History VisualNovel / FourTwoEightShibuyaScramble

* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:CIA agent Jack Stanley and Detective Tateno Kyozou became main characters from 18:00 onward.]]
** To a lesser extent, Koichiro Katayama shows up near the end of Minoru's route to reinforce the magazine deadline.

* '''Shinya Kano''': 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.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Osawa's wife Ai has been carrying on a longterm affair with his assistant Tanaka, who was her lover before she was forced to marry Osawa.]]

''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 released internationally as ''428: Shibuya Scramble'' on Steam and UsefulNotes/Playstation4 on September 4, 2018 in the US and September 21, 2018 in Europe. The game serves as a SpiritualSequel to ''VisualNovel/{{Machi}}'', which was released in 1998.

'''As the game has been out in Japan since 2008 and the game has only been recently released [[LateExportForYou worldwide in 2018]], [[LateArrivalSpoiler late arrival spoilers]] apply to the tropes below. You have been warned.'''

* MyGreatestFailure: For [[spoiler:Detective Tateno]] it's [[spoiler:accidentally killing Achi's mother during a hostage situation.]] His drive to set things right fuels most of the conflict in [[spoiler:Achi's]] route.

* BreatherEpisode: Hour 17:00, with only bad ending and a very linear path to easily pave through any Keep Outs going through. Fitting as the two-hour long endgame is much harder and intense narrative-wise.

* BigBad: Alphard is the mysterious DiabolicalMastermind behind the kidnapping of Maria Osawa and the plot to steal the [[spoiler:UA virus]], and is manipulating every antagonist to achieve this goal. He turns out to be [[spoiler:Hitomi's teacher, Leland Palmer- [[DiscOneFinalBoss except]] he himself is working for the real Alphard, [[SamusIsAGirl the girl disguised as Canaan]]]].

* BadassNormal: Canaan. [[spoiler:Or rather, Alphard masquerading as Canaan]].

A bonus scenario for this game dealing with Maria's friend past was created by Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi of [[{{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]]).

A bonus scenario for this game dealing with Maria's past was created by Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi of [[{{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]]).

* TheAtoner: A twisted example is found in [[spoiler:Detective Tateno. He intends to make up for killing Achi's mother by providing a compatible donor heart for her ailing daughter...a plan which will eventually call for him to put a bullet through the skull of one Hitomi Osawa.]] After this plot comes to light, he decides to become a straight up example of this trope by shouldering the responsibility of [[spoiler: escorting Maria safely to her father's lab, a process which will cause him to come into conflict with the rest of Shibuya's police force, so she can have a chance to be saved.]]

[[ExtremelyShortTimespan Over the next ten hours]] events quickly spiral out of control, and as the government moves to blockade Shibuya it becomes apparent there is something far more complicated and dangerous about this kidnapping than first appeared.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Alphard]].

* BigEater: Chiri. One segment has her eat through an entire Chinese buffet's stock of food. A bad ending has her compete in, and win, an eating competition where she eats a 1,000 scoop sundae!

Unlike most visual novels, there are ''five'' [[{{Protagonist}} protagonists]] whose individual stories play out over the course of the game:

* MyGreatestFailure: For [[spoiler:detective Tateno[[, it's [[spoiler:accidentally killing Achi's mother during a hostage situation.]] His drive to set things right fuels most of the conflict in [[spoiler:Achi's]] route.

* ShootTheHostage: Flashbacks reveal that [[spoiler:Detective Tateno accidentally shot and killed Achi's mother Kotone in a botched attempt to shoot the criminal who was holding her hostage.]] This mistake haunts him to the present day.

* ArcNumber[=/=]TitleDrop: "428" can be be pronounced "[[GoroawaseNumber Shibuya]]." Also, if you look carefully at the assorted phones in-game, the incident happens on April 28th (4/28).

* HeroicArchetype: Achi. He initially formed the group S.O.S. (K.O.K in the Japanese version) with the goal to protect Shibuya from thugs and clear litter around the streets of Shibuya. Though he's stepped down as the leader of S.O.S by the time the story starts, he spends his entire route protecting Hitomi from danger.

''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 released internationally as ''428: Shibuya Scramble'' on Steam and UsefulNotes/Playstation4 on September 4, 2018 in the US and September 21, 2018 in Europe.

** [[spoiler: Achi witnessing Sasayama being stabbed in a video, then showing us the To Be Continued screen, mentioning he has to be hurt in order to proceed to the best ending.]]

* ActorAllusion: some of the actors also played parts in the spiritual predecessor Machi, and this will occasionally be made fun of. Apparently, Detective Kajiwara once met a stylist who looked "just like him" (and who bolted away when hearing that Kajiwara was a detective: the stylist in question was a drug addict in Machi), while Kuze has an older brother who dresses as a hippy and wastes his days playing songs to random passerbys, referencing the actor's appearance as the hippy blackmailer Monday in the previous game.

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The beginning and the ending of the story starts with Hitomi waiting to meet a criminal at the Hachiko statue with Kano and Achi present, triggering and resolving the plot respectively.]]
** [[spoiler:As well, the game starts and ends with Kano and Achi as the only playable characters.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Shibuya's story is in your hands.[[labelnote: Characters]] From center counter-clockwise: Hitomi Osawa, Shinya Kano, Minoru Minorikawa, Jack Stanley, Kenji Osawa and Achi Endo, with Tama in the bottom-right.[[/labelnote]]]]

* ArcNumber[=/=]TitleDrop: "428" can be be pronounced "Shibuya." Also, if you look carefully at the assorted phones in-game, the incident happens on April 28th (4/28).

** Kano's colleague [[MasterOfDisguise Sasayama]], one of the main sources of comedy in Kano's story, is [[spoiler: hospitalised after being stabbed in the stomach]] shortly after Kano teams up with Jack Stanley. After that he's only mentioned briefly at the end of the game.

* {{WeUsedToBeFriends}}: Achi and Susumu. Their relationship crumbled after Achi left S.O.S

* FragileFlower: Chiaki Iso, an acquaintance of Minoru. Though she's a great writer, she starts the game with a fear of talking to people and easily breaks down in stressful situations. She does manage to grow out of both traits as the plot progresses.

* NonstandardGameOver: Several of the bad endings, especially the ones where the character involved is
unharmed but is unable to investigate the central mystery any longer. Standouts include Tama, Chiri and their boss going on to become wildly successful SnakeOilSalemen, or Kano leaving the entire police business behind to marry his girlfiend and settle down on a farm.

* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: The Burning Hammer drink which Tama's boss peddling. It's so bad that it straight up causes Kano to pass out in one bad end.

* BridalCarry: Achi is forced to flee with Hitomi this way after she starts lagging behind while they're been chased by the man with a cane. He later does this again so that they can flee the scene of [[spoiler:the minivan bombing.]]

* DoesntLikeGuns: [[spoiler:Detective Tateno gets severely nauseated when even the ''thought'' of him firing a gun comes up, thanks to the trauma Achi's mother's death left on his psyche.]] In several late game bad endings, [[spoiler:Alphard]] gleefully exploits this flaw for their own gain.