Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen

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Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen
The titel screen shows the character Chie in an onsen
Title screen
Developer(s)Atlus
Publisher(s)Atlus
SeriesPersona
Platform(s)Browser
Release
  • JP: July 2, 2008
Genre(s)Rhythm
Mode(s)Single-player

Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen[a] is a rhythm video game published by Atlus on July 2, 2008, as part of a promotion for their then-upcoming role-playing video game Persona 4. An Adobe Flash game, it is played through the web browser on the official Japanese Persona 4 website.

The minigame involves the player clicking to the beat of the music to spy on the Persona 4 character Chie Satonaka in the women's side of an onsen hot-spring bath, through a hole in the middle partition. The game took inspiration from how the player visits a bath in Persona 4, but its scenario is otherwise not connected to Persona 4's. The game was popular, but saw mixed reception: some were baffled by the concept and the game's existence, while some enjoyed it.

Gameplay[edit]

Screenshot, showing a wooden partition in the middle of the bath, with a hole in it, allowing the player to look into the other side
The player looks into the women's side of the bath through a hole in the partition by clicking to the beat of the music.

Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen is a rhythm minigame in which the player, located on the men's side of an open-air onsen hot-spring bath, tries to look into the women's side through a hole in the middle partition to spy on the Persona 4 character Chie Satonaka while she is bathing, while avoiding getting caught.[1][2][3]

To do so, the player must repeatedly click with the mouse on the hole to the beat of the music, in double time, to fill up a heart gauge.[2][4] They have to avoid clicking too rapidly, which results in Chie noticing them and calling them out on being a pervert; but if they on the other hand click too slowly, the fifteen-second timer will run out, and they lose their chance to look any further. Completing the game earns the player illustrations of Chie bathing, and the option to play through a second challenge where they receive an illustration of Chie bathing with Yukiko Amagi, another Persona 4 character.[1][4][5][6]

Development and release[edit]

Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen was developed in Adobe Flash,[3] and took inspiration from a sequence where the player visits a bath in Persona 4,[2] although the scenario is otherwise not connected to Persona 4's plot.[1] Siliconera described it as part of a trend of Japanese video games having Flash-based demos, while noting that Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen does not actually act as a demo.[2]

The game was published by Atlus on July 2, 2008, as a browser game playable on the official Japanese Persona 4 website, released as part of a promotion for the Japanese release of Persona 4 the following week, together with wallpapers and new trailers.[1][7][8] In 2015, Atlus released Hanate Wotagei! Rise no Dance Battle, another browser game with similar clicking gameplay but different theming, to promote their rhythm game Persona 4: Dancing All Night.[9]

Reception[edit]

Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen was popular and well liked, according to NLab, who also noted that their review of it was their most-read article of the week.[10] Hayato Ikeya, writing for the same site, found the game shocking as a long-time fan of Persona, considering it uncharacteristic for the series; despite his initial reservations, Ikeya found the game fun and exciting, and enjoyed the ending.[1] GameSpark merely expressed bafflement at the game's existence when summarizing the domestic game industry news of the week.[11]

Wataru Katou, another NLab writer, described the game's peeping conceit as "a foolish male mentality" and as something that would be illegal to do in reality, but said that he understood the appeal of wanting to see something when you are forbidden from doing so.[10] Wired called it perverted but sexy, and something to tide Persona fans over while waiting for Persona 4, describing the gameplay as simple but hard to master, and were themselves unable to finish the game;[1] New Akiba recommended those who do not want to complete the game to instead watch a video playthrough.[12] Wired described the sequence where Chie notices the player as "[verging] on insane";[3] Ikeya said that he and his colleagues found the sequence more exciting than the rewards for winning.[1]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen (Japanese: 温泉ノゾき見大作戦, "The Great Onsen Peeping Operation")

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Ikeya, Hayato (2008-07-04). "もう遊んだ？ ムフフでドキドキな「ペルソナ4」の「温泉ノゾき見大作戦」". NLab (in Japanese). IT Media. Archived from the original on 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  2. ^ a b c d "The promotional peeping tom Persona 4 flash game". Siliconera. Gamurs. 2008-07-29. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  3. ^ a b c Snow, Jean (2008-07-30). "Play The Perverted Persona 4 Flash Game". Wired. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on 2023-12-03. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  4. ^ a b North, Dale (2008-08-18). "Persona 4 sneak peek? This is not what we had in mind". Destructoid. Gamurs. Archived from the original on 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  5. ^ Atlus (2008-07-02). Onsen Nozokimi Daisakusen (browser) (in Japanese). Atlus. Scene: Ending.
  6. ^ Ikeya, Hayato (2008-07-04). "もう遊んだ？　ムフフでドキドキな「ペルソナ4」の「温泉ノゾき見大作戦」". NLab (in Japanese). IT Media. Archived from the original on 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  7. ^ "ペルソナ4 (PS2)の関連情報". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa Game Linkage. Archived from the original on 2023-12-16. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
  8. ^ "『ペルソナ4』公式サイト更新！ 新規映像3本＆壁紙2枚が公開". Dengeki Online (in Japanese). Kadokawa Game Linkage. 2008-07-07. Archived from the original on 2021-01-22. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
  9. ^ "『ペルソナ4 ダンシング・オールナイト』ミニゲーム"放てヲタ芸！りせのダンスバトル"が公式サイトで公開". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa Game Linkage. 2015-06-17. Archived from the original on 2023-01-31. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
  10. ^ a b Katou, Wataru (2008-07-09). "のぞきは犯罪です". NLab (in Japanese). IT Media. Archived from the original on 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  11. ^ Ten-Four (2008-07-04). "本日の国内ゲーム情報ひとまとめ - 2008年7月4日". GameSpark (in Japanese). IID, Inc. Archived from the original on 2024-05-01.
  12. ^ "「ペルソナ4」プロモサイト・Ｈなゲームのプレイ動画". New Akiba (in Japanese). 2008-07-04. Archived from the original on 2019-05-19. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

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