"Rain98" In 1998, he colluded with the Downer Girl to realize the "end of the century, the destruction of humanity" now. An adventure game in which the rain plays a pleasant sound of ruin [BitSummit the 13th]

 

I feel like it's been a long time since I've experienced being fascinated by the facial expressions of the heroines of the game. The heroine is "Rena Amahara (voiced by Rio Tsuchiya)" who appears in the psychological suspense and romance adventure game "Rain98".

This work will be exhibited at "BitSummit the 13th" being held at Miyako Messe in Kyoto on July 18 (Fri.), 19 (Sat.), and 20 (Sun.), 2025 (SV-10, Ukiyo Studioes booth). This is the first playable exhibit in Japan.

* There are scenes in this work that are reminiscent of suicide.

When you start playing the game, the main character wakes up in the room of a mysterious girl. The girl was about to hang herself, but she seems to have been dissuaded, perhaps because she felt that she had been watered down by the protagonist who suddenly appeared.

The main character is supposed to be living in the year 2025, but the TV in the girl's room is a thick cathode ray tube TV. The news reports on the "employment ice age" of 1998. Apparently, it seems that he has traveled back in time for some reason......?

While exchanging such details, the depiction changes in various ways, such as the girl starting to smoke a cigarette and staring at us with a sharp gaze that seems to shoot. The basic flow is like an orthodox novel game, but there seems to be no such thing as a generic "standing picture", and each scene shows the moment when she will look most beautiful.

Did you believe in time slips or not? In an unclear tone, he asked, "What will the world look like in the future?" The girl asks the protagonist, to which the protagonist replies, "Humans are still at war, inequality is increasing, and environmental destruction is continuing."

And the girl suggests: "Then let's destroy such a future, with me," he ....... Outside the room, a gloomy rain continues to fall, and the decadent mood is colored by the sound of Lo-Fi.

This girl who somehow let the main character, who has no place to go, stay at home (* However, she wakes up in the bathroom). Her name is Rena.

Instead of staying overnight, the main character is instructed to clean the dirty room.

Once this is achieved, Rena puts one sticker on her notebook.

And when 100 stickers are put on the notebook, Rena says that she will get the "energy to destroy the world".

In a sense, Rena says something more outrageous than going back in time. However, if you have had a conversation with her gaze so far, there should be no shortage of people who want to bet on her proposal.

"Wouldn't it be better if this world were destroyed?" I

think there are many people who feel this way every day in this day and age, where things keep happening and we are made acutely aware every day how unprogressive humanity is.

I think that by surrendering to fiction that affirms our catastrophic desires for a short time, we can feel that we should try to live in this world a little longer.

Although it is misspelled, many people may have associated it with "Serial Experiments Lain" from the title, and "Perfect Blue", one of the masterpieces of the late anime writer Satoshi Ima."Rain98" was also influenced by such as.

This game may be trying to give the player the "healing" that can only be given by setting the game at the end of the century, before people were keenly aware that "everyday life goes on."

By the way, most of the parts that I was able to try out this time were novel games, but after this, you can enjoy a wider variety of gameplay, such as mini-games using "portable pet breeding games" similar to those that took the world by storm at that time.

If you're looking forward to a release in 2025, don't forget to add it to your wishlist and wait for that day.