Hey everyone there was some worry that Chaos;Head NoAH would be banned on steam but I talked to GabeN and handled it so it's coming out on PC tomorrow. UPDATE: The CoZ patch is now out bc I asked them nicely to release it 😤 sonome.dareno.me/projects/chn-patch.html
Huh... much more accurately, it initially _was_ confirmed banned, and the efforts of literal thousands of people, rather than just you, helped reverse the decision.
Every background in future entries is gorgeous and clean, but C;H's just feel so... raw? It's uncanny and immersive in ways no other game in the series managed to pull off. I love the photo realistic attempt with 3D models on a budget. It's so good.
VN columbo is absolutely brilliant 😭 been watching your Chaos;child videos for a long time, thanks for all the work over the years, finished the CC true ending again last night, one of the only stories that will stick with me forever I believe.
Your mic recommendation saved my lifeeee dude, and the new mixer I got makes it sound even better (you can hear the difference in the outro, I'm so excited to finally have some clean ass audio 😤). Thanks a bunch, dude!
Thanks for making this video, I suspect I will rewatch it multiple times leading up to the release in less than a month. Last year I was itching to play Chaos;Head and played through the early parts(up until the part where the police look at the security cam footage, felt like a good place to stop and got me intrigued) using the old fanTL and I was hooked. I would not be surprised if this becomes a favorite of mine. Buying all the SciADV games over the years as they released on PC, but been holding off reading them until Noah got an official English release. Really hoping somehow it gets onto Steam or somewhere else on PC if that is not possible.
Honestly I'm glad someone on twitter shared a link to this vid because this looks really cool. I'm not the biggest VN person but I do enjoy horror and murder mysteries so I think I may end up picking this up once it drops on Switch.
Can't wait to read this without setting japanese locales and being able to save in chapter six (that crack was ass but I still have it in my mediafire lol) Chäos;Head was the first VN I've ever read and it was an experience I'll never forget. Funnily enough, I was looking through my dad's PlayStation+ games and a weird game called Steins;Gate catched my attention. I downloaded it and played for a few minutes, then read up on it and discovered that it's part of a series called SciAdv. The first game was Chäos;Head. What a stupid name, guess I'll read that first. It took a while to find a noname site where I could actually download it, in like 13 parts and with atrociously low download speed, but eventually I managed to make them into one ZIP file. It came with an english patch and a swimsuit patch that never worked haha. Patching it to english wasn't enough as the game needed japanese locales to run properly. I had no idea what I was doing but I finally got it running. I remember the low quality uncanny main menu with that creepy BGM and the whirring of the hdd from the pc styled submenus. It was weird, and I was digging it. Then, the prologue. Rain is falling. A pink haired high school girl kisses you then kills you with a comically large sword amidst the ruins of what appeared to be Shibuya. What the hell is going on. This is cool. Soon after the MC, Takumi is introduced. It quickly became apparent that this is not a hero deserving the reader's symphaty. He is a lazy egocentric otaku shut-in, who plays games all day and collects figurines, and the few times he goes to school he suffers from anxiety makes sure to isolate himself from others. He was just like me, but even worse. It was my first time dealing with an antipathetic hero but by this time the more niche this game became, the more I liked it. I couldn't have imagined horror working in a Visual Novel, but goddamn it does. I don't know how credible that fan translation was, but it was also my first time with japanese writing and its difference from conventional english phraseology gave it an extra surreal vibe. It also surprised me that this light scifi with giant-flashy-sword-wielding-heroines (interpret it as you will) actually has real science and conspiracy theories as its base. (Steins;Gate later blew my mind with this). Also, I quickly fell in love with this japanese Goth Rock band FES is in. I still listen to the two PHANTASM albums from time to time, they really nailed it. tl;dr nostalgia rant
Thanks for the heads up mate, I'm sure if the game ever comes to Steam it would've popped up on my radar sooner or later but you're more than welcome in my YT recommendations. Cheers!
You are the reason i played Chaos Head and its the only VN that isnt daganronpa ive finished. Thank you. It was a very different and intersting story. Definitely Unique
i remember keeping up with the C;H anime as it came out when i was younger, i was ecstatic knowing it was also a VN! took forever to get my hands on back in the day and i never did end up finishing it...but i just bought the official english release on the switch and i'm finally about to dive in with the intent of finishing the story! out of all the semicolon titles i feel like C;H ends up getting ignored the most, and i really hope noah being more widely available now gets more people looking into it!
Epic video, I’m an admin of 3 SciADV wikis including the Chaos;Head one, you did a great job promoting this awesome game without spoilers. Warning: the wiki is full of spoilers. BTW there used to be 2 separate Chaos;Head wikis (one with more articles and one with longer articles) and I was the one who merged them into one with the best of both wikis combined. That was kind of a lot of work, I think I did that like, 2 years ago? Anyway, great video and feel free to visit the Chaos;Head or other SciADV wikis if you are OK with spoilers, and if you find any mistakes, feel free to edit the wiki pages, everyone is welcome except trolls/vandals. I want the SciADV wikis to provide accurate and helpful information about all the games and related media in the series (We’re not quite there yet, especially not with the most neglected entry in the series, Occultic;Nine, but maybe someday.)
I'll probably check them out after I finish NoAH up next month, thanks so much! I remember there being a lot of confusion with different SciADV wikis years back when I was more involved in the Fandom. Thank you for the praise, glad you enjoyed the vid ^-^
One of my favourite things about C;H is how it starts to play with the delusion system and your expectations of it. The system in itself is kind weak, it has that SciAdv Vagueness that really doesn't help with knowing how to progress, and I don't really like that it's kinda pointless on a first playthrough, but as an _atmosphere_ system it's fun. (Also funny that you say "praying the localisation is good" on a screenshot that apparently has issues! Apparently that line should have quote-marks around it.)
Yeah that second bit was 100% intentional haha. The three screens we've seen have been worrying, but I'm hoping the rest is okay? No quotation marks in a game without speaker tags in the text box is,,, worrying as hell so I really hope that's not what we should be expecting around launch. Fingers crossed, but I totally get a lot of the worry lol
I think visual novels are elaborately constructed sandwiches and the only reason we haven't realized it yet is because not enough people try to eat them
Bro I actually didn’t know anyone else knew about this anime, I used to watch it on funimation when I was like 7 in like 2010 😭 Just found out there was a sequel called Chaos;Child, so I will be rewatching it for the 5th time to refresh myself for the sequel
This video was not talking about the anime but the rerelease of the visual novel, which is its source material. The anime is an atrocious adaptation (as is the one for Chäos;Child), may it be a decent anime by itself (which I don't think so). If you think both anime of Chäos;Head and Chäos;Child were good, go read the visual novels of both and have your mind blown.
I'm starting the game now. I've seen Steins;Gate's anime (and even made a private fan edit that plays with the dub and subs), but never really played many VNs before, just a few... this is gonna be one hell of a ride, huh
Everything from 16:12 onwards was so eloquently put, Chaos;Head being a "time capsule" really is the best way to express why it holds such a special place in my heart
nice video, really i couldn't find much info on what exactly chaos;head was and i was contemplating getting it on the switch since its discounted on that platform atm. this video helped explain what exactly it is i'd be getting into, so i can at least make the buy without being 100% blind about it. i will say i don't think i'd mind if the protag is annoying because some other VN's have tested my limits for insufferable characters a bit as is XD
ive never finished steins as is a bit slow at start. but intrigued, then i saw anonymous code and then this... now im interested in all... yet the backlog pluf baldursgate3 and starfield ahhh. anxiety!!
For those of you who are fans of the anime "AICO: Incarnation", I was thinking. What if I make my fanmade season 2 of that show as a crossover with the Sciadv saga ? It could be set after the true ending of "Chaos;Child", and maybe I could use elements of the saga to explain some things that happened in the protagonist's adventure. I mean, I already used Lain for the interlude between both seasons, I don't see the reason to not go further. What do you think ? Would you people be interested, or would you prefer I used no further crossover elements in AICO ? Because I do plan to make this story a template for an official season 2. You would be free to remove the most obvious elements of this being a crossover should your plan be to spread the story (as long as the credits are given, because I'm still gonna make use of this fanfic for future projects, therefore I need people informed).
14:16 Aha! As someone who had previously played the Original Chaos;Head with the Fan translation I was totally confused when I played through Noah's B ending and noticed a huge amount of content missing. By the way, what other changes were made in Noah's censored versions exactly (feel free to give me spoilers)?
"For some reason the Switch version has an effect where it does dull flashes which could be a photo-sensitivity issue." Good news! So does the Steam version! ... I think they were trying to create an old-timey footage look for flashbacks but wow it's not pleasant.
@@culIen I already have both Japanese versions of the Chaos;head/child and Anonymous;code, unfortunately I'm only a year into learning Japanese and I can't read them yet 😔
I am one of those people that absolutely adores the original Steins;gate, but I can't really get into any of the other science adventure games. Like, I read them, I think they're pretty decent, but I can't really fully immerse myself like I did with Steins;gate. I will say though, having finished both Chaos; Head and Chaos; Child, both of these games have an incredibly thick, eerie atmosphere that I have not experienced in any other visual novel. I am a grown ass man and I would rather not play either of these games past midnight.
@@arcticfox1916 Thats the science; adventure series I haven't tried yet yeah, but somehow I doubt it can reach the heights of Steins;gate for me. I think what makes Steins;gate work for me is the Okabe/Kurisu dynamic, and thats certainly not an easy thing to live up to.
@@AlkonKomm to chime in with my own thoughts, R;N was a big surprise for me. That games atmosphere is stellar and the cast is still my favorite of the series. They have a really perfect dynamic. I'm glad each game tries to approach different sci-fi subgenres so that there's something that feels hyper specifically made for fans of that genre, even if not everyone will love it
really??? oh my god... i have finished all the science adventure series except this... finally cannot wait for it. now i hope they do for occultic nine too... even a light anime into English will do too.
I actually love Chaos;Head and it was THE game that hooked me into the Science Adventure series and anime/visual novels in general. The way you experience the story from Takumi's perspective and become bombarded with unexplained weird shit which is going on around you was so unsettling and so disconnected at first that you fully embraced Takumi's side "Fuck all of this, I'm rather gonna stay in my hikikomori shed and not attempt to screw this up further". And when mid-story you were able to piece all of the happening events into one coherent picture, OH MY GOD, it was marvelous. It was like a feeling like a ball of tangled threads was shown to you untangled and you were "How was I so stupid not to get it before?" The story's structure and the way it's also filled with all the gruesome murders, convoluted science and business topics make it way more realistic for me than other SciAdv novels. I'm really happy they finally are going to release it in English. Definitely going to replay it again ^^
I have little proposal. How about video about Famicom detective club? I really love this adventure detective novels, and it deserves more appreciation.
reminder that the switch port is censored and that official translations usually are kinda faulty and that it's best to follow the commitee of zero team
4:57 how this man even shower or take his business if he doesn't even have a bathroom lmao I'm happy Noah is finally coming to the West after all these years. I was worried CH N and CC won't be on switch because.....I only own a switch and I'm poor to own a powerful pc/laptop and the other titles are on switch (rip for Steins gate LBP). But I think all of the SciADV games should be on current platforms. I love Find the blue by Itou Kanako- one of the best Op of SciADV in my opinion of course. It's the way the prologue is done with it's 10 mins then hard drums play while the title screen plays. Brings chills to my spine. The actual English translation of SciADV can be very debate but what matters is that it's here and fans can just fix it up (looks at human ranch lol)
This series has a problem conveying its mechanics go the player. I think the intent, when this game originally came out, was that the player would read the manual. Not a lot of care was put into conveying a similar experience for players of the modern ports. Closest I think you get is going into the control/help menu option to see that a delusion trigger can be activated with a button, but that's basically it lol
Chaos;Child went on steam in a time where there weren't as many restrictions, also while they're both dark games Chaos;Head is definitely more fucked up of a game imo
We had a post up about it not too long ago, but it was lost to time. I can just tell you, though. Basically, the game has eight total routes including the common route. Three of these routes were cut down in some way. The first of which is B Route/Crying Sky, which was also in the original C;H PC release. Over 500 lines of dialogue/narration/etc. were removed from this specific route. That is a *significant* amount of content that equates to around 50% of the route. This isn't optional content, either, it's story-important content that is required to understand the game and view its true ending. The second is from one of the heroine routes. A number of lines in it were cut, but nowhere near as many as in B Ending (around 40 in total). It's still pretty important content to the atmosphere and overall tone of the game; part of what makes Chaos;Head so special is how raw and unfiltered it is, and this removes a lot of that. Lastly, a few lines were removed from the Common Route. Again, not many, but still a noticeable amount (namely, from Ch 8 and Ch 9). That's everything that was removed in the PS3 version, and subsequently the VITA and Switch releases.
I talk about this in the video, but Chaos;Head is the first game that Kickstarted the series Chaos;Child was in. So, it is ideal to play this ir you can.
If you're impatient you can play the fan translation of the original Chaos;Head PC port right now, but personally for the very best experience you can get, I recommend waiting for the Comittee of Zero patch for Chaos;Head NoaH to come out (which, according to them, will be within a month of NoaH's localized release), then play Chaos;Child. Also with the Comittee of Zero patch installed. This one's been out for a while so no waiting necessary.
@@learranufotable3177 The official translation tends to have some inconsistencies in the story as well as things like untranslated CG. The CoZ patch fixes that and also adds some quality of life improvements for good measure. For some entries like the Robotics;Notes duology, I would go as far as to say that the CoZ patches are a necessity as there are some heavy mistranslations which make the story hard to understand. In any case, there's no reason not to use the CoZ patches.
I really hope they get it figured out lmao, but yeah CoZ releasing their port will be amazing if this falls through (itll be amazing no matter what for preservation reasons, mainly) 👏
As the guy who considers pretty much everything shown to be a spoiler I would just like to say I was going to watch the video to support the channel. But for the specific synopsis given at the beginning for people like me I take it this is my chance to leave.
While I made a bit out of it, I do find it important based on past experiences to offer a cut off point for people who want pretty much nothing, so the people who do want to know things a bit past that (despite the fact that there are no real spoilers there) aren't left with questions. All in good fun, have a good day ^-^
@@culIen I am really looking forward to playing it, I have just finished robotics notes elite and wanted to wait off playing dash cuz it's the latest in the sci;adv series to my knowledge and really plays off the others I'm just hoping I'll have the hours to sink into a visual Novel having just gone into the work force :'(
@@culIen I have now watched the video, and I shall say, I literally had nothing to worry about lmao having been playing the switch dual pack and just got to the part on the roof with the decision and the people and media and then in the hospital room. Quite honestly tho I probably should have watched this sooner cuz it took me a while to figure out what the delusion trigger was until I had accidentally pressed the button for it one time and was like "oh So that's what that's for" tho I'm pretty sure the game told me and I had just forgotten, and I didn't even know about the good delusions until I just finished this video so uh...
I never played Chaos head or Chaos Child. But i really wait it for Switch. Censorship not so bother me, because i never played original. So, i really exited.
I have a love-hate relationship with Chäos;HEAd. Well no, mainly... I guess hate? But not exactly. Probably the word is "frustration". Mainly cause I dislike Takumi and how he is developped and how rushed is the finale. I think the VN should had been like 428, making use of three parallel protagonists whose stories we follow. Mainly since HEAd has three main plotlines: 1. Murder mystery. 2. The Comitee. 3. Takumi's paranoia. Being Japanese Colombo the oke who carries the first, Sena the second and Takumi the third... and my issue is he solves all three plotlines out of nowhere. And it was pretty disappointing. The game went from "weird thriller" to "weird otaku power fantasy" in its last moments. But... I have still some respect of its MAGNIFIQUE AMBIENCE. Gosh, how one can feel every second of the work until ch9 finale is really respectable. It is grotesque and addictive in a way. And it pattented that kind of ambient which S;G and C;C employed too. So... I have a complex relationship. Specially since I do not think NoAH fixes HEAd that much... but gosh, this VN wa onto something respecting its production. Tho I loved Child and Takuru. Takuru is ma boy.
I read the fan translated original like four or five years ago, and I can't say I liked it. I'm definitely one of the people who considers Takumi an insufferable dipshit and I do think the developers went WAY too hard with the asocial, misanthropic nerd angle. However, I feel like the bigger issue with the story is the direction it took around the last third-to-quarter. There's a very noticeable tonal shift from a Japanese urban mystery thriller vibe to more of a schlocky anime action trip, and there's some really goofy plot twists near the end that just made me roll my eyes.
I definitely think you should give it another go with NoAH. The development of the characters is given far more time, and you get an even bigger view into Takumi's head space, which is enhanced by new CGs and scenes.
To add, I don't think you're necessarily wrong for not vibing with the game! NoaH is very cool and seems to address issues, but things like Takumi and shonen tonal shifts are NOT for everyone. It might be worth checking it out on a sale if you just don't have the energy for it, but that's only if you're really curious because I think it's just MORE (and slightly improved) C;H not a different C;H.
VN columbo is absolutely brilliant 😭 been watching your Chaos;child videos for a long time, thanks for all the work over the years, finished the CC true ending again last night, one of the only stories that will stick with me forever I believe.
Hey everyone there was some worry that Chaos;Head NoAH would be banned on steam but I talked to GabeN and handled it so it's coming out on PC tomorrow.
UPDATE: The CoZ patch is now out bc I asked them nicely to release it 😤 sonome.dareno.me/projects/chn-patch.html
Huh... much more accurately, it initially _was_ confirmed banned, and the efforts of literal thousands of people, rather than just you, helped reverse the decision.
thank you cullen for finally letting us put it out
I love the Chaos;Head aesthetic the backgrounds the music just everything is perfect
Every background in future entries is gorgeous and clean, but C;H's just feel so... raw? It's uncanny and immersive in ways no other game in the series managed to pull off. I love the photo realistic attempt with 3D models on a budget. It's so good.
true omg i love it so much . my favourite VN ever
@@culIen i think some of the BGs are literally photographs taken in Tokyo
@@sparkle_on yeah, I think I noticed that for a few. There's one of a sign that really does seem too real to be 3D lol
@@culIen I noticed it when police and Yua were after Taku, there was a BG with a ton of bicycles, that one's definitely a photo
VN columbo is absolutely brilliant 😭 been watching your Chaos;child videos for a long time, thanks for all the work over the years, finished the CC true ending again last night, one of the only stories that will stick with me forever I believe.
for new viewers: get the Committee of Zero fan patch, it's out!
Easily your best video. So excited to see more from you, man.
For my next trick I will disappear 🪄
takumi is LITERALLY me fr fr
My man is sounding unbelievably crispy these days, fantastic vid!
Your mic recommendation saved my lifeeee dude, and the new mixer I got makes it sound even better (you can hear the difference in the outro, I'm so excited to finally have some clean ass audio 😤). Thanks a bunch, dude!
Thanks for making this video, I suspect I will rewatch it multiple times leading up to the release in less than a month. Last year I was itching to play Chaos;Head and played through the early parts(up until the part where the police look at the security cam footage, felt like a good place to stop and got me intrigued) using the old fanTL and I was hooked. I would not be surprised if this becomes a favorite of mine. Buying all the SciADV games over the years as they released on PC, but been holding off reading them until Noah got an official English release. Really hoping somehow it gets onto Steam or somewhere else on PC if that is not possible.
Don't forget to use the Committee of Zero patches when you play them on PC. Extra important for Robotics;Notes and Chaos;Child.
I have all of them already downloaded and redownload them as they release updates even though I have yet to use them. They are doing amazing work.
YAY A GOOD INTRODUCTION VIDEO FOR C;H
This'll help explain it and its appeal to newbies so much more easily
Honestly I'm glad someone on twitter shared a link to this vid because this looks really cool. I'm not the biggest VN person but I do enjoy horror and murder mysteries so I think I may end up picking this up once it drops on Switch.
Can't wait to read this without setting japanese locales and being able to save in chapter six (that crack was ass but I still have it in my mediafire lol)
Chäos;Head was the first VN I've ever read and it was an experience I'll never forget.
Funnily enough, I was looking through my dad's PlayStation+ games and a weird game called Steins;Gate catched my attention. I downloaded it and played for a few minutes, then read up on it and discovered that it's part of a series called SciAdv. The first game was Chäos;Head. What a stupid name, guess I'll read that first.
It took a while to find a noname site where I could actually download it, in like 13 parts and with atrociously low download speed, but eventually I managed to make them into one ZIP file.
It came with an english patch and a swimsuit patch that never worked haha.
Patching it to english wasn't enough as the game needed japanese locales to run properly. I had no idea what I was doing but I finally got it running.
I remember the low quality uncanny main menu with that creepy BGM and the whirring of the hdd from the pc styled submenus. It was weird, and I was digging it.
Then, the prologue. Rain is falling. A pink haired high school girl kisses you then kills you with a comically large sword amidst the ruins of what appeared to be Shibuya. What the hell is going on. This is cool.
Soon after the MC, Takumi is introduced. It quickly became apparent that this is not a hero deserving the reader's symphaty. He is a lazy egocentric otaku shut-in, who plays games all day and collects figurines, and the few times he goes to school he suffers from anxiety makes sure to isolate himself from others. He was just like me, but even worse. It was my first time dealing with an antipathetic hero but by this time the more niche this game became, the more I liked it.
I couldn't have imagined horror working in a Visual Novel, but goddamn it does. I don't know how credible that fan translation was, but it was also my first time with japanese writing and its difference from conventional english phraseology gave it an extra surreal vibe.
It also surprised me that this light scifi with giant-flashy-sword-wielding-heroines (interpret it as you will) actually has real science and conspiracy theories as its base. (Steins;Gate later blew my mind with this).
Also, I quickly fell in love with this japanese Goth Rock band FES is in. I still listen to the two PHANTASM albums from time to time, they really nailed it.
tl;dr nostalgia rant
Thanks for the heads up mate, I'm sure if the game ever comes to Steam it would've popped up on my radar sooner or later
but you're more than welcome in my YT recommendations. Cheers!
Thanks so much! Hopefully they'll get that sorted asap since spike still haven't said anything about it lol. Take care!
You are the reason i played Chaos Head and its the only VN that isnt daganronpa ive finished. Thank you. It was a very different and intersting story. Definitely Unique
Didn't even know this was coming out! Banger video as always cullens
i remember keeping up with the C;H anime as it came out when i was younger, i was ecstatic knowing it was also a VN! took forever to get my hands on back in the day and i never did end up finishing it...but i just bought the official english release on the switch and i'm finally about to dive in with the intent of finishing the story!
out of all the semicolon titles i feel like C;H ends up getting ignored the most, and i really hope noah being more widely available now gets more people looking into it!
Great video! Your Chaos;Child videos were what got me into SciADV, so I'm stoked to be able to play the first game for the first time haha.
And now the CoZ patch is finally out!
Just downloaded it, so excited!
Epic video, I’m an admin of 3 SciADV wikis including the Chaos;Head one, you did a great job promoting this awesome game without spoilers. Warning: the wiki is full of spoilers. BTW there used to be 2 separate Chaos;Head wikis (one with more articles and one with longer articles) and I was the one who merged them into one with the best of both wikis combined. That was kind of a lot of work, I think I did that like, 2 years ago? Anyway, great video and feel free to visit the Chaos;Head or other SciADV wikis if you are OK with spoilers, and if you find any mistakes, feel free to edit the wiki pages, everyone is welcome except trolls/vandals. I want the SciADV wikis to provide accurate and helpful information about all the games and related media in the series (We’re not quite there yet, especially not with the most neglected entry in the series, Occultic;Nine, but maybe someday.)
I'll probably check them out after I finish NoAH up next month, thanks so much! I remember there being a lot of confusion with different SciADV wikis years back when I was more involved in the Fandom. Thank you for the praise, glad you enjoyed the vid ^-^
One of my favourite things about C;H is how it starts to play with the delusion system and your expectations of it. The system in itself is kind weak, it has that SciAdv Vagueness that really doesn't help with knowing how to progress, and I don't really like that it's kinda pointless on a first playthrough, but as an _atmosphere_ system it's fun.
(Also funny that you say "praying the localisation is good" on a screenshot that apparently has issues! Apparently that line should have quote-marks around it.)
Yeah that second bit was 100% intentional haha. The three screens we've seen have been worrying, but I'm hoping the rest is okay? No quotation marks in a game without speaker tags in the text box is,,, worrying as hell so I really hope that's not what we should be expecting around launch. Fingers crossed, but I totally get a lot of the worry lol
I played the og chaos head which still is currently my top 1 vn now I can’t wait to play Noah
You actually convinced me to read CH
good job
Hope you enjoy!
this game is on sale now on steam, thanks for the intro
sono me, dare no me?
I think visual novels are elaborately constructed sandwiches and the only reason we haven't realized it yet is because not enough people try to eat them
Would that make Umineko one of those huge Reubens
played the original and waiting for NoAH. please recommend a VN similar to this to play in the meantime!
Nice setup my guy!
Bro I actually didn’t know anyone else knew about this anime, I used to watch it on funimation when I was like 7 in like 2010 😭 Just found out there was a sequel called Chaos;Child, so I will be rewatching it for the 5th time to refresh myself for the sequel
This video was not talking about the anime but the rerelease of the visual novel, which is its source material. The anime is an atrocious adaptation (as is the one for Chäos;Child), may it be a decent anime by itself (which I don't think so). If you think both anime of Chäos;Head and Chäos;Child were good, go read the visual novels of both and have your mind blown.
I feel I had that monitor back in 2009 when I played it:
I'm starting the game now. I've seen Steins;Gate's anime (and even made a private fan edit that plays with the dub and subs), but never really played many VNs before, just a few... this is gonna be one hell of a ride, huh
Everything from 16:12 onwards was so eloquently put, Chaos;Head being a "time capsule" really is the best way to express why it holds such a special place in my heart
nice video, really
i couldn't find much info on what exactly chaos;head was and i was contemplating getting it on the switch since its discounted on that platform atm. this video helped explain what exactly it is i'd be getting into, so i can at least make the buy without being 100% blind about it. i will say i don't think i'd mind if the protag is annoying because some other VN's have tested my limits for insufferable characters a bit as is XD
ive never finished steins as is a bit slow at start. but intrigued, then i saw anonymous code and then this... now im interested in all... yet the backlog pluf baldursgate3 and starfield ahhh. anxiety!!
For those of you who are fans of the anime "AICO: Incarnation", I was thinking. What if I make my fanmade season 2 of that show as a crossover with the Sciadv saga ? It could be set after the true ending of "Chaos;Child", and maybe I could use elements of the saga to explain some things that happened in the protagonist's adventure. I mean, I already used Lain for the interlude between both seasons, I don't see the reason to not go further. What do you think ? Would you people be interested, or would you prefer I used no further crossover elements in AICO ? Because I do plan to make this story a template for an official season 2. You would be free to remove the most obvious elements of this being a crossover should your plan be to spread the story (as long as the credits are given, because I'm still gonna make use of this fanfic for future projects, therefore I need people informed).
14:16 Aha! As someone who had previously played the Original Chaos;Head with the Fan translation I was totally confused when I played through Noah's B ending and noticed a huge amount of content missing. By the way, what other changes were made in Noah's censored versions exactly (feel free to give me spoilers)?
I will actually cry if it’s banned from steam I’ve been waiting like 3 years since reading the original fan translation for this ;-;
It was banned, but not anymore.
"For some reason the Switch version has an effect where it does dull flashes which could be a photo-sensitivity issue." Good news! So does the Steam version!
... I think they were trying to create an old-timey footage look for flashbacks but wow it's not pleasant.
The future has almost arrived! Committee of Zero will finally be releasing that patch on the 3rd.
Please valve, release it on steam!
Also, as usual, amazing video Cullen, hope you don't disappear now for a long time again 🤣
Still makin vids, just don't want to be a SciADV channel! I have a schedule planned consistent uploads in the next few months ^-^
@@culIen hell yeah! Woohooo
Whose eyes are those eyes?
I missed you doing sci adv videos
I did too, please look forward to next year for something hopefully on A;C!
@@culIen I already have both Japanese versions of the Chaos;head/child and Anonymous;code, unfortunately I'm only a year into learning Japanese and I can't read them yet 😔
I am one of those people that absolutely adores the original Steins;gate, but I can't really get into any of the other science adventure games. Like, I read them, I think they're pretty decent, but I can't really fully immerse myself like I did with Steins;gate. I will say though, having finished both Chaos; Head and Chaos; Child, both of these games have an incredibly thick, eerie atmosphere that I have not experienced in any other visual novel. I am a grown ass man and I would rather not play either of these games past midnight.
You should check out Robotics;Notes. It's part 3 of the sciadv series, but unlike the Chaos; entries, it's extremely upbeat and positive.
@@arcticfox1916 Thats the science; adventure series I haven't tried yet yeah, but somehow I doubt it can reach the heights of Steins;gate for me. I think what makes Steins;gate work for me is the Okabe/Kurisu dynamic, and thats certainly not an easy thing to live up to.
@@AlkonKomm to chime in with my own thoughts, R;N was a big surprise for me. That games atmosphere is stellar and the cast is still my favorite of the series. They have a really perfect dynamic. I'm glad each game tries to approach different sci-fi subgenres so that there's something that feels hyper specifically made for fans of that genre, even if not everyone will love it
really??? oh my god... i have finished all the science adventure series except this... finally cannot wait for it. now i hope they do for occultic nine too... even a light anime into English will do too.
I actually love Chaos;Head and it was THE game that hooked me into the Science Adventure series and anime/visual novels in general.
The way you experience the story from Takumi's perspective and become bombarded with unexplained weird shit which is going on around you was so unsettling and so disconnected at first that you fully embraced Takumi's side "Fuck all of this, I'm rather gonna stay in my hikikomori shed and not attempt to screw this up further". And when mid-story you were able to piece all of the happening events into one coherent picture, OH MY GOD, it was marvelous. It was like a feeling like a ball of tangled threads was shown to you untangled and you were "How was I so stupid not to get it before?"
The story's structure and the way it's also filled with all the gruesome murders, convoluted science and business topics make it way more realistic for me than other SciAdv novels.
I'm really happy they finally are going to release it in English. Definitely going to replay it again ^^
After watching Bosskwar’s play through of this VN, only one thought ran through my mind from start to finish.
*Wtf is wrong with Takumi?*
I have little proposal. How about video about Famicom detective club? I really love this adventure detective novels, and it deserves more appreciation.
That's a good idea! Maybe if I have room on the video schedule next year I'll revisit them
@@culIen this would be really awesome.
reminder that the switch port is censored and that official translations usually are kinda faulty and that it's best to follow the commitee of zero team
Yep, I talk about that in the video and shout them out 🤙
4:57 how this man even shower or take his business if he doesn't even have a bathroom lmao
I'm happy Noah is finally coming to the West after all these years. I was worried CH N and CC won't be on switch because.....I only own a switch and I'm poor to own a powerful pc/laptop and the other titles are on switch (rip for Steins gate LBP). But I think all of the SciADV games should be on current platforms.
I love Find the blue by Itou Kanako- one of the best Op of SciADV in my opinion of course. It's the way the prologue is done with it's 10 mins then hard drums play while the title screen plays. Brings chills to my spine.
The actual English translation of SciADV can be very debate but what matters is that it's here and fans can just fix it up (looks at human ranch lol)
So *supposedly* he had a shower and bathroom in a separate little room on the roof, but I don't believe he uses it
Was the player ever told about that delusion circle mechanic? I've been playing 4hours so far, just thinking it's a stylistic device/focus.
This series has a problem conveying its mechanics go the player. I think the intent, when this game originally came out, was that the player would read the manual. Not a lot of care was put into conveying a similar experience for players of the modern ports. Closest I think you get is going into the control/help menu option to see that a delusion trigger can be activated with a button, but that's basically it lol
Another Cullen banger where he shills for 20 minutes while I play FFXIV? YES SIIIIIIIR
A lot less shilling in this one, and going forward, but I hope it's a great time all the same ^-^
Where's my right hand?
Isn’t chaos child on steam? I find it weird that chaos head is an exception despite that game being just as messed up, if not more.
Chaos;Child went on steam in a time where there weren't as many restrictions, also while they're both dark games Chaos;Head is definitely more fucked up of a game imo
Exception no more, Valve just reversed the ban.
After idk maybe 10 years??? I found out chaos head anime got a 2nd season
it did not, though? what are you referring to?
@@marinellovragovic1207 chaos child
Does anyone know where to look to find what they censored from the original NOAH release, I can’t find anything on the topic?
We had a post up about it not too long ago, but it was lost to time. I can just tell you, though.
Basically, the game has eight total routes including the common route. Three of these routes were cut down in some way. The first of which is B Route/Crying Sky, which was also in the original C;H PC release. Over 500 lines of dialogue/narration/etc. were removed from this specific route. That is a *significant* amount of content that equates to around 50% of the route. This isn't optional content, either, it's story-important content that is required to understand the game and view its true ending.
The second is from one of the heroine routes. A number of lines in it were cut, but nowhere near as many as in B Ending (around 40 in total). It's still pretty important content to the atmosphere and overall tone of the game; part of what makes Chaos;Head so special is how raw and unfiltered it is, and this removes a lot of that.
Lastly, a few lines were removed from the Common Route. Again, not many, but still a noticeable amount (namely, from Ch 8 and Ch 9).
That's everything that was removed in the PS3 version, and subsequently the VITA and Switch releases.
@@ChrisGreenLink thank you so much, this comment was really comprehensive and helpful.
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO les go
Male MC, no Bueno.
But I support the struggle y'all going through
What was the kota hoshino song u closed out with?
I'm pretty sure the song is called "Nostalgic" on the evergrace 2 ost
what do you mean by IP? 11:46
Intellectual Property
Bruh i only watched the anime when i was in middle school
am i the only one that loves the anime sub and dub also what about love chu chu
how is this related to chaos child? which should I play first?
I talk about this in the video, but Chaos;Head is the first game that Kickstarted the series Chaos;Child was in. So, it is ideal to play this ir you can.
@@culIen thanks. I am now playing chaos head thanks to you!
So I begin with Chaos Child or Chaos Head ? :)
Chaos;Head is the first entry of the entire series, as mentioned in the vid, so this should be first ^-^
@@culIen thanks! :)
So, where does one start chaos;head, Noah or child?
Chaos;Head is the first entry in the Science Adventure series 🤙
If you're impatient you can play the fan translation of the original Chaos;Head PC port right now, but personally for the very best experience you can get, I recommend waiting for the Comittee of Zero patch for Chaos;Head NoaH to come out (which, according to them, will be within a month of NoaH's localized release), then play Chaos;Child. Also with the Comittee of Zero patch installed. This one's been out for a while so no waiting necessary.
@@AnthonyTH-cam oh cool. I will wait then. What does the commitee of zero patch do exactly? If you don't mind me asking.
@@learranufotable3177 The official translation tends to have some inconsistencies in the story as well as things like untranslated CG. The CoZ patch fixes that and also adds some quality of life improvements for good measure. For some entries like the Robotics;Notes duology, I would go as far as to say that the CoZ patches are a necessity as there are some heavy mistranslations which make the story hard to understand. In any case, there's no reason not to use the CoZ patches.
@@AnthonyTH-cam If there are inconsistencies, then the CoZ patch is the way to go. Thanks for telling me about this.
Excella
その目、だれの目？
We are constantly taking Ls. Banned on steam? At least Coz is there to save us.
I really hope they get it figured out lmao, but yeah CoZ releasing their port will be amazing if this falls through (itll be amazing no matter what for preservation reasons, mainly) 👏
As the guy who considers pretty much everything shown to be a spoiler I would just like to say I was going to watch the video to support the channel. But for the specific synopsis given at the beginning for people like me I take it this is my chance to leave.
While I made a bit out of it, I do find it important based on past experiences to offer a cut off point for people who want pretty much nothing, so the people who do want to know things a bit past that (despite the fact that there are no real spoilers there) aren't left with questions. All in good fun, have a good day ^-^
@@culIen yeah I definitely appreciated the bit and it was funny too!
@@El_Ace hope you enjoy the game if/when you eventually get to it, it's a real cool one and going in blind will be trippy as hell!
@@culIen I am really looking forward to playing it, I have just finished robotics notes elite and wanted to wait off playing dash cuz it's the latest in the sci;adv series to my knowledge and really plays off the others I'm just hoping I'll have the hours to sink into a visual Novel having just gone into the work force :'(
@@culIen I have now watched the video, and I shall say, I literally had nothing to worry about lmao
having been playing the switch dual pack and just got to the part on the roof with the decision and the people and media and then in the hospital room. Quite honestly tho I probably should have watched this sooner cuz it took me a while to figure out what the delusion trigger was until I had accidentally pressed the button for it one time and was like "oh So that's what that's for" tho I'm pretty sure the game told me and I had just forgotten, and I didn't even know about the good delusions until I just finished this video so uh...
I never played Chaos head or Chaos Child. But i really wait it for Switch.
Censorship not so bother me, because i never played original. So, i really exited.
I'm hoping the ports are good, because I'm really excited to give Child another playthrough on my switch! Hope you enjoy them :U
steam release got cancelled
It was, but it's up now.
kino
dont mention steins;gate
🙂
その目、だれの目？
@@culIen 僕を見るな。
I remember the Chaos;Head anime... what a load of garbage that was.
Oh cool this is that Steins Gate prequel
Oh, you're talking about that Chaos;Head sequel? Pretty cool.
Read nitroplus's eroge already
:)
I have a love-hate relationship with Chäos;HEAd.
Well no, mainly... I guess hate? But not exactly. Probably the word is "frustration". Mainly cause I dislike Takumi and how he is developped and how rushed is the finale. I think the VN should had been like 428, making use of three parallel protagonists whose stories we follow. Mainly since HEAd has three main plotlines:
1. Murder mystery.
2. The Comitee.
3. Takumi's paranoia.
Being Japanese Colombo the oke who carries the first, Sena the second and Takumi the third... and my issue is he solves all three plotlines out of nowhere. And it was pretty disappointing. The game went from "weird thriller" to "weird otaku power fantasy" in its last moments.
But... I have still some respect of its MAGNIFIQUE AMBIENCE. Gosh, how one can feel every second of the work until ch9 finale is really respectable. It is grotesque and addictive in a way. And it pattented that kind of ambient which S;G and C;C employed too.
So... I have a complex relationship. Specially since I do not think NoAH fixes HEAd that much... but gosh, this VN wa onto something respecting its production. Tho I loved Child and Takuru. Takuru is ma boy.
I read the fan translated original like four or five years ago, and I can't say I liked it. I'm definitely one of the people who considers Takumi an insufferable dipshit and I do think the developers went WAY too hard with the asocial, misanthropic nerd angle. However, I feel like the bigger issue with the story is the direction it took around the last third-to-quarter. There's a very noticeable tonal shift from a Japanese urban mystery thriller vibe to more of a schlocky anime action trip, and there's some really goofy plot twists near the end that just made me roll my eyes.
I definitely think you should give it another go with NoAH. The development of the characters is given far more time, and you get an even bigger view into Takumi's head space, which is enhanced by new CGs and scenes.
To add, I don't think you're necessarily wrong for not vibing with the game! NoaH is very cool and seems to address issues, but things like Takumi and shonen tonal shifts are NOT for everyone. It might be worth checking it out on a sale if you just don't have the energy for it, but that's only if you're really curious because I think it's just MORE (and slightly improved) C;H not a different C;H.
VN columbo is absolutely brilliant 😭 been watching your Chaos;child videos for a long time, thanks for all the work over the years, finished the CC true ending again last night, one of the only stories that will stick with me forever I believe.