Sound Novel: Machi (1998)
- Developer
- Chunsoft
- Platforms
- Sega Saturn
- Genres
- Puzzle, Adventure, Visual Novel
- Where to get it
- Website
How it feels
A rich visual novel weaving eight interconnected lives in Shibuya across five days, told through live-action photographs and branching choices.
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About
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.
Screenshots
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