Twist - Majapahit

Twist - Majapahit is Visual Novel made by Kawamata Hiruma as his Thesis in first degree. It's the first Visual Novel which contain Historical fantasy as it's basic story, in Indonesia (many Indonesia's VN which release before it, was contain Legend. not History).

The interesting part of this game is, "It is not a game". Actually when we play it, we know that this is more like an encyclopedy, rather than Visual Novel. There's no story branch. Instead, the author give us the informations about Majapahit kingdom, it's kings and queens, it's royal advisor, and off course, the background story of Rekta Letu. the main character in this game.

Gameplay
This game's using point and click gameplay. Player just have to read the story and text, bellow the monitor. Then, if there's a choice option, player will be choose one of it by pointing the option, and click it. Just like normal and standart Visual Novel.

But, This game, is called Hybrid Visual Novel by it's author. There's a reason behind it, though. At first, we just following the story and don't be able to do anything. But in the next mode, we have to find the kings, using some choice option. like an expert system. Our choices, will determine, who's the king that we found.

Twist - Majapahit have 3 mode, each mode have it's own gameplay. They are :


 * Story
 * In this mode, we will be told by the author, about the origins of Majapahit Kingdom. It's glorious era, and why it was destroyed. We can't do anything except read the story and keep going further, until the story was ended.


 * When we finish it, we will unlock the next mode. "Find the Kings"


 * Find the Kings
 * This is the core. In this mode, we have to find 12 kings of Majapahit, by answering some questions from Rekta. Wghen we found one, we will be able to read his/her biography. And after we quit from this mode, we still be able to read them in Gallery. Also, we can indentificate, who are the kings that we have found. in game menu. If we found one, the photo of this person will be show.


 * When we found all of the kings (12 persons), we will be able to unlock Additional Character's Biography, and Traveling's Location in Gallery mode.


 * Gallery
 * This mode contain three options. First is King's Biography. This is where we can read the biography of the kings that we found in previous mode. Second, is Additional Character's Biography. Contain the biography of Gajah Mada, Mei Xin, and this game's main Character, Rekta Letu. The  last is Traveling's Location. contain some places, which are the Majapahit's heritage.

Character
This Visual Novel's main goal, is to educate player, and made them understand, what is Majapahit, It's history, and who are the kings. Also, the kings biography will help player to study the history further more.
 * Kings
 * Glorious Era's of Majapahit, From the first time Raden Wijaya build this kingdom, until the reign of Hayam Wuruk.
 * 1. Raden Wijaya (1294 AD - 1309 AD)
 * 2. Jayanagara (1309 AD - 1328 AD)
 * 3. Tribhuwana Tunggadewi (1328 AD - 1350 AD)
 * 4. Hayam Wuruk (1350 AD - 1389 AD)
 * Declining era's of Majapahit. Due to the Civil War, called Paregreg. Majapahit was divided into two kingdoms. West Majapahit in Daha (Kediri), And East Majapahit in Trowulan (Mojokerto). All the location is in East Java.
 * 5. Wikramawardhana (1389 AD - 1429 AD)
 * 6. Kencana Wungu (1429 AD - 1447 AD)
 * 7. Kertawijaya (1447 AD - 1451 AD)
 * 8. Rajasawardhana (1452 AD - 1453 AD)
 * The era of Destruction. Starting from Malaka's kingdom which gaining it's power, also the Chinese and Portuguese's war, until the born of Demak Kingdom. All of this problems pushing Majapahit back to Daha, and eventually, ending this kingdom, in the reign of Girindrawardhana. It's 12th King.
 * 9. Girishawardhana (1456 AD - 1466 AD)
 * 10. Singhawikramawardhana (1466 AD - 1474 AD)
 * 11. Brawijaya (1468 AD - 1478 AD)
 * 12. Girindrawardhana (1474 AD - 1519 AD)


 * Additional Character
 * Gajah Mada
 * Mei Xin
 * Rekta Letu

Download & Refferences

 * Mediafire (Indonesian version) : http://www.mediafire.com/download/2xynon1uwnc6ifm/Twist+06+-+00+Majapahit-win32.zip
 * Visual Novel Database : http://vndb.org/v13282

Trivia

 * This is the first Visual Novel made by Hiruma Kawamata
 * This VN was completed only in one month
 * Though completed in one month, Hiruma Kawamata was researching Majapahit's empire for one and half year.
 * His basic source for this Research is The chinese Chronology.