up playing for nearly 2 hours. I'm surprised at how much it's already grabbed me.
The structure lends itself very well to that.
Lots of "I'll stop after I change/get this bad end", "after I figure out how to jump here", "after I clear the hour for this character", "after I finish the hour"...
Wow this is an great find. I would havel oved a 428 jdrama too actually. Thanks!
I know right? I Never would have guessed kanowas in those. Time for a rewatch!
A full voice would be amazing, but its been so long though, almost everyone would have to be dubbed over, inparticularly the teen characters.
Also I was a bit inaccurate about Stanley, apparently he is a cofounder of a marketing company that specializes in adapting jpn marketing strategies to global markets.
He was also in that 2004 godzilla movie lol
Also, someone at discord posted that Osawa is a singer.
Seems in character, lol.
That would explain why he poofed off of imdb. Lol
Its funny you should say that, considering a certain game that releases in in a couple days in jpn and two weeks in us.
Thank you for these, hearing the actor's voices as well as seing certian scenes in motion is amazing. I wish it was adapted a jdrama now.
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Haha, I also played C;C a few months ago, and now this, and will be replaying TWEWY in a few weeks as well... I'll never escape Shibuya either.
Absolutely, there are some callbacks, but the game works standalone.
I'm finally getting into playing this and I have to say that the localization is extremely fantastic. I just love everything they've done here. It's honestly more fun to read in English than it was in Japanese, and that's saying a lot. I hate that it was buried, so I guess I'm going to start doing giveaways.
This game strongly needs a 999-esque force pushing it every chance they get.
This game strongly needs a 999-esque force pushing it every chance they get.
Lower price, more platforms and better marketing, not to mention a different release date, would've done the trick. It should've come out in June or July, because September was the worst month they could've chosen for a visual novel like this one.
For sure, whenever I thought I was reaching a natural stopping point I'd be hit by some sort of progress block that would make me switch character or redo a choice to which my response was "well I get this out of the way so I can jump right in next time" but I'd be so interested in seeing what happened that I'd keep pushing through until the next progress block.
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The way I'd put it is that you'll miss out on the callbacks/references, and more importantly, there's actually a lot of playing with your expectations from Chaos;Head that you probably won't catch at all, but in return you'll experience a lot more mystery. You'll be sharing the perspective of the main characters, who don't know any of that stuff, and that has its own kind of appeal; I think it is very much written with that approach in mind as well.
Though I will say... I kinda hated C;H but C;C made me weirdly thankful that I played it a few years ago before playing S;G, because I was personally very into the whole playing with your expectations thing. It was really neat to see things slowly tie together, and for those connections to sometimes just casually be stated/mentioned offhand as if they weren't huge deals that were blowing my mind, and for twists to make me go "aaaah, now that makes sense!". But if you just want to experience the mystery without that, I think it'd very much be worth playing even without that aspect!
Definitely gonna try to push it heavily on the same group of friends I got to play 999+VLR during the wait for ZTD, actually.
Though, uh, part of that may be lending my copy so that won't help as much. Maybe once at least one other person can back me up, others will buy it themselves to get it sooner...
50€ for a VN is very steep allright.
I hesitated a little bit at first, but I want this kind of games being brought over more frequently, so I bit the bullet. Enjoying it very much at the moment.
So many Twin Peaks references! I've noticed 3 already, and one is just so blatant lol. It's great!
100%ed the game last night. I really enjoyed it! I hope this game becomes more than just a hidden gem.