YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World Download PC

Developer: ELF Corporation

Release date: 2019

Platform: Windows (PC)

Genre: Visual novel

Version: Full Game

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YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World is a visual novel adventure game developed and published by ELF Corporation. It was originally released in 1996 as an eroge for the NEC PC-98 Japanese home computer and later ported to the Sega Saturn and Microsoft Windows platforms without the sexual content. The story follows the protagonist travelling between parallel worlds to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance. The game uses concepts from science fiction, physics, mathematics, philosophy, history and religion to construct a unique fictional universe. The "Auto Diverge Mapping System" (A.D.M.S.) that displays the branching parallel worlds and storylines as a tree helps the player navigate the game world.

YU-NO was written and produced by Hiroyuki Kanno, and its FM-synth music soundtrack was composed by Ryu Umemoto, Ryu Takami and Kazuhiro Kanae, who had previously worked on C's Ware titles such as Eve Burst Error (1995). YU-NO was well-received and influential in Japan, where it revolutionized the visual novel industry and in turn had an impact on the manga and anime industries, inspiring numerous visual novel, manga and anime works.

In 2017, 5pb. developed and published a remake of the game for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4. Spike Chunsoft released this version for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows in 2019. The game has also been adapted into a four-part hentai original video animation, a manga and novels, and a TV anime series by Feel that aired from April to October 2019. The TV anime series is licensed in North America by Funimation.

Title

The bound of this world (この世の果て, kono yo no hate) referred to in the title is the location the protagonist reaches at the conclusion of the game. Yu-no is the name of a girl central to the story. The creators said "YU-NO", which comes last word in the Japanese title, is meant to be a subtitle. The English version of the title that is used in some artwork is stylized as "YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world.", with a period. A connection to Harlan Ellison's short story The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World has been noted by Robert Allen of Tech-Gaming.

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Gameplay

The PC-98 and Sega Saturn versions of the game are slightly different. Unless otherwise noted, the following information describes the PC-98 version.

Players travel between parallel worlds using a reflector device that uses stones to mark positions as returning locations so they can retrace their steps and enter an alternative universe. The game implements an original system called Automatic Diverge Mapping System (A.D.M.S.) that at any time in the game displays a screen showing the direction in which the player was heading along the branching plot lines. Similar systems have later been used in the 2010 role-playing video game Radiant Historia and the PSP version of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.

A.D.M.S.

When a branch in the storyline nears, an indicator on the game's reflector device blinks. When the players' choice advances the storyline, their routes are recorded in the "divergence map" and the device plays a sound. The player is tasked with collecting eight jewels that are the power source of the reflector device; the divergence map shows the locations of all jewels within the storylines even before the player has reached them. In this way, A.D.M.S. is used to search through the parallel worlds. The divergence map displays time from left to right and concurrent parallel worlds are shown vertically.

Another noteworthy feature is the "jewel save". The jewels that power the reflector device can be clicked to place a mark on the divergence map, which consumes the jewel. The divergence map can later be opened and players can return to the mark instantly, regaining the jewel. If a jewel save is made before a story branch point, players can explore one scenario then quickly return and explore an alternative. This feature is akin to saving or loading the game. Key items can be carried from one world to another through the jewel save.

Prologue and epilogue

Sections at the beginning and end of the game have a more traditional visual-novel-style gameplay, in which players choose commands like "Look" or "Speak" from a menu. There are no branching paths in these sections and it is not possible to use the reflector device there.

Development

Having made the earlier successful adventure games DESIRE (1994) and EVE Burst Error (1995) at C's Ware, Hiroyuki Kanno and Ryu Umemoto were hired by ELF to create a game with a high budget available. The story Kanno pitched he had developed since his teens, and it was allowed to be fully realized by the budget. As with their earlier projects, Kanno and Umemoto collaborated closely. Each vital plot point was discussed in detail to achieve synergy between story and music, with musical pieces representing the characters' moods and emotions rather than characters or locations. Umemoto, a mathematics prodigy since an early age and a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, applied symbolic elements of his religion to his compositions via mathematical patterns. A new gameplay system called A.D.M.S. (Auto Diverge Mapping System) was made for the game.

Reception

As of March 2017, all versions of YU-NO have sold a total of over 380,820 copies in Japan.

YU-NO holds an average rating of 94 out of 100 on ErogameScape (EGS), making it the second highest-rated visual novel on the site.

In 2017, Famitsu readers voted YU-NO the 12th best adventure game of all time.

According to statistics compiled by Digital Media Insider, 45,844 (30,553 CD edition, 15,291 floppy edition) copies were sold by November 30, 1997, excluding ELF's direct mail-order sales. In the 1997 annual ranking in Digital Media Insider, the CD edition was listed in 14th place, with number-one-ranked "SHOCK PRICE Mah-jongg" selling 77,102 copies, and the top-selling adult game "Sadistic King Rance" at number three, selling 72,572 copies.

The PC version of YU-NO went on to sell over 100,000 copies, as reported in the March 1997 edition of Comptiq.

YU-NO won a reader's choice award in Blitz King's "2nd Video Game Awards Grand Prix" in May 1997. The game also was ranked ninth in E-Login's "Game and Heroine of the year 1996", and fifth in Comptiq's "1st Video Game Awards Grand Prix" in 1998.