This is a hint/walkthrough file for the "Viper M1" H anime game. It's 
originally available in Japanese from Sogna, but Hobibox now has a 
Japanese & Italian & English version! I'm hoping that if they sell 
enough copies to the non-Japanese-reading adult gamers, they'll be 
encouraged to make more products in English! "Ace of Spades 2" was 
going to be one of the next ones, at the time "Viper M1" was 
released.

Li Sun said: In this Viper series, there are three stories. In Green 
Boy, one of three girls in a flower shop gets a strange seed which 
becomes something fun. In My Mothers, a girl has to put on a special 
suit to save her boyfriend. In The May Works, two aliens target a girl 
for conquest.

The game comes as one CD for Windows 95/98, in a very nice storage 
box with text in English and Italian. Unfortunately, the picture of 
"Ace of Spades 2" inside has only an Italian caption which AltaVista 
translates as "in the same necklace."

Hardware requirements are on the game case; any PC bought new in the 
last 4 years should be able to handle it. I couldn't find any keys to 
speed up text display. The main selling point of the Viper series is 
the animation used throughout the game. Japanese voice is also used 
for all the characters; if you don't catch it the first time there is 
a handy "Repeat" option on the menu.

There are 3 stories in the game, "The May Works", "My Mothers", and 
"Green Boy". They each play like the usual H adventures, with choices 
like "Look" or "Think", but with a lot more animation to the 
graphics. Aside from "Green Boy", I have no idea what the titles have 
to do with the stories. There's a hint of a possible sequel to "My 
Mothers" if you get the "good" ending.

I've started with "The May Works", but there's no order to or linkage 
between the stories. You need a walkthrough of some kind to play, 
unless you like doing the kind of trial-and-error leading to "Game 
Over" that can consume hours. I'm going to skip any unimportant 
stuff until you get to important choices. The one you should choose 
has ">" and "<" around it, >like this<.

THE MAY WORKS:
Go Home/Downtown - see Slamy/Kabuto first.
>Run Away</Stay Here - Run Away unless you want GAME OVER.
>Straight (Home)</Turn (School) - Home to meet the other one, 
  School to see another girl getting it instead (GAME OVER).
Look/Think/Run Away/>Listen< - First "Listen" to learn more about 
  the story. Doing "Run Away" first will put you on a map of the city, 
  but there's nowhere helpful you can go without getting a GAME OVER 
  one way or another. Listen at least explains the story; then Run 
  Away puts on you on the city map. Save the game once you're here in 
  case you make a mistake. The "best" ending is found if you go south 
  (down) from your starting location nearly all the way, then head 
  west (left) at the intersection a block BEFORE the railroad crossing 
  (at the end of the large brown apartment building). Go all the way 
  west, then follow the road north, and turn west into the "highway". 
  It's all automatic after that... Love of a Tomogotchi can be a 
  powerful thing... Other interesting graphics that are bad endings 
  can be seen if you:
  1. Run Away before Listen, and go to the School
  2. Listen then Run Away, and go to the School
  3. ditto, and go to the Convenience Store
  4. ditto, and go to the Park
  Careful, because there are several blocks where either Kabuto or 
  Slamy (was this supposed to be Slimy?) will always get you.

MY MOTHERS:
You can't go wrong (hint - go into the Park) until you have a 
Fight/Run Away choice. Given that you don't have the power suit Grampa 
was talking about yet, RUN AWAY!
Other than that, your only real choice in the game is to go to 
Shinjuku or the Park. Believe it or not, the way to go is to blow off 
Grampa and go to the Park first! Going to the Train Station, which 
will take you to Shinjuku for one fight, and then back so you go to 
the Park anyway, eventually gives you a bad ending - although those 
into bondage may want to see it...
To win all the fights, just pick either of the Punch or Kick choices 
until you get a 3rd one, then pick that to end the fight.
Note that this girl is named Mika, and the one in "The May Works" is 
Maki.
Also, Grampa should have picked something besides stray cats to power 
Mika's suit, since it only does 10 points damage until she's 2 hits 
away from losing (all the enemies do 15 damage each time).
Didn't check for the other bad endings, aside from losing the first 
fight (before you have the suit). I'd guess that there are at least 
2 more, for losing to a guy inside the castle, or to Rei.
  
GREEN BOY:
The first important choice is when Kazumi asks Natane to take care of 
the shop. Choose "O.K." rather than "NO"; "NO" will get you an 
interesting sex scene (who's the guy with the green hair?) but the 
game ends with no answers.
I suggest you also insist on watching the shop when Namiki offers to, 
as well.
Later, you should ask your sister's advice, and show them what is 
happening. That will get you to the "good" ending. Variations on this 
will get you various "bad" endings: Namiki gets the seed and ends up 
leaving in an ambulance, Natane doesn't use a condom because she 
won't go in Namiki's room, Natane and Namiki have fun but use 
condoms, etc.

Li Sun had a saved game file on his website, but the .REG file there 
is for the Japanese version, not the English/Italian/Japanese one.
As these stories are rather short, and I think I figured out all the 
endings to the stories, I won't do any more work on this game. It 
looks like there isn't any photoshop for this game, just the music 
jukebox when you click on "M1 Information." If you know different, let 
me know!

Pete's Mini-Review:
Good graphics, I guess good Japanese voice too. One complaint is that 
a lot of the MIDI songs start out silent or very quiet for several 
seconds, so the jukebox isn't much fun. The translation could have 
used some more work, especially as there isn't that much text in these 
stories (hint: use fluent native English speakers as beta testers, 
please! I volunteer...), but you can usually figure out the intent. 
Aside from jumping back to saved games to look for more endings, 
there is no replay value, so you may have this disc in your computer 
only once for a few hours - unless you want to look at the animations 
again some lonely night... The 3 stories are also rather short, and 
there would have been a lot of room left over on the CD for more story 
if they'd skipped the CD music. But I guess that's the way Sogna does 
things, and they've apparently done pretty well in Japan so far... I 
hope that Hobibox or Sogna releases more of the Viper series in 
English! Please, everyone support them by buying the official release 
rather than sharing pirate copies!


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/