En juin 1983, la chaleur précoce de l'été gagne Hinamizawa, paisible village rural japonais comptant moins de deux mille habitants. Les cigales stridulent le jour, les higurashi hurlent la nuit, tandis que morts et disparitions annuelles hantent la communauté. Ces drames renvoient à l'opposition locale face à un projet de barrage abandonné, marqué par un meurtre étouffé des années de chantier qui se répète sans fin.
Ce jeu d'aventure explore la frontière entre complot, hasard et malédiction, au cœur de présences changeantes - absents qui devraient être là , intrus là où nul n'a sa place, vivants changés en cadavres du jour au lendemain. Aucune voie n'arrête la tragédie grandissante, mais la ténacité persiste. Les amateurs d'aventures narratives attirés par des destins inéluctables y trouveront l'essence même.
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.
