Hyaku Monogatari: Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi

Moby ID: 54446

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.

Spellings

  • 百物語 ~ほんとにあった怖い話~ - Japanese spelling

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Director (ディレクター)
Planning & Design (企画・演出)
Visual Director (映像監督)
Art Director (美術監督)
Program (プログラム)
Photography (撮影)
Visual Effects (特殊合成)
Illusion Images (幻想絵画・原画)
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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 February 22, 2023.