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* {{CIA}}: Jack Stanley works for the agency who became involved in finding Alphard in Shibuya.
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* FireForgedFriends: Achi and Kano did not get along at first. It doesn't helped that in Kano's perspective, Achi seemed to be Hitomi's kidnapper if the player does not change Achi's actions in his timeline. Overtime, the two became fast allies as the story progresses with better understanding of each others' actions.
** Same goes for Kano and Jack Stanley. The two started their forced partnership with friction but grew more trusting of each other as the story progresses, to the point where Jack suggests treating Kano for a drink once the case is over.
** Same goes for Kano and Jack Stanley. The two started their forced partnership with friction but grew more trusting of each other as the story progresses, to the point where Jack suggests treating Kano for a drink once the case is over.
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* MacGuffinSuperPerson: [[spoiler:Hitomi, whose body contains the antiviral to the UA Virus]].
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* TheStoic: To most people and his wife, Osawa acts like an emotionless man who shows little care of the people around him. [[spoiler:Shows a [[NotSoStoic less stoic]] side when Hitomi and Maria are concerned and is shown to be extremely distraught upon finding out that his only option to cure Maria of the Ua virus is off.gone.]]
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* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:Hitomi and Maria. More exactly, ''Hitomi'' was the person who was sought after since she was the MacGuffinSuperPerson; Maria pretended to be her in order to protect her]].
* TheVirus: The UA Virus.
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* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:Hitomi and Maria. More exactly, ''Hitomi'' was the person who was sought after since she was the MacGuffinSuperPerson; MacGuffinSuperPerson who has the Ua Virus antiviral contained in her bloodstream; Maria pretended to be her in order to protect her]].
* TheVirus: TheUA Ua Virus.
* TheVirus: The
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* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:428 stands for April 28th (4/28), the day where the plot of the entire game occurs. The date is shown at the end on Maria's phone.]]
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* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:428 stands for April 28th (4/28), the day where the plot of the entire game occurs. The date is shown at the end on Maria's phone.phone at the end of the game.]]
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** [[spoiler:Another example would be the fake Alphard, Leland Palmer, Hitomi and Maria's college professor who seemed to have a mild personality and cares for his students who cannot speak Japanese well until the reveal.]]
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** [[spoiler:Another example would be the fake Alphard, Leland Palmer, Hitomi and Maria's college professor who seemed to have a mild personality and cares for his students who cannot speak despite not being fluent in Japanese well until the reveal.]]
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** [[spoiler:Another example would be the fake Alphard, Leland Palmer, Hitomi and Maria's college professor who seemed to have a mild personality and cares for his students who cannot speak Japanese well until the reveal.]]
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire story takes place within eight hours in one single day, starting from 10:00. [[spoiler:Actually ten hours, with the final two hours letting you control two additional main characters to tie up loose ends.]]
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* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:The scene after the opening credits make little sense for players going into the game for the first time. But as the game progresses, the opening scene, actually taking place at around 15:00, marks the penultimate point where the situation for the main characters go FromBadToWorse.]]
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* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:The scene after the opening credits make little sense for players going into the game for the first time. But as the game progresses, the opening scene, actually taking place at around 15:00, shortly before 16:00 marks the penultimate point where the situation for the main characters go FromBadToWorse.]]
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* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:The short opening scene after the opening credits make little sense for players going into the game for the first time. But as the game progresses, the opening scene, actually taking place at around 15:00, marks the penultimate point where the situation for the main characters go FromBadToWorse.]]
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* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:The short opening scene after the opening credits make little sense for players going into the game for the first time. But as the game progresses, the opening scene, actually taking place at around 15:00, marks the penultimate point where the situation for the main characters go FromBadToWorse.]]
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* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:428 stands for April 28th (4/28), the day where the plot of the entire game occurs. The date is shown at the end on Maria's phone.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Tateno Kyozou]].
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* MasterOfDisguise: Sasayama, Kano's detective colleague. He is known to wear different disguises during missions. In the game, he is shown disguising as a homeless man, an otaku and a street dancer.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Osawa might appear cold to most people and prefers dealing with viruses than people, but deep down he cares for his daughters Hitomi and Maria very much despite his stoic demeanor.
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* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:CIA agent Jack Stanley and Detective Tateno Kyozou became main characters from 18:00 onward in place of Maria and Osawa, where their story lines concluded earlier than Achi, Kano and Minorikawa.]]
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* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:CIA agent Jack Stanley and Detective Tateno Kyozou became main characters from 18:00 onward in place of Maria and Osawa, where their story lines concluded earlier than Achi, Kano and Minorikawa.onward.]]
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''428: Shibuya Scramble'' ("428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de", lit. "428: Blockaded In Shibuya") is a 2008 VisualNovel for the Wii, published by Chunsoft. It is one of the few games (and even fewer visual novels) awarded a perfect 40/40 score from Famitsu, and was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable, UsefulNotes/Playstation3 and mobile devices. It is scheduled to be released internationally as ''428: Shibuya Scramble'' on Steam and UsefulNotes/Playstation4 on September 4, 2018.
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''428: Shibuya Scramble'' ("428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de", lit. "428: Blockaded In Shibuya") is a 2008 VisualNovel for the Wii, published by Chunsoft. It is one of the few games (and even fewer visual novels) awarded a perfect 40/40 score from Famitsu, and was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable, UsefulNotes/Playstation3 and mobile devices. It is scheduled to be released internationally as ''428: Shibuya Scramble'' on Steam and UsefulNotes/Playstation4 on September 4, 2018.
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* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:CIA agent Jack Stanley and Detective Tateno Kyozou became main characters from 18:00 onward in place of Maria and Osawa, where their story lines concluded earlier than Achi, Kano and Minorikawa.]]
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* ShooOffTheClowns: Yanagishita and his employee, Chiri disappears entirely from the main plot around the halfway point. [[spoiler:Around the point where the kidnapping case turned out to be a bioterrorist attack and reveals many surprising revelations for the main characters.]]
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* ShooOffTheClowns: ShooOutTheClowns: Yanagishita and his employee, Chiri disappears entirely from the main plot around the halfway point. [[spoiler:Around the point where the kidnapping case turned out to be a bioterrorist attack and reveals many surprising revelations for the main characters.]]
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* SnakeOilSalesman: Tama's boss, who was conned into stocking "health drinks" for an inflated price and decides that the appropriate response is to sell them at an even ''more'' inflated price.
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* ShooOffTheClowns: Yanagishita and his employee, Chiri disappears entirely from the main plot around the halfway point. [[spoiler:Around the point where the kidnapping case turned out to be a bioterrorist attack and reveals many surprising revelations for the main characters.]]
* SnakeOilSalesman: Tama's boss, Yanagishita who was conned into stocking "health drinks" for an inflated price and decides that the appropriate response is to sell them at an even ''more'' inflated price.
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''428: Shibuya Scramble'' ("428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de", lit. "428: Blockaded In Shibuya") is a 2008 VisualNovel for the Wii, published by Chunsoft. It is one of the few games (and even fewer visual novels) awarded a perfect 40/40 score from Famitsu, and was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable, UsefulNotes/Playstation3 and mobile devices. It is scheduled to be released internationally as ''428: Shibuya Scramble'' on Steam and UsefulNotes/Playstation4 sometime in on September 4, 2018.
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''428: Shibuya Scramble'' ("428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de", lit. "428: Blockaded In Shibuya") is a 2008 VisualNovel for the Wii, published by Chunsoft. It is one of the few games (and even fewer visual novels) awarded a perfect 40/40 score from Famitsu, and was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable, UsefulNotes/Playstation3 and mobile devices. It is scheduled to be released internationally as ''428: Shibuya Scramble'' on Steam and UsefulNotes/Playstation4.
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* MacGuffin: The pendant that Tama wants to buy. [[spoiler:It originally belonged to her, though thanks to her IdentityAmnesia she doesn't remember receiving it from Canaan. Furthermore, it has a GPS tracker in it that allows the heroes to find her]].
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* MacGuffin: The pendant that Tama wants to buy. [[spoiler:It originally belonged belongs to her, though thanks to her IdentityAmnesia she doesn't remember receiving it from Canaan. Furthermore, it has a GPS tracker in it that allows the heroes to find her]].
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A bonus scenario for this game dealing with Maria's past was created by Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi of [[{{Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]] fame. This scenario eventually got its own {{spinoff}} anime called ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'' (which, to give fair warning, [[LateArrivalSpoiler does spoil a few plot twists of the game]]).
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A bonus scenario for this game dealing with Maria's past was created by Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi of [[{{Nasuverse}} [[{{Franchise/Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]] fame. This scenario eventually got its own {{spinoff}} anime called ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'' (which, to give fair warning, [[LateArrivalSpoiler does spoil a few plot twists of the game]]).
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''428: Shibuya Scramble'' ("428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de") de", lit. "428: Blockaded In Shibuya") is a 2008 VisualNovel for the Wii, published by Chunsoft. It is one of the few games (and even fewer visual novels) awarded a perfect 40/40 score from Famitsu, and was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable, UsefulNotes/Playstation3 and mobile devices. It's scheduled to receive an international release by 2018 for the Playstation 4 and Steam.
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''428: Shibuya Scramble'' ("428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de") is a 2008 VisualNovel for the Wii, published by Chunsoft. It is one of the few games (and even fewer visual novels) awarded a perfect 40/40 score from Famitsu, and was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable, UsefulNotes/Playstation3 and mobile devices. It's scheduled to receive an international release by 2018 for the Playstation 4 and Steam.
In the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Japan, a young woman named Maria Osawa is kidnapped and held to ransom by a criminal gang. Hitomi, the sister of the victim, is ordered by the criminals to deliver the ransom money to a contact at the famous UsefulNotes/{{Hachiko}} statue outside of Shibuya Station. However, the exchange takes an unexpected turn when the kidnappers suddenly order Hitomi to "find a blue van" before fleeing with the money, and a mysterious man attempts to murder her.
[[ExtremelyShortTimespan Over the next eight hours]] events quickly spiral out of control, and as the government moves to blockade Shibuya it becomes apparent that there is something far more complicated- and dangerous- about this kidnapping than first meets the eye.
Unlike most visual novels, there are five protagonists whose individual stories play out over the game:
* '''Achi Endo''': A chivalrous former street-gang leader who happens across Hitomi during the botched ransom exchange and ends up saving her life.
* '''Shinya Kanou''': A young police detective assigned to supervise the ransom exchange. When the criminals flee with the ransom money, he quickly gives chase.
* '''Kenji Osawa''': A renowned virus researcher and the father of the kidnapped girl. After returning from an overseas business trip, he receives an anonymous email that claims an antiviral drug he had been working on has been illegally tested on humans.
* '''Minoru Minorikawa''': A HotBlooded freelance journalist. After receiving a desperate phone call from his former boss, he agrees to help complete the latest issue of a magazine within a single day by following up article leads within Shibuya.
* '''"Tama"''': A temp worker currently employed [[GoofySuit as a giant cat mascot named Tama]]. She is mysteriously drawn to a pendant she found in a second-hand store, and is saving all of her wages to buy it.
Using a timeline chart, players must navigate all five stories simultaneously in order to progress towards the ending, with decisions in one story directly affecting another. For example, if Achi chooses to immediately approach the ransom exchange in his route then he is wrongfully arrested by Shinya; this in turn causes Shinya's route to stall because he arrests the wrong person. In another instance, choosing to give accurate directions to a pair of {{yakuza}} members will cause them to show up at an inappropriate time in another character's route, making it impossible for the latter to proceed.
A bonus scenario for this game dealing with Maria's past was created by Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi of [[{{Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]] fame. This scenario eventually got its own {{spinoff}} anime called ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'' (which, to give fair warning, [[LateArrivalSpoiler does spoil a few plot twists of the game]]).
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* BadassNormal: Canaan. [[spoiler:Or rather, Alphard masquerading as Canaan]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Alphard]].
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: How people infected with the UA Virus die.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Tateno Kyozou]].
* ClingyCostume: Tama's costume becomes this when the zipper breaks. Her shady boss ''still'' insists on putting her to work on tasks where the giant cat costume is nothing but an additional hindrance.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:The foreign woman introduced as "Canaan" is actually Canaan's arch-nemesis (and BigBad) Alphard]].
* GuideDangIt: Good luck figuring out the correct sequence for the final segment, where all five characters are together and must choose who does what at a critical moment.
* HeroicArchetype: Achi
* IAmWho: [[spoiler:"Tama" turns out to be Maria, who escaped from her kidnappers but developed IdentityAmnesia because of her exposure to the UA Virus]].
* IdentityConcealmentDisposal: [[spoiler:When "Tama" is revealed to be Maria, she sheds the costume and her name changes in the menu screen]].
* IntrepidReporter: Minoru
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: It can feel like this at times; fortunately, the game only progresses one hour at a time, and there's a handy timeline/interaction chart to help you figure out which events cause knock-on effects on others.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: [[spoiler:The real Canaan has white hair as a result of her exposure to the UA Virus]].
* MacGuffin: The pendant that Tama wants to buy. [[spoiler:It originally belonged to her, though thanks to her IdentityAmnesia she doesn't remember receiving it from Canaan. Furthermore, it has a GPS tracker in it that allows the heroes to find her]].
* MacGuffinSuperPerson: [[spoiler:Hitomi, whose body contains the antiviral to the UA Virus]].
* NoOneSeesTheBoss: "Alphard", a notorious [[HiredGuns criminal-for-hire]] whose age, nationality and even gender are a complete mystery. [[spoiler:This allows her to hide in plain sight by masquerading herself as "Canaan"]].
* NonSpecificallyForeign: Canaan.
* SeriesMascot: Tama.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Tama's boss, who was conned into stocking "health drinks" for an inflated price and decides that the appropriate response is to sell them at an even ''more'' inflated price.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:Hitomi and Maria. More exactly, ''Hitomi'' was the person who was sought after since she was the MacGuffinSuperPerson; Maria pretended to be her in order to protect her]].
* TheVirus: The UA Virus.
''428: Shibuya Scramble'' ("428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de") is a 2008 VisualNovel for the Wii, published by Chunsoft. It is one of the few games (and even fewer visual novels) awarded a perfect 40/40 score from Famitsu, and was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable, UsefulNotes/Playstation3 and mobile devices. It's scheduled to receive an international release by 2018 for the Playstation 4 and Steam.
In the Shibuya district of Tokyo, Japan, a young woman named Maria Osawa is kidnapped and held to ransom by a criminal gang. Hitomi, the sister of the victim, is ordered by the criminals to deliver the ransom money to a contact at the famous UsefulNotes/{{Hachiko}} statue outside of Shibuya Station. However, the exchange takes an unexpected turn when the kidnappers suddenly order Hitomi to "find a blue van" before fleeing with the money, and a mysterious man attempts to murder her.
[[ExtremelyShortTimespan Over the next eight hours]] events quickly spiral out of control, and as the government moves to blockade Shibuya it becomes apparent that there is something far more complicated- and dangerous- about this kidnapping than first meets the eye.
Unlike most visual novels, there are five protagonists whose individual stories play out over the game:
* '''Achi Endo''': A chivalrous former street-gang leader who happens across Hitomi during the botched ransom exchange and ends up saving her life.
* '''Shinya Kanou''': A young police detective assigned to supervise the ransom exchange. When the criminals flee with the ransom money, he quickly gives chase.
* '''Kenji Osawa''': A renowned virus researcher and the father of the kidnapped girl. After returning from an overseas business trip, he receives an anonymous email that claims an antiviral drug he had been working on has been illegally tested on humans.
* '''Minoru Minorikawa''': A HotBlooded freelance journalist. After receiving a desperate phone call from his former boss, he agrees to help complete the latest issue of a magazine within a single day by following up article leads within Shibuya.
* '''"Tama"''': A temp worker currently employed [[GoofySuit as a giant cat mascot named Tama]]. She is mysteriously drawn to a pendant she found in a second-hand store, and is saving all of her wages to buy it.
Using a timeline chart, players must navigate all five stories simultaneously in order to progress towards the ending, with decisions in one story directly affecting another. For example, if Achi chooses to immediately approach the ransom exchange in his route then he is wrongfully arrested by Shinya; this in turn causes Shinya's route to stall because he arrests the wrong person. In another instance, choosing to give accurate directions to a pair of {{yakuza}} members will cause them to show up at an inappropriate time in another character's route, making it impossible for the latter to proceed.
A bonus scenario for this game dealing with Maria's past was created by Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi of [[{{Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]] fame. This scenario eventually got its own {{spinoff}} anime called ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'' (which, to give fair warning, [[LateArrivalSpoiler does spoil a few plot twists of the game]]).
!!''428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de'' contains examples of:
* BadassNormal: Canaan. [[spoiler:Or rather, Alphard masquerading as Canaan]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Alphard]].
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: How people infected with the UA Virus die.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Tateno Kyozou]].
* ClingyCostume: Tama's costume becomes this when the zipper breaks. Her shady boss ''still'' insists on putting her to work on tasks where the giant cat costume is nothing but an additional hindrance.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:The foreign woman introduced as "Canaan" is actually Canaan's arch-nemesis (and BigBad) Alphard]].
* GuideDangIt: Good luck figuring out the correct sequence for the final segment, where all five characters are together and must choose who does what at a critical moment.
* HeroicArchetype: Achi
* IAmWho: [[spoiler:"Tama" turns out to be Maria, who escaped from her kidnappers but developed IdentityAmnesia because of her exposure to the UA Virus]].
* IdentityConcealmentDisposal: [[spoiler:When "Tama" is revealed to be Maria, she sheds the costume and her name changes in the menu screen]].
* IntrepidReporter: Minoru
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: It can feel like this at times; fortunately, the game only progresses one hour at a time, and there's a handy timeline/interaction chart to help you figure out which events cause knock-on effects on others.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: [[spoiler:The real Canaan has white hair as a result of her exposure to the UA Virus]].
* MacGuffin: The pendant that Tama wants to buy. [[spoiler:It originally belonged to her, though thanks to her IdentityAmnesia she doesn't remember receiving it from Canaan. Furthermore, it has a GPS tracker in it that allows the heroes to find her]].
* MacGuffinSuperPerson: [[spoiler:Hitomi, whose body contains the antiviral to the UA Virus]].
* NoOneSeesTheBoss: "Alphard", a notorious [[HiredGuns criminal-for-hire]] whose age, nationality and even gender are a complete mystery. [[spoiler:This allows her to hide in plain sight by masquerading herself as "Canaan"]].
* NonSpecificallyForeign: Canaan.
* SeriesMascot: Tama.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Tama's boss, who was conned into stocking "health drinks" for an inflated price and decides that the appropriate response is to sell them at an even ''more'' inflated price.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:Hitomi and Maria. More exactly, ''Hitomi'' was the person who was sought after since she was the MacGuffinSuperPerson; Maria pretended to be her in order to protect her]].
* TheVirus: The UA Virus.
