![]() ![]() The backgrounds in the abandoned park help sell that feeling of isolation and emptiness, which is fantastic.Įach protagonist has two main routes within their path. ![]() A large majority of both protagonist’s routes are just working out what they can do. You can’t exactly fight the ocean, so the cast just has to make the most of a bad situation doing what they can to try and delay the inevitable whilst praying for a rescue team to make contact. It’s one thing for an ontological mystery to have an evil bad guy to trap characters in a location, but the bad guy here is essentially the ocean. Hell, even the threat of looming death isn’t too drastic, as the characters are trapped in over their heads to properly comprehend. ![]() Something you’ll notice quickly is the lack of an antagonist. Teaming up with others who have been left behind, the group of six (or five? Or was it seven?) have 119 hours to find a way out of the theme park before it implodes. Both their goals are interrupted when an explosion rocks LeMU and they both find themselves trapped in the slowly flooding facility. The chance encounter doesn’t last long, however, as the kid runs off after a mysterious girl he spots and Takeshi goes back to find his friends. ![]() As he searches for his friends throughout the park, he ends up running into our other protagonist, a kid suffering from a serious case of amnesia. One of our protagonists, Takeshi, planned to go with his friends but he believes they’ve all gone on ahead into the park and ditched him. With our collective willpower, we might be able to convince Spike Chunsoft to re-release it on steam? I can dream, right? Oh yeah, there was also an Xbox 360 remake that was developed by MAGES and Cyberfront that we never received too.Įver17 takes place in the “distant future” of 2017 following the viewpoints of two character who have arrived at a theme park based entirely underwater called LeMU. The title later received a re-release on PSP in Japan, and whilst not officially localized, that version received an English patch thanks to some dedicated fans.īecause of this, we’re going to be reviewing it to convince people to try and hunt down copies online. The game did make it out of Japan, being released physically on PC for the west thanks to the now-defunct Hirameki International, with only a few mangled translations. Today, we’re going to be talking about the most iconic of these games, the second one, Ever17 -The Out of Infinity-, as today just so happens to mark its 17th anniversary. ![]()
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