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date, the detective.

absolutely ecstatic for AI: the somnium files!

commission me! | buy me a coffee!

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ai the somnium files

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Edit 3

AI: The Somnium Files Trailer Words

This is all I’ve been able to work out so far, but it’s not all that much… Any help would be very much appreciated. EDIT: Thanks @mystical-glider​ for linking me to this twitter post with some more! Updated the post accordingly. Carrotcake403′s ones have been marked with *. Also figured out a couple more myself and numbered them all for convenience based on approximate order of appearance in the video. EDIT 2: 水。on Youtube has also found some, so adding theirs in as well, marked with **!

1. Bloody polar** Bear

2. Childhood Pain Explosion*

3. Abandoned Child

4. Advanced Brain Investigation Squad

5. Bullet wound to the side of shoulder

6. —- —-

7. Wadjet System* (Wadjet being the Egyptian Goddess - thank you to @wickblinkel​ for pointing that out!)

8. Secret society Naikatroz (Japanese)**. Looks more like Naixadoz in English, but either way is not a real word.

9. Serial killer cyclops* (On the AI website, this is listed as Cyclops Serial Killings, possibly a more accurate translation. Thanks @mystical-glider​ again for this!)

10. Prisoner No. 89

11. Endorphin Oxytocin*

12. Exciting Voltaic* Versatile Gun

13. Generalized Amnesia

14. Geostationary Satellite X00639*

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The Somnium Files Website Lives

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its that time where my brain obsesses over potentially pointless details

Keep reading

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For 6 you’re definitely right, but I’ve asked several people and gotten a lot of (often different) answers as to what it could read, so until I can get a conclusive sentence, I’m hesitant to write anything down in case it is a misreading due to the lack of clarity in the picture. Thank you though!

As for 12, the angle I got that picture from isn’t actually the clearest - the phrase shows up earlier in the video far clearer, but only the last 2 and a half words. Because of that I chose the later appearance, but in the first one:

The word being Versatile is much easier to see. I agree that it’s pretty ambiguous in the second angle though.

AI: The Somnium Files Trailer Words

This is all I’ve been able to work out so far, but it’s not all that much… Any help would be very much appreciated. EDIT: Thanks @mystical-glider for linking me to this twitter post with some more! Updated the post accordingly. Carrotcake403′s ones have been marked with *. Also figured out a couple more myself and numbered them all for convenience based on approximate order of appearance in the video. EDIT 2: 水。on Youtube has also found some, so adding theirs in as well, marked with **!

1. Bloody polar** Bear

2. Childhood Pain Explosion*

3. Abandoned Child

4. Advanced Brain Investigation Squad

5. Bullet wound to the side of shoulder

6. —- —-

7. Wad jet System*

8. Secret society Naikatroz (Japanese)**. Looks more like Naixadoz in English, but either way is not a real word.

9. Serial killer cyclops*

10. Prisoner No. 89

11. Endorphin Oxytocin*

12. Exciting Voltaic* Versatile Gun

13. Generalized Amnesia

14. Geostationary Satellite X00639*

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Updated version!

AI: The Somnium Files Trailer Words

This is all I’ve been able to work out so far, but it’s not all that much… Any help would be very much appreciated. EDIT: Thanks @mystical-glider for linking me to this twitter post with some more! Updated the post accordingly. Carrotcake403′s ones have been marked with *. Also figured out a couple more myself and numbered them all for convenience based on approximate order of appearance in the video.

1. Bloody —- Bear

2. Childhood Pain Explosion*

3. Abandoned Child

4. Advanced Brain Investigation Squad

5. Bullet wound to the side of shoulder

6. —- —-

7. Wad jet System*

8. Secret —- —- —

9. Serial killer cyclops*

10. Prisoner No. 89

11. Endorphin Oxytocin*

12. Exciting Voltaic* Versatile Gun

13. Generalized Amnesia

14. Geostationary Satellite X00639*

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please just let them have the father daughter-like relationship please

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AI: The Somnium Files Trailer Words

This is all I’ve been able to work out so far, but it’s not all that much... Any help would be very much appreciated. EDIT: Thanks @mystical-glider​ for linking me to this twitter post with some more! Updated the post accordingly. Carrotcake403′s ones have been marked with *. Also figured out a couple more myself and numbered them all for convenience based on approximate order of appearance in the video. EDIT 2: 水。on Youtube has also found some, so adding theirs in as well, marked with **!

1. Bloody polar** Bear

2. Childhood Pain Explosion*

3. Abandoned Child

4. Advanced Brain Investigation Squad

5. Bullet wound to the side of shoulder

6. ---- ----

7. Wadjet System* (Wadjet being the Egyptian Goddess - thank you to @wickblinkel​ for pointing that out!)

8. Secret society Naikatroz (Japanese)**. Looks more like Naixadoz in English, but either way is not a real word.

9. Serial killer cyclops* (On the AI website, this is listed as Cyclops Serial Killings, possibly a more accurate translation. Thanks @mystical-glider​ again for this!)

10. Prisoner No. 89

11. Endorphin Oxytocin*

12. Exciting Voltaic* Versatile Gun

13. Generalized Amnesia

14. Geostationary Satellite X00639*

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Zero Escape series director Kotaro Uchikoshi’s March 2017-announced Project: Psync is officially titled AI: The Somnium Files and will be released for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via Steam.

Here is an overview of the game, via Spike Chunsoft:

■ Press Release

Specs

Release Date: TBD

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Switch, PC

Players: One player

Genre: Adventure

Languages: English text, Japanese audio / English audio

About the Game

At the Spike Chunsoft Anime Expo panel, Zero Escape series director / scenario writer Kotaro Uchikoshi unveiled AI: The Somnium Files, set for a worldwide release on the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Steam! The game will take place in a more technologically-advanced Tokyo, Japan. The first teaser trailer introduced detective Kaname Date. Yusuke Kozaki (Fire Emblem Awakening, No More Heroes) is the lead character designer for the title.

About the Director

A director and scenario writer, his skills shine in his adventure titles, such as the Zero Escape series (including the award-winning Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors), Punch Line, and Ever17: The Out of Infinity. He is well-known for his unconventional plot twists and offbeat humor and has been actively working on many genres, many games, and many stories.

■ From the Panel

AI: The Somnium Files is a detective adventure game in which you investigate the mystery behind a series of murders in a technologically-advanced modern day Tokyo, Japan.

The game starts out with a bizarre murder case where a body is found with the eye gouged out of the skull. Players take on the role of a detective named Kaname Date on the trail of the serial killer behind this murder. Date’s left eye is an artificial eye with an AI unit within it that he uses to solve crimes.

If Date is investigating a case and finds a key witness or suspect, people will not always give up information freely, so Date can enter their memories and extract information. These memories are kind of like dreamscapes. The latin word for “dream” is “somnium,” so in the game the dreamscapes you enter are called somnium.

Since this is a detective game, there will be a wide cast of characters involved in the mystery. Iris, an 18 year-old high school student, is one of those characters. In the story, she is essentially a YouTuber who makes viral videos where she records herself dancing and singing, as well as Let’s Plays.

The game’s title can be broken down like so:

AI: Artificial Intelligence

Eye: The pronounciation of “AI” and main theme of the game

Love: “Ai” also means “love” in Japanese

Somnium: “Somnium” means “dream” in Latin

Watch the announcement trailer and a message from one of the game’s character’s below. View a piece of artwork at the gallery. Visit the official website here.

Announcement Trailer

Character Message

Watch a message from Iris below (from 52:57 to 53:15).

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RIP Somnium Files Website 2018-2018

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At the beginning of the trailer, the Spike Chunsoft logo is impaled by a pole, which launches the eye (naturally) out of the head and offscreen. The same pole is the one impaling the carousel horses in the shown dreamscape.

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For a few frames at the end of the trailer for AI: The Somnium Files, this screen shows up. The bible verse Mark 9:47 is this:

And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 

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“The man on the moon rules the infinite time”