Hikaru no Go Heian game for the PS!
While browsing nicovideo.jp today, I came across someone's playthrough of this game. The entire game! All the voiced scenes! This game is way too hilarious...it's like an official fanfic where everyone's living in the Heian era. There are youkai running about. Youkai who want to play GO. Everyone plays go for some reason. Hikaru is Sai's guard. Akira is an onmyouji. Waya and Tsutsui and a bunch of other people are nobles. And so forth. Mind breaking stuff. I wish I had this game. The voices and images were great.
I took a bunch of screencaps because some of these are so pretty. <3
Hikaru gets sent to find Sai. Sai doesn't hear Hikaru because he's so focused on playing go.
Some of his customers start fighting. Haha, look who it is?
Sai's teaching people~
Ishiwara! :O He's a noble. Hikaru and Sai get called for some matter that both of them don't know anything about.
Akira appears! (kyaaaa) A bunch of people commented that he looks like Haku in this, haha. Akira is called "Kamo Akira" in this.
Akira's dad! Who is...not Akira's dad in this game. He's called Fujiwara no Kouyo in this. He calls Akira "Kamo-kun." How sad! Sai acts a bit weird around him. They have the same name...
The 'villains.' Sort of. LOL at evil looking Kurata. Apparently, Sai is called to play a go game on a board with some faraway youkai. (Yeah, youkai love go too.) The entire go board is played with black stones. Wherever the next hand is played is where youkai will appear next. Sai plays a move, Zama-sama plays a different move, saying that Sai played the wrong move.
Akira, Hikaru, and Sai go to the place Sai played to wait for the youkai. They meet these people in the streets!
Honda~
MITANI. And Kaga. The clothes fit both of them well! Kaga starts fighting with Akira.
Tsutsui steps in and stops their fighting. Good for Tsutsui. The youkai should be handled first! The youkai end up not appearing at the place Sai played...Sai goes home feeling dejected.
Depressed!Sai.
Hikaru has a brilliant idea to cheer Sai up. No, it's not molesting Sai. Hikaru offers to play a go game. He's never played before, but he knows Sai loves go.
After Hikaru plays Sai, a child comes in and Hikaru plays go with him too. (The child is Fuku, haha. Poor guy has no name here.) Hikaru loses...
Sai and Hikaru go back to the room with the go board. There is now one white stone among the black stones. Akira offers Sai a go stone and asks Sai to play the next move.
Sai accepts.
They head to the location where the youkai will appear. Akira gives Hikaru a sword to slay the youkai.
Hikaru takes the sword!
The youkai appears! Ahahahahaha. The youkai in this game are way too funny. Poor guys who got turned into youkai...
Hikaru slays the guy with a sword. (but you actually play go against him...) Sai successfully figured out where the youkai were appearing.
The next day, Hikaru and Sai run into Kouyo again, who introduces Ogata. :O
Hikaru runs into Isumi and Waya! (They both have different surnames) Waya calls Hikaru, "Hikaru." :O
Sai notices that some girls are waving to Hikaru. Turns out to be Akari no Kimi, Hikaru's childhood friend. Next to Akari is Nase no Kimi. So pretty~
Waya and Hikaru want to go to Ogata's hanami event, but you have to be invited to go. Luckily, both Isumi and Sai were invited, so Waya and Hikaru tag along (they just want the food). Sai's pretty reluctant to go for some reason and disappears for a long while. Hikaru tries to find him and runs into Kishimoto!! (who did not see Sai)
After Kishimoto left, Hikaru tried asking someone else, but he didn't see Sai either.
Isumi: "Ogata-sama ga ore wo miteiru." Ogata-sama is looking at me. (LOL!) The comments at Nicodouga exploded over this.
When Hikaru comes back from the entrance, he sees Isumi talking with Ogata. Hikaru finds it hard to cut in.
Kouyo arrives! He asks after Sai, but Hikaru doesn't know where he is. Kouyo is relieved just knowing that Sai had attended.
Waya found Sai for everyone. Sai was looking forlornly at the cherry blossoms.
They gather together to eat. (Saeki~~!!)
Hikaru loses sight of Sai again and discovers that Sai is talking with Ogata. Hikaru finds it hard to butt in here too.
At night time, they fight their next demon. Poor Morishita-sensei!! What happened to you...
Sai receives a puzzle in the form of a letter. It supposedly came from a beauty. Akari is totally excited over it and wants to decipher it to meet the "beauty." They drag Akira along (who doesn't want to go at all) and find Mitani who deciphers the puzzle for them. Mitani is totally excited over meeting this "beauty." When they go to the place, they end up meeting Ishikawa (who's not the person behind the letter, haha. Comments were flying about how that would be disappointing. People kept trying to guess who the "beauty" would be. Mitani's sister?). Ishikawa asks Akira something, and Akira gladly takes the chance to run away from what they were doing.
Hikaru calls it a day for the beauty searching. Hikaru and Sai find another youkai to beat up. Poor guy. Except, Hikaru loses.
Akira steps in to save the day. Hikaru needs to lose more so we can see scenes like this.
The next day, Hikaru sets out to find the beauty again. Sai doesn't want to go, but he needs a guard, so Akira uses that as a reason to drop out too. Mitani tags along with Hikaru and Akari. They head to a temple, beat the guy at go, and were then guided to the place where the beauty lived. And guess who the beauty ended up being...?
KANEKO. AHAHAHAHA. She's known as the "Heian beauty."
Mitani is very, very impressed. Man, this game wants people to ship Mitani x Kaneko.
Mitani blushes so much during these scenes!!
Anyway, back to serious business, Hikaru and the others are now battling the four mystical beasts. Suzaku, Genbu, all that.
This guy is up first.
This is the second guy.
They talk a bit.
And each have a cut scene of their own. :3
Third guy.
Morishita-sensei!! An upgrade from all those ugly youkai.
In the non youkai circle, Akari accidentally upset one of the nobles and is challenged to a 3 vs. 3 go match. Hikaru helps Akari find teammates. Sai helps them train for the match.
They win! Akari glomps Hikaru.
At night, they fight the last of the 4 beasts.
Last guy is this guy.
He tells you that there's one more person behind him.
Hikaru loses, so Akira saves the day again. So pretty~
Akira talks with Ogata.
Waya, posing before playing a go match!
After Sai tutored Akari and the others in the 3 vs. 3 match, a bunch of girls want Sai to teach them.
More girls. (are they originally from the Kaioh go club?)
Sai plays the last move but was called a traitor by Zama-sama, so they send these guy after Sai to catch Sai. I think. I don't remember what these caps are of...
More of the same...
DUN DUN DUN. Hikaru and Sai find the last boss, who is none other than Kuwabara! Everyone guessed it...
Kuwabara orchestrated the whole thing because he wanted to find the Hand of God.
When asked why he had to send youkai to terrorize the village, he said that this way, he can play go whenever he wanted.
Sai has a flashback. ...so Sai is Kouyo's child in this game. lkdjflas;dfa Child!Sai is really cute though.
SAAAAAAIIII. Anyway, Sai wins over Kuwabara.
Yay, happy scene.
More happiness.
The very last image. :3 So awesome.
You can play different routes in this game. The previous one was Akari's with the 3 vs. 3 match (I think). These next pics are from Akira's scenes.
Akira is possessed by something!
Kurata saves Hikaru.
Hikaru plays against possessed!Akira.
Hikaru wins and the possession ends.
The next day, Hikaru runs into Akira again and sees a female badgering him about being the one who saved her. Akira doesn't recall such a thing at all. Hikaru thinks she's probably making it up for the attention.
Hikaru drags Akira away to solve the mystery.
This is as close to official Hikaru x Akira as you can get. XDDD
Hikaru goes to the village and discovers that Kurata is the cause of part of the problem.
Ochi! He's uh, Akira's shikigami, I think. Poor guy doesn't talk in this game at all...
Hikaru confronts Akira and tells him that Akira has no friends. Akira is very, very angry, but they manage to talk things out.
Akira says that his shikigami are like family to him because he has no other family. But, he must learn to let go, so he sets Ochi free. Yeah.
And so, they're friends again!