Basically, all the elements that make this game special - real-life photos (often wacky), an offbeat sense of humor, and intricately branching stories - originated from Machi, and I hope that when the time comes for a follow-up article, Spike Chunsoft (or anyone) will have made another miracle happen. Localizing all of them is a huge ask, but I would nudge Spike Chunsoft toward Machi, 428’s spiritual ancestor. Speaking of sound, 428 is actually part of the Sound Novel series, a string of text adventures that have largely remained Japan-exclusive. With the success of Danganronpa and Zero Escape, I have to assume the decision to bring this over was sound. Yet almost a decade later, we almost randomly got this obscure Nintendo Wii visual novel on PlayStation 4 and PC, courtesy of Spike Chunsoft. I knew of it, but I’d filed it away as one of those impossible translations that would never, ever happen. 428: Shibuya Scramble was, for a long time, just a curious outlier on the list of games that Famitsu scored a perfect 40 out of 40.
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