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Chaos;Head – PC games discover the semi-colon

By Kieron Gillen on April 16th, 2008.

Will this be the game to satisfy my current love of semi-colons? SIGNS POINT TO YES.

Over on Gametrailers, the (Japanese) trailer for the forthcoming – ahem – Visual Novel Chaos;Head is up. The imaginative use of punctuation lead me to visit their website, and I was rewarded by some Pathologic-esque broken translation of incredible/awesome pretension. I quote: “If you are God and the delusion becomes reality. About what kind of the noids you get? Is it the sensual world? The despotic society? The destructive sanctions? Or…”

Or…, indeed. Yes, it’s easy to laugh at iffy translation, but I’m all about the easy, as the VD clinic in Bath will testify. Demo trailer and opening cinematic video beneath the cut…
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