Kamaitachi no Yoru
Kamaitachi no Yoru is a sound novel developed and published by Chunsoft. The game was first released on November 25, 1994 for the Super Famicom. It was also ported to the Playstation and Gameboy Advance It became available on the Virtual Console in February, 2007 for 800 Wii Points. The story-line was written by Takemaru Abiko and production was directed by Kazuya Asano and Koichi Nakamura.
Kamaitachi no Yoru was the second sound novel developed by Chunsoft, and its popularity brought a myriad of other companies to develop similar games. The term "sound novel" was originally a registered trademark of Chunsoft, but is now regarded as a whole genre of its own.
The game revolves around Toru and his girlfriend Mari, who are suddenly drawn into a horrible murder mystery while on vacation at a skiing lodge. The first part of the games develops as a crime-solving adventure.
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DeveloperChunsoft
ReleasedDecember 25, 1994
StatusReleased
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About This Game
University student Toru heads to the mountain ski pension Spool in Nagano with his girlfriend Mari, hoping the trip will bring them closer. The pension fills up with guests during a blizzard: part-timers Toshio Kubota and Midori Shinozaki, three office workers named Kanako, Aki, and Keiko, a Kansai boss and his wife Kayama, freelance photographer Yosuke Mikimoto, and a sunglasses-wearing man named Ichiro Tanaka who keeps conspicuously to himself.
After dinner, a note appears in the office workers' room: Tonight at midnight, someone will die. It is dismissed as a bad joke. Before nine o'clock, the sound of breaking glass draws people upstairs—where Tanaka's room holds a dismembered body, an open broken window, and no sign of the killer. The blizzard has cut off the roads and phone lines, sealing everyone inside. With the police unreachable and a murderer still among them, the survivors must identify the killer before more bodies appear.