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Play Overview
Set in modern-day Shibuya, Tokyo, you follow five seemingly unrelated characters: a mascot, a police detective, a journalist, a former gang leader and a researcher. When a ransom kidnapping takes place, the five get caught in a mystery that can only be solved by their collaboration. As the narrative progresses, you learn more about each character and their complex backstories.
Play involves following each character through a different story genre, from comedy to horror. At first, they seem disconnected from each other but your choices in one story soon affect the others. You swap between the different characters as you play, sometimes having to make a critical choice as one person to advance the story of another. Depending on your decisions, there are over 50 possible endings, with many being "Bad Endings". When this happens, you go back and make different choices to arrive at a different outcome.
The result is a game that creates a bizarre, multi-genre mystery where your choices dictate the outcome. Getting the often humourous bad endings is often as much fun as the challenge of figuring out what decisions to make to reach the true ending.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked 428: Shibuya Scramble 2 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 7 days ago.
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This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Rated for younger players in the US. Rated ESRB TEEN for Blood, Drug Reference, Language, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, and Violence. Game text includes details of violence, with descriptions of beatings and stabbings. Some story segments depict corpses, characters with stab wounds, and/or characters shooting pistols at one another. Several scenes depict characters with blood on their hands, near their bodies, or on their clothes/around a wound. During the course of the game, characters are sometimes seen with cigarettes or cigars in their mouths or hands; one scene depicts characters toasting and drinking from cans of beer. One character is described as a “tweaker” whose “mind was probably a complete mess from meth withdrawal.” The word “sh*t” appears in the dialogue.
The developer states that the game contains "Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content".
Skill Level
10+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it's important for parents and guardians to consider the maturity required to process the game content. Good reading comprehension is essential, as you need to parse through the text to find useful pieces of information and think carefully about each choice you make, sometimes having to go back to a previous section and rethink your choices if you reach a dead end.
Costs
428: Shibuya Scramble
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.The game was only released internationally on PlayStation 4 and PC. All other platforms are for the Japanese market only.
Game Details
Release Date: 04/12/2008, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, PS3, PS4, PSP, Wii and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Narrative (Adventure, Brain Game and Communication)
Accessibility: 21 features
Components: 2D Side-On and Filmed
Developer: Spike Chunsoft E (@SpikeChunsoft_E)