R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital (PS1) Playthrough [English]
223A playthrough of Bandai's 1997 horror FMV adventure game for the Sony PlayStation, R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital.
Since the game was only released in Japan, I am playing using SnowyAria's recently released English-translation patch which can be found at https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6682/.
Here are a few timestamps for the stuff I've included in this video:
8:22 Game begins
1:21:58 Alternate path following the coin-flip scene
1:25:31 Failure scenes
1:26:52 The bad ending
1:28:16 An easter egg hidden in the game - using the name "Trippers" gives access to a bunch of gravure pics of the model the character Aya Kisaragi was based on.
R?MJ ("Revenge? Mutation Jack") is a System Sacom production that follows the same design template as the company's previous FMV-based works, including Mansion of Hidden Souls (https://youtu.be/XfbHgziSTlU), The Mansion of Hidden Souls (https://youtu.be/sn26k-B278c), and Lunacy (https://youtu.be/dUt-pH8E0Ug).
At the height of a worldwide pandemic, an explosion rocks the Sojiro Tenshin Memorial General Hospital, trapping everyone inside as the airborne lamia virus spreads throughout the facility.
The survivors search the hospital and soon begin to uncover evidence of sinister forces at work. The hospital's administration appears to be involved in a conspiracy tied to both the pandemic and the ancient legend of Asmodeous.
The game is played from a first person point-of-view. You move from place-to-place on FMV-driven rails, and when someone in your group notices something, you can activate your senses to learn more. Occasionally you'll pick up and use objects and fiddle around with computers, but for the most part, the interactivity is limited and you're just along for the ride.
The prerendered character models look great for a game from 1997, the gameplay and the FMV flow smoothly into one another, and the story is fun in the same ways that campy, B-grade Japanese horror movies tend to be - the low-rent Pepsiman knockoff villain was a real highlight. It's clear by its production values and its brevity that R?MJ was made on a far smaller budget than Lunacy and the Mansion games were, but it comes together well enough for a fun hour or so of mindless entertainment.
The game is widely regarded as kusoge, but it's easier to appreciate games like this in hindsight when you haven't paid the full retail price. If you liked System Sacom's other FMV titles or Warp's D series, you'll likely enjoy this one, too.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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