Shit, I want this book. Official document of Moonlight Syndrome
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According to this link
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~tamamo/talk2/013.htm#BOOK
It's a Hand in Killer 7 style handbook for Moonlight Syndrome.

Some book. (I don't know what it is.)
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Strategy guide
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(I used banner links, because amazon urls are way too long.)

I guess that mika is in Twilight Syndrome: Search and Twilight Syndrome: Investigation, the only two of the series directer by Suda

Hmm I'll look them up sometime.
At least now I have a place to start.
(I'm not planning to cover TS. I just want to have clear enough background behind the characters of Moonlight.)

EDIT: I just realized that I already had the info up at K7 SIN,lol.
http://killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/suda51.htm

Kitano Smith wrote:
Moonlight Syndrome's gameplay is indeed horrible (I've played too little, I'm the point where Mika is at her room and can't get out otherwise her mother's on her ass), but it does look decent.


The game isn't that bad. Granted I thought it sucked myself.
MS just has a very slow beginning.
The game picks up once the Moonlight Syndrome starts. (The 2nd disc)
Although I believe that most people would give up either at the beginning or during the 3rd level. (When Mika gets kidnapped. The 3rd level is when the contract between Ryo & Mitra is made.)

Which is why I compiled my save states into a .rar
[URL=http://www.zshare.net/download/64233350ee9132/]moonlightsstates.rar - 12.39MB[/URL]
It also contains my sin memory card.
Be warned though. For some reason MS memory card saves don't function
properly on the epsxe for some reason.
So the MS memory card memory can only be used with other emulators
BTW save state 5 is where I place the saves that let you choose your stage.

Is the creepy old man at the beginning that principal you talk about?

That's just the guy who saves your game.
(He drops in from time to time wearing a young harman smith hat & suit.)
It's too early in the game for anything of that sort to occur yet.
The school girl murders don't even happen until after Ryo kazan breaks the contract & Miki Kishi gets taken away from Mitra.
(She just disappears.)

The longer you play. The more that you'll notice that
the game changes in tone depending on the current phase of the moon.
I noticed a sudden change in behavior during a crescent moon.
The full moon is when all that weird ass Harman Smith/Kun Lan/ Heaven Smile shit starts to happen.
In Killer 7 every single level happened during a full moon.

Watch the videos I uploaded.
This video shows you the principals secret room along with all the dismembered female body parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_o7CidgTbs

This is the principal
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Principal during the moonlight syndrome
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Now, if he improves his gamplay further and uses it in service of a great adventure game, I'll eat it up. That would be like the Holy Grail.

Somebody seriously needs to show Suda a copy of Deus Ex. In order to show him how an interactive adv should really be done.
I await for the day when Suda finally gets that combination right though.
Especially if he uses it for the Silver Case. SC is the main hub where most of his stories take place.
It would be nice to see it get the full Metal Gear Solid treatment.

One of my main complaints about Silver Case is how the game goes into extreme detail about the firearms that each member of the 24 Ward Felonies division is carrying.
It's retarded, because you don't actually get to use your guns throughout the entire game.
(You do during cut scenes, but that doesn't count.)

Are you gonna do a complete plot summary or what else?

No, I too only understand a few Japanese.
(I don't know enough to understand full conversations.)
As far as plot summaries go, I'll only explain in detail about the relevant events of the game.
I'll most likely just write up a more detailed account of the above posts that I made.

You should get a general idea of what some parts of the story are like judging by the MS vids I've posted.
I'll list them all here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLsFEzQcuf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vE10ol1YGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_-Bpmb_eCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk1dn6vHn6I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-JMFYw4KY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StgZtTXJm8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdldHaXg40k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_o7CidgTbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2N1Cuwr0DA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPhttEGUo6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCpkVr3KzqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOLEPYofbe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxVziAPXwZg

Final level part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubFccEI0LZM

Final Level part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidEbcsIMzg

Final level part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwc2KSi0mHc

Final level part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY--tVVYmPc

Credits + True Ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDwVMvqpOg4