Machi (video game)

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Machi
File:Machi cover.jpg
Developer(s) Chunsoft
Publisher(s) Chunsoft
Platforms Sega Saturn
Sony PlayStation
PlayStation Portable
Release date(s) Sega Saturn
    PlayStation
      PlayStation Portable
        Genre(s) Visual novel
        Adventure game
        Mode(s) Single-player

        Machi (街?, literally "City") is a visual novel adventure game developed and published by Chunsoft and released in Japan for the Sega Saturn in 1998. It was later released for the Sony PlayStation in 1999, published as the third entry in the "Sound Novel Evolution" series, and retitled Machi: Unmei no Kousaten (街 〜運命の交差点〜?, lit. "City: The Intersection of Fate"). Eventually, the game was remade for the PlayStation Portable, now titled Machi: Unmei no Kousaten: Tokubetsuhen (街 〜運命の交差点〜 特別篇?, lit. "City: The Intersection of Fate － Special Version") and was released in 2006.

        Focusing mostly on storytelling, the game is described by its creators as a "sound novel" that focuses on eight protagonists and their adventures and conflicts in the major metropolitan area of Shibuya. Depending on what decisions the player makes during the course of the game, several different endings, both good and bad, can be reached.

        Story

        Characters

        • Keima Amemiya: a policeman
        • Jintarō Umabe: an actor
        • Masami Ushio: a gang member
        • Yoshiko Hosoi: the female protagonist
        • Masashi Shinoda: a student
        • Ryūji Takamine: a deserter
        • Fumiyasu Ichikawa: an author
        • Yōhei Tobisawa: a high-school boy
        • Atsushi Takamine: a Businessman
        • Norio Aoi: a high-school boy
        • Isamu Sagiyama: an Assistant director
        • Patrick Dandy: a Marriage Swindler
        • Shōjirō Kaiｚuka: a Politician

        Reception and legacy

        • In a March 2006 article of Famitsu magazine, one of the largest videogame publications in Japan, Machi ranked 5th in a top 100 reader poll of their favorite games of all time.[1]
          • Famitsu scored the game a 33 out of 40.[2]
        • The Japanese drama Tōmei Shōjo Air was originally slated to be a storyline for this game or a sequel, but delays in production caused them to turn it into a television miniseries instead.

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        2. ↑ プレイステーション – サウンドノベル・エボリ 街~運命の交差点~. Weekly Famitsu. No.915 Pt.2. Pg.5. June 30, 2006.
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