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Sound Novel: Machi

Machi is a story of 8 unrelated protagonists, all with their own problems and objectives, all living in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Japan. The story spans 5 in-game days and is told through a huge number of…

22 January 1998

Sound Novel: Machi is an adventure developed by Chunsoft, released 22 January 1998 on Sega Saturn.

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What Sound Novel: Machi is

Sound Novel: Machi is an adventure game developed by Chunsoft and released in 1998. It is available on Sega Saturn only. It runs on TrueMotion.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Machi is a story of 8 unrelated protagonists, all with their own problems and objectives, all living in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Japan. The story spans 5 in-game days and is told through a huge number of live-action still photographs. Each of the protagonists lead a completely different story that even defies genres. The player must play all of the stories in parallel, jumping across different protagonists, and backtracking to re-select branches which not only affect the active protagonist, but also other protagonists through often bizarre twists of causality.
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

Sound Novel: Machi launched on 22 January 1998, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Xenogears, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and Resident Evil 2.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Xenogears, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Resident Evil 2.

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When did Sound Novel: Machi come out?
Sound Novel: Machi was released on 22 January 1998 for Sega Saturn.

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