Com­pany: Nitro+
Sce­nario: 虚淵玄 (Urobuchi Gen) (Puella Magi Madoka Mag­ica, Saya no Uta, Fate/Zero)
Art­work: 中央東口 (Chu­uou Higashiguchi) (Saya no Uta)
Pub­lish Date: May 27, 2011

Price: 4,620 yen

Home­page: www.nitroplus.co.jp/game/kikokugai/

Hope­fully by now every­body knows the name of Urobuchi Gen.  His gain of fame after a cer­tain plot twist in a cer­tain mag­i­cal girl anime is almost leg­endary, and then his pop­u­lar­ity reached a new high for his other work, Fate/Zero became ani­mated.  As a fan of both anime and Saya no Uta, Kikoku­gai became a must-play for me.  Yet due to I’m not good at han­dling old games, the thought of read­ing the visual novel made in 2003 always made me hes­i­tate… Luck­ily, the Kikoku­gai received a remake in 2011 in wake Urobuchi’s (and Nitro+‘s) popularity.

Even though the remake is no longer R-18, this clas­sic still retains the dark­ened attrac­tive­ness of a hard-boiled cyber­punk dystopian tale of revenge.

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