writ­ten 8/11/2024, updat­ed 8/19/2024

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• Pub­lished: qure­ate
• Plat­form Played: Nin­ten­do Switch
• Price: $9.99 from MSRP: $19.99
• Rat­ed: M (Mature)
• Genre: Adven­ture
• Date Released: July 6, 2023

Overview

Game Summary

Four uni­ver­si­ty friends inter­act with each oth­er. It is Noa’s (you) birth­day, so Nemu invites her over to cel­e­brate. What should be a joy­ful day with friends quick­ly devolves into an ago­niz­ing death loop when Nemu demon­strates her extreme yan­dere per­son­al­i­ty (lov­ing char­ac­ter that starts off affec­tion­ate, but has an obses­sive devo­tion that devolves into a men­tal ill­ness) over a mis­un­der­stand­ing. Noa must uncov­er the truth while fig­ur­ing out how to end her repeat­ed deaths. The game is rat­ed M for vio­lence, but has no hard­core H con­tent, just a few panty shots, gen­er­ous skin, and pink­ish pur­ple blood.

Characters

Game Mechanics (How to Play)

Inventory

Puzzle Clues

Trap Items

Item Combinations

Traps

Note: The liq­uids can be both Bait & Escape and Bait & Hide

To use a Timer Trap, you appar­ent­ly need to be out­side of the room once Nemu spawns? These can be used infi­nite­ly. I have not been able to do this suc­cess­ful­ly.

Puzzle Solutions

Liv­ing Room Dial Box

Puz­zle: Fig­ure out box pass­word to play Nemu’s game

Clues:

• Sheet of Paper - mag­a­zine case — “XX48”
• Sheet of Paper - house­plant — “1st page got away from me so this is the sec­ond: 57”

Solu­tion: Com­bine clues to get 5748

GET: Access to the base­ment

Nemu’s Bed­room Lap­top

Puz­zle: Fig­ure out Nemu’s Pass­word

Clues:

• Sheet of Paper - Nemu’s Bed­room trash­can — My PC’s pass­word: “Move each let­ter back­ward by one. Leave the num­bers as they are”
• Note on Lap­top says: “Pass­word hint: QPXFS189”

Solu­tion: Move the let­ters back­wards one on the key­board

QPXFS189 = POWER189

GET: Access to the base­ment

Bed­room Safe Box

Puz­zle: Fig­ure out the code to the safe box

Clues:

• Sheet of Paper — Bed­room — “Safe com­bi­na­tion are ani­mals’ birth­days: cat then pup­py, then bun­nies. Dial order is R, L, R, L”
• Stand­ing Pho­to Frame — Pup­py pic Nemu’s Bed­room — “Just born on New Year’s!”
• Stand­ing Pho­to Frame — Cat pic in Bed­room — “Hana-chan, born on the 7^th”
• Paper with Man­u­fac­tur­ing Date — Liv­ing Room under sofa cush­ion — Red Rab­bit: 12^th; Blue Rab­bit: 17^th
• Inspect­ing the table in Nemu’s Bed­room that says that the blue bun­ny goes first

Solu­tion: R7, L1, R17, L12

GET: Japan­ese Room Key

Japan­ese Room Puz­zle Box

Puz­zle: Mov­ing tiles puz­zle

Clues: None. (what’s weird is that the pic­ture on the box appears in a frame in the Study. One would expect that would be a clue to the puz­zle except you can’t get to the Study before com­plet­ing the puz­zle)

Solu­tion:

GET: Study Key

Study Lap­top Pass­word

Puz­zle: Fig­ure out the Lap­top Pass­word

Clues:

• Sheet of Paper - Study — The pass­word for work PC “1X X5 16 15 18 20”
• Sheet of Paper — Study — The pass­word for the work PC is “18 0…”
• Book — Study — Regard­ing work PC:  A is “01;” B is “02;” Z is “26”

Solu­tion:

Num­ber - 18 05 16 15 18 20

Word — REPORT

GET:

1st Time: Bath­room Pad­lock Hint: “Here, so I don’t for­get again. The num­ber for the pad­lock is the left­most col­umn. Last is 5″

2nd Time: Book­shelf Puz­zle Hint: “From ‘Schaussen’s Diary: The Mad Artist.’ In order, my favorite col­ors are: brown, pur­ple, red, blue, green. I notice a note on the lap­top. ‘This is a good way to order the books. Brown will be first…”

Bath­room Pad­lock

Puz­zle: Fig­ure out code for pad­lock on low­er cab­i­net next to wash­ing machine

Clue:

• Writ­ten on the pad­lock: “Note to self. The square is 3x3. Line 1 to 9 up in order, start­ing from upper left, going right.”
• Study Lap­top Pass­word Puz­zle clue: Here, so I don’t for­get again. The num­ber for the pad­lock is the left­most col­umn. Last is 5

Solu­tion: The num­bers on the com­bi­na­tion wheel form a grid. The clue tells you how to ori­ent the grid:

IMPORTANT: The clue on the pad­lock seems to be erro­neous. You need to set up the grid with the upper left at 0

This is what it would look like if the in-game clue was to be fol­lowed.

This is the cor­rect ori­en­ta­tion and suc­cess­ful solu­tion.

=1475

GET: Break­er Key (and bat­ter­ies)

Study Book­shelf

Puz­zle: Fig­ure out cor­rect order of books

Clues:

• Book — Bed­room — “The dog drowns at sea, the bird and its yel­low fade away with the sun­set, the but­ter­fly is eat­en by the flower”
• Book­mark — Book from Bed­room — “I should reorder every­thing but the start… Yel­low before green, after green comes blue”
• Sheet of Paper - Book in Japan­ese Room — “…red and pur­ple let it be the last one”
• Stand­ing Pho­to Frame — But­ter­fly pic in Bed­room — “Not enough col­ors… I’ll put yel­low after brown”)
• Stand­ing Pho­to Frame — Mar­ket pic in Study — “The last col­or is red”
• Study Lap­top Hint: “From ‘Schaussen’s Diary: The Mad Artist.’ In order, my favorite col­ors are: brown, pur­ple, red, blue, green. I notice a note on the lap­top. ‘This is a good way to order the books. Brown will be first…”

Solu­tion: Brown, Yel­low, Green, Blue, Pur­ple, Red

GET: Secret Room (Access to end of game)

Main Game Guide

The Jour­nal Mem­os denote loops in the game, and dou­ble as sto­ry check­points. Select­ing one will start the chap­ter over again.

While not nec­es­sary to fin­ish the main game, com­plet­ing 100% of the Side Sto­ries (as denot­ed by the red num­bers on the bot­tom right of each memo on the diary screen) is required to unlock the last CG and the best end­ing of the game. To do this, you must inspect every item until your part­ner starts talk­ing to you and giv­ing you back­sto­ry. There is a set num­ber of items to inspect before this occurs, get­ting hard­er and hard­er at the end of the game.

**Warn­ing! Spoil­ers Ahead!!**

If you’d like to view a sim­ple text, no spoil­er, non-detailed ver­sion of this guide CLICK HERE

To read all the Side Sto­ry dia­logue writ­ten out (plus extras) CLICK HERE

Prologue

Deaths: 3

You go up to Nemu’s room on your birth­day and are look­ing around. Inspect the only thing you can which is the desk and the pho­to on it which is a pho­to of you and some girl with her face scrib­bled out. Then you die. (CG acquired)

Uh. Was that a dream? Inspect the pic­ture again. Die again.

Nope. Not a dream. So what’s hap­pen­ing? You drop your lasagna when you real­ize from the pain you keep feel­ing that you’re death loop­ing. Inspect the desk one more time. You try to explain things to Nemu who twists your words and kills you. You die. Yet again. (CG Acquired)

Memo 1 — Tutorial Section

Deaths: 2

No! I’ll be killed by Nemu-chan again if I stay here!

You try to rip the diary, but it won’t rip and Nemu grows upset, so you stop, try­ing to not aggra­vate her into killing you again (pain is real and raw even if you keep res­ur­rect­ing). Unfor­tu­nate­ly, she’s still block­ing the door, so start inves­ti­gat­ing items in the room.

Inves­ti­gat­ing Tuto­r­i­al. After inves­ti­gat­ing things (I did all 6 items), Nemu moves away from the door. (This is the point you start at every time you die from now on)

Make a run for it! …Or not. You make up an excuse to leave the room to heat up the lasagna. It works. You try to act nor­mal, but it’s hard. Then you think of your phone, but it does­n’t work and Nemu tells you the house phone is con­ve­nient­ly bro­ken (tee­hee)

Puz­zle Tuto­r­i­al. You can walk around if you’d like and Nemu will creep­i­ly fol­low you (you can’t leave even if you try), but there are only 3 items to inspect. Take the notes from the mag­a­zine case and plant, then inspect them via the inven­to­ry. Solve the easy puz­zle and get a spe­cial pen for your diary.

Nemu demands that you go back to her room to show you some­thing spe­cial. You try and fail to stay in the liv­ing room, so you head up first and notice the wall­pa­per is peel­ing off, and under­neath are mul­ti­ple images of YOU. Nemu appears, enjoy­ing your shock, and explains that she want­ed you to under­stand exact­ly how much she’s obsessed with you. You get a lit­tle bit of insight into why she wants to kill you before… YOU RUN AWAY

Trap/Chase Event Tuto­r­i­al. You end up in the liv­ing room where your diary glows and red let­ters appear on the page. There are a few more items you can inspect now. If you check out the kitchen table, you are instruct­ed on how to place traps. Go get the Plas­tic Pack­ing Rope from the cab­i­net next to the TV and set it up at the table. Inspect every­thing you can, pick up the Kitchen Knife next to the sink, and make sure to inspect Nemu’s phone. After look­ing at things (about 8ish inspec­tions), Nemu will appear at your trap. If you have the knife in your hands she will pre­tend to be sor­ry and try to stab you, but you dodge and stab her instead. She ends up stab­bing you any­ways and you die again. (CG obtained)

Note: if you don’t pick up the kitchen knife and check Nemu’s phone, the sto­ry will not progress, and you will keep loop­ing until you do

Anoth­er Note: The good news is that when you’ve already read scenes, you’re allowed to skip them with the + but­ton on the Switch

Go to the liv­ing room again and this time, Akane appears! Thank GOD! While you cry from relief, Nemu is not hap­py but does­n’t act out… yet. You sug­gest Nemu pre­pare food while you try to con­vince Akane that Nemu is crazy and you’re in a death loop.

When she asks you to prove it, first go to the desk and save using the yel­low pen­cil cup (the game will prompt you). Then look at ~10 things until Nemu shows up and kills both Akane and you because she’s jeal­ous. You die.

Go down again and this time when Akane asks you to prove your­self, save if you want.

Don’t look at any­thing else except first, the BOOK on the desk and sec­ond, the PLANT in the cor­ner in that order. A cat will meow twice and con­vince Akane. She fol­lows you into the Par­ents’ Bed­room where she over­hears Nemu’s psy­chot­ic excla­ma­tions (CG obtained)

Memo 2 — Enter Akane

Nemu for sure isn’t her­self right now. We prob­a­bly can’t get through to her so let’s make our way out of here

Chase Event Tuto­r­i­al. At this point, you’re going to try and unlock Side Sto­ries, but you’ll also trig­ger Nemu’s Chase Events when you reach a cer­tain num­ber of inspec­tions, so you’re going to want to find trap items and trap areas to use them.

Start inspect­ing items in the Bed­room. 5 inspec­tions will get you Side Sto­ry 1. Pick up the Clothes from the wardrobe, and the Bat­ter­ies from the floor cab­i­net. 15 inspec­tions in (total, so 10 after the first 5), get Side Sto­ry 2. After about 25 Inspec­tions, Nemu will yell, “Where are you?!” The music will change, and the screen will pulse like a heart­beat. You have a few inspec­tions before the music ends and Nemu comes to kill you, so set a trap and either hide or lure her towards your trap to escape. In this instance, you can either use the Cat Plushie or the Game Con­sole and set it up at the frame of Nemu’s bed. After inspect­ing a few items and the music stops she will come and try to kill you. Once she leaves and the music and screen returns to nor­mal, you’re safe until the next chase scene.

Chase Event Hints:

• After you get the Chase Event warn­ing, you get around 2–4ish inspec­tions before she comes into the room
• You’ll know you’re on the last turn when you hear Nemu mum­bling creep­i­ly to her­self
• If you don’t have your sound up or can’t hear it, you’ll know you need to hide when you try to inspect some­thing and it says, “It’s not time to inves­ti­gate.”
• If you have a friend with you, the friend will auto­mat­i­cal­ly walk to you when you need to hide ASAP.
• The screen will get real­ly grainy when Nemu is in the room

NOTE: Do NOT go into the entry­way of the house yet, oth­er­wise it will trig­ger the next part of the sto­ry pro­gres­sion, and you won’t have all the side sto­ries yet, mean­ing you’ll have to start the check­point over again to get them. If you don’t care about 100% com­ple­tion, then head there

Side Sto­ry 3 pops up at around 30 total inspec­tions. After you fin­ish both bed­rooms upstairs, head down­stairs to look around. Make sure to set up the Plas­tic Pack­ing Rope trap at the table to pre­pare for anoth­er Chase Event which hap­pens around the 55-inspec­tion mark. Escape either upstairs or into the bath­room. Keep method­i­cal­ly inspect­ing every­thing and unlock Side Sto­ry 4 around the 65 total inspec­tions. You are able to take the Kitchen Knife and the Fruit Knife in the kitchen. In the bath­room, you can get Deter­gent B. When you hit around 85ish inspec­tions, anoth­er Chase Event starts. Head to the bath­room and use either the Cat Plushie or the Game Con­sole on the laun­dry ham­per, then hide in the tub. Inspect­ing around 100 things will final­ly net you the last, the 5th Side Sto­ry.

Now, you can head to the entry­way and get the holy heck out of–

Good grief. This girl real­ly is INSANE. Yep. Not only did you watch Akane die by gaseous poi­son right in front of you, but you die too. (CG Obtained)

Go to the liv­ing room. Con­vince Akane by look­ing at the BOOK and then the PLANT in Nemu’s Room. Go straight out to the entry­way this time. Noa will know about the trap and warn Akane.

Memo 3 — Basement Horror

Let’s find a way out, alive. It’ll be fine. We’ll def­i­nite­ly find a way.

Go back to the Liv­ing Room and save the game, if you want. After that, first inspect Nemu’s phone on the table (this will allow Suzu­ka to arrive on the next loop), then return to the entry­way and start inves­ti­gat­ing things. Side Sto­ry 1 received after 5 inves­ti­ga­tions. Con­tin­ue check­ing out all the items in the entry­way, then move to the liv­ing room. Side Sto­ry 2 received after 15 inves­ti­ga­tions. Remem­ber to pick up the Plas­tic Pack­ing Rope (“Nani Kore?!”) in prepa­ra­tion for anoth­er Chase Event… which rears its head around 25ish inspec­tions. Now go up to Nemu’s Bed­room. Akane will say, “Some­thing seems… off?” and it turns out the lap­top is in a dif­fer­ent posi­tion. You can save here if you’d like, then pick up the Cat Plushie and/or Game Con­sole as trap ammo, then check out the trash­can near the clos­et for a Sheet of Paper. Read it in your inven­to­ry. It’s time to unlock the lap­top, so inspect the lap­top for anoth­er clue, and SOLVE THAT PUZZLE! A word doc­u­ment is still open that says, “I found a great new spot! I’ll take stuff that won’t fit in here over there. I can put up even more pho­tos! Who’d expect a place like this to be in the base­ment.”

Before inves­ti­gat­ing the under­ground stor­age in the kitchen, con­tin­ue method­i­cal­ly inspect­ing things to unlock Side Sto­ry 3 around the 30ish mark. Oth­er things you can pick up are: Deter­gent B in the bath­room, Kitchen Knife and Fruit Knife in the kitchen, Clothes and Cos­met­ics from the Bed­room. Hon­est­ly, the only one you actu­al­ly need is the Fruit Knife which you want to make sure you have before you go down into the base­ment.

But don’t go down yet! Around the 55–60 inspec­tion mark anoth­er Chase Event occurs fol­lowed by dia­logue with Akane. This does NOT count as a side sto­ry, how­ev­er, so keep going until you get to the 120-inves­ti­ga­tion mark to final­ly get Side Sto­ry 4. Make sure to check your Memo in the Diary tab and be sure you got every­thing, and also that you inspect­ed Nemu’s phone in the liv­ing room.

When you’re ready, go ahead and inspect the under­ground stor­age in the kitchen and climb down into the base­ment. (CG obtained)

Memo 4 — Exit Akane

…Any­way, let’s focus on get­ting out of this house for now

You’re in the base­ment now and it’s… dis­turb­ing to say the least. Pic­tures of you all over with resent­ful words writ­ten in blood over them. Akane says that Nemu is clear­ly insane. You find an old note from one of the diary’s orig­i­nal own­ers explain­ing that the diary is mag­i­cal and giv­ing it your blood forms a con­tract that acti­vates its pow­ers. These pow­ers will remain until the con­trac­tor’s wish­es are ful­filled, so make wish­es with absolute sure­ty. The diary does­n’t active­ly grant wish­es per se, it just gives the con­trac­tor the pow­er to ful­fill their desires. The note fur­ther warns that the pow­er will be a nev­er end­ing, inescapable curse until the body and soul are destroyed. So, the only way to be freed from the diary, you must give the con­trac­tor what they want. You and Akane con­strue this to mean that they have to ful­fill Nemu’s wish­es… and you don’t know exact­ly what a mad­woman wants!! You focus instead on sim­ply escap­ing the house.

Check out all the things in the base­ment, mak­ing sure to take the Noa Plushie (creepy, much?) and the Can­dle under­neath. If you did­n’t grab the Fruit Knife from the kitchen, go get it now and return to the base­ment. Over on the far wall under the can­dles, you will auto­mat­i­cal­ly use the two items to get into the draw­er and snag the Front Door Trap Key. At this point (about 10 inves­ti­ga­tions), you’ll get Side Sto­ry 1. Go back upstairs.

Note: Do NOT go to the entry­way if you want 100% com­ple­tion

Save here if you want to, then start inves­ti­gat­ing every­thing. A Chase Event will trig­ger around 25 inves­ti­ga­tions. Look at 10 more items for a total of 35 for Side Sto­ry 2. Once that’s done, now you can go to the entry­way, use the key on the trap, and watch both Akane and your­self die again while los­ing it and telling Nemu that she is NOT your frie– Wait. Did she just say a name? Is Rina­mi-chan the name of that face­less friend that saved you from crip­pling lone­li­ness? (CG Obtained!)

Memo 5 — Enter Suzuka

There’s some­thing here that can dis­arm the trap at the entrance. Fol­low me.

Back in the room again. Go to the liv­ing room. You brood about Rina­mi and think you under­stand what Nemu wants, but you have to stop Akane from dying again… Wait. Suzu­ka-chan! What’s she doing here? Nev­er mind that, you con­vince her to come with you to Nemu’s room where she does­n’t believe you at all so must con­vince her the same way you con­vinced Akane. Save if you want, then select the Book then the Plant. Next door, Suzu­ka believes you when she hears Nemu’s death dec­la­ra­tion. You real­ize that if Nemu’s wish was for you to die, then it should have been fin­ished by now as you’d been killed so many times already (8 so far if you haven’t messed up). What the holy heck does she want then?

Com­bin­ing Items Tuto­r­i­al: From here on out, you can com­bine items you find to cre­ate traps to sur­vive. A suc­cess­ful com­bi­na­tion will be logged into the auto­mat­ic com­bo list for future ease.

Before inves­ti­gat­ing the Bed­room, go back to Nemu’s Bed­room. Suzu­ka will point out the pic­ture frame as some­thing odd. She’s talk­ing about the pic­ture on the desk. Take the Stand­ing Pho­to Frame of the pup­py, Cat Plushie, and the Game Con­sole. Check out the table with the bun­nies, too. After 10 inspec­tions, you get Side Sto­ry 1.

Go back to the Bed­room where Suzu­ka points out some­thing on the night­stand. She’s talk­ing about the night­stand against the wall which has a Sheet of Paper that tells you how to open the Dial Safe on the floor. Take the Stand­ing Pho­to Frame of the cat on the shelf. 30ish inspec­tions will bless you with a Chase Event. Go back to Nemu’s room and bait then hide. This trig­gers Side Sto­ry 2. (Unlock Memo 6)

Memo 6 — Exit Suzuka

Chase Events: 2

Let’s talk about this again… when we get out of here.

Return to the Bed­room to fin­ish inves­ti­gat­ing things, then head down­stairs. Suzu­ka will point out the sofa. If you’ve read the note and pho­to frames, then the last part of the puz­zle is the small­er sofa. Take the Paper with Man­u­fac­tur­ing Date from there. You now have enough infor­ma­tion to open the Dial Safe in the Bed­room. Before going upstairs to do that, check out the items in the area, par­tic­u­lar­ly Nemu’s phone on the table. Oth­er things you can do now that you could­n’t before is get Deter­gent A from under the sink and open all 3 draw­ers on the refrig­er­a­tor for Plas­tic Bot­tle, Ice, and Ice Pack. All items are used for traps (check out the item com­bi­na­tion sec­tion above). Around the 60th inspec­tion, a Chase Event occurs.

Once you’re ready, go on up to the Bed­room and solve the puz­zle.

You get the Japan­ese Room Key for your trou­ble. Head across the way and unlock the door! Woohoo! More stuff to explore. First up, move both the futons on the right and the stack of cush­ions above (that way you can be pre­pared for anoth­er Chase Event). Then obtain Med­i­cine Case B, Med­i­cine Case C, and Deter­gent C from the med­i­cine rack on the dress­er and from the right side of the clos­et. Be sure to mix them to get Birdlime, Slip­pery Trap, and/or XSBirdlime (though at this point I still had the Plas­tic Pack­ing Rope which works in Nemu’s Room or the Bed­room). 70 checks gets you Side Sto­ry 3. When that’s done, inspect the puz­zle box under the floor cush­ions and solve it.

Puz­zle Box Solu­tion (click to expand)

You just got the Study Key! Head on over and unlock it. Save point! Just in time, too because 90ish inspec­tions nets you anoth­er Chase Event. Trap her in either bed­room, then head back to inves­ti­gate the study. Here, you get sev­er­al Sheets of Paper, a Book, Med­i­cine A, and two Cars to use as trap bait. We hit the 100th inspec­tion, trig­ger­ing the 4th Side Sto­ry, which means that we can now progress with the sto­ry!

Go down to the kitchen to get the Fruit Knife, then into the base­ment for the Can­dle and Noa Doll, then snag the Front Door Trap Key. Go on out and undo the trap for a cutscene where Suzu­ka betrays Noa, say­ing that if you leave, Nemu will be sad. She says that some­one needs to be by Nemu’s side and that she’s the only one who can do it. Suzu­ka shoves you into the vase and accus­es you of hid­ing Rina­mi the whole time. She runs off reveal­ing that she has the hots for Nemu. (CG Obtained)

Memo 7 — Lights Out

(Suzu­ka has been act­ing strange since the start… But I did­n’t expect for her to do this.)

The knocked over vase has short cir­cuit­ed the whole house, cut­ting off the lights.

Imme­di­ate­ly go up to the study and inspect the book­shelf for a cutscene between Suzu­ka and Nemu where Suzu­ka unveils that she’d been stalk­ing Noa because she’d delved into Nemu’s past and knew all about Rinami’s betray­al. Suzu­ka paints a pic­ture of Noa’s evil, try­ing to get close to Nemu just to betray and hurt her like Rina­mi in High School… all because Noa is Rinami’s friend in uni­ver­si­ty. Suzu­ka ends it by pro­fess­ing her love to Nemu. You now know why Nemu is try­ing to kill you: a mis­un­der­stand­ing, and work towards this new goal. (CG Unlocked)

Impor­tant: Leave the study and go back in. The lap­top should be open now (you must have watched the book­shelf cutscene for it to open. No oth­er item is required)

You can go ahead and save in the Study now. Inves­ti­gate the stuff there, mak­ing sure you’ve snagged items that will help you set traps (i.e. the Cars, Med­i­cine A), and the 3 clues that will unlock the lap­top (Desk, Table, Book). Solve the puz­zle.

Then, go into the bath­room, get the Break­er Key from behind the pad­locked cab­i­net by solv­ing the Bath­room Pad­lock Puz­zle using the clue on the pad­lock and from the lap­top.

If you’re aim­ing for 100% com­ple­tion, then head to the oth­er rooms to inves­ti­gate things. A Chase Event occurs around the 30ish mark, so foil her, then con­tin­ue until you hit the 35-mark for Side Sto­ry 2.

It’s time to go into the entry­way. Inter­act with the break­er on the wall twice.

Well, well… Wel­come back, Suzu­ka. You try to rea­son with Suzu­ka explain­ing that you legit­i­mate­ly want­ed to be friends with Nemu, appeal­ing to her famil­iar­i­ty with Nemu’s shy per­son­al­i­ty. Suzu­ka has clear­ly been reject­ed by Nemu who admits that she always knew that you weren’t out to get Nemu, she was just try­ing to claim Nemu for her­self. You con­tin­ue to accept Suzu­ka as a friend and suc­cess­ful­ly con­vince Suzu­ka to work with you. (Unlocks Memo 8)

Memo 8 — Basement Confrontation

Deaths: 1

This diary has mag­ic pow­ers, so there might be some­thing in the base­ment

The diary directs you to go into the base­ment. With noth­ing else to accom­plish or get, head to the base­ment and…

Come face to face with Nemu, her­self. Suzu­ka attempts to rea­son with Nemu, explain­ing how she had set all of this in motion by try­ing to take Nemu for her­self, and that you had noth­ing to do with it. Hear­ing this Nemu stabs Suzu­ka (CG unlocked). Nemu explains how when Rina­mi first betrayed her, life lost all mean­ing and she shut down her emo­tions. She accus­es you of try­ing to do the exact same thing Rina­mi did to her in high school. You try to rea­son with no suc­cess. Nemu even­tu­al­ly claims she’s tired of being betrayed, being sus­pi­cious of “friends.” So much so that she stabs her­self in the neck (CG unlocked), then slits her own throat. She reveals her wish: to not have friends. You’re freak­ing out and real­ize that if you leave now, noth­ing will be resolved, so you pick up the knife and stab your­self.

You Die.

You know the drill: go to the liv­ing room, con­vince Suzu­ka (Book then Plant).

Memo 8 does not have any side sto­ries, so just go to the kitchen to get the Fruit Knife, then to the base­ment and get the Noa Doll and Can­dle. With those, snag the Front Door Trap Key. Sav­ing at this point is help­ful. Go ahead and dis­arm the trap! Suzu­ka knocks you over, short­ing the house again, and runs off. You wish that Akane was there because you feel that all 3 are need­ed to con­vince Nemu. All of the sud­den, the door­bell rings and in walks… Oh! Akane! Clear­ly the diary is respon­si­ble for this… (Memo 9 unlocked)

Memo 9 — Getting Close

All right. Hon­est­ly, I can’t wrap my head around what you’re say­ing, but how can I say no when you help, Noa?

Impor­tant: Miss­able CG - To get this don’t do any­thing and just go into the base­ment with Akane. You die painful­ly (CG obtained)

Back through the motions: Book then Plant. This time, you can either grab some trap items before head­ing to the base­ment for the Front Door Trap Key and wel­com­ing Akane, or just reload your save file and start from there.

If you’re aim­ing for the 3 Side Sto­ries, start inves­ti­gat­ing every­thing like nor­mal, pick­ing up trap items along the way. There’s no rea­son to not turn on the lights at this point, so go ahead and grab the Break­er key and turn it on, if you want to. Around 28ish inves­ti­ga­tions, a Chase Event will trig­ger, along with some dia­logue with Akane — it won’t count towards the Side Sto­ries, how­ev­er. Keep check­ing things out to get Side Sto­ry 1 at the 35ish point, anoth­er Chase Event around 58–60 mark, and then Side Sto­ry 2 at 68–70 inves­ti­ga­tions.

NOTE: Do NOT go into the base­ment with Akane because you’ll trig­ger the trap­door death scene

This time around when you solve the Study Lap­top Pass­word with the same solu­tion as before, you get a dif­fer­ent clue because now it’s time to solve the Study Book­shelf Puz­zle. If you haven’t got­ten Side Sto­ry 3, how­ev­er, DON’T solve the puz­zle yet until you do. Going into the Bed­room will have Akane point out that some­thing is odd.

The next Chase Event appears around the 90ish, 115ish, 145, 180, and 205 inspec­tion-marks, while the last Side Sto­ry appears after a whop­ping 215ish inspec­tions (admit­ted­ly, I may have lost count a few times. Num­ber is approx­i­mate)!! WHEW! (Memo 10 unlocked)

OKAY. Now that that’s over, it’s time to solve the Study Book­shelf Puz­zle. You should have all the clues by now, so go on up and solve it!

You will find Suzu­ka stand­ing around in the secret room (inter­est­ing note, here: if you hap­pened to trig­ger a Chase Event, it will clear as soon as the cutscene launch­es). Where you con­vinced Suzu­ka who is extreme­ly apolo­getic, to work with you all as a team. (Unlock CG)

Memo 10 — End Game

Yeah, Suzu­ka-chan’s my friend too. That has­n’t changed, even now.

From here, it’s time to go to the base­ment as you have deter­mined, but before you do that, check out the paint­ing on the ground for a Small Wood­en Block. It looks sus­pi­cious­ly like the puz­zle cube in the Japan­ese Room., so head on over and insert it for a small news­pa­per scrap that is too small to read and does­n’t go in your inven­to­ry. Go down to the liv­ing room and SAVE your game.

Approach the base­ment hatch and choose: “Acts with Akane and Suzu­ka.” Watch the cutscene (Obtain 3 CGs)

Welp. That did­n’t work. Let’s try again. Either load Memo 10 or, bet­ter, reload your saved game. Make sure you got the small news­pa­per piece, and this time choose “Acts sep­a­rate­ly from Akane and Suzu­ka.” (Obtain CG)

Fin­ish­ing 100% of the side sto­ries will net you the Epi­logue and the last CG after the cred­its roll.

Con­grat­u­la­tions! You Beat the Game!

Side Story Summaries

To read the full dia­logue of the Side Sto­ries and oth­er scenes CLICK HERE

CGs (20 Total)

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