Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen | |
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Developer(s) | Atlus |
Publisher(s) | Atlus |
Series | Persona |
Platform(s) | Browser |
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Genre(s) | Rhythm |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen[a] is a rhythm minigame published by Atlus on July 2, 2008, as part of a promotion for their then-upcoming role-playing video game Persona 4. An Adobe Flash game, it is played through the web browser on the official Persona 4 website.
The game involves the player clicking to the beat of the music to spy at the Persona 4 character Chie Satonaka in the women's half of an onsen hot-spring bath, through a hole in the middle partition. The game took inspiration from how the player can visit a bath in Persona 4, but its scenario is otherwise not connected to Persona 4's. The game was popular, but saw mixed reception: some were baffled by the concept and the game's existence, while some enjoyed it.
Gameplay
Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen is a rhythm minigame in which the player is on in the men's half of an open-air onsen hot-spring bath, and tries to look through a hole in the partition to spy on the Persona 4 character Chie Satonaka while she's bathing on the women's side, without getting caught.[1][2][3] To do so, the player must repeatedly click on the hole to the beat of the music, in double time, to fill up a heart gauge,[2][4] while avoiding clicking too rapidly, which results in Chie noticing them and calling them out on being a pervert; if they on the other hand click too slowly, the fifteen-second timer will run out, and they lose their chance to look any further. After completing the game, the player is rewarded with illustrations of Chie bathing, and is given the option to play through a second challenge, where they receive an illustration of Chie bathing with Yukiko Amagi, another Persona 4 character.[1][4][5][6]
Release and reception
Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen was developed in Adobe Flash,[3] and took inspiration from how the player visits a bath in Persona 4,[2] although the scenario is otherwise not connected to Persona 4's plot.[1] It was published by Atlus on July 2, 2008, as a browser game playable on the official Persona 4 website. It was released as a promotion for the Japanese release of Persona 4 the following week, on July 10, together with Persona 4 wallpapers and new trailers.[1][7][8] Siliconera described it as part of a trend of Japanese video games getting Flash-based game demos, while noting that Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen does not actually act as a demo.[2] Atlus later released Hanate Wotagei! Rise no Dance Battle, a browser game with similar clicking gameplay but different theming, to promote their 2015 rhythm game Persona 4: Dancing All Night.[9]
The game was popular, with NLab describing it as "beloved by everyone", and noting that their review of it was their most-read article of the week.[10] Ikeya, writing for the same site, found Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen shocking as a fan of the series since the original Revelations: Persona, considering it uncharacteristic for Persona;[1] GameSpark merely expressed bafflement at the game's existence when summarizing the domestic game industry news of the week.[11] Wataru Katou, another NLab writer, described the game's peeping conceit as "a foolish male mentality" and as something that would be illegal to do in reality, but said that he understood the appeal of wanting to see something when you are forbidden from doing so.[10] In the end, Ikeya still found the game fun and exciting, and enjoyed the ending.[1] Wired called it perverted but sexy, and something to tide Persona fans over while waiting for Persona 4, describing the gameplay as simple but hard to master, and were themselves unable to finish the game. They found the sequence where Chie notices the player as "[verging] on insane";[3] Ikeya agreed, saying that he and his colleagues found it more exciting than the reward for winning.[1]
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Ikeya, Hayato (2008-07-04). "もう遊んだ? ムフフでドキドキな「ペルソナ4」の「温泉ノゾき見大作戦」". NLab (in Japanese). IT Media. Archived from the original on 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ a b c d "The promotional peeping tom Persona 4 flash game". Siliconera. Gamurs. 2008-07-29. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ a b c Snow, Jean (2008-07-30). "Play The Perverted Persona 4 Flash Game". Wired. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on 2023-12-03. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ a b North, Dale (2008-08-18). "Persona 4 sneak peek? This is not what we had in mind". Destructoid. Gamurs. Archived from the original on 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ Atlus (2008-07-02). Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen (browser) (in Japanese). Atlus. Scene: Ending.
- ^ Ikeya, Hayato (2008-07-04). "もう遊んだ? ムフフでドキドキな「ペルソナ4」の「温泉ノゾき見大作戦」". NLab (in Japanese). IT Media. Archived from the original on 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ "ペルソナ4 (PS2)の関連情報". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa Game Linkage. Archived from the original on 2023-12-16. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
- ^ "『ペルソナ4』公式サイト更新! 新規映像3本&壁紙2枚が公開". Dengeki Online (in Japanese). Kadokawa Game Linkage. 2008-07-07. Archived from the original on 2021-01-22. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
- ^ "『ペルソナ4 ダンシング・オールナイト』ミニゲーム"放てヲタ芸!りせのダンスバトル"が公式サイトで公開". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa Game Linkage. 2015-06-17. Archived from the original on 2023-01-31. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ a b Katou, Wataru (2008-07-09). "のぞきは犯罪です". NLab (in Japanese). IT Media. Archived from the original on 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ Ten-Four (2008-07-04). "本日の国内ゲーム情報ひとまとめ - 2008年7月4日". GameSpark (in Japanese). IID, Inc. Archived from the original on 2024-05-01.
External links
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-09-12) (in Japanese)