Narcissu
Narcissu (proper spelling in lowercase or Japanese asナルキッソス, Narukissosu ) is a free visual novel created by the Dōjin group stage- nana and tells the story of a terminally ill girl and boy.
Publications
The work was written by Tomo Kataoka was released in Japan on 1 August 2005 on the Internet. Four days later, a publication on CD- ROM. The web edition of Narcissu is smaller and has a lower graphical and musical quality.
Unlike many other games, fan translations have been allowed by the author, and even desired. The author himself was not involved in the various translation processes. It therefore followed by various fans localizations in German (from 2012), English ( 2005 ), French, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese.
Narcissu was an experiment: it uses few graphics in one small, limited window and includes two fonts, concomitant with a voice actor and another adaptation without scoring. In the English translation, translated two different translators both versions to show a different perspective of history. The playing time is up to 10 hours.
The original Japanese version uses the NScripter engine; for the English translation, however, the open source software ONScripter was used, which is a use of the English language possible.
A second game as history was as Narcissu: Side 2nd ( narcissu SIDE 2nd) published on 15 May 2007, during the third game of the series 3rd- The Third World was released on 27 April 2009 narcissu.
The series received Kadokawa Shoten from a professional publication for the PlayStation Portable under the title Narcissu - Ashita ga Aru nara Moshimo (ナルキッソス~もしも 明日 が ある なら~ ). This version is a summary of all three parts with additional content and was released on 24 July 2010.
Action
In the anonymous protagonist is diagnosed shortly after his twentieth birthday lung cancer, which is why he was admitted to a hospital in Mito. There he meets Setsumi, a girl that is supposed to be a few years older than he, who is also terminally ill. Both refuse to die with her family at the hospital or at home. Together they flee in the father of the protagonist car.
You travel along the western coast of Japan's highways and prefectures, without knowing where to go. Later, however, they decide to spontaneously for the Daffodil fields in the south of the island of Awaji.
Characters
Influences
Narcissu is stylistically and thematically similar to the opening chapter of Gin'iro - a commercial titles from the same author. Tomo Kataoka describes herself as being in the now settled variant of Gin'iro, which plays in the Japanese middle ages.
The plant is similar in implementation road movies. The screen layout is set so that the appearance of a cinema format is awakened. Many of the scenes and events of history are modeled road movie clichés. The end, in which the physical journey itself is clearly connected to the metaphorical journey of the characters, what they've been through everything ( her life, her self-discovery ), is typical of this type of film.
Music
Several pieces of music in Narcissu are taken from other visual novels. 12 of these pieces from the game are available on demand in an in -game jukebox.
The title in the following list are based on the list Narcissu: Side 2nd, which contains corrected and proper title; in the original publication of Narcissu, pieces 2, 3, 7, 8 and 12 have slightly different title, while items 4 and 9 incorrectly listed as Rather Than a Life of Finality and Eight Moon. Narcissu: Side 2nd 4 piece referred as The World is Coming to to W / end, instead of correctly actually The world is drawing to to W / end.
Pieces:
Adaptations
On 25 July 2008, Media Factory published under the imprint MF Bunko J an adaptation (ISBN 978-4-8401-2365-5 ) as a light novel of Narcissu and Narcissu: Side 2nd, which written by Tomo Kataoka and illustrated by himself GOTOP were.
In the magazine Monthly Comic Alive issue 1/2009 of the same publishing house launched on 27 November 2008, a manga series, which was also written by Tomo Kataoka, but drawn by Pochi Edoya. On 23 June 2009 and 23 February 2010, the chapters in two edited volumes ( tankōbon ) were summarized (ISBN 978-4-8401-2580-2 ISBN 978-4-8401-2984-8 and ).