The protagonist of the game buys a balloon for a little girl who then suddenly disappears behind a clearing. He sees a ghost image and follows the girl winding up in a mystical world. The game involves clearing it as the protagonist and trying to go back to the real world, at various points in the game this gameplay is interrupted with a story adapted and inspired by the tales of Ugetsu Monogatari that needs to be cleared to continue. There are three tales to clear. One tale covers a promised meeting between friends, the other tells the story of an unfaithful man's demise and the third tale is about an amnesiac merchant's life in a village.
Japanese study overview
Ugetsu Kitan is a Japanese visual novel of 34,997 characters, with 2,713 unique words and 932 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,713 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×313
- 正太郎Shoutarō×114
- 村village×84
- 磯子Isoko×67
- 袖sleeve×60
- 美beauty×60
- 俺I×55
- 春田Kasuda×54
- 中inside×50
- 山川mountains and rivers×47
- 人person×45
- 自分myself×44
- 芳江Fusae×44
- 丹次Tanji×37
- 白菊white chrysanthemum×36
- 座長chairman×25
- 山川Yamakawa×22
- 勝四郎Katsushirou×20
- 紙芝居kamishibai×18
- 写真館photo studio×16