【Aooni】Featuring a brand-new story and up to 17x speed mode! Customizable for beginners and pros alike, the physical edition of Aooni 2 is available now!

“Going to a test of courage at an abandoned school” -- This might be a familiar beginning in horror works. But in the case of “Aooni 2”, what awaits beyond is not a mild development like “I had a slightly scary experience and went home”. While inheriting the terror of the legendary horror game “Aooni”, the stage this time is an eerie school. And a major feature is that it is a luxurious double feature where you can enjoy not only the main story of “Aooni 2” but also the completely new scenario “Aooni - Seaside School -”. Exploring the silent school building, solving the prepared mysteries, and running away with all your strength from Ao Oni who suddenly appears... “I want to proceed to the next room. But I'm scared to open the door!” It is a work where you can fully savor the conflict unique to horror games.

In the main story of “Aooni 2”, four people, Hiroshi, Takuro, Takeshi, and Mika, visit an abandoned school that was suddenly closed for a test of courage. It is a place that gives off nothing but a bad feeling, but as expected, what was waiting for them was an abnormal situation beyond imagination. When Hiroshi wakes up, it is unexpectedly inside a jail cell. It is a opening that makes you want to say “This is no time for a test of courage!”, but furthermore a “Teacher” who said he came to the abandoned school following them appears, and the story deepens its mystery at once. Why was the school closed, who trapped them, and can they escape from Ao Oni wandering inside the school? Wanting to concentrate on solving mysteries but worrying about the back, and even calm judgment is required during escape. The place where this “terror of thinking” and “impatience of being chased” attack at the same time is probably the fun typical of “Aooni”.

Ao Oni is scary enough just being chased normally, but in this work the familiar double speed mode is prepared, allowing you to select from 2x speed up to a maximum of 17x speed. You end up thinking “At 17x, don't you have no intention of letting us escape anymore?”, but that is the interesting part. Even for players who cleared once and memorized the gimmicks and escape routes, raising the speed makes the sense of tension a completely different thing. Enjoying the normal terror thoroughly at first, challenging double speed once getting used to it, and testing your limits at the end. Rather than simply finishing after going around the story once, because you can change the play style according to your skill, it even stimulates a challenging spirit saying “Let's try making it faster next time”. Supposed to be escaping from terror, yet jumping into danger from yourself before knowing it -- such mysterious addictiveness is also a charm.

In the completely new scenario “Aooni - Seaside School -”, Hiroshi and his friends who visited the seaside for a summer seaside school sneak into an abandoned school near their inn. You want to make a retorting remark “Even though you came all the way to the sea, why to an abandoned school at night?”, but if they hear a rumor that a monster appears, they are the ones who want to confirm it. However, mysterious human figures appear in the school building, a chime resounds even though nobody is supposed to be there, and furthermore new species of monsters never seen before approach. What emerges while exploring searching for separated friends is the existence of an incident that once occurred at this school. Not just fleeing, interest in the truth of “What happened here in the past?” pushes aside fear and makes you proceed forward.

What is particularly interesting in “Aooni - Seaside School -” is the mechanism where you can clear the 4 stages in your preferred order. Moreover, because difficulty changes depending on where you challenge from, it does not work as “Any order is the same”. There is fun in thinking which route is easier for you to proceed and searching for the best strategy method through trial and error. Furthermore, many new species of Ao Oni also appear, and inside there are even monsters reminiscent of sea creatures as expected of a seaside story... The expectation of “What will come out next?” and the true feeling of “No, if possible I don't want it to come out” coexisting is also probably unique to this work.

The charm of “Aooni 2” is not only the instantaneous terror of being chased by Ao Oni. Exploration investigating a closed school, mystery solving using your head, a story pursuing the whereabouts of friends and past incidents, responsiveness changing depending on the order of strategy, and even bold challenge elements of up to 17x speed, different pleasures are packed into one. While using the same stage called “school” in the main story and the completely new scenario, being able to savor different terrors respectively is also a point. “I don't want to proceed because it's scary. But I'm curious about what lies ahead.” At the point you are made to feel like that, you can no longer escape easily from the world of Ao Oni. What is at the end of the dark hallway -- if you have the courage to confirm, please challenge these two terrors with your own feet by all means.