Imabikisou

Nintendic writes: Publisher SEGA and developer Chunsoft are teaming up to bring the first, but surely not the last, ever port of a game from the PlayStation 3 console to Nintendo's far-weaker Wii system. The game? A reworking of Imabikisou from last year, which shocked many by charting quite high in the Media Create Top 10 upon launch, but plummeted out of sight very quickly indeed soon afterwards.

PS3 sound novel Imabikisou is getting a Wii port.

Lair isn't the only remote play title in town. Watch Impress tested out other Playstation 3 games and they discovered Chunsoft's sound novel, Imabikisou, can be played on your PSP. With the latest firmware you can boot your PSP from a WiFi spot and play Imabikisou anywhere in the world. Since the game is light on rendering it probably won't suffer graphically either. Grand. Mainichi Issho, the downloadable game with the Sony cat works too just in case you want to show people how cool your Nyavatar is in a coffee shop.

The demo for the Japanese Horror game is now available to download in the Japanese Playstation store. The Demo is 903MB.

Sept 21, 2007 Sound novels are huge in Japan, so it comes as no surprise that Imabikisou, PS3s first title of this type, has been in production for some time and will be creeping its way onto Japanese shelves on 25 October. In essence sound novels are films, but instead of completely relying on live action, the story is told through text, images and, obviously, sound. Gameplay will function much the same way as the old "choose your own adventure" books, with the player being given a number

This September the Tokyo Game Show will open its doors to a veritable pantheon of gaming studios as well as the public. With the new closed door policy of E3 and their downsizing, TGS could now be the largest game expo on the planet. This 4 day convention is open for business associations on days 1 and 2 and the public for 3 and 4.

Everyone's favorite Japan-only game developer is teaming up with Sega for the revival of a classic genre on the PlayStation 3. First revealed in this week's Famitsu, Chunsoft's Imabikisou is a sound novel that promises to be so scary that you'll want to keep your friends close by when playing. The storyline of Imabikisou revolves around a drug called Vision which seems to be responsible for a string of mysterious deaths. The game's main character and heroine, attempting to flee the curse of the drug, travel to a mansion that is believed to be the source of all the problems. There, they get themselves caught up in a mystery involving a strange flower, the Imabikisou of the title.