Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness is a 2015 Science Fiction Visual Novel developed and published by 5pb in Japan and for the rest of the Asia for the Xbox 360 console in 2015 before it was released worldwide for the PlayStation 4 and Vita in 2016, followed by Steam in 2017. It's directed by Makoto Asada and Rumie Higashinaka while written by Makoto Asada solely, with Gen Urobuchi involved in planning the game scenarios. It takes place during in-between the first eight episodes of the first season after Akane Tsunemori is recruited to the Ministry of Welfare's Public Safety Bureau.
The game has three new characters, consisting of new Inspector Nadeshiko Kugatachi with a case of amnesia, new Enforcer Takuma Tsurugi, and the new Big Bad the PSB tangles with: a mysterious person known as Alpha who's responsible for a series of cases where he's able to clear the hues of persons with drugs. To resolve the case, Chief Kasei orders Division 1 to concentrate their findings on Sado City, which is a prototype offshore city made for future cities to be constructed in Japan. The city is also tied to some of their cases related to Alpha.
The game provides examples of:
- Driving Question: What's Nadeshiko's real name and what happened to her that led to her amnesia, not to mention on what happened with Takuma that he was recruited by Sibyl as an enforcer.
- Gameplay and Story Integration: If you attend hypnotherapy twice, Nadeshiko recovers all her lost memories and learns that she is indeed Yukari. As Yukari had a permanently clear Hue, Nadeshiko's is locked to ghostly white regardless of any later actions taken.
- Good is Not Nice: One case has Division 1 tasked to resolve a hostage crisis when students took their teachers and non-violent hostages. One choice allows you to use non-lethal distraction devices. The other option requires the use of lethal force.
- Last-Second Ending Choice:
- If you're on the right path, the final two choices determine what ending you get. If you choose to be cold and efficient in dispatching your target, your ending is Guardian of Life. If you choose to sympathize with the target but dispatch them anyway, your ending is Thus, Fate Has Proclaimed the End.
- This happens again in a different path. If you choose the warm, truthful option, you get Eternal Cradle. If you choose the cold, distant option, you get a bad end.
- Market-Based Title: The game is sometimes known as Psycho-Pass: Happiness is Mandatory in the English-speaking market prior to the adoption of the current name. In Japanese, it's known as Psycho-Pass: Sentaku Naki Kōfuku.
- Multiple Endings: For clarification, all endings where Nadeshiko regains her memory will refer to her as Yukari. All those that do not will use Nadeshiko.
- Guardian of Life: The status quo is upheld and both Nadeshiko and Takuma continuing to operate with the main cast, with Joushuu Kasei commenting that she'll be watching her further to see if the former's memory recovers.
- Thus, Fate Has Proclaimed the End: Nadeshiko is killed in an alley while dealing with a Latent Criminal. The end.
- Goddess of Guidance: Having tied up all her loose ends with the last case, Yukari becomes a part of the Sibyl System. She walks around town in Joushuu Kasei's body, listening to civilians, and then has a brief discussion with the main cast. It ends with her overlooking the city with Yukari's reflection in the window and saying she'll guide them on the right path.
- Eternal Cradle: Rather than agreeing to dispose of Alpha, Yukari persuades Sibyl's minds to work with him, and convinces them that Euphoric Distress Syndrome is the ultimate form of bliss by the Psycho Pass system, as it keeps Criminal Coefficient low even while actively committing crimes. She secures him, it's stated he'll share a consciousness with her after she becomes part of the Sibyl System, and the two work with the other brains to devise a way to keep Japan functional even after everyone becomes a vegetable from EDS.
- Childhood's End: Yukari agrees to become a part of the Sibyl System for her own desires, but tricks them into not deleting Alpha. She tells Takuma of her identity, and the two of them work together to capture him, putting him in a storage cube while Yukari fills a cube with a dummy file to pull one over Sibyl. She then pulls some tricks to get Takuma - along with the cube containing Alpha - outside Japan, and she becomes a part of the system after ensuring their departure. She converses with the other brains, and her theory on happiness over Hue is accepted as worth considering. It ends up having positive results, with the brains commenting that while she's an outlier, she's too valuable to be removed. After some monologue from Yukari, it cuts to Takuma teaching Alpha how to fish.
- Would Hit a Girl: Some options to deal with female civilians with high Crime Coefficients does require the option of subduing them.
- Would Hurt a Child: Some of the hostiles you can encounter are teenagers. And one of the ways to deal with them is using lethal force.
