Moon. Totally Explained

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Moon. is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Tactics, a brand of the joint company Nexton, and first released on November 21 1997 playable on a Windows 95 PC as a CD-ROM; the game was re-released five more times between 1998 and 2003. The game was described by the development team as a . The gameplay in Moon. follows a plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the three female main characters. Unlike most adult games where the protagonist is male, the protagonist of Moon. is a girl. She is named Ikumi Amasawa who joins an organization called FARGO in the hopes of discovering why and how her mother died, who was a member of the same group. After the original game was completed at least once, a bonus role-playing game became available on the title screen, though this was later removed from the full-voice DVD edition of the game.
Much of the staff that created the game later became the founding members of the visual novel company Key, so this game is often considered roughly equal to one of Key's works. Moon. was the starting point for Key's origins, and was the first time the principal Key team was formed. A novel based on the game written by Midori Tateyama was released on July 31 1998 by Movic. The game's original soundtrack was released bundled with Dōsei's soundtrack in August 2000 at Comiket 58; Dōsei was Tactics' first game. According to a national ranking of how well bishōjo games sold nationally in Japan, the Moon.DVD PC release made the ranking of the top fifty games once at number forty-four during the first two weeks of July 2002. There are seven ends to the game: a single true end, two normal ends, and four bad ends. In the original game, a bonus role-playing game became available on the title screen after the game was completed at least once. This was later removed from the full-voice DVD edition of the game.

Plot and characters

Moon.'s story revolves around a mysterious organization known as FARGO. The protagonist of the story is a young girl named who discovers that FARGO was involved with the death of her mother six years before the story begins. Ikumi ultimately wants to take out her revenge against FARGO for killing her mother. Planning for Moon. was headed by Jun Maeda, who also worked on the game's scenario with fellow writer Naoki Hisaya; Maeda also composed a single piece of music for the game. Excluding YET11 and Ishisan, the staff that created the game later became the founding members of the visual novel company Key.

Release history

Moon. was first released on November 21 1997 playable on the PC as a CD-ROM, and retailed for 7,800 yen (about US$71). The next release on August 21 1998, entitled Moon.Renewal, was essentially the original game, but with added support for new operating systems; Moon.Renewal retailed for 6,800 yen (about US$62). Another CD-ROM version of the game entitled Moon.Limited was released on September 20 2002, also selling for 6,800 yen. On October 31 1999, an original art book was released (ISBN 4-87763-014-7). The game's soundtrack was released bundled with the soundtrack for Dōsei, the game Tactics made before Moon., and was called Dōsei and Moon. Original Soundtracks. The album contained a single CD and was released on August 10 2000 at Comiket 58 by Exobitant Records. The disc contained thirty-one tracks; the first fifteen pertained to Dōsei and the latter sixteen were for Moon..

Reception

According to a national ranking of how well bishōjo games sold nationally in Japan, the Moon.DVD PC release made the ranking of the top fifty games once at number forty-four during the first two weeks of July 2002. Moon.Limited also made it on the list only once, achieving the ranking of forty-eight in late September 2002. Four characters from Moon. can be seen as background characters during an early scene in the cafeteria from ; the characters are: Ikumi Amasawa, Yōko Kanume, Haruka Mima, and Yui Nakura. There is a reference to Moon. in the sixth episode of the Kyoto Animation version of Kanon which can be seen as the movie poster of a horror film that Ayu and Yuichi go to see.

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