Nanashi No Game (2008)

Nanashi no Game is a first-person survival horror game developed by Epics and published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS. The game follows a university student who becomes cursed by the titular role-playing game, which causes people to die in seven days upon starting.  An urban legend has been circulating about a nameless, cursed role-playing video game for the fictional Twin Screen (TS) handheld game system. According to the rumor, anyone who plays this "Cursed Game" and does not complete it within seven days will die...

This October, come visit the

HELL GALLERY!

Every Friday at 6 PM CST/7 PM EST a new, full horror game playthrough begins! And we'll be finishing each one within the week!

Schedule:

10/6 - HAUNTING GROUND

10/13 - NANASHI NO GAME / GAME WITH NO NAME

10/20 - FATAL FRAME

10/27 - CLOCK TOWER: GHOST HEAD

Promo art by @cassettepony

The Nameless Game ナナシノゲエム

Song: Memories Ver.2 Game: Nameless Game: Eye/Nanashi no Game: Me

God I would LOVE to play Nanashi no Game for the Nintendo DS but I need to do so much fucking homework to get to it. Learn how to download ROMs, find the translation patch, learn how to work with that... And presumably learn how to get it on a flash cart because I cannot IMAGINE being able to get the best experience on an emulator. That thing does the Bowser's Inside Story stuff, you gotta change orientations on the fly

I think something weird is happening in the subway in the 2008 survival horror game, Nanashi no Game. Screenshot from an LP by the always excellent iconoclast187.

i always end up coming back to nanashi no game characters whenever i just want to draw something

the last two ones are in order: heavily stylized akanes done on pure memory and asahi in a snowy scenario

I kinda wish ppl talked more about Nanashi no Game and its sequel, lol. I recently watched a video kiiiinda thinking it might be an essay or explanation of sorts, but it was a full playthrough (yet edited around) of both games, that I kinda needed in my system again.

It's such a silly game (I say "silly", but not really) that pays homage to the "you have X days left to live" j-horror genre and for some reason? to Square-Enix itself (the publishers of the game), from the "Final Fantasy could have been our last game" myth to "this song sounds TOO much like the overmap's song for Dragon Quest III" mixing the story of a game that pretty much describes how infuriating is the game development cycle for developers between what the creatives want vs the business men want and how it affects their family life... except, you know, they don't haunt the game in question and kill people as a result (maybe they should haunt the CEOs, as a treat :) for all those crunches).

I also say silly because "Me" is weird in some aspects. The story is okay, in a cheesy/horror j-drama story way (Akane's motivations as a ghost and the whole thing was because a trio of friends were breaking up due to this marvelous thing known as "adolescence"), but some stuff is pretty "eh" if you try to put logic into it as a sequel of the original game (I mean, sure, I guess, the "game" becomes an eldritch entity of hate, because Japanese mythology about spirits and feelings put in objects), but "suuuure" about some elements from the past game (I mean, how Akane was even comatose in a hospital that was abandoned for YEARS in a VERY sterile secret room? does that make sense? was it her spirit? is it an illusion? what is it?)... but still?

In the video I watched comments about the ending (the true bad ending of the game) and I'm like "...yeah... this is how asian horror/drama tends to end, regardless of a potential sequel hook or what", lol. I know there was a third game, but there's barely info or playthrough of it, because it was for iOS, 15 or so years ago, and apparently it was rescued before it was delisted, but who knows if there's a way to record it or emulate it yet. (there's also the DSiWare platform spinoffs from Me, but as maaaaany things from the DSiWare shop are non-existent at this point :/... also, why these were platforms segment and how much sense do they make in the whole game universe mythos bites me... but I mean, Kaizo-like difficulty levels from games HAD been a thing from a long time, and there have been several platforms with a range of precision and difficulty in the same vein as this before).

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nanashi but i crafted him from nice paper

TONIGHT AT 6 PM CST: On this day of curses, the Hell Gallery is once again opening its doors; for NANASHI NO GAME / THE GAME WITH NO NAME, a DS horror adventure about a cursed video game that kills players in 7 days! Can we unravel the curse's mysteries and survive?

KronMei Pocky Game.

Old art repost. | Made 12-11-2022

Song: Cartridge 31 Game: Nameless Game: Eye/Nanashi no Game: Me

at an excavation of the Tachara in Persepolis, c. 1930