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What follows is a spoiler thread for not just The Silver Case, but also the entire Kill The Past saga, especially Flower, Sun, and Rain.
This is going to be a little different, though.
I'm going to attempt to go all Umineko on the plot of The Silver Case, and expose its guts.
Here's some musical accompaniment.
Chapter 0: Lunatics
Tetsugoro Kusabi is attacked by an unknown gunman on the street, and narrowly avoids a bullet to the head.
The game never quite spells this out, but this entire chapter is about 'Killing the Past' of the Moonlight Syndrome saga. Namely the entire cast.
The gunman, Ryo Kazan:
The younger brother of Kyoko Kazan. They shared a bond with each other that far exceeded even the kinship of blood. The Kazan's were involved in an incest relationship with one another. Sumio, a close friend of Kyoko, had her killed, because he was jealous of the affection that Kyoko had for her brother.
Yayoi(who also appears in FSR) showed Ryo to the v.i.p. room of a night club called "Lost Highway". Sumio was in the backroom waiting for Ryo to show up. Yayoi handed Ryo a bag. Inside the bag was Kyoko's head. Ryo kept her head after Sumio was killed during a double homicide by an ex lover.
Ryo received a phone call from Kyoko shortly after he returned home. However this is impossible, because Kyoko is dead. It's around this time that Ryo's mind starts to twist & turn the reality around him little by little. (This eventually escalates into full blown madness by the time we see Ryo in Silver Case.)
Ryo can be seen holding Kyoko's severed head when he appears in the street.
The one who kills Ryo and then is killed by Kusabi:
http://www.paradisehotel51.com/K7SIN/toubapurfiru.jpg
Rumi Toba. I don't know a great deal about her, but presumably she has good reason to want him dead, and succeeds.
From here on out, TSC is the tale of Kamui Uehara... sort of.
Chapter 1
Having supposedly escaped after 20 years of incarceration, Kamui Uehara is wanted for the murder of three women. It turns out that the killer wasn't him, but his partner; Ayame.
Ayame murdered the three women, who each bore Uehara a child, out of jealousy.
Sumio apprehends Ayame, Uehara is taken back into custody, and the case ends, though Sumio continues to pine for his supposed lost love.
According to his nostalgic musings during the wedding chapter of FSR, his beloved was executed, so it's safe to say she died.
Chapter 2: Spectrum
This case is relatively straight forward, and anything that may not have been clearly spelled out is explained with extensive detail in the corresponding Placebo chapter.
Two childhood friends are tragically torn apart when one of them suffers a fatal heart attack after being pursued by a deranged man living in their building.
Koichi, seeking revenge, pursues the man responsible, who winds up dead after falling from the fourth floor of the Typhoon apartment complex. The main character eventually realizes that Koichi is indirectly responsible, thanks in no small part to the guidance of Hikaru's ghost.
The fact that the protagonist(here after referred to as 'Akira') can see ghosts is likely due in part that he was raised as a Shelter Kid and participated in the silver eye program.
Chapter 3: Parade
This is where things begin to get weird. It's very unlikely you'll understand the chapter completely in one playthrough due to how disjointed the storytelling is. Placebo explains it clearly, but prior to that, it's no surprise that it may baffle players.
During a stakeout, Sumio tells Tetsu a fairytale about a princess and her three protectors. It's no mere fairytale, but a parable for his own history. Sumio and three friends grew up in the city of Mikumo, which was subjected to a polluted river thanks to the actions of the Yukimura Syndicate.
Sumio and his two friends tried to protect the girl they grew up with from the violent protests, known as the Parade, but failed. As punishment for protecting the daughter of the Yukimura family, Sumio was deafened, and his other friends were blinded and muted, respectively. The villagers had been driven mad by the pollution, and believed the girl to be a witch. The boys were punished in a way as to no longer be influenced by her evil.
The trio spent twenty years planning their revenge. The blind man, Hiseki, was the one who blew up the Yukimura mansion. Then the mute man, Fuyuki, continued the plan by collecting the ransom for the kidnapped Yukimura. He then burnt it along with himself.
Tetsugoro, realizing that Sumio was the only surviving culprit, took his former partner into custody, and Sumio Kodai was ejected from the Heinous Crimes Unit.
The chapter ends on Tetsu reminiscing about when he met his serial killer-loving partner.
Years later, Sumio Kodai takes up a new name: Sumio Mondo, and begins a new job as a searcher... on Lospass Island, where you can forget about time.
If you need anything found... Sumio Mondo's your man.
Why is there a pink crocodile here? Does the hotel allow those?
Your breakfast is ready, Mr. Mondo.
Chapter 4: Kamuidrome
I HAVE NO FRICKING IDEA. Seriously. Good luck. Watch Serial Experiments Lain while plastered and that may make more sense than this chapter.
Sayaka Baian's death is the only straightforward event. The rest is a mystery. As far as I can tell, some hackers use Kamui Net's influence to bring down the city's electricity as a show of their power. Then they're never seen again.
Chapter 5: Lifecut
This chapter starts out as a total bloodbath, but eventually makes a morbid sort of sense. The whole Kamui Uehara madness started out as a scheme by Hachizuka(the 24 Wards mayor and Chizuru's grandfather) and a manipulative hacker named Nezu to remodel the 24 Wards and ensure their own immortality by creating Silver Eyes. Only Hachizuka succeeds, and uses his immortality to kill his son and pretend to be him, due to his newfound youth.
Uehara is gunned down on a rooftop due to a massive operation, but it likely makes no difference, as Kamui can transfer between different hosts... including Chizuru Hachizuka, a host for the Ayame strain.
She is gunned down by Sakura(a bit of karmic retaliation since she threatened Sakura during the rooftop operation), and dies pining for Morikawa, who was killed by Kusabi not long before.
To ensure Kamui is stopped, Tetsugoro Kusabi winds up executing most of the Heinous Crimes Unit en masse, since most of them are working for the CCO/TRO(the civic/technical branches of the government). Suffice to say, his days with the force are numbered.
Nakategawa, also revealed to be a double agent, tries to kill Kusabi's informant(Munakata), and winds up dying instead.
Munakata's fate is unclear, but it's likely that he's protected by and/or working for Hachizuka.
By the end of the game, Tetsugoro seems to be working as an officer with Sakura and Mikoshiba, the only two officers left alive, who also don't seem to be controlled by anyone else.
(Edit: I've been told Mikoshiba is supposedly dead. Who knows how. The other officer at the end with Sakura is Kosaka from Chapter 3.)
Akira's fate is also unclear, and the reporter Tokio Morishima leaves the 24 Wards behind, rather than continue living on as influenced by Kamui.
He's clearly still haunted by ghosts, but will later appear on Lospass Island, with a silver eye.
Several other major players are involved, but that summarizes the important things that tie into TSC... though the organization known as Elbow has a major role, as does a major player in the CCO/TRO, Sundance Shot.
And at the end of FSR, Sumio may just encounter an old friend.
I hope you've enjoyed this experience.
This has been a Suda 51 trip.
This is going to be a little different, though.
I'm going to attempt to go all Umineko on the plot of The Silver Case, and expose its guts.
Here's some musical accompaniment.
Chapter 0: Lunatics
Tetsugoro Kusabi is attacked by an unknown gunman on the street, and narrowly avoids a bullet to the head.
The game never quite spells this out, but this entire chapter is about 'Killing the Past' of the Moonlight Syndrome saga. Namely the entire cast.
The gunman, Ryo Kazan:
The younger brother of Kyoko Kazan. They shared a bond with each other that far exceeded even the kinship of blood. The Kazan's were involved in an incest relationship with one another. Sumio, a close friend of Kyoko, had her killed, because he was jealous of the affection that Kyoko had for her brother.
Yayoi(who also appears in FSR) showed Ryo to the v.i.p. room of a night club called "Lost Highway". Sumio was in the backroom waiting for Ryo to show up. Yayoi handed Ryo a bag. Inside the bag was Kyoko's head. Ryo kept her head after Sumio was killed during a double homicide by an ex lover.
Ryo received a phone call from Kyoko shortly after he returned home. However this is impossible, because Kyoko is dead. It's around this time that Ryo's mind starts to twist & turn the reality around him little by little. (This eventually escalates into full blown madness by the time we see Ryo in Silver Case.)
Ryo can be seen holding Kyoko's severed head when he appears in the street.
The one who kills Ryo and then is killed by Kusabi:
http://www.paradisehotel51.com/K7SIN/toubapurfiru.jpg
Rumi Toba. I don't know a great deal about her, but presumably she has good reason to want him dead, and succeeds.
From here on out, TSC is the tale of Kamui Uehara... sort of.
Chapter 1
Having supposedly escaped after 20 years of incarceration, Kamui Uehara is wanted for the murder of three women. It turns out that the killer wasn't him, but his partner; Ayame.
Ayame murdered the three women, who each bore Uehara a child, out of jealousy.
Sumio apprehends Ayame, Uehara is taken back into custody, and the case ends, though Sumio continues to pine for his supposed lost love.
According to his nostalgic musings during the wedding chapter of FSR, his beloved was executed, so it's safe to say she died.
Chapter 2: Spectrum
This case is relatively straight forward, and anything that may not have been clearly spelled out is explained with extensive detail in the corresponding Placebo chapter.
Two childhood friends are tragically torn apart when one of them suffers a fatal heart attack after being pursued by a deranged man living in their building.
Koichi, seeking revenge, pursues the man responsible, who winds up dead after falling from the fourth floor of the Typhoon apartment complex. The main character eventually realizes that Koichi is indirectly responsible, thanks in no small part to the guidance of Hikaru's ghost.
The fact that the protagonist(here after referred to as 'Akira') can see ghosts is likely due in part that he was raised as a Shelter Kid and participated in the silver eye program.
Chapter 3: Parade
This is where things begin to get weird. It's very unlikely you'll understand the chapter completely in one playthrough due to how disjointed the storytelling is. Placebo explains it clearly, but prior to that, it's no surprise that it may baffle players.
During a stakeout, Sumio tells Tetsu a fairytale about a princess and her three protectors. It's no mere fairytale, but a parable for his own history. Sumio and three friends grew up in the city of Mikumo, which was subjected to a polluted river thanks to the actions of the Yukimura Syndicate.
Sumio and his two friends tried to protect the girl they grew up with from the violent protests, known as the Parade, but failed. As punishment for protecting the daughter of the Yukimura family, Sumio was deafened, and his other friends were blinded and muted, respectively. The villagers had been driven mad by the pollution, and believed the girl to be a witch. The boys were punished in a way as to no longer be influenced by her evil.
The trio spent twenty years planning their revenge. The blind man, Hiseki, was the one who blew up the Yukimura mansion. Then the mute man, Fuyuki, continued the plan by collecting the ransom for the kidnapped Yukimura. He then burnt it along with himself.
Sumio finished the plan by ensuring Yukimura would blow up the Snow Tower HQ, along with all the corporate brass of the Yukimura Syndicate. Lastly, to put Ril's soul to rest, he destroyed the village where it all began.
Tetsugoro, realizing that Sumio was the only surviving culprit, took his former partner into custody, and Sumio Kodai was ejected from the Heinous Crimes Unit.
The chapter ends on Tetsu reminiscing about when he met his serial killer-loving partner.
Years later, Sumio Kodai takes up a new name: Sumio Mondo, and begins a new job as a searcher... on Lospass Island, where you can forget about time.
If you need anything found... Sumio Mondo's your man.
Why is there a pink crocodile here? Does the hotel allow those?
Your breakfast is ready, Mr. Mondo.
Chapter 4: Kamuidrome
I HAVE NO FRICKING IDEA. Seriously. Good luck. Watch Serial Experiments Lain while plastered and that may make more sense than this chapter.
Sayaka Baian's death is the only straightforward event. The rest is a mystery. As far as I can tell, some hackers use Kamui Net's influence to bring down the city's electricity as a show of their power. Then they're never seen again.
Chapter 5: Lifecut
This chapter starts out as a total bloodbath, but eventually makes a morbid sort of sense. The whole Kamui Uehara madness started out as a scheme by Hachizuka(the 24 Wards mayor and Chizuru's grandfather) and a manipulative hacker named Nezu to remodel the 24 Wards and ensure their own immortality by creating Silver Eyes. Only Hachizuka succeeds, and uses his immortality to kill his son and pretend to be him, due to his newfound youth.
Uehara is gunned down on a rooftop due to a massive operation, but it likely makes no difference, as Kamui can transfer between different hosts... including Chizuru Hachizuka, a host for the Ayame strain.
She is gunned down by Sakura(a bit of karmic retaliation since she threatened Sakura during the rooftop operation), and dies pining for Morikawa, who was killed by Kusabi not long before.
(Not talking that shit now, are you?)
To ensure Kamui is stopped, Tetsugoro Kusabi winds up executing most of the Heinous Crimes Unit en masse, since most of them are working for the CCO/TRO(the civic/technical branches of the government). Suffice to say, his days with the force are numbered.
Nakategawa, also revealed to be a double agent, tries to kill Kusabi's informant(Munakata), and winds up dying instead.
Munakata's fate is unclear, but it's likely that he's protected by and/or working for Hachizuka.
By the end of the game, Tetsugoro seems to be working as an officer with Sakura and Mikoshiba, the only two officers left alive, who also don't seem to be controlled by anyone else.
(Edit: I've been told Mikoshiba is supposedly dead. Who knows how. The other officer at the end with Sakura is Kosaka from Chapter 3.)
Akira's fate is also unclear, and the reporter Tokio Morishima leaves the 24 Wards behind, rather than continue living on as influenced by Kamui.
He's clearly still haunted by ghosts, but will later appear on Lospass Island, with a silver eye.
Several other major players are involved, but that summarizes the important things that tie into TSC... though the organization known as Elbow has a major role, as does a major player in the CCO/TRO, Sundance Shot.
And at the end of FSR, Sumio may just encounter an old friend.
I hope you've enjoyed this experience.
This has been a Suda 51 trip.
