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Moon. is a JapanJapan

is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of China, Korea, and Russia, stretching from...
ese adultEroge

An eroge is a Japanese video or computer game that features erotic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork....
 visual novelVisual novel

A visual novel is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art....
 developed by TacticsTactics (company)

Tactics is a Japanese visual novel studio which specializes in the development of dating sim and eroge style games....
, a brand of the joint company NextonNexton

is a Japanese software company specializing in the publishing and distribution of visual novel video games for a nine game develo...
, and first released on November 21 1997 playable on a Windows 95Windows 95

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system....
 PCPersonal computer

A personal computer is usually a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage....
 as a CD-ROMCD-ROM Overview

CD-ROM is a compact disc that contains data accessible by a computer....
; the game was re-released five more times between 1998 and 2003. The game was described by the development team as a . The gameplayGameplay

Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games....
 in Moon. follows a plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the three female main characters. Unlike most adult games where the protagonist is male, the protagonist of Moon. is a girl. She is named Ikumi Amasawa who joins an organization called FARGO in the hopes of discovering why and how her mother died, who was a member of the same group.






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Timeline

1946   Project Diana bounces Radar waves off the moon, measuring the exact distance between the earth and the moon and proving that the communication was possible between the earth and outerspace, effectively opening the space age.

1959   Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon as the first man-made object.

1961   Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.

1962   Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the Moon by 22,000 miles.

1962   The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

1964   Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the Moon.

1965   Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

1965   Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.

1966   The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.

1966   The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.







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Moon. is a JapanJapan

is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of China, Korea, and Russia, stretching from...
ese adultEroge

An eroge is a Japanese video or computer game that features erotic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork....
 visual novelVisual novel

A visual novel is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art....
 developed by TacticsTactics (company)

Tactics is a Japanese visual novel studio which specializes in the development of dating sim and eroge style games....
, a brand of the joint company NextonNexton

is a Japanese software company specializing in the publishing and distribution of visual novel video games for a nine game develo...
, and first released on November 21 1997 playable on a Windows 95Windows 95

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system....
 PCPersonal computer

A personal computer is usually a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage....
 as a CD-ROMCD-ROM Overview

CD-ROM is a compact disc that contains data accessible by a computer....
; the game was re-released five more times between 1998 and 2003. The game was described by the development team as a . The gameplayGameplay

Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games....
 in Moon. follows a plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the three female main characters. Unlike most adult games where the protagonist is male, the protagonist of Moon. is a girl. She is named Ikumi Amasawa who joins an organization called FARGO in the hopes of discovering why and how her mother died, who was a member of the same group. After the original game was completed at least once, a bonusOmake

Omake means extra or bonus in Japanese....
 role-playing gameRole-playing game

A role-playing game is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create s...
 became available on the title screen, though this was later removed from the full-voice DVD edition of the game.

Much of the staff that created the game later became the founding members of the visual novel company KeyKey (company)

Key is a Japanese visual novel studio, known for making dramatic and plot-oriented dating sims....
, so this game is often considered roughly equal to one of Key's works. Moon. was the starting point for Key's origins, and was the first time the principal Key team was formed. A novel based on the game written by Midori TateyamaMidori Tateyama

is a female Japanese game scriptwriter from Aichi, Japan. ...
 was released on July 31 1998 by MovicMovic

is a Japanese company which specializes in the publication of trading cards, figures, CDs, and other general media related to the...
. The game's original soundtrack was released bundled with DoseiDosei

is a Japanese adult social simulation game developed by Tactics, a brand of the joint company Nexton, and first released on May 2...
s soundtrack in August 2000 at Comiket 58Comiket

Comiket, otherwise known as the Comic Market or CM, is the world's largest comic convention, held twice a year i...
;
Dosei was Tactics' first game. According to a national ranking of how well bishojo gameBishojo game

A , named after the Japanese term bishojo and also known as a girl game/gal game, is a type of Japanese video game cen...
s sold nationally in Japan, the
Moon.DVD PC release made the ranking of the top fifty games once at number forty-four during the first two weeks of July 2002. Moon. has been referenced in other media not directly related to the game, such as in Tactics' third game , and in the second animeAnime Overview

is an abbreviation of the English word "animation" but in Japanese is spelled ??????? written in katakana....
 adaptation of Key's first game
KanonKanon

Kanon is a popular Japanese visual novel which was published by Key in 1999....
.

Gameplay


Moon.s gameplayGameplay

Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games....
 requires little interaction from the player as most of the duration of the game is spent on simply reading the text that appears on the game screen which represents either dialogueDialogue

A dialogue is a reciprocal conversation between two or more persons....
 between the various characters, or the inner thoughts of the protagonist. Every so often, the player will come to a "decision point" where he or she is given the chance to choose from options that are displayed on the screen, typically two to three at a time. The time between these decision points is variable and can occur anywhere from a minute to much longer. During these times, gameplay pauses until a choice is made that furthers the plot in a specific direction, depending on which choice the player makes. In order to explore the surroundings, the player has to manually navigate through the corridors of FARGO.

There are three main plot lines that the player will have the chance to experience, one for each of the heroines in the story. In order to view the three plot lines to their entirety, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and choose different choices during the decision points in order to further the plot in an alternate direction. The game is split into twenty sub-parts each given a title in EnglishEnglish language

English is a widely distributed language that originated in England but is now the primary language in numerous countries....
 written mostly in black where a portion of the title was displayed in red, and each cover a single day. There are seven ends to the game: a single true end, two normal ends, and four bad ends. In the original game, a bonusOmake

Omake means extra or bonus in Japanese....
 role-playing gameRole-playing game Summary

A role-playing game is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create s...
 became available on the title screen after the game was completed at least once. This was later removed from the full-voice DVD edition of the game.

Plot and characters


Moon.s story revolves around a mysterious organization known as FARGO. The protagonist of the story is a young girl named who discovers that FARGO was involved with the death of her mother six years before the story begins. Miyoko, who would often make special cream stew for her daughter, was a member of FARGO. Following this revelation, Ikumi joins FARGO to discover how and why her mother died while also slowly uncovering the group's disturbing nature of harnessing psychic abilities through torture. Ikumi ultimately wants to take out her revenge against FARGO for killing her mother.

Ikumi had been one of ten girls her age that gathered at a seminar for people who wanted to join FARGO; she had been ordered to get on a truck which would take the small group to FARGO, and on the ride, Ikumi meets two other girls with similar goals in mind as her. One of the girls is named who joined FARGO in order to save her older brother. She starts to work with Ikumi for the sake of their mutual goals. The second girl is named who is searching for her older sister who joined FARGO in order to obtain the power of invisibility. Yui has an optimistic personality which hides a gloomy past of which she has no memory of. Each of the girls have a strong will to complete their respective purposes, and they help each other along the way.

At FARGO, Ikumi meets others who are affiliated with the group. One such person is , a modest believer in FARGO's cause; something happened in her past related to her mother. She is one of the main antagonists. At FARGO, Ikumi lives with a boy known as . He helps Ikumi in her search for the answers regarding her mother; it is never revealed what his true name is. Others include , a man in FARGO with an arrogant attitude, and , the symbol of FARGO and the mastermind behind the entire operation; he is the main antagonist.

Development

Moon.s production was headed by YET11, who also contributed to the music in the game. Planning for Moon. was headed by Jun MaedaJun Maeda Overview

is a Japanese man working for the software company Key; he has majorly contributed as a scenario writer, lyricist, and musical co...
, who also worked on the game's scenario with fellow writer Naoki HisayaNaoki Hisaya

is a Japanese screenwriter who has worked for Tactics, Key and Siesta, but as of 2006, he is a freelance writer....
; Maeda also composed a single piece of music for the game. Art direction was led by Itaru HinoueItaru Hinoue

is a female Japanese artist from Osaka, Japan, and is one of the founding members of the software company Key....
, while the computer graphicsComputer graphics

Computer graphics is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual synthetically and...
 in the game was supplemented by Miracle ? Mikipon, and Shinory. Other than the involvement of both YET11 and Maeda, the music was primarily composedComposer

A composer is a person who writes music....
 by Shinji OritoShinji Orito

is a Japanese man originally from Hyogo, Japan working for the software company Key as a musical composer....
, with help by Ishisan. The computer graphicsComputer graphics

Computer graphics is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual synthetically and...
 from the CDCD-ROM

CD-ROM is a compact disc that contains data accessible by a computer....
 versions was improved upon when Moon. was released as a DVDDVD

DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound q...
. Excluding YET11 and Ishisan, the staff that created the game later became the founding members of the visual novel company KeyKey (company)

Key is a Japanese visual novel studio, known for making dramatic and plot-oriented dating sims....
.

Release history

Moon. was first released on November 21 1997 playable on the PCFacts About Personal computer

A personal computer is usually a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage....
 as a CD-ROMCD-ROM

CD-ROM is a compact disc that contains data accessible by a computer....
. The next release on August 21 1998, entitled Moon.Renewal, was essentially the original game, but with added support for new operating systems; Moon.Renewal. On September 14 2000, Memorial Selection Moon. went on sale, known later as the popular edition. On July 12 2002 a full-voice DVDDVD

DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound q...
 edition entitled Moon.DVD: Final Version was released, selling for 6,800 yen. The Final Version contained an animatedAnime

is an abbreviation of the English word "animation" but in Japanese is spelled ??????? written in katakana....
 sequence at the beginning of the game. Another CD-ROM version of the game entitled Moon.Limited was released on September 20 2002, also selling for 6,800 yen. The final release entitled Moon.DVDPG Edition went on sale in Japan on January 30 2003; DVDPG stands for DVD PlayersGameDVD TV game

A DVD TV game is a standalone game that can be played on set-top DVD players....
. All prices are before tax.

Related media


A 256-page novel based on the game written by Midori TateyamaMidori Tateyama

is a female Japanese game scriptwriter from Aichi, Japan. ...
 was released on July 31 1998 by MovicMovic

is a Japanese company which specializes in the publication of trading cards, figures, CDs, and other general media related to the...
 (ISBN 4-89601-387-5). On October 31 1999, an original art book was released (ISBN 4-87763-014-7). The game's soundtrack was released bundled with the soundtrack for DoseiDosei

is a Japanese adult social simulation game developed by Tactics, a brand of the joint company Nexton, and first released on May 2...
, the game Tactics made before Moon., and was called Dosei and Moon. Original Soundtracks. The album contained a single CD and was released on August 10 2000 at Comiket 58Comiket

Comiket, otherwise known as the Comic Market or CM, is the world's largest comic convention, held twice a year i...
 by Exobitant Records. The disc contained thirty-one tracks; the first fifteen pertained to Dosei and the latter sixteen were for Moon..

Reception

According to a national ranking of how well bishojo gameBishojo game

A , named after the Japanese term bishojo and also known as a girl game/gal game, is a type of Japanese video game cen...
s sold nationally in Japan, the Moon.DVD PC release made the ranking of the top fifty games once at number forty-four during the first two weeks of July 2002. Moon.Limited also made it on the list only once, achieving the ranking of forty-eight in late September 2002. Four characters from Moon. can be seen as background characters during an early scene in the cafeteria from ; the characters are: Ikumi Amasawa, Yoko Kanume, Haruka Mima, and Yui Nakura. There is a reference to Moon. in the sixth episode of the Kyoto AnimationKyoto Animation

Kyoto Animation is a Japanese animation studio located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan....
 version of KanonKanon Overview

Kanon is a popular Japanese visual novel which was published by Key in 1999....
which can be seen as the movie poster of a horror film that Ayu and Yuichi go to see.

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