AC Town Tours Halloween Edition: Hitokui

We're heading out to the japanese town of Hitokui (cannibalism OH JOY), where you walk among some truly disturbed beings...and I don't mean the animals.

Each home in Hitokui concerns a different "story" if you will, so unlike last week's Sachi Panda, or our first tour in Diablu, you won't find really a strong thread connecting these cribs of terror, but the homes themselves all have a continuous story line within all their own rooms.

When you first wake in Hitokui, you'll not only find a MASSIVE town tree (implying a long lived town), you'll also notice its raining. By the tree, you'll find an assortment of clothing and tools, including a toy hammer and a broken umbrella. There are about 2 outfits. The first is a security or police officer's outfit, with slacks, the top and some CHP glasses and the hat. The other outfit is a bridal package: a veil and the cake dress. Guess which I chose?

No, not the clown outfit, you nuts.

The houses of the damned are pretty close to each other here. So I checked the home of Kodzu (a very unusual name, even by Japanese standards, I assume) first. Her home's right above town square, the top left. Her outfits a little like a nun's outfit, with a cross emblazoned on the front. But the back of it is a little unusual...it looks like a big red slash mark across her back.

a garden/cemetery. Nice use of the Mossy Carpet, which looks like a moss covered walkway with stones embedded within. Headstones from the Creepy Set (gifted from Jack on Halloween), white roses, candles, the headless Valiant Statue, and coffins (also from the Creepy Set) all make a perfect scene. Also, the stained glass window has been edited for the cross, which looks really nice too. Opening the coffins, of course, produces a perfect comment from your player character.

Moving along into the left hand ground floor room is an unusual bedroom. It looks like a very dilapidated room with a bed, an old tv, and a few other amenities scattered about. There's a single wreath above the door, and a doghouse that issues a dog growling when you interact with it. With poor wallpaper, dirty floor and the moldy shirt pattern mapped to the bedsheets, the table cloths and a cushion, it gives the sense of living in squalor, the radio in the back lacks music so its silent. The only sounds are the chirping bird in the cage and the endless ticking clock, in addition to the lights being off.

The right hand room is a cleverly done confessional room. On one side, there's a vase of flowers and a chair, with a partition whose picture has been mapped with a confessional screen. The other side has a desk, a candle and some letters. You can sit on either side, choosing to be the confessor or the listening priest. This is by far one of the more interesting rooms I've seen made with game assets, so I felt a lot of work went into this home, as well as the entire town.

The basement is less inviting, being the smallest size, and barely containing a washer, a tub, a shower, and a screen. The lights are, like in most of the rooms, off, so you can barely see behind, where a grate seems to be broken, opening into a scary and pitch black hole. Behind the screen?

Anyway. Left hand room is really small and simple. A couch with a table and a fruit basket and chocolate fountain. Its sparsely decorated, so I wonder what its function is. Waiting room? Break room for the workers? Let's head over to the top room.

The back room is full of dolls in the back, and a samurai suit with a sword that floats if you click it, and offerings of fruit. There's a theremin in the back that starts wailing when you enter.

In front of the dolls are candles, some lit, some not, and the walls are patterned with shimenawa (straw rope), and bloody shide (the folded paper zigzags that sometimes accompany shimenawa).

The left hand room is what looks to be a traditional japanese funeral wake, with cushions in rows, flowers (white lilies), incense and lanterns. There's also a guest book, and little round signs in the back.

What's most disturbing is the traditional portrait they usually have at a funeral, which is part of the little shrine in the back for paying respects.

The left hand room is the clinic, as it were. There's bloody bandages in the back, but other than that, the rest of the room is full of partition screens and hospital beds and IV drip stands.

There's a TV (white noise of colors, depending on the time you enter), and the ever present sound of rain (which you can hear in almost all rooms of a home when its raining).