#return to shironagasu Island

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●シロナガス島への帰還　池田戦　出雲崎ねね子

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You know, it’s been a long time coming, but after playing the game twice, I think it’s appropriate to say.

Danganronpa fans: You should be playing Return to Shironagasu Island!!!!

Seriously.

Okay, this is a two dollar visual novel on Steam currently that is also being ported as a fully voice VN to the Switch as well.

What’s it about? Well, to put it simply, this game follows a detective named Sen Ikeda and his neurotic assistant, Neneko, as the two are called to an island to investigate why an invitation caused a man to take his own life. Upon arriving to the prestigious island with other eccentric and questionable guests, Ikeda and Neneko soon realize that the place is steeped in one hell of a bloody history and that they won’t be leaving anytime soon.

Okay, but for realsies, this game is great to play for lots of reasons. But the first of them is Neneko. She was pretty much made for the average Danganronpa fan to sink their teeth into, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A TOKO FUKAWA FAN!!!

Neneko is like the creator of the VN played DR THH and kinned Toko Fukawa so hard that he had to make an entire mystery game around her and also give her a rich bitch girl love interest (sort of) to actually like her back:

The characters are incredibly fun, the story is alluring, comedic, frightening, and it all comes together for one hell of a dramatic and heartwarming ending for the main characters.

However! A few trigger warnings: Occasional Jumpscares (they’re very mild, but it does have horror tones), human trafficking, violence, blood, guts in jars, the worst men on earth die some pretty violent deaths, torture, and a partial crossdressing plot point (honestly it didn’t come off as transphobic or anything since the main character assumes the character crossdressing is either possibly trans or just enjoys it and is like “Oh hey that’s cool. If you ever have any problems, just talk to me. I’ve met all kinds of people in my line of work.” But I am not trans so I can’t make that call for any of you, so be aware). Oh and some times sequences… but they’re pretty inconsequential. There are a few anime tropes here and there that get a tad “Ughhh…” but nothing too overbearing.

It’s just really done well as a small game and it has everything I love. OH AND ITS TWO DOLLARS ON STEAM!!!!

GO! GO PLAY IT! I’ll stream it often enough if ya can’t, but seriously this game is a total Diamond in the Rough and deserves more attention!

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Mae plays Return to Shironagasu Island

Hi,

So, I've neglected this blog a little, not for any particular reason though. I've still been playing a lotta games, a wide variety of games lately. I was planning to write about the Parascientific Escape series. It's a cool mix of visual novel and escape room, but as fun as it was and as much as I enjoyed the series, it's simply too rough and unpolished to recommend. So, in the end I didnt write about it.

I guess that relates to the other reason I've neglected this blog, I play a lot of games, and I often enjoy them and thinking about them, but theres no great impetus or need to write about em. So, I guess thatss the purpose of this blog, to write down my thoughts abouf games and to recommend decent or interesstng oness.

That brings us to today's game, Return to Shironagasu Island. Its a visual novel horror game with mystery elements. It was developed by Hyogo Onimushi. You play Sen Ikeda, a private detectve working in New York. He is hired to investigate a suicide and goes to Shironagasu Island to investigate. He takes his friend/assistant Neneko with him. She's a weird otaku type girl, who looks and acts pretty similar to Kuroki from Watamote. i.e She's plagued with crippiliing social anxiety the entire time. Unlike Kuroki though she has a photographic memory and is often vital in the investigation.

The game's strongest draw is the central mystery of Shironagasu Island. It's satisfying to watch it unfold. There's a neat cast of characters with their own motivations and its fun to puzzle out.

There's not really much more I can say about the game without giving too much away.

Gameplay consists of advancing dialogue, choosing dialogue options and clicking on things of interest. Standard point n click stuff. There are a few unique areas of gameplay, but again that'd be spoiling it. Honestly, its impressive how much the developer manages to achieve with only text and a some nice cg's. It's worth checkiing out for sure, I even wrote this blog post about it afterall.

There are some things I'd change, its often necessary to click the same thing multiple times and its not always clear how to progress. There are also a few possible game-overs if you pick the wrong choice, but these don't really feel impactful nor do they affect the experience besides making you reload and try a different choice.

I'd really like to discuss it with people who have played it, that's one of the best parts of video games. So if this post interests you, you can find all the possiible places to get the game on its offiical websiite below

Official Website

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Review: Return to Shironagasu Island

Disclaimer: this game is not a yuri visual novel and may contain some male-gaze elements in addition to being a violent horror-mystery game

Played: Completed the true ending but have not seen all of the bad endings (sorry, my heart is too weak) and have not played the extra after story (beach episode?) yet — apprx. 8 hours so far

A detective from New York investigates a secluded island with his special assistant. He soon becomes entangled in ominous secrets and the investigation of an inexplicable murder.

Story

Solid mystery writing with foreshadowing carefully dropped for the reader. Although not all of the characters were developed to the same extent, I did find myself growing fond of the main cast.

The twists near the end were a bit weird but overall engaging and exciting!

As a weakling who can't do horror, I also appreciated how well they telegraphed the jump-scares. (Not that I was looking at that point)

At some points, you'll be able to tell this is a JP-EN translation, but if you've ever watched fansubbed anime, I don't think this will be too big of an issue?

Art

Indie but charming. There's a lot of CGs, which help illustrate the scenes well, and the BGs definitely let you get an understanding of the locations, especially the creepy island.

The textbox grows on you, and the text readability is very good!

Top tier key visual; need some of that in my life. (The KV is what made the game catch my eye in the first place)

Music

Scary music makes my heart go whoosh Σ(°△°|||)︴

For the most part, music was well chosen to set the mood for scenes.

Gameplay

I'm not a big fan of QTEs and point-and-click in general, but it was alright. The scenes for QTEs were well chosen, but the point-and-click could've been more polished.

Yuri

Not yuri, but Akira could totally be a girl magnet if she wanted to.

Rating: Enjoyed, recommend

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Return to Shironagasu Island

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please read return to shironagasu island.

👀 seems up my alley...i will check it out!!!

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ck2cartoon is the bakaraposter!

...and in finding this again i realized the blog post about how to watch it with japanese subtitles was by illustrator and indie game developer onimushi hyogo of return to shironagasu island, who also did fanart of bakara

every time toskarin reblogs the horrible sexpervert alcoholic elf animation i think it's pattadol dungeonmeshi and that led me to look it up and realize that pattadol dungeonmeshi first appeared three years after the movie the horrible sexpervert elf is from

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return to shironagasu island is so fucking underrated 

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Mystery visual novel Return to Shironagasu Island will launch for Switch on November 17 in Japan for 2,480 yen, according to listings at retailers such as Biccamera and Neowing.

The Switch version will feature a fully voiced main scenario and extra scenario. As previously announced, its full voice cast is as follows:

Neneko Izumozaki (voiced by Yuka Iguchi)

Ada Higgins (voiced by Sayaka Ohara)

Akira Edgworth (voiced by Kaori Ishihara)

Gisele Reed (voiced by Shizuka Ito)

Riehl Bextor (voiced by Rie Tanaka)

Jacob Rutland (voiced by Hiroki Touchi)

Thomas Harrington (voiced by Akihiko Ishizumi)

Alex Werner (voiced by Yuu Kobayashi)

Aurora Lavilla (voiced by Ai Kayano)

Vincent Swift (voiced by Jouji Nakata)

Abigail Ellison (voiced by Konomi Kohara)

Norman North (voiced by Hiroaki Hirata)

Wizards and miscellaneous (voiced by Mitsuaki Kanuka)

Florina and miscellaneous (voiced by Akiko Nakagaw)

Roy Higgins and miscellaneous (voiced by Yuuki Fujino)

Charles J. Werner and miscellaneous (voiced by Masayuki Kato)

Return to Shironagasu Island first launched for PC via Steam on March 2, 2020. It supports English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and German language options. The new version will also be available for PC.

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Return to Shironagasu Island.

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よし、買う

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Return to Shironagasu Island