
This ported edition of Baroque Syndrome presents the visual novel depicting the events before the main Baroque story. Play as Kitsune, owner of the Baroque Shop, and experience a branching narrative shaped by your choices. Fonts, stills, animations, and UI have been remastered for smoother play.
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This is a ported version of Baroque Syndrome, a visual novel of hallucination and delusion originally released in 2000, based on BAROQUISM▲SYNDROME—a novel depicting the “pre-Baroque history” of the world of Baroque, before the Great Heatwave occurred.
You play as Kitsune, the protagonist, who runs a new kind of business called the “Baroque Shop,” healing people who have been consumed by distorted delusions known as “Baroques” by creating the fantasies they desire.
This is a branching, surreal, dark visual novel in which the story changes depending on the choices you make throughout your progression.
As you move forward, various decisions will appear, and the direction of the scenario shifts according to your selections.
In other words, the outcome of the story is entirely in your hands—the hands of the player.
Fonts, CG stills, animations, and various other elements have been remastered, with parts of the UI updated for Steam.
Save slots expanded to 20, allowing you to preserve your favorite scenes.
Toggle between skip-read, skip-all, and auto-play modes.
A log function lets you review any lines you may have missed.
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Languages: Japanese
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SS版とPS版バロックをクリアしてしまって、ちょうど今バロックを…自分のバロックを探していたので助かりました 『BAROQUE(バロック)』の前日譚となるゲーム 詳しく言うと大熱波が起こる前の話 大熱波が起こる前なので、本編より歪みの影響は少なめです もしバロック本編をプレイするか悩んでいるのなら遊んでみてほしい 分岐によって展開が大きく変わります 1ルート2時間前後 既読スキップがあるので、全ルートは意外と時間はかかりません 全ルート得られる情報が違うので、是非とも全ルートクリアをしてほしい 不可解ながらも支離滅裂でなくハッキリした歪んだ妄想"バロック"を抱えた人物に、都合の良い世界を文字というカタチで提供するバロック屋…を営む主人公が、不思議な出来事に巻き込まれていくストーリー 感覚球…天使…異形。そしてタランテラのメロディ。 もしこの単語に魅かれるものや聞き覚えがあるなら遊んでみましょう バロックという作品に興味があるなら遊んでみましょう
I bought BAROQUE SYNDROME on Steam to support Sting, despite already having it on PS1. I hope this encourages them to publish more of their titles here. Even if they don't localize them, many international fans can read Japanese and are eager to buy these classics!
[i]Baroque: Distorted pearls. A style of art that once prevailed. Disharmony, excess, confusion. Once upon another time. Age means change. Meanings change with age. This is the age of Great Heat. This is the world it destroyed. Baroque: Distorted delusions is the age of Great Heat. This is the world it destroyed. Baroque: Distorted delusions. In this land of devastation, don't let go of your illusions. Should you hope to survive, hold Baroque inside. Hold Baroque inside.[/i] ---------------------------- This is a Visual Novel that serves as a prequel to Baroque, it was first released on PS1 and later ported to Android/iOS. Unfortunately this is Japanese only, hopefully we can get an official or fan translation made available at some point. The price point is great, it has achievement support, and the music/visuals are fantastic. This is truly a classic series that I love seeing on Steam, hopefully Baroque follows. (The above copy is from the Saturn release of Baroque, I just felt like including it)
I was so trilled to see this game on here randomly as I didn't think that there would be many classic Sound Novel ports on Steam. Like a lot of Sound Novels from this era, you have multiple scenarios contained in one longer narrative and you make dialogue choices that effect what branches you take. Also, you have to beat the game several times to unlock more dialogue choices which change the scenarios (I think sometimes it's pre-determined at the start of the game what major story you're going to have) and flesh out more parts of the world and scenario so the replay value is pretty high. It's a mobile port unfortunately so the controls are atrocious if you use a keyboard and the buttons are fixed, so thank you for controller and mouse support. The only downside (not for me since I'm fluent in Japanese) is that it's only in Japanese so it's pretty limited in reach as to how many people can play the game and enjoy the story. I don't know why they put a Japanese only release on an majority English speaking platform, but I get that it would cost them too much money to translate compared to the expected return on such a niche genre, so it was probably cheaper to just clean up the game and plop it out as is. That being said I'm still grateful for the release, loving it all over again and if you ever decide to translate the game give me a call XD
pretty good so far i had just made it to chapter 2 with the help of google translate on my phone i REALLY hope that it gets proper English translation or a fan made mod is made but who know overall i gotta say this game is great 10/10
每次听タランテラのメロディ,眼前都会浮现出那个在水中长出天使翅膀的女孩子,那就是,属于我和她两个人的巴洛克…… 《バロックシンドローム》的剧情改编自《バロック》发售前在杂志上刊载的前传小说,作为《バロック》的衍生作,《バロックシンドローム》和《バロック》的氛围相差很多,在一些地方的设定甚至和《バロック》有冲突,或许当作一个独立的短篇来体验会不错……游戏的剧情并不算特别出色,高清修复痕迹还特别严重,但是我很感动,也很喜欢其中的年代感以及バロック所代表的意义。 Sting,什么时候把本篇也做个移植……?
This visual novels adapts the original Baroque Prequel stories "BAROQUISM▲SYNDROME" and "Baroque Interludium". It wasn't made by the original author so it leads to conflicting lore with the "Baroque (1998)" game for the Sega Saturn. However the remake of the original Baroque (the 2007 version) does follow this adaptation, so if you want to get into that, then do give this a read. It's a shame it's only in Japanese and there is no English translation. I bought it to support the developers in hopes to get a proper translation. So please Sting, make it happen <3
Nice game, doesn’t take long to finish, Interesting story and visual, I’d recommend to anyone who’s into other BAROQUE games or a fan of dark VNs. Alas, there is no english release yet, hopefully one day, but as for now, you can find translations of the PS1 game somewhere on the web
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