History VideoGame / EasternMindTheLostSoulsOfTongNou

* GeniusBonus: This game contains a lot of Shinto lore and even several instances of untranslated kanji. Knowledge in the Shinto religion and ability to read kanji would no doubt be extremely advantageous to playing this game.

''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou'' is also a... rather [[MindScrew strange]]'' game.

''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou'' is also a... rather ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs strange]]'' game.

''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou'' is also a... rather ''strange'' game.

''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou'' is a Japanese PointAndClickGame by [=OutSide=] Director Creator/OsamuSato, first released in 1994 for the AppleMacintosh. An English translation and [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] port followed in 1995.

There was a sequel, but it was even more obscure and was only released in Japan, so for years virtually nothing was known in the West except that it was called "中天" (romanized as ''Chu-Teng'' on the packaging). However after years of searching, [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/chuteng/chuteng.htm a copy was unearthed]] by Website/FourChan.

'''Please put tropes for it's sequel, ''"中天"'' (romanized as ''Chu-Teng'') on VideoGame/ChuTeng!'''

'''''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou''''' is a Japanese PointAndClickGame by [=OutSide=] Director Creator/OsamuSato, first released in 1994 for the AppleMacintosh. An English translation and [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] port followed in 1995.

There was a sequel, but it was even more obscure and was only released in Japan, so for years virtually nothing was known in the West except that it was called "中天" (romanized as ''Chu-Teng'' on the packaging). However after years of searching, [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/chuteng/chuteng.htm a copy was unearthed]] by [[{{Imageboards}} 4chan]].

* ArtShift: The introductory cutscene is in a simple drawn style, as opposed to most of the game, which is CGI.

** An alternate, and much more complete, LP done by [=SuccinctAndPunchy=] of SomethingAwful is now available in the LP Archive [[http://lparchive.org/Eastern-Mind/ here.]]

'''''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou''''' is a Japanese PointAndClickGame by [=OutSide=] Director Creator/OsamuSato, first released in 1994 for the AppleMacintosh. An English translation and [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] port followed in 1995.

* GuideDangIt: Happens occasionally, but it happens especially in Byou's life, where you have to answer who owns the Eyeball of Dreaming. [[spoiler:It's Tou-Gyou, or the king of Tong-Nou.]] However, this fact is only brought up on the ending... Something that is either ''way after'' you should be here, or a bunch of InsaneTrollLogic[[labelnote:Explanation]]One of Tou-Gyou's messages mentions the eyeballs were his. However, in the Computer of the Land of Time, you are meant to brute force the Reincarnation names for the name. The 3 characters who need to use the computer are Tou, Kai, and Rin. Tou is required for his quest, Kai to recieve his orders, and Rin to ask for his Fire Magatama. However, not including foreign beings like Rin, only Tou truly needs the computer for the sake of actually doing his quest. You're meant to take it as Tou is the part before "Gyou", which is utilized as the latter part of all the kings. When you input Tou-Gyou into the keyboard on the Computer, you will get a message regarding his name, and a slight appearance of him. You're then meant to link that character with the images, and how he is everywhere, but nowhere, and state Tou-Gyou as the true owner[[/labelnote]] . You'd basically have to do brute force, hack into the game, or simply look up a walkthrough to figure this out, lest you wish to spend extreme amounts of time trying to force upon InsaneTrollLogic to solve the puzzle.

* GuideDangIt: Happens occasionally, but it happens especially in Byou's life, where you have to answer who owns the Eyeball of Dreaming. [[spoiler:It's Tou-Gyou, or the king of Tong-Nou. However, this fact is only brought up on the ending... Something ''way after'' you should be here. You'd basically have to look in the book, brute force, hack into the game, or simply look up a walkthrough to figure this out.]]

* JumpScare: A few times in the game, monsters appear suddenly in front of the player.
** These can be accidental, too, due to a glitch that speeds up some animations.

** SurrealHumor: Of course, sometimes these are joked about in-game. T.B.C. and the Reincarnation Jin comes to mind, the latter of which [[spoiler:dies before you can play as him due to his incarnation being unsucessful.]]
* TheManyDeathsOfYou: A JustifiedTrope, since the game involves reincarnation and you need to live the lives of several different creatures.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Fang Shing says all his fun-funs to the tune of the intro theme.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Escaping with your soul means enduring multiple deaths. If you accept the gift of immortality, you're trapped forever in Tong-Nou, represented by an endless rapid-fire slideshow of every scene in the game. This is the only way to [[NonStandardGameOver actually lose]] in the game.]]
* WombLevel: The game takes place inside a giant head.
* WorldTree: Mingke-shu, The Tree of Life, is where all of the Tong-Nou creatures reincarnations are created.

* BrokenRecord: The little "fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!" guy.
** Also, "GA-SHOW! GA-SHOW! GA-SHOW! GA-SHOW!"

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:You have to die and reincarnate 9 times in the game, and three of your lives end instantly.]]
** [[spoiler:DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: There's no penalty if you do happen to die. This is a game that's centered around {{reincarnation}}, after all.]]

'''''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou''''' is a Japanese PointAndClickGame from [=OutSide=] Directors, first released in 1994 for the AppleMacintosh. An English translation and [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] port followed in 1995.

* GuideDangIt: Happens occasionally, but it happens especially in Byou's life, where you have to answer who owns the Eyeball of Dreaming. [[spoiler:It's Tou-Gyou, or the king of Tong-Nou. However, this fact is only brought up on the ending... Something ''way after'' you should be here. You'd basically have to look in the book to figure this out.]]

** An alternate LP done by [=SuccinctAndPunchy=] of SomethingAwful is now available in the LP Archive [[http://lparchive.org/Eastern-Mind/ here.]]

* WorldTree: Mingke-shu, The Tree of Life, is where Rin's reincarnations are created.

* GuideDangIt

* PixelHunt
* SurrealHorror and SurrealHumor

* ThemeTuneCameo: The "fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!" guy says all his fun-funs to the tune of the intro theme.

* YourSoulIsMine

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Escaping with your soul means enduring multiple deaths. If you accept the gift of immortality, you're trapped forever in Tong-Nou, represented by an endless rapid-fire slideshow of every scene in the game.]]

There was a sequel, but it's even more obscure and was only released in Japan, so virtually nothing is known in the West except that it's called "中天" (romanized as ''Chu-Teng'' on the packaging).

* EldritchAbomination: The whole population of the island. Subverted with the island itself, as [[spoiler:rather than eat souls, it restores souls back to health.]]

* MindScrew: Could just as easily be called "Mind Screw: The Game".

** [[spoiler:DeathIsaSlapontheWrist: There's no penalty if you do happen to die. This is a game that's centered around {{Reincarnation}}, after all.]]

'''''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou''''' is a Japanese PointAndClickGame from [=OutSide=] Directors, first released in 1994 for the AppleMacintosh. An English translation and [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] port followed in 1995.

''Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou'' is also a... rather ''strange'' game.

The game starts out with a guy named Rin discovering that his soul was stolen by the island of Tong-Nou--presumably to eat it--and if he doesn't get it back then he'll "weaken and eventually die in emptiness." Rin decides to go and retrieve his soul, but before he does, his friend Yashiro gives him a temporary soul which will last for forty-nine days. When he gets there it turns out that the island is a giant green human head floating in darkness, and in order to continue your quest, you have to enter the head through one of its orifices. The game only [[MindScrew gets]] [[UpToEleven better]] from there. By the way, it was created by Osamu Sato, who is also responsible for ''VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator'', which explains [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs much]].