Machi (video game)

Machi (街, literally "City") is a visual novel adventure game developed and published by Chunsoft and released in Japan for Sega Saturn. It was later released for Sony PlayStation, published as the third entry in the "Sound Novel Evolution" series, and retitled Machi: Unmei no Kousaten (街 〜運命の交差点〜, lit. "City: The Intersection of Fate"). The game was remade for the PlayStation Portable, now titled Machi: Unmei no Kousaten: Tokubetsuhen (街 〜運命の交差点〜 特別篇, lit. "City: The Intersection of Fate － Special Version") and was released in 2006.

Machi
Developer(s)Chunsoft
Publisher(s)Chunsoft
Platform(s)Sega Saturn
PlayStation
PlayStation Portable
ReleaseSega Saturn
  • JP: January 22, 1998
PlayStation
  • JP: January 28, 1999
PlayStation Portable
  • JP: July 30, 2006
Genre(s)Visual novel
Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

The game is described by its creators as a "sound novel" that focuses on eight protagonists and their adventures and conflicts in the major metropolitan area of Shibuya, Tokyo. Depending on what decisions, the player makes during the course, several different endings can be reached, but the good endings can only be obtained by carefully making all the right decisions with all characters, since choices taken with one will almost always impact another story.

Characters
  • Keima Amemiya: a junior police inspector
  • Jintarō Umabe: a TV actor down on his luck
  • Masami Ushio: a former gang member
  • Yoshiko Hosoi: the only female protagonist, part-time worker
  • Masashi Shinoda: a university student
  • Ryūji Takamine: a Foreign Legion deserter
  • Fumiyasu Ichikawa: a TV series script writer
  • Yōhei Tobisawa: a high-school boy and class idol
  • Atsushi Takamine: a businessman and Ryuji's father
  • Norio Aoi: a high-school boy and class pariah
  • Isamu Sagiyama: an Assistant director
  • Patrick Dandy: a Marriage Swindler
  • Shōjirō Kaizuka: a Politician

Reception and legacy
  • In a March 2006 article of Famitsu magazine, one of the largest videogame publications in Japan, Machi ranked 5th in a top 100 reader poll of their favorite games of all time.[1]
    • Famitsu scored the game a 33 out of 40.[2]
  • The Japanese drama Tōmei Shōjo Air was originally slated to be a storyline for this game or a sequel, but delays in production caused them to turn it into a television miniseries instead.
  • The video game 428: Shibuya Scramble by Chunsoft is set in the same location and has many references to Machi.
  • In 2017, Famitsu readers voted Machi one of the top five adventure games of all time, along with Steins;Gate, 428: Shibuya Scramble, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Danganronpa.[3]

References
  1. Collin Campbell (2006). "Japan Votes on All Time Top 100". Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
  2. プレイステーション – サウンドノベル・エボリ 街~運命の交差点~. Weekly Famitsu. No.915 Pt.2. Pg.5. June 30, 2006.
  3. "Steins;Gate is voted the best Adventure game of all time". Japanese Nintendo. June 7, 2017.
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