428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de

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428: Shibuya Scramble
Original title 428 〜 封鎖 さ れ た 渋 谷 で 〜
transcription 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de
Studio Chunsoft
Abstraction Games (PS4 / PC)
Publisher Sega (Wii)
Spike (PS3 / PSP / iOS)
Spike Chunsoft (PS4 / PC)
Senior Developer Kōichi Nakamura
composer Hideki Sakamoto
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 December 4, 2008
platform Android , Nintendo Wii , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation Portable , iOS , Microsoft Windows , Linux , macOS , PlayStation 4
genre Visual novel
Game mode Single player
Age rating
USK released from 12

428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de ( Japanese 428 〜 封鎖 さ れ た 渋 谷 で 〜 , for example "428: In the sealed off Shibuya ") or 428: Shibuya Scramble is a Japanese adventure game from 2008. It was developed by Chunsoft .

action

A great event that is shaking the world has been triggered in the streets of Shibuya. Five main characters have ten hours to get together and solve what at first appears to be a common kidnapping case. The five main characters are distributed over initially separate sub-stories, which are brought together in the course of the game:

  • Policeman Kano monitors a ransom delivery at the beginning.
  • The writer Minorikawa is called by his former supervisor from his time as a journalist and asked to help with the completion of a magazine issue.
  • The former gangster and current street sweeper Achi saves a girl in a robbery.
  • The virologist Osawa receives mysterious emails pointing to secret experiments in the laboratory he runs.
  • Tama works as an advertising figure in a cat costume and advertises a slimming drink to passers-by.

Game principle and technology

428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de is a visual novel . The game is shown as text, supported by graphics, occasional animations and background music. At central points in the action, the player can use multiple choice to decide how the action should continue. The storylines branch out like a playbook . 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de has a total of 85 different endings.

reception

Meta-ratings
Database Rating
Metacritic 85

428: Shibuya Scramble received almost exclusively positive reviews. The Metacritic review database aggregates 19 reviews to a mean of 85. It was the ninth game to be rated 40/40 by Famitsu magazine . At the Japan Game Awards 2009 it received an "Award of Excellence".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Destructoid.com: 428 - The greatest experiment in non-linear story telling. Retrieved May 30, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Metacritic.com: 428: Shibuya Scramble. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ https://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/for-famitsu-428-equals-40/
  4. ↑ Gamespot.com: MGS4, Mario Kart Wii honored at Japan Game Awards. Retrieved May 31, 2017 .