En juin 1983, le village rural japonais de Hinamizawa est frappé par des morts et disparitions récurrentes, liées à un meurtre étouffé survenu lors d'un projet de barrage avorté. Les cigales bourdonnent le jour, les higurashi stridulent la nuit sous la chaleur estivale naissante, tandis que les habitants affrontent des événements qui se répètent chaque année. Quelqu'un d'absent réapparaît, un autre s'évanouit, les vivants finissent morts : le destin paraît inéluctable.
Ce chapitre d'aventure explore si complot, hasard ou malédiction alimente ce cycle infernal, poussant à persévérer malgré l'impossibilité d'enrayer la tragédie. Les joueurs plongent dans un monde où les présences attendues se dérobent et la survie reste incertaine. Il séduit les amateurs d'aventures narratives mêlant mystère et fatalité implacable.
June, 1983.
The summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years.
By day there are cicadas, and by night, the higurashi.
Hinamizawa, a small village in the Japanese countryside.
While there are fewer than two thousand people there, every year, 'something' happens.
For the past 4 years, someone has died, and someone else has gone missing.
This series of deaths and disappearances is connected to the local resistance against a now-abandoned dam construction project.
A murder during the construction, covered up by the local authorities, is being re-enacted year after year.
Is it a conspiracy? A coincidence? Or perhaps a curse?
Someone who was supposed to be there... isn't.
Someone who wasn't supposed to be there... is.
Someone who was alive last night is now dead, and someone who is here right now isn't alive.
There is no way to avert this tragedy. There is no choice but to give up trying.
But even so... please don't give up.
