The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

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Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 0.The 25th Ward: The Silver Case (シルバー事件25区), usually referred to as just The 25th Ward, is an adventure game directed by Goichi Suda and developed by Grasshopper Manufacture. It was initially released exclusively in Japan, episodically over flip-phone download services. As these services shut down in 2011, the game was unable to be played for several years until Grasshopper and Active Gaming Media released a full remake in 2018, which also featured new content. The 25th Ward is a direct sequel to Grasshopper's first game, The Silver Case, and also takes place after other sequel Flower, Sun, and Rain.

Gameplay

The 25th Ward plays fundamentally similarly to The Silver Case; it uses the Film Window engine to display images, text and other information, and it mostly consists of reading, along with occasional interactive 3D environments in which the player can move on rails in four directions. However, it features many differences that subtly affect the gameplay experience.

Instead of the MISC wheel, the menu is now a die which must be rotated in three-dimensional space, with each face containing an action. Although it is usually four-sided, the die increases its number of sides in situations in which more than four choices are available. Rather than a consistent set of functions like the MISC wheel, the die's main abilities change depending on the situation. Its usual four functions are "Look", "Talk", "Move", and "Item", but other functions are available in particular scenarios, such as "PC" or "Red" when playing as Tokio Morishima in the Placebo storypoint.

Movement is simplified compared to the first game, as there are no marks to move to, nor can the player rotate themselves or look up or down. Instead, movement is made up entirely of selecting options corresponding to cardinal directions, which will cause the player to take that path until they reach the next choice or point of interest.

There are also several points in the game in which puzzles must be solved through entering letter or number passwords, similar to those found in Flower, Sun, and Rain. This is also accomplished by rotating a die; either one with the numbers 0-9 on it, or one which has the entire alphabet and a few miscellaneous characters. There are also occasionally other puzzles and forms of gameplay scattered throughout the game, such as role-playing game combat or multiple-choice chat conversations.

Story

Chapters

Summary

The 25th Ward takes place five years after the events of The Silver Case. It focuses on the successor to Ward 24, the supposedly utopian metropolis of Ward 25. This new ward was constructed with the purpose of providing a perfect orderly lifestyle, but its ideal of order is threatened to be shattered by the chaos represented by the coming of Kamui Uehara. The story is divided into three different "story points", which take place in parallel with eachother.

The A-side of the story, Correctness, centers around Mokutaro Shiroyabu of the 25th Ward Heinous Crimes Unit, the 25th Ward's counterpart to the original. It begins with an investigation into the mysterious deaths occurring at the Bayside TowerLand high-rise apartment complex, and follows into more cases from there. During these cases, Shiroyabu and his partner Shinko Kuroyanagi find themselves working with a mysterious new recruit, the perspective character Uehara.

The B-side of the story, Matchmaker, follows the Regional Adjustment Bureau, the shadow government agency who dedicate themselves to preserving the 25th Ward's lifestyle through carrying out deadly "adjustments" on its citizens. It follows two members, Shinkai Tsuki and Yotaro Osato, who attempt to complete their assignments while trying to hide their existence from the HC Unit. At the same time, they find themselves menaced by people from Tsuki's past.

The C-side of the story, Placebo, is a continuation of the Placebo story from the first game. Following the events of Flower, Sun, and Rain, Tokio Morishima wakes up on a boat stationed in the 25th Ward's harbor. Finding that he has lots most of his memories of the previous games, he attempts to regain them while periodically being roped into investigations on the internet by his old friend Slash.

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