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Sound Novel: Machi1998

Sound Novel: Machi

1998 Chunsoft

Playtime

LongTypically 40 hours

Playable on

Game modes

Details

Launch
January 22, 1998
Developer
Chunsoft
Publisher
Chunsoft

Overview

Machi is a story of 8 unrelated protagonists, all with their own problems and objectives, all living in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Japan. The story spans 5 in-game days and is told through a huge number of live-action still photographs. Each of the protagonists lead a completely different story that even defies genres. The player must play all of the stories in parallel, jumping across different protagonists, and backtracking to re-select branches which not only affect the active protagonist, but also other protagonists through often bizarre twists of causality.

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