'Planetarian' redirects here; the word is alsoused to describe a member of the professional staff of a. Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no YumePlanetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume original visualnovel cover.planetarian ～ちいさなほしのゆめ～Genre,Game, (PC)(PS2/FOMA/S3G/PSP)All ages (PC), A (PS2),ReleasedNovember 29, 2004 (PC-for download via YahooBB)LightnovelAuthorIllustratorPublisherPublishedApril 28, 2006Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume ( planetarian ～ちいさなほしのゆめ～?) is a Japanesedeveloped by, a Japanese video game studio underwhose previous works include. Planetarian wasfirst released over the Internet on November 29, 2004 with a ratingfor all ages, and was the second of Key's products to do this, thefirst being. Key laterre-released Planetarian on April 28, 2006 on with full voice acting forthe female lead. A limited edition version was sold for pre-ordersand early buyers; in it included a 243-page book of short storiesset in the world of Planetarian and some included a bonus, or pencilboard. A and a versionof the game were published by and both released in2006.
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The mobile version was used on andcellular phones. A based on the 'Snow Globe'short story from the promotional book was released at the end of2006, and two more went on sale in July 2007.Key defines Planetarian as a 'kinetic novel', since itsoffers no choicesor alternate endings. Instead, the player proceeds through thestory solely by reading.
In that sense, Planetarian,unlike Key's past works, is not a game. In addition,Planetarian is one of only two Key productions not to haveas anartist, using instead. Key's signature musical and arranged the music on thegame's original soundtrack. The story centers around a middle-agedman who comes across a malfunctioning robot in a dead city. Theman, known simply as 'the junker', stays with this robot for a timeand attempts to fix the projector of the where the story takes place. Inthe February 2007 issue of 's Gemagamagazine, the PS2 version ranked first for console games in termsof satisfaction; the game had ranked fourth in the previousissue.
An average conversation in Planetarian featuring the maincharacter talking to Yumemi.Unlike traditional, no choices are given to theplayer in Planetarian to advance the story, and there isonly one possible ending; this is what Key referred to as a. Theplayer can choose when to advance to the next screen or put the game on auto play.In this respect, the player does not play the game as if it were a, but playsit rather more like one would play a music track on a or play a movie. During gameplay, the player can chooseto hide the text from view and go back to any previous lines.The game can be saved at any point in any of the five save slotsavailable, and a load option is available where the player can loadany of the automatically saved chapter markers, or choose to loadany of the manually saved games.By length of story, Planetarian is the shortest ofKey's games. Excluding the opening and ending sequences, there aresixteen parts to the story; the first half is set within theplanetarium while the latter half is set outside in the ruined citywhere the planetarium resides. The novel takes four hours and fortyminutes to complete on auto play.After the game has been completed at least once, two new optionsappear on the title screen.
The first is a feature that allows theplayer to view twenty images of observed in the game. The secondoption allows the player to listen to eight of the nine musictracks featured in the game.
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SettingThe game is set in aworld.It is said that due to the depletion of natural resources,and the failure of the Space Exploration Project, humanity hasvirtually eradicated itself through and, turning a once prosperous civilization into completeruin, cast in darkness and poisoned by constant rainfrom. One military invasion in the past was at. Thebloodshed continues 30 years after the war in a world via automated war machines,which kill anyone trespassing into their territory. Of theremaining humans, there are those known as 'junkers' who go aroundscavenging for anything in order to survive; the protagonist in thestory is one.The main location where most of the story takes place is thefictional Flowercrest in a derelict city.It is based on the realof in Japan,although the on the rooftop is fictious. Theonset of the story takes place within the planetarium which iswhere the protagonist first meets Yumemi.
The most prominentfeature in the room when a show is not taking place is the largeblack planetarium projector called 'Miss Jena', which is placed ona stage in front of the seats. The planetarium has electricity whenthe protagonist arrives, but only for a short time. Once a year,for 168 hours, electricity in the planetarium is operational, butthe projector is broken.
The rest of the floors in the departmentstore are in ruins; mold and rats run rampant. Characters The junker ( 屑屋, Kuzuya?) Voiced by: The protagonist is a nameless middle-aged soldier living thelife of a 'junker'—scavenging useful items among ruined cities tosurvive. He enters a derelict city searching for undamaged goodsand finds an abandoned planetarium on the roof of a building hefirst thinks is a military facility. There, he meets YumemiHoshino, an android designed to look like a young girl who annoyshim greatly due to her constant talking.The protagonist has a tough personality that comes from trying tosurvive in aworld. He carries a with him and covershimself with a waterproof coat to protect his skin from the toxicrain. For drinking water, his canteen has a water purifier that canpurify the rain.
He is constantly searching for rarer substancessuch as cigarettes and alcohol which can be sold at highprices. Yumemi Hoshino ( ほしのゆめみ, HoshinoYumemi?) Voiced by: Yumemi is a goodhearted but extremely talkative attendant of anabandoned planetarium; she is designed to look like a young girl.Yumemi is slightly damaged and completely unaware of the changesthat have occurred in the past 30 years, as noneof the facilities and databases that she connects to exist anymore.Therefore, she treats the protagonist like a regular guest bycalling him 'Mr.
Customer' ( お客様, Okyaku-sama?), speaks of the world as it was beforethe war, and fails to understand any information he tells her,other than things related to her job at the planetarium.The name 'Hoshino Yumemi' itself is a pun—'hoshi' means star orplanetary body; 'no' is a possessive particle; 'yume' is a dream ora reverie; 'mi' means see. Yumemi is the only character shown tothe audience of the game.
Yumemi is very adamant about protecting humans and is happiestwhen she is helping those she serves. When she is unable to helpsomeone, she gets terribly worried that she is incapable ofoffering assistance and must instead indirectly help a customer bydirecting him or her to someone who can. Protecting humans is hertop priority and will even ignore previous orders to make sure nohuman is harmed when in her care. StoryWhile dodging detection from war machines in a ruined city, theprotagonist enters a building with a dome on the roof to search forusable supplies. Once inside the dome, he meets Yumemi, who offersto show him a special commemorative projection especially reservedfor the 2,500,000th customer, although he is in fact the2,497,290th customer.
Despite his aggravation with her, he agreesto attend her show. However, the projector device, 'Miss ', hasbroken down and is in need of repair.
After he repairs it,Yumemi starts the show, presenting a projection of the starry sky,something that cannot be seen from the surface because of thepolluted skies. The power goes out in the midst of the show, butYumemi proceeds through the rest of the event with no visuals atthe request of the protagonist.Afterward, both of them leave the planetarium, as Yumemi insistson escorting him back to his vehicle outside the city walls. Theprotagonist plans to transport Yumemi out of the city after herbattery runs out and find a way to reactivate her. A machine theprotagonist calls a due to its design is guardingthe entrance to the city in which he came from, and he devises aplan to destroy it armed with only a. After his initialplan fails and he is forced to face the machine front on, Yumemitries to protect the protagonist, but is blown in half by the warmachine's.Yumemi spends her emergency battery life replaying her pre-warmemories to the protagonist using a tiny hologram projector on herear. When the video fades, she reveals that she had known that theplanetarium would never have more customers during the 30 years shewas alone, despite her apparent infinite optimism up to this point.In her final moment as she 'dies' in front of him, Yumemi ejectsthe memory card from her artificial brain for his safekeeping.Touched and completely shaken by the loss of the beautiful worldshe left in his mind, he throws away his gun and puts the memorycard in his coat, before wandering off with a broken leg as thefallen war machine's automated backup units closing in on thescene. DevelopmentPlanetarian is Key's fourth visual novel, and had asmall staff of three main people that did the majority of the workfor the game's first release.Unlike previous Key titles, Planetarian 's art director position wasgiven to instead of who had held the position forthe three previous games.
Komatsuwas chosen not only because of his specialty in depicting mechanicsand robots, but also because he could represent short scenes whichtouch on a robot's existence to reproduce a person's ideals.Furthermore, Key was not short on staff at the time, and was notforced to outsource the artwork of Planetarian., Key's mainscenario writer and project planner, was left out of the project,and was given the position of planning and scenario. Themusic, excluding a single piece composed by, was arranged or composedentirely by, one of Key's signature. Planetarian was the first game under the brand name to bedescribed by the term 'kinetic novel'.In the original version, Yumemi is only voiced during thebeginning and ending scenes, while other characters are not voiced.When Planetarian was released for the PC on, Yumemi had full voiceacting. The(PS2) offers full voiceacting for the entire cast.Other changes to the PS2 version include a higher resolution forthe and an extendedsoundtrack. ReleasehistoryPlanetarian was released via download over the Interneton November 29, 2004, first made available only to users andopened up for general sale a week later on December 6. Thegame is still available on the KineticNovel website fordownload.Thewas later re-released on CD-ROM for the on April28, 2006 in limited and regular editions. On August 24, 2006,Planetarian was ported to the by.A portable version, playable on and, wasproduced by Prototype through on November 28,2006.
Thisversion included full voice acting for the game on FOMA phones. Alimited edition version of Planetarian playable on the was onlyreleased between February 28 and March 1, 2009 at Key 10th MemorialFes, an event held in commemoration of Key's ten-yearanniversary.
Anupdated PC version containing the voice acting from the PS2 versionwas released by Key on July 31, 2009 in a box set containing fiveother Key visual novels called Key 10th Memorial Box. LightnovelAfeaturing a collection of four illustrated short stories, includinga and an, and based onPlanetarian's story were written by and illustrated. The stories were bound in a243-page book originally bundled with the limited edition of the CDversion of Planetarian, and were also included in thelimited edition of the version.The book was re-published as a commercial release by undertheir VA Bunko light novel on October 31, 2008, and was the secondtitle on the imprint. Thefirst two stories presented occur before the events of the kineticnovel, and the latter two occur during its aftermath. The of the book reads, 'Starry sky, words, God, robots. Acollection of short stories in the key of these four themes.'
Ashort preview of the book is available online. Snow Globe ( 雪圏球, SunōGurōbu?) This story occurs before the events of the war that brought theworld to ruin; at this point, Yumemi has been working at theFlowercrest Department Store's rooftop planetarium for about tenyears.
One day, Yumemi begins to act strangely, culminating in hersimply walking out and wandering around the town. The staff of theplanetarium are bewildered, and one of the workers—a woman namedSatomi Kurahashi—is ordered to go follow Yumemi and bring her back.Before long, Yumemi begins to run out of battery power. Jerusalem ( エルサレム, Erusaremu?) This story occurs as the war reaches its height. The SouthAmerican Unification Army receives reports of a rogue sniperoperating deep in the jungles of, and sends a platoon under thecommand of Master Sergeant Murdock to neutralize the threat.However, the entire platoon is killed off one by one by the sniper,until only Murdock is left. All alone, Murdock catches a glimpse ofthis mysterious sniper through his binoculars—and is shocked tofind that he gazes upon the figure of a beautiful.
Hoshi no Hito ( 星の人?, lit. 'Man of the Stars') This story occurs some time after the events of the kineticnovel, as human civilization struggles in a losing battle againstthe poisonous rain. Three of the last inhabitants of a nearlyabandoned underground —named Levi, Ruth, andJob—find a quaint old man collapsed in the snow outside the bunker.When they bring him down, they are surprised to hear the adultscalling him 'Man of the Stars'. The children grow quite interestedabout his strange nickname, as well as the fact that they havenever seen a visitor from the outside world. The old man recovers abit and has the children help him in putting together a portableplanetarium projector. This story offers an ultimate conclusion tothe story in the kinetic novel.
Tircis and Aminte ( チルシスとアマント, Chirushisu to Amanto?) Identical twins Tircis and Aminte study alone in a world oftheir own. Tircis begins to wonder why he is studying and how longwill it go on.
This is the story of how the answer reveals itselfto Tircis and Aminte. Main article: List ofPlanetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume albumsThe visual novel has one main theme song, the ending theme 'Songof Circling Stars' ( 星めぐりの歌, HoshiMeguri no Uta?) sung by of. During on August 11, 2006, the originalsoundtrack for Planetarian was released, and wasre-released on December 28, 2006.Aside from the songs in the game like 'Gentle Jena' and 'World ofStars' Opening ( 星の世界, Hoshi noSekai Opening?), the soundtrack included new songssuch as the vocal version of 'Song of Circling Stars'. A majorityof the soundtrack was composed or rearranged by,who also worked on Key's previous games,and. The musical tracksplayed at the beginning and the end of the game (track one andeight in the original soundtrack) are rearrangements of the ' by, andtheir titles reflect this as well: the original title 'Hoshi noSekai Opening' refers to the Japanese version of the hymn named'Hoshinoyo', and'Itsukushimi Fukaki' is the Japanese translation of the hymn'soriginal title.The first entitled A SnowGlobe was released on December 29, 2006 during Comiket 71,and was re-released on May 25, 2007.As its name suggests, the CD covers the 'Snow Globe' story from thelimited edition book.
The opening track takes place one year beforethe protagonist arrives at the planetarium and the 'Snow Globe'story is told as a flashback. The end of the drama CD is where thekinetic novel begins. A second drama CD entitled Jerusalemwas released on July 27, 2007 and covers the 'Jerusalem' story fromthe limited edition book.The final drama CD entitled Hoshi no Hito was released onthe same day as the second drama CD and covers the 'Hoshi no Hito'and 'Tircis and Aminte' stories from the limited edition book. The'Hoshi no Hito' story plays like a regular drama CD with severaldifferent voice actors acting out the parts, but 'Tircis andAminte' is a recited story by, the voice actress who playsYumemi Hoshino.
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Receptionand salesPlanetarian is one of several kinetic novels featuredin the;Yumemi and the planetarium are playable cards in the second VisualArt's card set. Inthe February 2007 issue of 's Gemagamagazine, the PS2 version ranked first for console games in termsof satisfaction;the game had ranked fourth in the previous issue. Inthe Japanese video game magazine released on September 8, 2006, itwas reported that the PS2 version of Planetarian sold8,170 units the week of August 21 to August 27, 2006 (the PS2version was originally sold on August 24, 2006). See also.Notes.The stated time assumes that the default auto play speed is used,which allots 0.07 seconds per character with a minimum time of 0.3seconds. This reflects about the average time it takes the text tobe read aloud at a normal pace. Quick readers can easily go throughthe entire novel in less than half of this stated time.Jena is a manufacturing city in Germany, specializing in precisionmachinery, pharmaceuticals, optics and photographic equipment, andis home to the famous Zeiss optics plant. In 1926, the world'sfirst modern planetarium was built by the Zeiss company in theDamenviertel district of the town.References.
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