A GAMING MYSTERY I CANNOT SOLVE For years I have been trying to identify
a game I played on my PS Vita. I have
asked everywhere and nobody has been
able to crack it. This is genuinely one
of the most mysterious games I have ever
encountered because it seems to barely
exist on the internet at all.
Maybe the detectives of r/gamingmysteries
can finally solve this!
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THE BASICS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Pixel art RPG
Era: Somewhere 2012-2019
Origin: Chinese OR Japanese developer
Status: COMPLETELY UNIDENTIFIED
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THE LANGUAGE MYSTERY━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Here is what makes this interesting:
- Title screen = Chinese OR Japanese
characters
- Opening song = Beautiful Chinese OR
Japanese vocal song
- In-game dialog = ENGLISH
This strange combination suggests it
could be:
→ A fan translation of an Asian game
→ An Asian indie game with English
support built in
→ A lesser known Asian release with
partial localization
Nobody has been able to explain this
combination yet!
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WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- Classic 2D pixel art
- Old school JRPG visual style
- Similar to SNES/PS1 era RPGs
- Separate battle screen when
fighting enemies
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THE STORY I REMEMBER━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This is what I remember clearly
and in order:
① Hero is from Earth/modern world
② He discovers a WARP GATE
or PORTAL
③ Gets transported to a completely
different fantasy world
④ WAKES UP IN A FOREST
⑤ Immediately encounters a GIRL
being viciously attacked by
a WOLF and saves her
⑥ The girl is NOT human - she
appears to be some kind of
alien or fantasy species
⑦ The girl gets KIDNAPPED BY
AN EVIL PRINCE
⑧ The entire game revolves around
fighting through dark forces
to rescue her
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THE GAMEPLAY━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- Classic JRPG exploration on
an overworld/map
- Touching an enemy triggers a
COMPLETELY SEPARATE BATTLE
SCREEN / DEDICATED ARENA
- Battle system used both:
→ SWORD attacks
→ MAGIC SPELLS
- Very classic old school feel
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THE OPENING SONG━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
One of the most memorable things
about this game was its opening
song. A beautiful full vocal song
in Chinese or Japanese that played
every time you booted the game.
Very emotional, very memorable,
like a classic anime opening theme.
The kind of song that stays with
you forever.
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WHAT MAKES THIS A TRUE MYSTERY
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- Extensive searching has found
NOTHING matching this description
- It has NO English internet presence
that anyone can find
- Multiple gaming communities have
failed to identify it
- Even JRPG experts and Vita
specialists have no clue
- It seems to exist in a complete
blind spot of gaming history
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GAMES ALREADY RULED OUT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- Journey to Kreisia (Kemco)
- Machine Knight (Kemco)
- Exstetra (FuRyu)
- Asdivine Hearts (Kemco)
- Fernz Gate (Kemco)
- Legend of Sword and Fairy
- Dokuro
- Every mainstream Vita JRPG
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THE CHALLENGE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Can the detectives of
r/gamingmysteries finally crack
this case that has stumped every
other gaming community?
This game genuinely existed - I
played it with my own hands. It
had a beautiful story, gorgeous
pixel art, and an unforgettable
opening song. And yet it seems
to have vanished completely from
gaming history.
If ANYONE has even the smallest
lead, clue or idea - please share
it. This mystery has haunted me
for years and I would be forever
grateful to finally solve it!
Can YOU identify the ghost game?
