History VisualNovel / FourTwoEightShibuyaScramble

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Ozu and Segawa, the two yakuza working for a loan shark. They are mostly seen running at other comic reliefs and act like oafs but they are shown to be extremely brutal in a few bad endings. They are also willing to kidnap Toyama's daughter and make her work her dad's debt.

* RansomDrop: When Hitomi Osawa is told by the kidnappers of her twin sister, Maria, to the statue of Hachiko in Shibuya. It gets botched when the kidnappers attempt to get her killed, leading to an escalation in the city when the [=UA=] virus is released. This forces the Japanese government to quarantine the city.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: Minoru needs to complete the draft of the latest issue of Four Star General Gossip by 8:00pm, in order to save his boss from falling victim to Yakuza loan sharks.

''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 the only visual novel) 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.

* IllGirl: Achi's sister Suzune, who is in desperate need of a heart transplant but who's rare blood type means that there are no matches to be found. Her condition takes a turn for the worse at start of the game, which causes [[spoiler:her father and Detective Tateno to attempt to make Hitomi braindead in order to use ''her'' heart as Suzune's much needed donor organ.]] In her post game story [[spoiler:she is ultimately cured, thanks to a friendly boy who prolonged his life enough to transfer her his heart]].

* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:The BigBad, Alphard, spends most of the story impersonating her arch-nemesis Canaan, and makes a big show of trying to hunt down the evil arms dealer behind the entire plot, to the point that ''[[UpToEleven she's the first one to even bring up Alphard's name.]]'']]

* HiredToHuntYourself: [[spoiler:The BigBad, Alphard, spends most of the story impersonating her arch-nemesis Canaan, and makes a big show of trying to hunt down the evil arms dealer behind the entire plot, to the point that ''[[UpToEleven she's the first one to even bring up Alphard's name.]]'']]

** It's also a reference to KamaitachiNoYoru

* DarkerAndEdgier: compared to its spiritual predecessor [[VisualNovel/{{Machi}}]]. The stakes are far higher, and the humor, while still present in several routes, is not the main focus anymore and eventually gets [[ShooOutTheClowns brushed aside]] by the late hours.

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler: During Minoru's plot, mentioning the word Nakamura brings us a transmission from Spike Chunisoft's Koichi Nakamura, where he is in captive from a shadowy group and asks us players to keep the game safe from them. Can be quite tough to find since it doesn't give us a bad ending for choosing this]]

* NonSpecificallyForeign: Canaan. The game describes her as having 'Middle Eastern' features, but does not describe her nationality further than that. [[spoiler:This also applies to Alphard as well throughout most of the game when impersonating as Canaan.]] Subverted in Canaan’s own route, which specifies that she came from a village in Iraq devastated by the Iraq War [[spoiler:the war itself used as a cover for the Ua virus testing that really destroyed the village]]. For that matter, AllThereInTheManual for the ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'' anime states that [[spoiler:Alphard was similarly orphaned by the US invasion of Afghanistan]].

** The description of Jack Stanley's Glock 17 within a Tip states that a [[Film/DieHard2 certain Hollywood movie]] included a line claiming that the Glock would not show up on airport X-ray machines

** Leland Palmer, the abandoned club visited by Achi early on called "Log Lady", and the Black Lodge Club are named after elements from ''Series/TwinPeaks''.

** Leland Palmer, and the abandoned club visited by Achi early on called "Log Lady", are both named after characters from ''Series/TwinPeaks''.

* GratuitousEnglish: [[spoiler:Jack Stanley's]] I.D., besides having a misspelling or two, has ''John Hancock's signature'' from the Declaration of Independence.

* LemonyNarrator: The Tips narrator alternates between providing definitions and plot-related exposition and going off on strange fourth-wall-breaking tangents (such as scolding players who expected an {{H-game}} or trying to psychoanalyze them based on their reaction to Minoru's wristwatch).

* ShoutOut: Leland Palmer, and the abandoned club visited by Achi early on called "Log Lady", are both named after characters from ''Series/TwinPeaks''.

* NonSpecificallyForeign: Canaan. The game describes her as having 'Middle Eastern' features, but does not describe her nationality further than that. [[spoiler:This also applies to Alphard as well throughout most of the game when impersonating as Canaan.]]

* 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.

* ContinuityNod: The game was never meant to be a sequel to Machi (due to that game's commercial failure), but it technically takes place in the same universe, so there is a number of small references throughout the game. They are almost always tucked away in the explanation screens, so that new players won't have to deal with anything they don't know during the story proper, while anyone who's played Machi still gets some fanservice.

[[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, especially when a mysterious criminal mastermind known only as [[BigBad Alphard]] turns out to be involved...

** Figuring out how to unlock the Special Episodes is this. Not only do you need to be at specific times in specific characters, but it has to be at specific lines where you must wait for a button prompt to unlock that episode.

* UnwittingTestSubject: Osawa calls the participants of the [[spoiler:Ua antiviral clinical trials]] this. They were all poor, uneducated laborers who gave their consent due to being dazzled by the vast amounts of money on offer and so were probably not entirely aware of the full ramifications of the trial, namely that they'd [[spoiler: need to be infected with a virus which normally has a 100% fatality rate.]]

** [[spoiler: Tama removing her mascot costume and is revealed to be Maria Osawa.]]
** [[spoiler: Kano 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.]]
** [[spoiler: Jack finding a photo of Maria and the real Canaan when looking through her belongings in Endo Electronics, realizing that the Canaan everyone interacted with throughout the game was a fake all along.]]