ANONYMOUS; CODE is the sixth and most recent entry in the excellent Science Adventure series of surreal (and often extremely bleak) Japanese visual novels. The most famous of the series is Steins;Gate, a tragic story of time travel and otaku living in Akihabara that reduced this normally-stolid reporter to tears multiple times. We got a new trailer, which shows off the kind of meta-level wackiness one can expect in one of these games, detailing the game's "Save & Load + Hacking Trigger" mechanic.
In this world, an incident known only as the Sad Morning disaster occurs, where a coding error leads to the destruction of several major cities around the world, with another such event predicted in the near future by AI super-computer GAIA. The story follows a young hacker named Pollon Takaoka, who has the mysterious ability to save and load moments in time, much in the same way that gamers can load a save state. Further, Pollon believes that you, the player, are a hacker and somehow involved with this mysterious ability.
It's a pretty intriguing setup and one we will likely be diving right into when it arrives on Western PS4s on 8th September. What's your history with the Science Adventure series? Are you looking forward to ANONYMOUS; CODE? Get extremely nerdy in the comments section below.
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Some of these headlines are really hard to read. Have to read them several times.
Will be keeping an eye on this
Really dig the concept. One I’ll be checking out.
Yeah the Science adventure series is great - though wil be weird not to play on the Vita which i feel was a much better fit for visual novels. Steins;gate was one of the best stories i've experienced in any medium.
Steins;gate zero and Chaos;child were also good but not quite as compelling (though chaos;child was genuinely chilling/creepy in parts). Looking forward to checking this one out at some point!
Last year ended with the tragic news of this developer declaring insolvency, so I'll definitely be supporting this game at launch instead of waiting for a sale. The people who made Steins;Gate deserve to keep making what they like for a long, long time.
On a tangential note I'm actually playing Chaos;Head on Steam right now, with the intention of buying Chaos;Child on PS later if I liked the first game. Gotta catch up on the dev's other stuff.
@Gaia093 Youte using the CoZ patch, I hope? I JUST finished that for the first time, moving to Chaos;Child as I’ve experienced Steins;Gate several times!
@dskatter Actually had no idea the game had been rather heavily censored for the Noah release, so I appreciate the heads-up and will install the patch. Thankfully I'm super early into the game (basically the parts where Takumi's with Yua) so I won't have missed out on much.
@Gaia093 Very good place to patch and restart/continue! The bit that was completely removed isn’t til one of the endings, so you’re thankfully not missing any actual content where you are, but I definitely noticed a difference between the CoZ patch on steam and my short time playing my unpatched Switch version.
Enjoy!
@PsBoxSwitchOwner I agree about the headlines. I can usually figure them out after reading the article, but a lot of PushSquare headlines are way too long and convoluted.
They should really consider a new headline format. If they didn’t capitalize every word, or italicize or put quotation marks around game titles, they would be much more legible.
And (I hope he sees this as constructive criticism rather than an attack) I find Khayl’s headlines are usually worse than the other writers. Other writers sometimes use long headlines with more flowery language than is needed, but Khayl’s are just a little bit worse — in my case at least — because I think he might be a bit younger than the others, or just more “online” than others, and more prone to using lingo that me, an old person, doesn’t immediately understand. That’s more a “me” problem than anything else, but I think overall they need to simplify or reformat their headlines to reach a broader audience.
It may also be a cultural difference, this being a British-run site, versus sites with a more North American or international flavour. And I might be overreacting to it, based on taking a few marketing classes, and my experience in retail, where I had to put things in layman’s terms when speaking to customers that might not know more technical or video game-specific language.
And uh… to get more back on topic… I’ve never played one these games before, but I’m interested in trying one someday, to see if I like it — or at the very least try to figure out the reason for their unique use of SEMI;COLONS. 🤪
Incredible how most of the interesting stuff keeps releasing of PS4.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner
I'm curious which part of the headline you found confusing. It reads pretty straightforward for me.
Are all of the science adventure games available on the PS4/PS5? I’ve always wanted to play them but it’s confusing where to start.
@CWill97 Steins;Gate Elite, Steins;Gate 0, Chaos;Child, Robotics;Notes, Robotics;Notes Dash are currently available. The original version of Steins;Gate is PS3/Vita, and there is also a Vita version of Steins;Gate 0.
In order to play Chaos;Head Noah, you need either a PC or a Switch. And even then, you’ll want the PC version with a fan patch applied so you can get a better translation than the official one, plus cut content restored. I say this as someone who owns the physical version of the Chaos;Head/Child two pack for Switch and will likely never touch it.
@dskatter thank you for this!! I just added what’s available to my wish lists. What do you believe is the optimal order??
@CWill97 Chaos;Head. Steins;Gate. Steins; Gate 0, Chaos;Child. Robotics;Notes. Robotics;Notes Dash.
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