Kowloon's Gate

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Kowloon's Gate (クーロンズゲート, Kūronzu Gēto) is a 1997 Japanese adventure video game developed by Zeque. Set in the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, it is considered a cult hit.

Plot

On June 22, 1997, before the

Development

The game was developed by Zeque,^[1] who also co-developed Planet Laika.

It was released for the PlayStation in Japan on February 28, 1997, and re-released for the PlayStation Network on April 14, 2010.^[2]

Reception

Famitsu gave the game a score of 26 out of 40.^[3]

Critic Shin Muramatsu drew on his experience with the game's "Hong Kong Gothic" version of the Walled City to compare the past and future of Hong Kong itself.^[4]

Though never released abroad, Kowloon's Gate was a

On October 26, 2017, a VR prequel named Kowloon's Gate VR Suzaku was released as a PlayStation VR exclusive by Jetman Inc..^[8] A non-VR version was added in an update to the game on December 21, 2017, allowing the game to be played without a VR headset. An Oculus Go version was released on October 2, 2018.^[9]

In November 2019, a sequel, Kowloon's Rhizome: A Day of the Fire, was announced.^[10] It was originally planned to be a 3D dungeon crawler, but the prototype did not match the developers' expectations in its entertainment value, so they decided to make the game into a visual novel instead.^[11] A fall 2021 release was planned for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows in Japan,^[12] but this has not been realized. A pilot version of the game split into 8 parts was planned to be released on Pixiv's Booth service, with the first part released on February 22, 2023.^[13]

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