Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen
A rhythm minigame about peeping in a hot spring.
Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen is a 2008 rhythm video game published by Atlus as an Adobe Flash browser game. It was created to promote Persona 4 and was playable on the Japanese Persona 4 website. The minigame involves clicking to the beat of music to spy on the character Chie Satonaka in a hot-spring bath.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Atlus
- Series
- Persona
- Platforms
- Browser
- Released
- July 2, 2008 (JP)
- Genre
- Rhythm
- Modes
- Single-player
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Gameplay
Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen is a rhythm minigame where the player, on the men's side of an open-air onsen, tries to look through a hole in the partition to spy on Chie Satonaka bathing. The player must repeatedly click the mouse on the hole to the beat of the music in double time to fill a heart gauge. Clicking too rapidly causes Chie to notice and beat up the player; clicking too slowly lets the fifteen-second timer expire. Completing the game reveals Chie bathing and unlocks a second challenge showing her with Yukiko Amagi.
Reception
Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen was popular and well received by players, according to NLab, which called it 'loved by everyone' and noted its review was the week's most-read article. Hayato Ikeya found the game shocking as a long-time Persona fan, considering it uncharacteristic for the series, but found it fun and exciting. GameSpark expressed bafflement at its existence. Wataru Katou described the peeping conceit as centered on 'a foolish male mentality' and illegal in reality, but understood the appeal. Wired called the game perverted but sexy, and a way to tide fans over before Persona 4; they described the gameplay as simple but hard to master and were unable to finish it. New Akiba recommended watching a video playthrough instead. Wired described the sequence where Chie notices the player as '[verging] on insane'; Ikeya said he and his colleagues found that sequence more exciting than the rewards. Kōichi Imafuji enjoyed the voyeuristic premise but also the responsive clicking controls and engaging difficulty.
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