Akai Ito: HD Remaster

Akai Ito: HD Remaster is a Japanese adventure game told from the perspective of Kei Hatō, a girl with a special blood called Nieno Chi. Your choices shape the story and the main character’s fate. The game uses a blood-sucking system, and you progress through the story and select choices with a mouse or controller.

Story

After her mother, her only living relative, dies, Kei sorts through her inheritance and discovers that her late father owned an old Japanese mansion in the little-known place of Hemizuka. She sets out to investigate the forgotten property. On the way, she dreams of a huge tree piercing the sky and a girl named Yumei surrounded by butterflies.

Hemizuka is Kei’s birthplace. The story explores the legend of its mountain god and human sacrifice, as well as the truth behind Kei’s lost memory. As the characters meet, the wheels of destiny begin to turn.

Characters

• Kei Hatō: The main character, who is rather careless despite her favorite phrase, “always be prepared.”
• Yumei: A mysterious girl who appears in Kei’s dreams.
• Uzuki Senba: An Oni Slayer whom Kei meets at the train station. Her sword is the bane of the oni.
• Tsuzura Wakasugi: A girl half Kei’s age who is accompanied by a white fox. Kei meets her in her father’s abandoned house.
• Sakuya Asama: A friend of Kei’s deceased mother, known by the nickname “West.”
• Nozomi and Mikage: Twin oni who are the story’s antagonists.
• Kei: A mysterious male character later revealed to be Kei’s brother, Hakuka.

Endings and routes

The game has 32 endings: 15 bad endings, 12 normal endings and 5 true endings. After you clear some routes, the “root seal” system adds new choices that let you see additional story content.