Aoi Shiro: HD Remaster

Aoi Shiro: HD Remaster is a Japanese adventure game set in both the modern world and a mythical one. You follow Syouko Osanai, a second-year student at Seijou Academy and captain of its kendo team, as a training camp at Shosin Temple in Unasaka changes her fate. You move through the story and make choices with a mouse or controller; your decisions change the story’s course and the main character’s fate.

Story

During the kendo club’s training camp, Syouko and the team’s manager, Yasumi Aizawa, walk along the beach and find a girl lying in the sand. They rescue her and learn that her name is Nami. Nami becomes attached to Syouko and Yasumi, and the encounter sets Syouko’s life on a different course.

The characters

• Syouko Osanai: Known as “Osa,” she is a well-liked, serious and hardworking kendo ace who becomes captain when the previous third-year captain retires. Her teammates often tease her.
• Yasumi Aizawa: A first-year student and manager of the kendo team, Yasumi has less stamina than normal and finds strenuous exercise difficult. She is determined and diligent in her role, has a crush on Syouko, and is affectionately called “Zawacchi” by Momoko and others. Momoko often teases her about her feelings.
• Nami: A girl who appears to be 10 to 12 years old, Nami is found washed ashore near the training camp. Her name and age are unknown, and she cannot speak after waking up. She communicates through animated facial expressions and grows particularly attached to Syouko and Yasumi.
• Kaya: The former captain of Seijou Academy’s kendo team and Syouko’s mother’s cousin.
• Kyan Migiwa: A carefree young girl staying at Shoushinji, where she arrives before Syouko and the others. Syouko is first captivated by her beauty and fashionable clothes, but soon finds her arrogant and difficult to deal with.
• Kohaku: A mysterious figure with a dignified presence whose left eye is always closed.

Choices and endings

The game has 56 endings: 36 bad endings, 14 normal endings and 6 true endings. After you clear some routes, the “root seal” system adds new choices that let you see further story content.