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One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally 'monstrous vermin'), subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition.

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Anyone can kill the devil; that's why they always make teens the vampire slayers, the magical girls. But some kids can't even get that right; and that's why meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus have to endure one more week of summer camp and each other, singing boring songs about jesus, doing busywork for adults, and hoping god's radio can't hear them.

Before they can leave the summer scouts, they've got to spend twelve hours in the loneliest cabin in the woods and wait for the devil to come and live through the night--or not. You know.

A Surreal Summer Camp Dystopia

WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a Group Relationship Horror Visual novel created by weirdo games critic and indefensible twitter account haver Aevee Bee ( Mammon Machine:ZEAL) and illustrator and comics artist Mia Schwartz (http://miaschwartz.tumblr.com/), with a chilling 80s horror synth soundtrack by Alec Lambert (Antibody Productions), live photo backgrounds taken with disposable cameras in the terrifying woods where we live, and aesthetic touches and UI by Lulu Blue.

WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a story about everyone who made you cry at summer camp. It's about missing your Sailor Moon VHS tapes. It's about how being irresponsible is contagious. It's about knowing that in a group of three, two of you will be closer than the other.

And it's about being weird and queer and wrong and hoping against hope no one will find out when the actual, literal devil comes for you.

Pick Your One True Pairing

WE KNOW THE DEVIL truly has no one protagonist; but someone will always be left out. It's up to you to decide who that is. Instead of choosing a partner, you follow pairs of characters as they learn about themselves and wait for the devil to appear.

Will Venus and Neptune stop hating themselves long enough to be friends? Will Jupiter finally tell Neptune what's been on her mind? Will Venus and Jupiter make it to morning as the only good kids left alive?

Hopefully it turns out the way you want it to. Don't forget: the price the two pay will be the third.

Features

• Three endings for all possible OTPs, and a horrifying bonus true end!
• Washed out, overexposed background photos taken on disposable camera for that nineties summer feeling
• A chilling 80s horror synth soundtrack by Alec Lambert

Content Advisory

Themes of isolation and alienation of queer youth in a religious rural setting. Abstract, psychological horror, and possibly alarming music.

Brought to You By

Aevee Bee

Visual Novel Maker

Writer

Mia Schwartz

Art & Creative Direction

Alec Lambert

Music & Sound Effects

Lulu Blue

UI Designer

Conrad Kreyling

Technical Lead

Jo Fu

Producer & Tech Artist

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Narcissu (Japanese: ナルキッソス, Hepburn: Narukissosu) is a free visual novel video game developed by the dōjin group Stage-nana, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman. It was made with the NScripter engine.

The work was originally written in Japanese by Tomo Kataoka, and subsequently localized and translated into English, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese by various fan translators. Unlike most fan translations, however, this was an authorised work. The author, however, was not actively involved in the translation process as it had been the case for True Remembrance. Both the original Japanese visual novel and its English version were released as free downloads over the Internet. The web edition of Narcissu has lower graphics and music quality, to conserve bandwidth.

Narcissu is an experimental work: it uses minimalist graphics in a very narrow window, and includes two full scripts, one accompanied by a voice track, and the other adapted to work without voices. In the English translation, different translators translated each version, to provide different perspectives on the story.

Synopsis[edit]

The anonymous protagonist is diagnosed with lung cancer shortly after his twentieth birthday, and is admitted to hospice care at a hospital in Mito, Ibaraki. There he meets Setsumi, a woman who is two years older than he is, who is also terminally ill. Finding that they both refuse to die in the hospital or at home with their families, they run away together in a silver Honda Integra belonging to the protagonist's father.

They travel west across Japan's many highways and prefectures, initially not knowing where to go, but later collectively decide on taking the narcissus fields of southern Awaji Island as a somewhat arbitrary destination.

Characters[edit]

The Protagonist

A young man, 20 years of age. Your typical university student. Attends a technical institute, and has just taken (and passed) his driver's license examination. Lives with his family—a taciturn and unsupportive mother and father and a little sister who only ever has harsh words for him. Has never really been sick in his entire life. Has never really had much of an aim for his entire life, either.

The protagonist's name is never given in the first two games, but is revealed to be Yuu Atou (阿東 優, Atou Yuu) in various supplementary works.

Setsumi Sakura (佐倉 瀬津美, Sakura Setsumi)

Voiced by: Rino Ayakawa

A young woman, 22 years of age. Has a body physique like a child. She has a quiet personality. She loves cars and is knowledgeable about them. She expresses to the protagonist her desire to die neither at the seventh floor of the hospital nor at her home.

Himeko Shinohara is the protagonist of the 2nd Side prequel.

Yuka Akishima is the 23-year-old best friend of Himeko.

Chihiro Shinohara is the 21-year-old younger sister of Himeko. She is a devout Christian.

Release history[edit]

The original Japanese version uses the NScripter engine; for the English localization, the open sourcecloneONScripter was used instead, as this has been modified to support English. Narcissu has also been ported to the Nintendo DS.

A second game and a prequel named Narcissu: Side 2nd was released on May 15, 2007 while the third game in the series named Narcissu 3rd - Die Dritte Welt - was released on April 27, 2009. The final game in the series named Narcissu - if there was a tomorrow - (ナルキッソス～もしも明日があるなら～, Narcissu - moshimo ashita ga aru nara -) was developed by Kadokawa Shoten playable on the PlayStation Portable. The final game is a compilation of all three games with some new extra content added. It was released on June 24, 2010.

A complete remake of the Narcissu series, published by Sekai Project has been announced. It will include all of the previous Narcissu games with updated graphics and audio, as well as a new 4th Narcissu game.^[1]

Influences[edit]

Narcissu is both stylistically and thematically similar to the opening chapter of Gin'iro, a commercial title by the same writer; Tomo Kataoka himself describes it as essentially a modern-day version of Gin'iro, which is set in medieval Japan.^{[citation needed]}

On a level more familiar to Western audiences, the work has much in common with road movies; the screen layout is even intended to evoke a cinema screen. Many of the scenes and events of the story are road-movie clichés, and the ending, in which the physical journey itself is explicitly linked with the metaphorical journeys the characters have undergone (their lives, their self-discovery), is typical of the movie genre.

Soundtrack[edit]

Several of the music tracks in Narcissu are arrangements from other visual novels. 12 of the game's music tracks are accessible on-demand via the in-game jukebox, which is called the 'Sound Mode'.

The titles in the following list are based on the Sound Mode of Narcissu: Side 2nd, which contains updated and corrected titles; in the original release of Narcissu, Tracks 2, 3, 7, 8 and 12 had slightly different titles, while Tracks 4 and 9 were incorrectly listed as 'Rather Than a Life of Finality' and 'Eightmoon' respectively. However, Narcissu: Side 2nd still mislabels the source of Track 4 as 'The World is Coming to an W/end', instead of 'The world is drawing to an W/end'.

Print adaptations[edit]

On 25 July 2008, MF Bunko J released a light novel adaptation of Narcissu and Narcissu -side 2nd-, which was written by Tomo Kataoka himself and illustrated by GotoP.^[2] The novel is licensed in Chinese by Tong Li Publishing,^[3] and licensed in Korean by Haksan Culture Company.^[4]

A manga illustrated by Pochi Edoya started serialization in the seinenmanga magazineMonthly Comic Alive on 27 November 2008.^[5] Two bound volumes have been released by Media Factory under their MF Comics label,^[6] and are licensed in Chinese by Sharp Point Press.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^'Sekai Project to Release Narcissu remake project'. Anime News Network. July 4, 2015. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
2. ^'MF文庫J ナルキッソス' (in Japanese). MF Bunko J Official Website. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
3. ^東立漫遊網 東立小說區 水仙花 (in Chinese). Tong Li Publishing Official Website. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
4. ^만화가 꿈꾸는 세상! 학산문화사 : 소설 최신간 보기 (in Korean). Haksan Culture Company Official Website. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
5. ^コミックアライブ２００９／１月号 (in Japanese). Monthly Comic Alive Official Website. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
6. ^アライブコミック ナルキッソス(2) (in Japanese). Monthly Comic Alive Official Website. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
7. ^'尖端出版SPP網站-narcissu 水仙花 - www.spp.com.tw' (in Chinese). Sharp Point Press Official Website. Retrieved 2013-07-05.

External links[edit]

• Official Japanese Homepage for PC Narcissu(in Japanese)
• Official Japanese Homepage for PSP Narcissu(in Japanese)
• Narcissu at The Visual Novel Database