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Narcissu

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is an experimental work: it uses minimalist graphics in a very narrow window, and includes two full scripts, one accompanied by a voice track, and the other adapted to work without voices. In the English translation, different translators translated each version, to provide different perspectives on
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A young man, 20 years of age. Your typical university student. Attends a technical institute, and has just taken (and passed) his driver's license examination. Lives with his family—a taciturn and unsupportive mother and father and a little sister who only ever has harsh words for him. Has never
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A young woman, 22 years of age. Has a body physique like a child. She has a quiet personality. She loves cars and is knowledgeable about them. She expresses to the protagonist her desire to die neither at the seventh floor of the hospital nor at her
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by Tomo Kataoka, and subsequently localized and translated into English, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese by various fan translators. Unlike most
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are arrangements from other visual novels. 12 of the game's music tracks are accessible on-demand via the in-game jukebox, which is called the "Sound Mode".
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still mislabels the source of Track 4 as "The World is Coming to an W/end", instead of "The world is drawing to an W/end".
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was used instead, as this has been modified to support English. Narcissu has also been ported to the
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really been sick in his entire life. Has never really had much of an aim for his entire life, either.
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The protagonist's name is never given in the first two games, but is revealed to be Yuu Atou
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Chihiro Shinohara is the 21-year-old younger sister of Himeko. She is a devout Christian.
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On a level more familiar to Western audiences, the work has much in common with
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is both stylistically and thematically similar to the opening chapter of
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was released on May 15, 2007 while the third game in the series named
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was released on April 27, 2009. The final game in the series named
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The titles in the following list are based on the Sound Mode of
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on 27 November 2008. Two bound volumes have been released by
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Himeko Shinohara is the protagonist of the 2nd Side prequel.
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games with updated graphics and audio, as well as a new 4th
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young man and woman. It was made with the NScripter engine.
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has been announced. It will include all of the previous
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shortly after his twentieth birthday, and is admitted to
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Yuka Akishima is the 23-year-old best friend of Himeko.
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(Vocals by 173:group Stage-nana, telling the story of a 473: 810: 705:"Narcissus/Setsumi's Theme" (Vocals by 377:Narcissu - moshimo ashita ga aru nara - 332:The original Japanese version uses the 233:belonging to the protagonist's father. 248:as a somewhat arbitrary destination. 7: 365:Narcissu - if there was a tomorrow - 996:Official Japanese Homepage for PSP 180:The work was originally written in 985:Official Japanese Homepage for PC 894:만화가 꿈꾸는 세상! 학산문화사 : 소설 최신간 보기 430:, which is set in medieval Japan. 353:A second game and a prequel named 14: 689:, arranged by Hirofumi Ishihashi) 651:, arranged by Shitoshi Fujimoto) 550:The world is drawing to an W/end 361:Narcissu 3rd - Die Dritte Welt - 449:Several of the music tracks in 280:in various supplementary works. 1104:Video games developed in Japan 553:" (Arranged by Kometto Nekono) 477: 1: 778:started serialization in the 593:, arranged by Kometto Nekono) 571:, lyrics by Tsukasa Umitomi) 169:video game developed by the 751:. 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Index


Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Sekai Project
Designer(s)
Engine
NScripter
ONScripter
Platform(s)
Mac OS X
Linux
Microsoft Windows
Genre(s)
Visual novel
Single player
Japanese
Hepburn
visual novel
dōjin
terminally ill
Japanese
fan translations
True Remembrance

lung cancer
hospice
Mito, Ibaraki
Honda Integra
prefectures
narcissus

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