Square Enix blends horror and video games in Nanashi no Game

By Spencer . April 25, 2008 . 1:33pm

After playing a cursed game that kills people in week the university student protagonist in Nanashi no Game (Nameless Game / The Game Without a Name) is doomed. Before the curse spreads, you get to pick your gender. Then you have to crack the mystery while spending your remaining days in fear. The plot borrows heavily from the Ring, but one twist bumps up the immersion factor. You actually play the cursed game.

Square Enix blends horror and video games in Nanashi no Game images

The cursed game is a Dragon Quest-like RPG, an amusing choice considering Square Enix’s background. When you play the cursed game you hold the DS horizontally.

Square Enix blends horror and video games in Nanashi no Game images

When you explore the real world you hold the DS in book style while you read text and interact with the notably darker world. Nanashi no Game comes out on July 3^rd in Japan. It’s too early to know if Square Enix will release this in any other region.

Images courtesy of Square Enix.

TAGS: Nanashi no Game, Nintendo DS, Square Enix

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Mazen

I would buy this game just for the retro RPG.

EvilAkito

Looks creepy. I hope it gets localized. And I wonder if the killer game will actually be a full-fledged retro RPG that you can play at your leisure? That would certainly be cool.

Aoshi00

Will Sadako jump out of that well on the Dragon Quest-like game screen :)? Not sure about the dying in a week The Ring premise, but I could dig a good horror visual novel (I'm too much of a scaredy cat to play Siren, lol..)

Nika

sounds interesting, I hope the 'cursed game' and the in game world are intertwined somehow. like having to play the game to proceed or get hints to what to do next.