Moonlight Syndrome

Moonlight Syndrome
Developer(s)Human Entertainment
Publisher(s)Human Entertainment
Director(s)Goichi Suda
Programmer(s)Yuki Hoshino
Artist(s)Takashi Miyamoto
Writer(s)Goichi Suda
Composer(s)Masafumi Takada
SeriesTwilight Syndrome
Platform(s)PlayStation
Release
  • JP: 9 October 1997
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Moonlight Syndrome[a] is a horror-themed adventure game developed and published by Human Entertainment for the PlayStation in October 1997. An entry in the company's Twilight Syndrome series, the game was directed and co-written by Goichi Suda. Retaining the combination of adventure and visual novel elements from earlier games in the series, Moonlight Syndrome follows series protagonist Mika Kishii as she investigates supernatural phenomena.

Development of Moonlight Syndrome began following the completion of Suda's work on the first Twilight Syndrome games. Due to having little input on the original games' stories and disliking the ghost story elements, Suda focused the plot of Moonlight Syndrome around psychological horror and human capacity for evil. Critics liked the game's story but criticized the characters and long, inconsequential dialogue trees. Suda left Human Entertainment to form Grasshopper Manufacture following the release of Moonlight Syndrome, but the game remained an influence in his later work.
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