Overview:
A horror mystery adventure game that takes place in Sumida ward, Tokyo, Japan in the late Shōwa era.
Unique characters swayed by curses. Their motives intertwines as the story unfolds. And you are tasked to bring the story to its end with your own hands.
Synopsis:
A typical office worker, Shogo Okiie was investigating with his friend, Yoko Fukunaga at Kinshibori Park in the middle of the night about “Honjo Seven Mysteries”, a well-known local ghost story.
Yoko told Okiie said ghost story has something to do with “The Rite of Resurrection” which Okiie took it with a grain of salt, but something strange happens one after the other before his very eyes...
At the same time, there are also others who pursuit “Honjo Seven Mysteries”. A detective investigating a case that involves multiple unnatural deaths. A female high school student seeking truth behind a suicide of a classmate. And a mother who vowed vengeance for her lost son. Their motives intertwines, centering on “Honjo Seven Mysteries”. The story takes a violent turn to which they cast curses amongst each other.
This game features:
◆360 view of immersive Shōwa era Japan
With the help from Sumida Ward Tourism Division, Sumida Heritage Museum, Sumida Tourism Association and the local community, the team recreated a realistic 360-degree Panoramic Background View cityscape, shot with a 360 camera.
◆Tense interaction with cursed characters
◆A shocking revelation unraveled by your own hands
*After downloading, you can play the game all the way up to the ending with no additional cost.
Creators:
◆Director & Writer:
Takanari Ishiyama
(Detective Ryosuke Kibukawa series, Schoolgirl Strikers)
◆Character Design:
Gen Kobayashi
(NEO:The World Ends with You, Final Fantasy Legend III, Schoolgirl Strikers)
◆Music Composer:
Hidenori Iwasaki
(FINAL FANTASY Crystal Chronicle, FRONT MISSION 4, etc.)
This point-and-click visual novel about raising the dead is full of creepy scenes inspired by Japanese folklore that might make you shudder.
Good story and interactive experience
Amaosys
This game really optimised for the iOS devices. Use touch and vibrations, and the story is engaging as well. Please keep coming! Need more FILE23!
One of the best games I’ve ever played.
Teknik29
I experienced this game without any guides or the internet and would recommend anyone else to do the same.I personally got this game on offer after seeing the sequel’s trailer. Whilst I played it simply out of interest for the art style I got a lot more out of it than just that.This game wants you to piece together information you’ve found over time whilst experiencing the game’s events to figure out the story. When you feel like you have some ideas however these are often subverted, especially the obvious ones. However it will make sense the further you get into the game.This causes some of the puzzles (later ones especially) to be quite abstract as some rely on your understanding of the events of the game and others how well you have picked up on small details such as in the environment, with other characters, or even in the UI and menus. This could be a negative for some as you will need to think hard for some of them but it was great for me personally.There is some contrast between the first and second halves of the game:The first intends to build the atmosphere and cleverly creates a fun sense of dread with the 360° camera view (which is a central feature of this game). You could be jumpscared by environment elements or simply by turning the camera. This, combined with the lack of knowledge of the world and some inexplicable events, creates a large fear of the unknown.The second half is less focused on directly scaring you and more on telling the story. This can make it much more loaded on text and reading since there is much more time spent interacting with the other characters and going through your files (a collection of information you have discovered). For me this wasn’t a bad thing but for others it could be. The fear is instead in finding out the truth behind the events (and the ambiguity in others) however it’s very satisfying when there’s a rush of everything fitting together towards the end. This is why I believe this game is best experienced without any guides since you won’t get this satisfaction otherwise.Only towards the end does each segment get quite long so you can get away with playing this for a short amount of time in a day for most of it (not that you’d want to after playing). You wouldn’t want to leave it so long however that you start forgetting information from the game, I personally played it over a month and a half so this was not the case for me.The translation is also very good, I only caught a couple of small typos so this won’t impact your gameplay experience.I have never written a review before but this game needs more attention, especially due to its lack of marketing and the number of Square Enix releases around that time.
Ver 1.2.1 Update Content
-Twi was mistakenly listed as a supported language on the App Store. This has been corrected to Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
Version 1.2.1
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Information
Provider
SQUARE ENIX Co., Ltd.
Size
785.8 MB
Category
Adventure
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Languages
English and 3 more
English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
