Otogirisō

Otogirisou
File:Otogirisō.jpg Cover art
Developer(s)	Chunsoft
Publisher(s)	Chunsoft
Director(s)	Koichi Nakamura
Platforms	SNES, PlayStation, Virtual Console, PlayStation Network
Release date(s)	Super Famicom PlayStation Virtual Console PlayStation Network
Genre(s)	Sound novel
Mode(s)	Single player

Otogirisō (弟切草, Otogirisou, lit. St John's wort) is a sound novel developed and published by Chunsoft. The game was first released on March 7, 1992 in Japan for the SNES and later for the PlayStation on March 25, 1999. It became available on the Virtual Console on August 28, 2007 for the Wii and on July 30, 2014 for the Wii U also available on the Playstation Network on September 14, 2011.

Story

Kohei and his girlfriend Nami were on the midway when their car got accidentally hit by a tree felled by lighting. After that main characters got stuck in a forest in the middle of nowhere. They decided to spend the night in a large deserted western-style mansion nearby.

Ports

Otogirisō has been ported on the PlayStation as "Sound Novel Evolution 1 - Otogirisou Sosei-Hen"(March 25, 1999)

Film

Main article: Otogirisō (film)

Reception

On release, Famitsu magazine scored the PlayStation version of the game a 30 out of 40.

See also

• Banshee's Last Cry
• Machi

External links

• Chunsoft
• Virtual Console page

• プレイステーション - サウンドノベル・エボリューション1弟切草 蘇生篇. Weekly Famitsu. No.915 Pt.2. Pg.19. 30 June 2006.