Rain98 is a blue-hued, pre-Y2K, Serial Experiments Lain inspired visual novel about time travelling to the past to end the world
You're me, and you boot up the demo for Rain98, an incredibly blue-looking, rainy visual novel set in Tokyo, 1998, about a woman who refers to herself as the Angolmois, a world-ending reference to the predictions of good ole Nostradamus.
You're me, and you boot up the demo for Rain98, an incredibly blue-looking, rainy visual novel set in Tokyo, 1998, about a woman who refers to herself as the Angolmois, a world-ending reference to the predictions of good ole Nostradamus.
The short version
- At one point you have to light this woman's cigarette in a lightly stylish sequence.
- You get to a bit where you're asked to put your name in, and you put it in because like its predecessors, this is surely a self-insert kind of situation.
- Only you get a Steam achievement for getting a game over for putting your name in.
What happened
But curious, so you, and of course I mean I, pressed on. This Heisei-era ennui and nihilism is relatively appropriately placed too.
Why it matters
It was a time of the lost decades, a period where Japan's economy massively stagnated, in turn influencing a wide range of strange, often anxiety-inducing and ominous works like Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion and All About Lily Chou-Chou.
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