Twilight Syndrome Tansaku-Hen Explained, Rumour 03: The Last Train

Twilight Syndrome, it’s an incredibly intriguing series of games that stars young high schoolers, as they investigate rumors of paranormal phenomena like young people do in real life, and the rumors are often based on real life urban legends, and to make it really interesting, the cases that these young people investigate somehow often makes them realise something about themselves or involves themselves in some way, and they’re incredibly well told stories that unlike a lot of other horror games, really nail…. Tension.
These games can build up to a confrontation like it’s nobody’s business, to the point that there is rarely if ever, any actual supernatural happening appearing on screen, but you feel it. You’re right there with the people investigating, and as they get more and more tense, so do you, and that’s an incredible feat for games that are just glorified walking simulators.
They’re the kind of games that I would beg people to play, because these almost 30 year old pieces of media, do things with storytelling in games that modern games could learn a lot from, and just experiencing them is an event and an incredibly immersive experience.
Unfortunately they’re in Japanese, they never really sold all that well to my knowledge, they’ve never received a fan translation, and the sort of creator of them, Suda51, is uninterested in localizing them or even releasing them on modern platforms for Japanese audiences, because according to him, Western audiences will find some of the content objectionable, which.. yeah, probably, but we’ll get to that, and they aren’t really his games, since he was only brought into the project of the first one, well into development because previous director was moved to other projects, which in the Japanese gaming world ususally means that he pissed away the teams time and money and didn’t get shit done but had a pretty good contract so they couldn’t outright sack him…. Which was exactly what happened, as Suda was brought into salvage the project when only 3 of the 10 planned scenarios were done, with only 3 months left until the project was supposed to be finished.
Whether or not the game made its original release is unknown, but when Suda came in, he quickly split the project into 2 releases as it wasn’t gonna fit on one disc anyways, and he expanded the 10 scenarios or rather, investigations, to be much bigger than they originally were, and on the 1st of march we got the first half of the duology released.
So sit back and relax, and let me for probably the first time in English, Take you on a journey through Twilight Syndrome: Tansaku-hen aka Search

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