428 receives a perfect score in Famitsu

10:08am, 26th of Nov '08

Posted by Graham. Filed under G, Japan, News, Nintendo Wii. Tagged with 428, Chunsoft, Famitsu, Perfect Score, Visual Novel.

It seems that Sega’s talent for releasing good games isn’t totally gone, as the latest issue of Famitsu tells us. 428 ~Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de~ scored a perfect 40 points in Japanese publication.

Unfortunately the game in question won’t likely ever be released outside of Japan, due to some heavy use of the Japanese language, and it’s a pretty niche product, something that only Japanese gamers seem to go for.

428 is the latest Visual Novel, by Chunsoft, using pictures to tell a story. Set in Tokyo’s Shibuya, 428 follows a young man, a virus researcher, a detective, a freelance writer and a cat mascot character (??) as they are brought together by strange global events.

While this isn’t a big deal to many people, it’s always nice to see Sega receiving good scores, especially in a magazine which rarely gives out such high scores.

In ten years Famitsu has only given out 9 perfect scores: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998), Soulcalibur (1999), Vagrant Story (2000), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2003), Nintendogs (2005), Final Fantasy XII (2006), Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008), Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008) and 428 (2008).

[Source: Wiieveryday Via Kotaku]

Comments on this article

There have been 8 responses to this article.

This is AWESOME NEWS! Sadly is that this game is not 100% Sega… :/ However, Sega has produced it, so… they are not only publishing this game.

Also, this is the first time that Chunsoft make a kind of a “sequel” to [MACHI], that game originally released on the Sega Saturn.

I don’t like this genre, but I feel that I will try it for the first time :p

T+

Storm!

Posted November 26th, 2008 at 11:05 am.

“It seems that Sega’s talent for releasing good games isn’t totally gone”

What exactly has given you the impression that it had? =\

Ryan

Posted November 26th, 2008 at 11:09 am.

So an H-game got a perfect 40 from game reviews? :D

i kid i kid

Kyle

Posted November 26th, 2008 at 11:40 am.

“Set in Tokyo’s Shibuya, 428 follows a young man, a virus researcher, a detective, a freelance writer and a cat mascot character (??) as they are brought together by strange global events.”

Wow, Graham that description sounds an awful like a Blue Stinger sequel! :)

Actually, a Blue Stinger sequel was in the works/planned. Ingeniously, it was gonna be called Red Stinger.