Separate Blue (Windows)

     FAQ/Walkthrough (Version 1.0 - Incomplete Struggle)

     Current Update: Tuesday, 18 January 2005
     Previous Update: Saturday, 1 January 2005
     Created: Wednesday, 11 August 2004

     By Don "Gamera" Chan (crs1219@h_tmail.c_m + ICQ 3522863)

1.   Acknowledgements
2.   Nutrition Information
2.1    1st Impression
2.2    2nd Impression
3.   Links
4.   Solution
4.1    1st Play (Hiwako)

"Setsunasa!" (*1)

     Disclaimer: I send the newest version of this file to
only five Websites:

     Dementi: J'ai envoye la plus recente version de ce
fichier a seulement cinq sites webs:

     - http://www.gamefaqs.com/
     - http://www.cheathappens.com/
     - http://vgstrategies.about.com/
     - http://faqs.ign.com/
     - http://dlh.net/

     If you downloaded or read this file at other Websites,
the SysOps of the other Websites probably leeched it from
one of the above Websites.

     Si vous avez telecharge ou lu ce fichier a partir
d'autres sites, les responsables de ces sites l'auront
probablement pompe a partir de l'un des sites ci-dessus.

1.   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

<UNDER CONSTRUCTION>

     Thanks to these sierra hotel persons/organisations:
     - Jean-Luc Barbera of France, for the French
translation of the Disclaimer, and the English translation
of the NOIR foreword. (After all, English and French are
the two official languages up here in Canada, the True
North Strong and Free.)

     (Social democracy in action.)

     In memory of:
     - The victims of the earthquake that happened in the
Indian Ocean, off the west coast of northern Sumatra,
Indonesia, on Boxing Day, Sunday, 26 December 2004, at
07:58:53 local time; and the victims of the resultant
tidal waves caused by the earthquake, in various South
Asia and East Africa nations, including India, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
     http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

2.   NUTRITION INFORMATION (Introduction)

     Title:    Separate Blue
     Genre:    Adventure
     Rating:   Adult Only (Keep out of sight of children
               and parents)
     Players:  1
     OS:       Japanese Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
     Maker:    Survive (FrontWing)
               http://frontwing.jp/product/separeb/index.html
     On Sale:  31 January 2003

     [Ramble ON]

     Revision history of this file:

     Version 0.5 (Limited Edition) [13 KB]: Friday, 13 August 2004 (Opening 
Day of Athens 2004 Olympic Games)
     Version 0.6 [22 KB, +70%]: Wednesday, 18 August 2004

     "Le noir, ce mot designe depuis une epoque lointaine
     le nom du destin.
     "Les deux vierges regnent sur la mort.
     "Les mains noires protegent la paix des nouveaux-nes."
     - NOIR (TV: 2001)

     [Ramble OFF]

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2.1  1ST IMPRESSION (Preview)

     Separate Blue. Survive, 2003.01.31.

     [Ramble ON]

     Though I previously played the 18-kin Ecchi game Hooligan by FrontWing 
(2001.11.22), which apparently has the same chara designer as Separate Blue, 
I got this 18-kin Ecchi game (Separate Blue) for a selective audio (vocal) 
reason...
     Anyway.
     The game is on two CDs. It needs both CDs to install.

     *SPOILER ALERT*

     Except the OP anime as a MPG file (32.7 MB) on CD 1, and the same 
README.TXT file on both CDs, the CDs don't seem to have any omake stuph.
     The OP anime is 02:06 minutes long, and has an OP song. (The whistling 
in the first 30 seconds of the OP song annoys me. IMO, the OP song sounds 
better without the OP anime.)
     The OP anime names and previews the five heroines:

     - ISIBASI Tsubame (short purple hair)
     - MARUISHI Otona (short red hair, glasses)
     - TSUNODA Hiwako (long black hair, white hair band)
     - SHUZENJI Chihaya (short grey hair)
     - TSURUDO Misui (long dark green hair)

     (Don't know why Tsubame's family name is in Kunrei shiki hiragana.)

     The README.TXT introduces the few keyboard hot keys.

     The player can't choose the install size. After installation, the game 
squats on 852 MB.
     Seems the player doesn't need to keep either CD in the CD-ROM drive to 
run the game.

     In the game, after the OP anime, the top edge of the title screen has 
four options: System, Auto Mode, Skip Read Messages, Version.
     System has four options: Return To Title Screen, Full Screen, Settings, 
and Exit.
     Settings has four tabs: Text Settings 1, Text Settings 2, Sound 
Settings, System Settings.
     In Sound Settings, the player can turn on/off individual chara's 
voices.

     In the title screen, the main menu has three options displayed in 
English: Start, Continue, and Exit.
     In Continue, the game has 20 pages of save game slots. Each page has 
five slots.

     In Start, the player can change the protagonist's family and personal 
names. His default name is MITSUBISHI Juuji.
     (I changed it to WAYA Yoshitaka, of Hikago (Hikaru no Go) fame, to 
remind myself I p_ssed off his CV Takagi Reiko and her fans a couple years 
ago. Else, in Ecchi games, I sometimes use KASUGA Kyousuke, of Kimaore 
(Kimagure Orange Road) fame.
     In non-Ecchi games, I sometimes use SHINJOU Hayato, of Sotsugyou 
Crossworld fame.)

     Each save game slot has a real date/time, game date/time, memo (user 
comment), and screen cap (thumbnail CG).
     The default memo is the text currently in the message frame.

     I got this game because, according to the gal game seiyuu database Game 
Plaza -Haruka- Seiyuusan Shutsuen List at
     
http://iweb2.sakuranet.or.jp/~haruno-c/gameplaza/va_memo/personal_db.cgi?action=disp_person&value=19
     in Separate Blue, the heroine Tsunoda Hiwako's CV Ishibashi Tomoko is 
reportedly Takahashi Chiaki's alias. Though I'm not absolutely certain about 
the reliability of the data in this database, some of its data agree with 
insiders' information I'd read elsewhere, such as the claim that the former 
SG Girl (Sentimental Graffiti Girl) Suzuki Mariko is in the Eroge- titled 
Sore ha maichiru sakura no you ni (Sorechiru) for Windows. Takahashi Chiaki 
belongs to Arts Vision, and belonged to Aoni Pro (Aoni Production).
     http://www.geinou-net.jp/arts/data.asp?id=602
     http://www.tcp.com/doi/seiyuu/takahashi-chiaki.html
     http://www24.big.or.jp/~telegama/chiaki.html

     I like Takahashi Chiaki because she voiced Matsuyama Chiaki, my 
favourite heroine amongst the five heroines (or six, if we count Cowbell) in 
Sotsugyou III -Wedding Bell-.
     http://bom-ba-ye.com/a.cgi?aoi13=1
     http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/nekomanma_x/
     http://www2.tokai.or.jp/irekomi/anime/bangumi/kimibou.htm
     http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~nbdon/kiminozonews0305.htm#20030508
     http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~nbdon/zakki0210.htm

     In the Separate Blue official HP, its Download Corner
at
     http://frontwing.jp/download/separeb/index.html
     has: demo movies (14.4 MB/01m00s and 42.6 MB/02m14s),
ending theme "Kimi to..." by Satou Hiromi (2.26 MB/02m31s),
opening movie (43.5 MB/02m05s), opening theme "Separate
Blue" by KIRIKO (1.83 MB/02m05s), patches (v1.02 and v1.03),
and playable demo (17.4 MB).

     If anyone's looking for hints, reviews, and solutions of this game, 
try:
     http://gt.sakura.ne.jp/%7Eaon/pc/pc_sb.html
     http://hal-1019.cool.ne.jp/contents/game/separateblue/hiwako.html
     http://monoporu999.cool.ne.jp/survive/separe/
     http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~you-m/games/sa/separate.html
     http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Toys/8938/moeya/game/separate.htm
     http://www.kurusugawa.net/~wonline/moeya/game/separate_body.htm#hiwako
     http://www.nona.dti.ne.jp/%7Ed-space/comment/sepablue.html
     http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~misaki-b/kouryaku/separateblue_2.htm
     http://www5.plala.or.jp/moe/review/big_review/separe.htm
     http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~iaia/ih/gm/separeitoblue/hiwako.htm

     (The game evidently has two hidden heroines unnamed in the OP anime.)

     Also, the Getchu.com HP at
     http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=19647
     and the StrawBerry Club section in the ITmedia HP at
     http://www.itmedia.co.jp/games/s-club/special/separate/index.html
     have movies, overviews, playable demo, previews, and screen shots of 
this game.

     Also^2,
     http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/gtbase/98/kako/separate_brue.htm
     has a bicyclist's technical comment about the bicycles in the game.
     (In real life, I don't ride a bicycle or motorcycle. Years ago, watched 
the OVA series Golden Boy though.)

     Finally, if anyone's looking for a save data file of this game, try:
     http://sagaoz.arrd.net/savedata/sa/index.htm

     (Which reminds me: where the phuck in my HD did I save that save data 
file?)

     FYI, in Ecchi games, I dislike anal/kanchou/scatolo,
android/cyborg, bandage, bestiality/kemono (maybe except
Kitsunemimi and Nekomimi), bondage/chain/collar, boys
love/gay/homo/yaoi/801, bukkake/orgy, Burikko, byoujaku,
choukyou/slave, chuuko/hitoduma (wife)/miboujin (widow),
dark/grotesque, futanari/kaizou, gakuenmono, gigolo, girls
love/les/yuri, kichiku/SM, kinshin/mother/nikushin, kyonyuu,
Lolicom/petit/puny/slender, Mah Jong, maid, ninshin
(pregnant), nun, nurse, okama (maybe except the Hokuto no
Ken type), school mizugi, Shouta, slime, tentacles, and
Undead/zombies.
     (I know. Picky, picky.)

     "Ecchi nano ha ikenai to omoimasu."
     - Andou Mahoro san, Automatic Maiden Mahoromatic

     Later (Thursday, 2004.08.12):
     Instead of this game, I could've installed Itsuka, dokoka de -Ano 
amaoto no kioku- (BeF, 2002.05.24) or Talk to Talk (Clear, 2002.02.XX), but 
I couldn't seem to find any kouryaku of the former in the Web, and the chara 
designs of the latter IMO aren't very attractive.
     I was trying the trial version (playable demo) of Ikusa Otome Valkyrie 
-Anata ni subete wo sasagemasu- (Lune, 2004.07.30), but it seemed to hate my 
Windows 2000 Pro and hanged when I tried to start a new game and it asked 
for the protagonist's name. (-_-#)
     (BTW, today (12 August) is one of my favourite Aoni Pro CV, Shimakata 
Junko's birthday.)

2.2  2ND IMPRESSION (Review)

     Later (Thursday, 2004.08.12):
     Unlike other Eroge-, while the player's playing Separate Blue, it 
doesn't seem to have a CG review mode, where the player can review the 
full-screen event CG that the game has displayed.
     Maybe the game unlocks such a CG review mode after the player has 
cleared the game at least once.

     Later (Saturday, 2004.08.14):
     Durng the game, the player sometimes, such as on June 17 the fourth 
game day, gets a flight sim-like aerial view (2D illust) of Mihatoya City, 
and can choose to go to one of several spots, such as: Jitaku (home), 
Koikaru Ko (Koikaru Lake), Mihatoya Gakuen (school), Renshuu KO-SU (Renshuu 
Course, Exercise Course), and Shoutengai (shopping street).
     Beside each name label of a spot might be an icon that shows a 
heroine's head, including a heroine whom the protagonist hasn't met. For 
example, on June 17, at Koikaru Ko is Chihaya's icon.

     [Ramble OFF]

3.   LINKS

<UNDER CONSTRUCTION>

     [Ramble ON]

   - http://home.attbi.com/~kagamix2/xp-compatible/
     The Japanese Gaming Guide to Windows XP, by Kagami of
USA. English.
     "Windows 95/98/Me/2000 Japanese PC Games on Windows
XP."

   - http://selios.free.fr/
     Selios' Lairs, by Jean-Luc Barbera of France. English.
     "Selios' Lairs is primary a fan site on different
things I enjoy a lot, some of which are not well known
outside Japan or by rare fans worldwide.
     "Les Antres de Selios sont avant tout un site de fan
sur differentes choses que j'apprecie beaucoup, don't
certaines sont tres meconnues en dehors du Japon hormis
de rares fans de part le monde."

   - http://www.geocities.com/wavehawk.geo/
     The Shiori Fujisaki Shrine, by Wavehawk. English. A
Tokimemo (Tokimeki Memorial) fan page.

   - http://www1.cts.ne.jp/~buton/
     Miyabi Koubou, by Tounnkai of Japan.

   - http://zanyvg.overclocked.org/
     Zany Video Game Quotes. English. Has very funny quotes
and screen shots from many vidgames, plus movie files of
Segata Sanshirou TV CMs.

     [Ramble OFF]

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4.   SOLUTION (The Adventure Begins)

     In 1st Play, I aim for Hiwako's ending.
     In 2nd Play, if any, I'll probably aim for Misui's ending.
     (To quote the heroine in the movie Top Gun (the civilian
instructor nicknamed Charlie at NAS Miramar (USN)), "I don't date
students.")

4.1  1ST PLAY (Hiwako)

     JUNE 14, SATURDAY

     The game begins on June 14, Saturday, in the coffee restaurant Amica 
Cips (Amika Chippusu in katakana, but not Amica "Chips").
     Here, the protagonist wakes up and introduces himself as a transfer 
student who moved from Toukyou to his uncle's home in this inaka town 
Mihatoya Shi (Mihatoya City) about three months ago, in early March.
     (AFAIK, the game will end in late July.)
     He also meets and introduces the Master of Amica Cips, KURAI Jouji, and 
the protagonist's female younger cousin, TSURUDO Furan (short brown hair, 
green frog suit).
     (For a change, the protagonist is a KIB (Kogal slang: Kanojo
Inai Boy) who doesn't have a sister. He isn't voiced. The other
chara, female and male, are.)

     The protagonist exits Amica Cips, goes (to his uncle's) home, and 
introduces his female older cousin (moe moe), TSURUDO Misui, who last year 
graduated from the education faculty of an university in this prefecture, 
and now teaches Japanese history at his school, Mihatoya Gakuen.
     (Again, the game designers call the school a "gakuen", instead of 
defining whether it's a middle school or high school, thus avoid defining 
the main chara's exact age.)
     His uncle and aunt are currently out of Japan, and have gone to visit 
his parents.
     He retrieves his bike and takes a hike to Koikaru Ko (Koikaru Lake).

     Later, on a road that slopes upwards, he briefly meets (well, he almost 
gets run over by) a female fellow bicyclist and classmate, ISHIBASHI 
Tsubame.
     (The game displays one Tsubame panchira CG, if anyone's counting the 
time between the beginning of the game and the first Ecchi CG.)

     Later, at night, Misui comes to his room (formerly his uncle's storage 
shack) and summons him to dinner. She wears glasses at home (moe moe).
     (The game displays one event CG, with Misui, Furan, and him eating 
dinner. BTW, just ignore my siscom.)

     1-1  "Oisii!" [Delicious.]
     1-2  "Imaiti." [Fair.]
     1-3  "Hutuu ssu." [Common or ordinary.]

     In 1st Play, I aimed for Hiwako, and chose 1-3.

     JUNE 15, SUNDAY

     Today, no multiple choice node.

     The protagonist challenges (climbs) that Heart Attack Slope.
     Later, about sunset, he meets and chats with Tsubame there. They speed 
downhill to the lake. She asks him to join the bicycle club at their school, 
because they need at least four members to compete in the annual bicycle 
race around the lake, and they currently has just three members. He pledges 
to answer her tomorrow.
     (I like genki-type heroines, but her IMO squeaky voice is beginning to 
get on my nerves. Don't know who's her CV though. On second thought, the 
protagonist forgot to ask for Tsubame's cell phone number, if any.)

     JUNE 16, MONDAY

     Furan wakes up the protagonist at 06:20, 40 minutes earlier than 
normal. (_ _;) Zzz
     Misui offers to drive him to school, but he declines and takes the bus. 
At the bus stop, he meets a classmate, SHIMANO Satoru. (Not to be confused 
with Shamino the Ranger in the Ultima CRPG series.)
     En route to their school, Tsubame, riding her bike, sees him in the bus 
and hails him.
     In his classroom, he glances at another transfer student who moved from 
Toukyou City to this inaka town, TSUNODA Hiwako, who wears the uniform of 
her old school, instead of the sailor fuku of this school, though she came 
here last year.
     She politely asks him to show her his mathematics homework, he does, 
she coolly comments his homework is correct and thanks him, and he asks her 
why does she ask him to show her his homework.

     2-1  Semete riyuu kurai ie. [At least (she) can say the
          reason.]
     2-2  Maa, dou demo ii ka. [Well, whatever is OK.]

     2-1 leads to node 3.
     In 1st Play, I aimed for Hiwako, and chose 2-1.

     JUKUNO Remon, AKA Lemon chan, the old f_rt who's in charge of the 
protagonist's class and teaches mathematics, appears.

     3-1  Toriaezu, GURAUNDO [Ground] no hou ni itte miru
          ka. [Try the Ground.]
     3-2  Misui san ni kiite miyou. [Try Misui.]

     In 1st Play, I aimed for Hiwako, and chose 3-1.

     The protagonist asks a soccer club member for directions, finds the 
bicycle club house, enters it while Tsubame's changing clothes (no CG), and 
gets knocked out by a thrown trophy.
     When he recovers, he meets the members of the bicycle club: Tsubame, 
MARUISHI Otona, and MIYATA Jirou (a brute with red, SFII Guile-like hair). 
And the consultant of the bicycle club: Misui... Tsurudo sensei.

     JUNE 17, TUESDAY

     In the map, the spots are: Jitaku, Koikaru Ko (Chihaya), Mihatoya 
Gakuen (Hiwako), Renshuu KO-SU (Tsubame), Shoutengai (Otona).
     I chose Mihatoya Gakuen.

     4-1  Kiku. [Hear it.]
     4-2  Kikanai. [Don't hear it.]

     I chose 4-1.

     Beside a green frog suit, Furan has a dark brown and white panda suit.

     JUNE 18, WEDNESDAY

     In the map, the spots are: Jitaku, Koikaru Ko (Chihaya), Mihatoya 
Gakuen (Hiwako), Renshuu KO-SU (Tsubame), Shoutengai (Otona).
     I chose Mihatoya Gakuen.

     Today, no multiple choice node.

     (IMO, unlike in, for example, Canary (Kanaria), Green Green, and Imouto 
de ikou! Plenty of pretty sisters; the Separate Blue chara's 
comments/dialogue are awfully blunt/frank/honest, and aren't idiotically 
funny.)

     JUNE 19, THURSDAY

     In the map, the spots are: Amica Cips, Jitaku, Mihatoya Gakuen (Otona), 
Shoutengai.
     I quickly clicked all spots: Chihaya (?) and Master are at Amica Cips, 
Misui is at Jitaku, and Tsubame is at Shoutengai. I chose Jitaku.

     Today, no multiple choice node.

     JUNE 20, FRIDAY

     Today, no map or multiple choice node.

     At school, in a corridor, the protagonist bumps into Chihaya, AKA 
Shinigami Rider. She was hospitalised for two months, and just came back two 
or three days ago. He notes her left forearm is bandaged.
     (WRT game heroines who're biker chicks, I'm already loyal to Arai 
Kiyomi chan (CV Tsuru Hiromi sama) of Sotsugyou I -Graduation-.)
     After school, he goes to Amica Cips, and again meets Chihaya, who's a 
waitress at Amica Cips. (_ _;)

     JUNE 21, SATURDAY

     Today, no map.

     5-1  Ryoukai. [Understood, madam.]
     5-2  Kyakka. [Rejection, Your Honour.]
     5-3  Abareru. [Get wild and tough.]

     I chose 5-2.

     This disappoints Misui (-_-;) and angers Furan. At night, Furan 
threatens to bury his bicycle next time.

     JUNE 22, SUNDAY

     Today, no map.

     6-1  Wakatta, asonde yaru. [Play.]
     6-2  Iya dane. [Don't play.]

     AFAIK, neither choice affects Hiwako. I chose 6-1, to see whether Misui 
joins them. She doesn't.
     Outside their home, the weather is excellent, and the protagonist and 
Furan meet Satoru. The protagonist dumps Furan, goes to the slope, and meets 
Tsubame.

     (IMO, when they ride bicycles, they should always wear helmets. Well, 
back when I was an Engineering undergrad, I did a project on bicycle 
helmets, and WRT the shock absorption capacity of bicycle helmets, our 
Canadian CSA standard was tougher than the USA standards, IIRC.)

     JUNE 23, MONDAY

     In the map, the spots are: Jitaku, Koikaru Ko (Chihaya), Mihatoya 
Gakuen (Misui), Renshuu KO-SU (Otona), Shoutengai (Hiwako).
     I chose Shoutengai.

     The protagonist discovers Hiwako is unexpectedly cheery when she 
speaks, through her keitai, with her friend back in Toukyou.

     7-1  Igai na sugao wo. [Surprising plain face.]
     7-2  Nani mo mitenai yo. [Don't see anything.]

     I chose 7-1.

     JUNE 24, TUESDAY

     In the map, the spots are: Jitaku (Misui), Mihatoya Gakuen, Renshuu 
KO-SU (Tsubame), Shoutengai (Hiwako).
     I chose Shoutengai.

     Today, no multiple choice node.

     Hiwako wears a light yellow one-piece, sleeveless dress with a dark 
yellow bow, and a red (Sakura Taisen Sakura- or Samurai Spirits 
Nakoruru-like) ribbon, with a white sun umbrella.
     She remembers he was also here yesterday. He buys all the reference 
books she suggests.

     JUNE 25, WEDNESDAY

     In the map, the spots are: Jitaku (Misui), Mihatoya Gakuen, Renshuu 
KO-SU (Tsubame), Shoutengai (Hiwako).
     I chose Shoutengai.

     Today, no multiple choice node.

     JUNE 26, THURSDAY

     In the map, the spots are: Amica Cips (Tsubame), Jitaku (Misui), 
Mihatoya Gakuen (Chihaya), Renshuu KO-SU, Shoutengai (Otona).
     I chose Renshuu KO-SU.

     Today, no multiple choice node.

     The protagonist meets Hiwako.
     (After school, don't the chara have to do their homework?)

     JUNE 27, FRIDAY

     At school, Otona gets a new bicycle.
     (Her blushing isn't tractor-beaming me at all.)

     In the map, the spots are: Amica Cips (Tsubame), Jitaku, Koikaru Ko, 
Shoutengai (Otona).
     I chose Jitaku.

     Today, no multiple choice node.

     The protagonist meets Furan, then Hiwako.

<TO BE CONTINUED>
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