This is a hint/walkthrough file for the adult anime game "Nocturnal Illusion" by RCY America. I'm sure there was a Japanese version of the game from RCY Bros. Japan and Excellents, and probably a Chinese one as well, but I don't know for sure what they were called. The English version can be bought from J-List or similar companies that sell English hentai anime games. I will only address the English version in this file, and will assume you legally own a copy of the game; I won't discuss copying it AT ALL. Li Sun has nothing on this game at his website. Based solely on the filenames in the CD, I'd guess that the Japanese title for this game was MUGE, which rang no bells at Hentai World Japan (www.hwj.net) when it was up. One of the .INI files mentions "Illusory Nocturne", but I find nothing matching that either. I found some references to "WINDY" as well, but I didn't bother to check those out - sorry. The Japanese game must have been made by RCY Bros. and Excellents (http://www.excellents.co.jp/), but I can't find RCY on their website, and the Japanese site for RCY Bros. (http://www.rcy.co.jp/) seems to be gone, so I think they may be out of business. The RCY America site at http://www.rcyamerica.com didn't change since 12 June 1998, just after the release of Nocturnal Illusion, until it went away. The JAST USA catalog from 2000, and their website (http://www.jastusa.com), say Milky House (http://www.milkyhouse.com/home.html) is the replacement distributor/author, but the Milky House site now just sends you to JAST USA. English version of the game requires nothing special to display Japanese characters - because there aren't any! Well, none for the game's text, but there are some funny symbols, like a "fat" ! and some others that probably mean something special to Japanese; these usually show up at the end of phrases or sentences. No special memory requirements under Windows 9x, although at least 16 MB RAM is usual for Windows anyway. CD-ROM required. Mouse strongly recommended. Uses 640*480 256-color graphics. Music is MIDI, should have no problems with a sound card that's 100% SoundBlaster Pro compatible. There's a lot of good advice and information in the game's README files (TXT, PDF and HTM formats). The game has an Autostart installer program. If it doesn't work for you, try running SETUP.EXE on the CD. The installer just wants to put save game and setup files on your hard drive. These should take up less than 400 KB. When you're done with playing this game, you can just delete the entire directory (default name of C:\Nocturn) or uninstall the game. (NOTE: There may be some files put in your Windows\System directory to handle graphics, so I recommend the Uninstall to keep things neat.) Run the game by double-clicking on SETUP.EXE on the CD-ROM, or use the shortcut that the installer creates, then "Start game". In Options, Screen Mode 1 puts a black border around the game window, and Screen Mode 2 is just a regular window - your choice. Remember that pressing 'Caps Lock' will toggle the delay in text display during the game. Press the Ctrl key to speed through the text until your next choice (if you have Caps Lock down already); very helpful near the beginning of the game or when replaying! If you switch between the game and this file a lot, like I've been doing, the game sometimes appears to get stuck at changes in the character overlays. Try minimize and restore, left-clicking several times, and even just waiting 20-30 seconds and clicking again, before you give up and close the game. The next section is based on what I got from Edsa's website before I bought the game. I've altered it to fix spelling errors and the like: Edsa posted the following from Raxa: *********************************************************** **The Not Very Complete Walktrough For Nocturnal Illusion** *********** By Raxa (lunar[AT}hotmail{DOT)com) ************ *********************************************************** This game is quite easy to play which almost makes this walkthrough quite useless. Basic tactics: 1. When you are stuck, just move around until you meet someone or something happens. 2. Keep choosing the available options until a new option comes out. Maps 1st floor _________________________________ |Mistress |BAS| DINING | BATH | | |EME| ROOM | POOL | | |NT | | | |_________|___|________|________| | Miwako | | Sari | |_________| LOBBY |________| | ??? | | Maya | |_________|____________|________| 2nd floor ______________________________ |Kusayama|AT| STUDY | ??? | |________|TI| |________| | GUEST |C | | GUEST | |________|__|_______|________| | Arisa | | Yukina | |________| STAIR |________| | Misao | | MyRoom | |________|__________|________| Mansion ____________________________________ | | BACKYARD | | | |_______ |__________| | WELL | | STORE | | | |______| | HOUSE | | MANSION | | |_______| |__________| | | | | _________| | __________ | TERRACE | | | GATE | | | |__________|__________|__|_________| Walkthrough: (if any of these sequences do not work, that means you have to walk around and visit every single place) 1. Keep choosing all the options until you fall. Wait a little bit (because you're supposed to read and appreciate them) then click at the screen with a quote. Ditto for the title screen. You are rescued by a beautiful lady . She will suck and fuck you in order to save you. 2. When you wake up the second time, after Miwako leaves go to Lobby and you will see Maya on the way, then Kusayama. He'll ask you to come to his room later on. 3. Walk around a bit then go to the bathroom. Keep checking, looking, etc. until Miwako comes out. 4. Go to the gate, choose all the options. Then go to the well, do all the options there. Then go to the lobby. 5. Go to Yukina's room and the Mistress will come out and ask you not to disturb Yukina. 6. Go outside the mansion then go to the lobby, the Mistress will appear. Move around until it gets dark and the Mistress asks you to eat your dinner. 7. At the dining room, you will make Miwako cry, then go find Kusayama who will bring you to his room for some drinks. 8. After some weird stuff happened, go to Yukina's room, then to Miwako's room, then to the storehouse outside the mansion. At the storehouse, you will hear a weird laugh. 9. Go to the backyard and you will find Sari. Then go to Maya's room and Maya will appear. After that go to your own room to sleep. 10. When you wake up, go to the dining room for breakfast. Then go to Miwako's room where you will find Kusayama. After that go to the study room where you will encounter an illusionary girl. 11. Go to lobby to meet Maya. Don't worry about the "Yes/No" question, the game won't let you proceed until you answer it the "right" way. Then go to the gate and you will meet Misao. After that go to the terrace to meet Maya again. Then go to the gate and the Mistress will appear. 12. Go to the lobby and Maya will be there. Then go to the terrace and you will see Yukina; you have to Move to get a reaction from her. Search all outside areas until it's dark then go to the gate again and the Mistress will be there. 13. Go to the backyard and see Sari. Then go to the storehouse and do some checking. After that go to the lobby and meet Maya. Maya will cook you some dinner. 14. Go to Kusayama's room and meet Kusayama. Then go to Misao's room and meet Misao. After that go to the basement and you will see Miwako is crying. 15. Go to Misao's room (meet the illusionary girl again on the way). Next, you'll be at the gate several days later, see Misao and find Maya at the terrace. Kusayama shows up next. After that wander around and meet Maya. You discover the attic with Maya, and start to discover Maya... 16. Wander around until you meet Maya, followed by Kusayama. Then go wander some more and find Kusayama trying to rape Maya. You have no real choice again; eventually you have to help her. After that go to the lobby and you will be attacked by the armor. 17. Choose all the options available until you find out that the person behind the armor is Maya. Undress her. then go get help, thus go to dining room to find Miwako. Then go back to where you left Maya but she is gone, then go to the Mistress' room. 18. Go to well, then dining room and meet Miwako, then go to terrace and see Misao, then go to the storehouse and search. I recommend you save before you enter, as there are some interesting events soon (fuck mermaid and fuck Maya). Then go to the lobby and meet the Mistress. 19. Go to the gate and meet Misao. Then go to the terrace and meet Yukina and Miwako. After that go to the well and Maya is there. 20. Go inside the lobby and go to the dining room, until you hear a bump sound from the basement. You automatically go to the basement and there Miwako is crying. Go anywhere, and you see Miwako's secret. After that things will go automatically and eventually you will meet the Mistress and watch the continuation of the torture. 21. Go to the dining room to find Miwako. You'll fuck her and then you'll wake up in your bed. Wander in the house until you talk to Miwako. Wander some more until you see Maya. After that go to the terrace to find Misao and the mistress. 22. Wander until you meet Maya. Then search for Miwako, who will tell you that Misao ran to the gate. Go there and you'll return the photo you found. 23. Walk around with Misao until she gets tired. Then you will accompany her climbing up trees. After you fell down, you'll go back to your room. Soon the Mistress will come and see you, then after that Misao will come and see you. Soon she will bring you to the bathroom and you'll have some nice pics, so save after she got you to the bathroom. 24. When you wake up, go to the terrace and see Misao. Then go to Kusayama's room and see him. The next place you go, you will instead follow the wind to the storehouse. In the storehouse you see a girl having sex with a demon. Then when you get out, you get lost and come out in the terrace and meet Maya. You'll go back and meet Yura. Later on you will be told Yura's (the girl that had sex with the demon) story by the mistress. 25. After you manage to get away from the demon, go to the gate and meet the panicked Kusayama. Then go to the storehouse again and meet the Mistress. After that go to the lobby and Maya will remind you that the study might have a clue on how to kill a monster. 27. Go to the dining room and Miwako will appear. Look for useful books in the Study, then go back to the dining room and talk to Miwako. Now go to the bathroom and meet Misao. Move around a little bit then go to your room and check until you find your knife. After that go to the terrace and you will find Kusayama drunk. He will tell you that he found alcohol near the well, so check the well. Your plan will fail, but you get out alive. Suddenly you have this urge to see Sari, thus you go out and talk to her. 28. Sari will tell you about the magic sword, and when you take a bath, you fall asleep and the illusionary girl tells you how to get the magic sword. You got the sword and go back to the storehouse. Kill the demon, fuck the girl. 29. Sleep. Wake up, Miwako will warn you about the full moon. Go to lobby and meet Mistress. Go to the dining room, Miwako will warn you again and then go to the bath room and meet Misao. Go to Maya's room and return her handkerchief. Go to the storehouse and talk with Yura. Go to the backyard and talk to Sari. Go to terrace and find Yukina. Then go to the gate and you will see the moon become red. 30. When you wake up, you go to the backyard and find a key. The key opens up Sari's room. After doing some story finding in the room, you go out and meet Sari. On the way back to the mansion, you find another key. Soon you decide to go to Sari's room to try the key out. 31. On the way back to your room, you realize that Yukina went outside and you decide to go after her. Save here as there will be some nice pix of Sari and Yukina. You save the day again as usual. 32. Once you finish eating, go to the backyard and see the Mistress. Then go to the storehouse and talk to Yura. Then go to the gate and Misao will throw some garlics. After that go to Kusayama's room and he will be angry with you about the booze. 33. Go to the attic and find Maya. Go to the backyard and find Yukina. Then go to the well and continue talking to Yukina. Go to the terrace and you will have the urge to see Sari, thus you go to the backyard. Sari will force you to go back to the mansion and when you get to the mansion, Yukina will appear. 34. After being disappointed with Yukina's fear of having sex, you sleep. When you wake up, Yukina is gone. Go to Misao's room and she will tell you about a big dog. Then go to Miwako's room and you will find Yukina. After that go to the well and Maya is there. 35. Move about the mansion for a while until you find the wolf. Then wander until Red Hood appears, possibly in the same place you saw the wolf. Move around until the Mistress shows up and asks you to find Miwako. Go to Miwako's room and she will show up and hide you below the kitchen. Down there you'll fuck the Red Hood (although you won't see it in the English version without the patch). But no matter what, the text in the English version will repeat several times before the wolf and Red Hood vanish. 36. Soon you will be at the terrace and talk to Yukina while Kusayama will appear. After that the Mistress will fill you in about both Kusayama and Yukina. Then you will be transported back to your room. 37. Kusayama will come and hit you with a bottle and try to rape Yukina. Wander until you find Maya, and you will ask her to get the Mistress or Miwako to treat Kusayama. Wander more until you talk to the Mistress, wander some more until you meet Misao, and even more until Miwako tells you that Yukina is in the clock tower (attic). Go there. 38. Yukina almost fell down, pull her up (another good place to save), be a hero and get your reward. Go to Kusayama's room and Miwako will tell you that he is OK. Then go to the lobby (a second time if necessary) and meet the Mistress. After that go to the terrace and see Yukina (ditto). 39. Go to the storehouse and talk to Yura. Walk around, visit all the places then go to the study. There you will meet Arisa who will bring you to her room . Then things will go automatically for a while and eventually Arisa will ask you to be her lover. 40. Lick, don't lick . Go to Arisa's room, she is not there so check around. Go to lobby and meet Maya. Visit Misao at the gate. Walk around a bit. Visit Yura at the storehouse and Yukina at the terrace. Walk around and go to the gate, then you'll hear a weird sound. 41. You will automatically go into a room and see Arisa torturing Miwako. Now SAVE! There will be a question that comes out, each choice will lead you to a different set of endings. 42. Later on you will have the chance to bring one person out of the mansion . Then THE END! When I played the game with the patch installed, some things happened in different places than the walkthrough said, so you may have to wander about until you meet somebody mentioned in the walkthrough as being in a specific place. re #16: I didn't see a real choice here, just "Look" "Listen" and eventually "Help her". The original walkthrough said something about saving or not saving her, maybe this was in the Japanese version, but it doesn't seem to be in the English one. re #20: It takes three torture sessions to resolve the "automatic" sequence for Miwako. Then you can go find her in the dining room; the only other person you will find is Kusayama. re #24: Terrace or Kusayama first, either will work, but Kusayama first means you don't have to go anywhere else in the house. re #35: Wolf and Red Hood can appear anywhere. With a legal CD-ROM, there were no graphics of sex with Red Hood, and 2 parts of the text repeated 3 times before moving on. It's possible this was "underage"- looking graphics that were deleted to keep this game acceptable for sale in the US. There's a patch for the graphics discussed below. There is supposedly a patch for the messed-up text too. re #41: You can't get Arisa out if you choose Miwako, because she goes to heaven. To get Miwako out, you have to NOT choose Arisa; picking Miwako or "no comparison" will work. In fact, I think "no comparison" is the best, as you only avoid Arisa going to heaven, but all the other choices of ending will be there. re #42: There are 2 endings each for Sari (man/devil), Arisa (take/leave), and the Mistress (go out/stay in). I count that as a total of 11 possible endings; Arisa going to heaven doesn't prevent you from choosing another of the 7 remaining women. Sorry, none of the endings have really H pics, and none of them are in the photoshop. The 2 H pics shown after you choose the Mistress, but before you have to make a final choice for her, can be considered part of the game instead of part of the ending (see discussion in photoshop area below). When the staff/credits are displayed, press and hold a mouse button (right or left) to speed up the scrolling of an image. You have to press again for each picture that scrolls. After a delay, the "Fin" screen will return to the main game menu (New/Load/Options) screen. Saved games are placed in your x:\NOCTURN directory as SV#, where # is 1 through 7. Reloading a saved game may put you at the beginning of a scene, rather than exactly where you saved. The SVS file contains the photoshop (Reminisce option) and screen mode data. It's only 16 bytes long, so here it is (hex values): >02< 00 00 00 14 00 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 >02< 00 ("><" emphasis by me) The first byte in the file is the screen mode: 01 for full screen, 02 for window. But the most significant part is the last "02" before the end. Just patch that one byte with a hex editor to activate the Reminisce and BGM options. If you mess up, there is at least one copy of the file on the CD that you can duplicate; remove the "read-only" after you copy it to your hard drive. There are several strange things about the photoshop (the Reminisce option): 1. It doesn't show you the pictures from any endings you've seen. 2. An original copy won't show the Red Hood pictures - it shows several error messages instead, and crashes the game. (Peter Payne at J-List says this is normal. Somehow there's an error in ALL the English copies, and the programmers insist that they lost the source code so they can't fix it. Personally, I believe that Red Hood appears under-age, so they deleted her; the patch discussed below seems to bear this out. If you install it, you'll see what I mean, and the game doesn't crash.) 3. Except for four pictures, two of Misao that only show off her panties and hair, one where Kusayama is trying to rape Yukina, and one of Arisa and a bright light, only the full screen H shots are shown. Several others should have been added, such as Maya at the hole in the floor of the attic, Kusayama trying to rape Maya, first view of the mermaid, and all the endings - maybe a few others. 4. Only one picture of Arisa shown, which doesn't reveal much. (Probably the same problem as Red Hood, even though Arisa explicitly claims to be 19 during the game. Strangely, if you install the patch you will get to see several H images of Arisa during play, but they aren't in the photoshop (supposedly fixed in the v1.1 patch). Without the patch, you have to set aside at least 1 saved game to handle seeing Arisa.) 5. The pictures for the Mistress are scrambled, and 2 of them are only seen during game play if you select her at the end, although they appear before your very last choice in the game. Thus those 2 pictures are in a gray area between the endings and the rest of the game. There is a de-censorship patch (which calls itself a "censorship patch", go figure) available that is supposed to add some pictures from a Japanese version of the game to any other release, including the English one. This should provide a bunch (the patch itself says 11) of pictures for Arisa and Red Hood which were probably removed due to concerns of these girls appearing under age (less than 18). Also some modifications to the script, but v1.0 DOES NOT fix the repeating text in the Red Hood scenes. You can get the patch file from: http://www.geocities.com/basftech/ I'm not providing it myself because you can get it there from the patch author. If that site goes down too due to legal action, I'll be rather upset. But I will point out 2 things: 1. You must copy the game files off the CD-ROM to your hard drive to use this patch. I suggest you uninstall the game first if you were playing off the CD, unless you're good at finding and editing .INI files. The patch will alter the MUG0.DAT and MUG0.LST files in the game directory \MUGE. 2. You must put the patch files in the directory that corresponds to the root directory of the CD-ROM, e.g. if you copied the contents of the CD from H: to G:\Nocturnal Illusion, put all 5 files in the patch into G:\Nocturnal Illusion, and it will fix the files in G:\Nocturnal Illusion\MUGE. Of course, once you've installed the patch you can delete the patch files you just put in G:\Nocturnal Illusion... UPDATE: Much of the above was written when only patch version 1.0 was available. The new patch version 1.1 supposedly fixes the broken Reminisce option for Arisa, as well as the repeating text during Red Hood's sex scene in the game. But I haven't tested it myself. I'm now providing the web address for the patch author, after several people pointed out that the SharpDead site went away right after I wrote the initial text pointing you there to get the v1.0 patch. I hope that I wasn't the cause of that... So here's hoping that I what I'm doing won't get BaSF in trouble. One minor complaint about the graphics: why does it usually look like Maya has a zit between her lips and her chin? The translation is pretty good, just a few typos (e.g. sobber for sober, "dinning room") and more strange things closer to the end of the game (I'm sure the translators got rushed). The strange punctuation symbols (just what does "....." mean?) are more jarring than the bad English. Graphics are pretty good, but it's the usual one person (at most) overlay over a location background with an annoying fixed decorative border, but the H stuff takes up the whole screen. While you'd think there was a lot of replay value here, it's all at the very end, so you can see all the endings in an hour - most of which is sitting through the credits over and over. But overall, worth the money for me. If you have anything to add to this file, let me know. Pete Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/