Just under a week ago, MAGES. representative director Chiyomaru Shikura held a livestream on the Japanese livestreaming site TwitCasting—like in previous streams, he discussed a number of regular topics with his viewers while also offering some tidbits of information on the state of the Science Adventure series.
A user on the Japanese forum website 5channel (NSFW link) has created a summary of this information, which we will be using as the basis for this recap article—while we have verified this summary alongside the original stream for accuracy, please note that the information listed below originates from Shikura’s personal stream, and does not necessarily equate to an official statement by MAGES.
On Anonymous;Code
- Shikura stated that the game’s story will be about both quantum and traditional computers.
- Artificial intelligence will also play a role.
- Shikura stated that he’s begun composing music for the game, and that the game’s opening song is beginning to take shape—production of the opening song itself is halfway complete.
- The company has decided on the extent of what they can and can’t say about the game in marketing materials, and they’re currently providing information under those guidelines.
- In Shikura’s words, “The story has an ending. A proper ending.”
“Have you finished Occultic;Nine yet?”
- Shikura: “Now, I know what you’re all wondering: ‘Have you finished Occultic;Nine yet?’ And the answer to that question is, well, when it came to the anime adaptation, the third volume of the light novel… Okay, never mind. Sorry, I don’t have an excuse.”
- “Um, it still hasn’t been, uh, been gone over. It hasn’t been gone over yet. All I can really say is that the contents of the fourth light novel volume were meant to be used in the visual novel, but due to a blunder within the company—or a little misstep of mine—things went south. I ended up getting smacked over the head for that one.”
- “They were like, ‘You know the game’s going to end up in the same situation as the anime, don’t you?'”
- “The game, of course, has got a lot more to it, considering it has various tools—the TIPS, for example. Meanwhile, the anime had to condense all of that.”
- Shikura went on to talk about how the anime had its own ending, but the game really did turn out the way they had been concerned it would—not having the proper ending Shikura had planned for the light novels.
- He said that he promised himself that when the fourth volume was completed, he would release something as DLC for the visual novel—that being said, he doesn’t necessarily plan to overwrite the current game’s contents.
- He would like to release it for free for the people who have already bought the game, but according to him, such a DLC would exceed the file size normally allowed for free content updates.
- Shikura: “I know people are gonna say, ‘So basically, you’re saying you’re only halfway done? C’mon, man.’ But, well, I know this is only an excuse, but it needs to be perfect. Sorry.”
On SciADV as a whole
- Shikura: “Well, as I’m sure you all know, the SciADV series is completely interconnected; that’s why Occultic;Nine has the ‘nine’ in its title.”
- “As you consider that, consider Occultic;Nine’s different worldview. Then, consider what happened in Occultic;Nine. What happened in Steins;Gate. What about worldline divergence? How is it measured? Next, consider a dystopia in 2036. All of these things will lead straight into Anonymous;Code.”
A random tidbit
- Lastly, Shikura talked about how the most recent term he’d Googled was the name “Salieri.” He said that anyone who didn’t know the name should give it a search.
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