Root Letter: Last Answer
Root Letter: Last Answer is a Visual Novel, Anime, Detective, and Single-player video game developed by KADOKAWA GAMES Ltd for multiple platforms. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a detective and needs to explore the lost girl named Aya Fumino, who is missing for the last 15 years.
The game offers four different scenarios with different locations and gameplay. The player will discover various clues, pieces of evidence, and must reveal the hidden secrets by investigating the clues deeply. The Max mode allows the player to play with friends altogether, where all the players can interact with each other.
The game has five different endings that depend on the player’s route of investigation. The entire game has two different parts, such as Adventure Part and Simulation Part. The adventure part allows the player to investigate different characters that have a deep relationship with the lost girl, while the simulation part permits the player to play through earlier communications with the girl. Root Letter: Last Answer has core features, such as Two Story Parts, Detective Gameplay, Five Endings, Hidden Secrets, and Four Scenarios.
#1 Raging Loop
Raging Loop is an Anime, Adventure, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game developed by KEMCO. The game takes place in the village of Japan named Yasumizu, where the ancient gods attacked to hunt the villagers, and the main task of the player is to rescue the villagers alive from the gods.
The player takes on the role of a young man named Haruaki Fusaishi and serves for the lives of villagers. The game has multiple endings as every time the player battles against the gods in a different style, and when an NPC dies, it provides some information to the player that a player can investigate to get to advance.
The revelation mode allows the player to explore the inner thoughts of the characters and see insight them to reveal several secrets. A situation in the game comes when the player finds himself in the clutch of an inextricable loop, and escape is impossible, and then the character takes advantage of the information gathered before.
The core features of the game are Ancient Gods, NPC Interaction, Revelation Mode, Inextricable Loop, Pieces of Information, Multiple Endings, Horror Gameplay, and Visual Novel.
#2 428: Shibuya Scramble
428: Shibuya Scramble is an Adventure, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game created by Chunsoft and published by Spike. The game takes place in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo where the story is presented using the combination of scrolling text, video sequences, and live action. It shares many gameplay and story elements with sound novel game Machi, released in 1998 by Chunsoft. In the game, the player partake in several events from the perspectives of a different protagonist, all serving in parallel with no knowledge. The story is set in the modern Japanese city, Tokyo, where characters are involved in the complex mystery that can’t be solved without interaction, and the plot is progressed by following clues discovered within the text of the game and accompanying video sequences. Depending on the choices of the player, several new scenarios become available, which lead the player to different outcomes and endings. There are over eighty-five possible endings, and the game introduces a cast of characters, including Achi Endo, Shinya Kano, Kenji Osawa, and more.