oct 14
niomiautemn · 2024 · Interactive Fiction, Psychological Horror, Cute, Visual Novel, RPG
PC
Very Positive82% · 79
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About oct 14
It is October 14, 2002.
In this game, you take on the role of Chichi Pyonma. She's a 15-year-old high school student from the unremarkable small town of Silver Bay, MN. Today is a particular day — a rather important one — that drastically shaped Chichi's adolescence from this point onward. It is not for the faint of heart. Before playing this short experience, it is highly recommend that you delve into the contents of pyonpyon87's blog. This is a companion piece to Niomi's debut full-length record, 'chichi'.FEATURES
- A short interactive story!From when you boot up the game, to the moment it inevitably closes on you, oct 14 serves to tell a short, atmospherically rich, and (mostly) historically accurate story that allows the player to live a few minutes in Chichi's world from a top-down RPG perspective. There is only one ending.
- In-depth environmental flavor text!You can interact with just about every object in the environment. You'll get a little bit of world-building every time you do! Never skip over the details, you never know what you could be missing...
- A period-accurate MPEG Audio Layer 3 playback device!In other words, it's a working MP3 player, and it still has a couple songs on it too! Isn't that cool? However, in order to access it, you might have to snoop around places you shouldn't be.
- Cute character portraits!Everyone's favorite anxiety-ridden teenager gets her own set of handcrafted facial expressions that appear during dialogue! These talking heads, as well as the game's art and visual assets as a whole, were all drawn by Niomi.
- Crusty rag!Crusty rag.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
this is not what i was expecting at all! but holy i have trauma now :0 really peak peak holy peak awesome game! ty whoever made this
Nah, i understand this is a multimedia project, but the game itself is so poor, even i could throw a game like this in less than a month(and i barely have knowledge of rpg maker) Yeah, you want us to check your website, yes, you want us to check your music, but this game was kinda baiting us to try to find more secrets, when there is barely any gameplay other than some cool secrets that is referenced in other parts of your website. Sorry, this is not my thing, i don't recommend this game. Not making us able to fast forward anything or run, and the intentional game crashes to make everything repeat over and over honestly makes this game feel like a slog to play, and it doesn't feel fun at all after the second run. (I came here because some youtube video told me this game had a lot of secrets, i didn't really feel that at all, i think the website and other places is 200x than this game, this game is a low effort to mention other references from your story into this game, it could have been better)
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Taking the game as a standalone experience, it is pretty confusing and it will probably leave you very lost. However, as the rest of the reviews say, it's better to experience this game and put it together with the blog and the visual album on youtube. (You can search them as pyonpyon87's blog on any search engine and Chichi on youtube respectively) Personally i experienced first the website briefly then jumped to this game, afterwards more website exploration and finally ended with the visual album. No matter the order you take to experience this triad of an artwork, you'll find it paints a surprisingly important picture of [spoiler]moving on from a very traumatic experience, and coming to terms with catastrophic mistakes.[/spoiler] But it's probably better that you come to your own conclusions yourself.
It's a nice, short, oddly haunting experience
A game made to visually illustrate one of the scenes from an internet ARG. I haven't yet looked into the blog but this game makes me want to, I feel like there is so much more story to digest here, so worth checking out!
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