428: Shibuya Scramble

Genuinely a must-play game. There's so many things about this game that just transforms it into one of my favorite gaming experiences. The story I love to bits, and how it masterfully connects each route with each other is amazing to me. The plot blew my mind multiple times--although there is some obvious stuff, there's some really brain twisters that make you just go "Wow!" and an underrated part of this game to me is how each route (for the beginning for the most part) has it's own "mood." Some (way) more comedic than others, some (WAY) more horrific than others, it really makes the routes unique in a way. Also this game has one of my favorite antagonist of all time, they really surprise you almost every single time, and I just like their attitude towards the events as well. Another thing I really like is the abundance of side characters, it really fleshes out the world of Shibuya, even the ones that aren't really important, still do a great job of "existing," and feeling real. Also you just learn a lot about certain things, the flavor text they provide atleast try to help me understand certain topics that I'm not the most knowledgeable about, very useful part of the game. The only real critiques I can give is for the extra content, I just really wish they made it slightly more explicit on what to do to unlock certain things, the few minor spelling mistakes, and then the nitpick of when the narration says a character is crying but the actor isn't just kinda throws me off. But seriously this is a game that I feel everyone should atleast try out, there's real heart put into this project in every part of it, and the live action really amplifies and enhances this game, truly a unique experience that will definitely stay with me. (P.S. <3 Chiaki Iso!)

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非常棒的设计，优秀的剧情量，恰到好处的节奏把控 可惜感觉玩家选择的影响力投射的不明显导致有点不好玩，微瑕

把蝴蝶效应诠释的淋漓尽致的一款非常优秀的AVG，开始可能会觉得节奏有些拖沓，但越往后玩越上头，人物刻画个性鲜明，笑点泪点都很好，非常推荐！

超级喜欢小玉！ 大泽线前面太阴间了，夏天可以起到很好的避暑效果，纯被吓的 好可惜没配音，其实是照片，不是影视互动 最后包寿司心理暖暖的 最适合连到电视，拿手柄躺着玩

跟作者剧本意外对的上 很快结局打出来以为结束了 没想到还有这么多隐藏内容，收集全真费劲，尤其是移植的缘故有些按键不是我想的那个，浪费了好多时间在改选项反复过剧情上。因为时间有一阵子了勉强可以用重温安慰自己。以及御法川实我喜欢你♥ 最后，蘑菇写的迦南篇是史。

优秀的真人影像视觉小说，最惊喜的是多线叙事手法和jump机制，节奏把握和群像演出堪称一流。剧情方面有很浓的日剧味道，围绕简单清晰主线进行的同时又穿插许多轻松无厘头的搞笑细节。内容丰富，彩蛋以及支线内容甚至要多于主线部分。全成就收集建议看详细教程，虽不轻松，却一点也不枯燥，85个bad end每一条都有相应的有趣演出。配乐方面也十分贴合游戏氛围，最后主题曲响起才发现难忘的画面如此之多。

Ultra masterpiece of peak storytelling!

Very happy (and slightly guilt-stricken) to finally get around to playing the legendary visual novel/adventure game hybrid that famously earned a perfect score in Famitsu, and then proceeded to remain in Japan for a decade due to a complete lack of a Western market for this type of thing. (Now there's BARELY one.) So does it live up to the hype? Almost entirely. I stepped into the world of Chunsoft adventure games after Uchikoshi decided to get a little nutty with it via the Zero Escape series, so I'm used to the very limited gameplay being a little less limited. Even so, 428 completely won me over with its extremely wholesome cast of completely driven goofballs who all find themselves caught up in a vast conspiracy likely inspired by the Tokyo subway sarin attacks of 1995. As you watch their stories play out via text and photos of real actors—with the rare video clip—you're asked to make decisions that will affect their fate down the line, or the fates of people they haven't yet met. Seeing the end of the story involves working through one hour at a time and gently nudging the various story choices until each character makes it through each 60-minute period unscathed. It's a somewhat unintuitive system, and one that'll take you a few chapters to fully comprehend. Thankfully, you're presented with a comprehensive chart that exhaustively maps out each character's activities across time, and you can use this feature to bounce around between the cast members at will. After investing just five hours into the game, it's easy to see how the effects of certain choices—no matter how small—can ripple out to interfere with someone else's story. Of course, a lot of the fun comes in finding all of the bad endings, because there's no punishment for working yourself into a sometimes-fatal dead end. (In fact, you're rewarded for finding as many as possible.) It's a shame a lot of people aren't going to have the patience to sit and read for 25 hours, because 428 really is the capstone for this very Japanese style of adventure game. And with its complete dependence on photos of real actors—all taken illegally throughout Shibuya—there's a level of ambition here that the genre hasn't matched since the game's original 2008 release date. I'm kicking myself for not playing my still-sealed PS4 copy back in 2018—but on the other hand this means I can sell this extremely rare release and probably buy a small boat.

剧情很精彩，但不能跳过真是太折磨啦！姐姐和记者很对我电波，神经+冷幽默。各个角色塑造在脱线之外也有真实细腻的部分，边打边想：“哦这想法我也会有”，“诶把这种感觉描述得挺到位的嘛”，还有大量搞笑比喻和备注。 ps这个爹真是把人气死，凭啥有这么好的女儿们啊！