Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan

Hakuoki is a Japanese otome video game series by Idea Factory, first released for the PlayStation 2 on September 18th, 2008 and ported to many other platforms.

18 September 2008

What Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan is

Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan is a visual novel game developed by Design Factory and released in 2008. It was published by Idea Factory. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Bakumatsu period, a gap between the past splendour of the Shogunate era and the modern glamor of the Meiji period, is one of the most violent and intriguing places to start a romance. Chizuru Yukimura has set off for Kyoto to find her missing father, but accidentally gets herself wrapped up in the intrigues of the Shinsengumi, a group of warriors who defends the fading powers of the shogunate. The men in Shinsengumi are not merely fighting Emperor Meiji's forces and the strange demons, they are also hiding a terrible secret. They are hiding something among them.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama, historical and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Hakuoki series

Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan is the first of 7 entries we hold in the Hakuoki series. The next entry was Shall We Date?: Demons' Bond - The Path of Exile in 2012.

See all 7 Hakuoki games in release order →

What it launched against

Hakuoki: Shinsengumi Kitan launched on 18 September 2008, within three weeks of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, Rock Band 2, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and Pokémon Platinum Version.

Released around the same time: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, Rock Band 2, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, Pokémon Platinum Version.

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