UNDO: Cherry Blossom Festival

Description

--- UNDO: Cherry Blossom Festival is a narrative-driven time travel game where players prevent deaths by altering the past. Key mechanics include: - *Time jumps* Players travel minutes, hours, thousands of years back, or to the future for clues. - *Event alteration* Each jump offers choices to change past events, with unpredictable outcomes. - *Story reconstruction* Assemble emotional narratives piece by piece through time manipulation. - *Fate weaving* Embody disembodied destiny weavers making decisions that determine life or death. - *Non-investigative focus* Emphasize prevention over crime-solving in touching stories of love, loss, family. UNDO: Cherry Blossom Festival, part of the innovative UNDO series, casts players as gods-sent fate weavers tasked with undoing sudden deaths like murder or suicide. Players manipulate time—leaping minutes, hours, or millennia into the past, or occasionally the future—to alter foundational events and avert tragedy. Each scenario unfolds an emotional story assembled incrementally, where choices per time jump reshape history, though not always beneficially. In this case, set in Okayama, Japan, March 2000, a sixties man lies dead in his living room beside a broken wine glass, a wheelchair-bound young woman's photo, cherry blossom branches, and a ringing phone playing "Moonlight Sonata"; he wears an old blue suit with a faint eye scar. Devoid of crime-solving, players traverse his past as disembodied entities, wielding momentous decisions to grant him a future amid themes of love, loss, and family. ---