Hyaku Monogatari: Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi
Description
Its sub-title translated as True Scary Stories, Hyaku Monogatari is a video game homage to the parlour game Hyaku Monogatari Kaidankai, which was popular during the Edo period (17th - middle of 19th century) in Japan. The game involved gathering at night, lighting a hundred candles and telling horror stories, extinguishing the candles one by one until the room became completely dark.
The game contains a hundred horror stories told in a linear fashion through text, digitized photos and sound effects. Most of the stories are very short and non-interactive. The exceptions usually involve visual novel-like choices of locations or responses to situations, which sometimes affect the story's conclusion. A recurrent episode involves visiting various locations in Tokyo area and reviewing criminal cases and ghost stories.
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- 百物語 ~ほんとにあった怖い話~ - Japanese spelling
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Trivia
Junji Inagawa
The game was supervised by the Japanese TV personality and actor Junji Inagawa, whose digitized photo also makes an appearance in the game as part of one of the stories.
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Game added by Unicorn Lynx.
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Game added January 22, 2012. Last modified October 29, 2024.