Iwaihime
Iwaihime (祝姫, Iwaihime) is a Japanese horror visual novel written by Ryukishi07. Unlike his other games, Iwaihime uses ADV style, as opposed to Ryukishi07's typical NVL style and is not published under 07th Expansion. The game was released on January 29, 2016. On September 7, 2017, a port for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita was released under the name Iwaihime: Matsuri (祝姫 -祀) by Nippon Ichi Software. This port included the additional arc, Musubihime.
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| 祝姫 (Iwaihime) | |
| Author | Ryukishi07 |
| Publisher | DMM ShiraVN (EN) |
| Genre | Horror |
| Platform | Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita |
| Released | January 29, 2016 September 27, 2017 (Matsuri) October 23, 2020 (EN) |
On October 23, 2020, an English release of Iwaihime was added to Steam.
Premise
It is said that each generation, upon reaching a certain age, all boys of the Susuharai family leave home and become independent. Then, relying only on themselves, they train body and soul until they are accepted as adults. And so I prepared myself for this day, learning a great many things so I'd be ready to live on my own.
Susuda Prefectoral High School. My new school. Originally, I planned to enter in first year rather than transfer in second year. Life at school is carefree, and even pleasant. Everyone has a great time in class 2-A. There's just... her, Toe Kurokami. "Weird" doesn't begin to describe her. Always holding that Japanese doll against her chest, never letting go for a second. Some whisper it is a cursed doll, whose hair grows when no one is looking. But it's just an uncanny doll, with nothing special about it. Yet, perhaps my meeting that girl was fate... No, it was fate.[1]
Gameplay
Two menu options are locked upon starting the game.
Plot
Noroihime: Curse Princess
High school junior Suzumu Susuhara transfers to a new school in Susuda, meeting up with his distant relative Tsubakiko Harumiya. Upon joining class 2-A, Susuhara learns of the troubled existence of Toé Kurokami, a quiet girl who always carries a Japanese doll in her hands. Classroom rumors indicate that she is cursed, though Susuhara is quick to dismiss these.
While Susuhara is asleep, an unrelated narrator named Yuuto Akagawa tells the story of his time being bullied in high school, culminating in Akagawa making a contract with a demon to take revenge on his bullies. Owing to the effects of a monkey's paw, Akagawa is kicked to death by his bullies until his body is a deformed lump of flesh.
Some time later, Susuhara attempts to befriend Kurokami, though Harumiya warns him against doing so. After saving Kurokami from the delinquent Sho Kamenuma, Susuhara begins to experience strange dreams involving an amorphous blob of flesh. When the blob maims Kurokami and Susuhara in the dream, the two awaken in the real world with significant injuries.
Susuhara goes to the hospital to tend to sore joints, owing to his experience in the dream. While in the waiting room, he finds Kurokami being pushed in a wheelchair by her father. As he attempts to reach out to her, the two are again pulled into a dream world. The pair discover that Kamenuma has been pulled into the dream as well. The blob of flesh reappears, crushing Kamenuma and further wounding Susuhara. When Susuhara awakens back in the hospital waiting room, Kurokami abruptly stands from her wheelchair and slices open his neck with a box cutter before doing the same to her own neck.
Susuhara awakens in a hospital bed, happy to have survived Kurokami's attack and escaped the violent dreams. When he looks outside, he finds the town on fire.
Maboroshihime: Illusion Princess
Kanae Minobe has a dream taking place in world akin to Alice in Wonderland. In the dream, Kanae (under the name of Elice) faces off against a large man named the Ssech King in a spin-off of chess, named ssech. In order to put more pieces on the ssechboard, Elice has to have her partner, Mr. Rabbit, remove her body parts with torture implements. While her body parts are removed, Elice attempts to refrain from screaming or acknowledging the pain but ultimately fails.
Kanae awakens from her dreamt o find Suzumu Susuhara in front of her.
See also
References
- ↑ "First Image of New Ryukishi07 Game". Archived from the original on 24 August 2016.