Jisatsu

Jisatsu | 自撮 is a found footage mockumentary J-horror game about a man who explores an abandoned house on the outskirts of Japan.
== Premise ==
A young man who works at a small independent film company is tasked by his boss to record himself exploring an abandoned home on the outskirts of Japan. Despite his concerns, he must do what his boss has told him to. While exploring the place, he discovers that the place may truly be haunted. And that the house may hold a dark secret about the owners who previously lived there. Is the place truly haunted? Or is this nothing more than a figment of the man's imagination?
== Gameplay ==
The game starts with the protagonist's boss talking to the protagonist. The protagonist (who is unnamed) works at a small independent film company, and the boss wants him to start working on a new project. The protagonist, however, has no ideas whatsoever and is not really trendy on certain fads that are happening nowadays. The boss tells the protagonist that lately, people have been exploring abandoned places as a "test of courage". He heard that an abandoned house at an unspecified city and prefecture is pretty haunting and quite bizarre. He wants the protagonist to go to the abandoned house, film the place, and come back with the footage to be use for a new film. The protagonist isn't enthusiastic about the idea, especially since no one is going to accompany him during his trip. The boss could hardly care less about his concerns and tells him to not come back to work until he films the place. With no other choice, the protagonist heads out into the night to film the abandoned home armed with only his camcorder and a flashlight.
Upon arriving at the home, the protagonist finds a bunch of trash lying around the place, a statue of a tanuki standing next to the door, some lights being on showing that the place still has running electricity, and even a crow hiding in a bush before flying away in front of his face. The protagonist enters the home of this once vibrant home and notices that the place is completely filled with belongings and trash that belonged to the previous owners. No graffiti or signs of vandalism whatsoever. But most of the rooms have seen better days with most of the paper on the fusuma sliding doors being worn or torn out. Mannequins are seen throughout the various rooms of the house. Many sliding closets containing futons, sheets, and even dead birds. The floors, walls, and ceilings are peeling of paint, revealing the place's dilapidated nature with some even covered in stains and mold. The house is also heard creaking due to how old the place is and from the wind coming from outside. Upon further exploring the place, the protagonist discovers that the home used to belong to a Christian family, as the place is filled with crosses of Jesus Christ, along with portraits of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus Christ. Walking back outside, the protagonist finds an outhouse, with one of the rooms containing a small but deep hole. Along with that, there is a small pond that doesn't contain anything but lily pads. The house also has a second floor, but the protagonist cannot go into the room as it is locked. Despite the house's creepy nature, the protagonist still continues to explore the house to film the mockumentary. 
After looping around the house, the protagonist hears water running from somewhere inside the house. Turns out that the sink from the kitchen was actually running. Showing that the place still has running water and plumbing. The protagonist proceeds to turn it off and continues exploring the place. While exploring the various rooms in the house, the protagonist discovers a room that contains a table that has a torn newspaper clipping, a VHS tape, and nearby, a small working TV with a VHS player next to it. The protagonist picks up the newspaper clipping but can't make much of what it's about. But part of the picture on the newspaper is obscured by a black bar that is clearly censoring something in the picture. After placing the newspaper clipping down, he grabs the VHS tape and places it into the VHS player. He sits down and watches the tape.
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=== Tape #1 ===
In the tape, an elderly couple is seen mourning the loss of two of their loved ones within the same house that the protagonist is. Showing what the place looked like before it was abandoned. The bodies are shown lying in the middle of the room, with two white sheets covering them. The portraits of the people who died are not seen and are censored by black bars. The person whose perspective that the protagonist is seeing in the VHS tape is that of a young boy who seemingly lost both of his parents, and his grandparents are mourning the loss of them. The boy ends up leaving the room seemingly unphased by what just happened and proceeds to walk around the house. He goes into a storage room and opens one of the sliding closets revealing a dead bird inside one of them. The tape cuts to black before showing the boy, now outside of the house about to bury the dead bird. Just as he places the bird into a hole he dug up, he hears a devilish voice coming from somewhere around the property. The boy goes to the outhouse to the area where the small hole is. He hears the voice of a demon coming from the hole, who demands him to bring the carcass of the bird for "it" to eat. The boy does so, and the tape ends with the boy dumping the dead bird into the hole where munching sounds are heard.
----However, the TV displays something once the tape ends. A picture of another VHS tape that is located somewhere on the property. The protagonist recognizes it as the same spot that the boy was burying the dead bird at. So, he decides to go back outside to get it. But when he turns around to leave the room, he sees another person from a window, across from where he's standing! The person is that of a woman who stares at him wherever he walks. He goes over to investigate the room in which the woman is standing at. But when he goes over there, the figure is gone, with the only thing being there is a coat rack and a bunch of other belongings. Thinking he's just imagining things, the protagonist heads outside to grab the VHS tape. After grabbing the tape, he hears a strange noise coming from somewhere, but he ignores it and goes back inside and watches the next VHS tape.
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=== Tape #2 ===
In the second VHS tape, the boy is seen standing next to the hole in the outhouse. The demon from the hole demands the boy to bring "it" the head of a carp (fish). The boy goes to the small pond nearby and uses a stick with a string attached to it to fish the koi from the pond. The tape then cuts to black before cutting back to the boy still at the pond, but now something has risen out of the water! But whatever had risen out of the water is censored once more. The boy goes back to the hole to give the demon the fish. But the demon refuses to take the whole fish and tells him to cut off its head and then give it to "it". The boy goes inside and tries to request his grandmother to cut off the head of the koi. But the grandparents scold him for taking a fish out of the pond and demands him to put it back. The tape cuts to black again before showing the boy now in a different room where he uses a saw within one of the sliding closets to cut the fish's head off. After doing so, he turns around to go back outside, only to find a bunch of decapitated corpses of fish surrounding the room with blood splattered all over the floor. Meaning that the boy had killed multiple fish before this one. Unfazed by this, the boy heads back outside to give the demon the head of the fish he killed. Thus, ending the second VHS tape.
----Just like with the first tape, the TV displays a picture of the next location of the VHS tape when the tape ends. The third one being from inside a closet, with a mannequin and a clothes rack being inside the room. However, when the protagonist gets up, he hears the sounds of someone munching on something. Listening carefully, he realizes that the noises are coming from somewhere in the house. Using the sounds as a guide, the protagonist finds the third VHS tape inside a sliding closet along with a radio, two cardboard boxes, and strangely a foot hiding behind the box. After grabbing the VHS tape, the radio unexpectedly turns on. Then the protagonist's flashlight unexpectedly turns off, plunging the house into darkness with only the sound being heard is from the radio. The audio is mostly incomprehensible, but the protagonist can hear the sounds of someone talking in the radio. The audio from the radio is coming from what sounds like that of a demon, with the audio getting louder and slightly more distinguishable after several seconds. Then the radio turns off and the sounds of someone running is heard. The flashlight then turns back on, and strangely enough, the boxes, the radio, and the mysterious foot in the closet had disappeared. The protagonist decides to ignore what he just heard and witness and heads back to the tatami room to watch the next VHS tape. However, the protagonist notices that some items around the house seemed to have moved. With a mannequin now being in the hallway and one of the paths near the room with the TV being completely blocked off by a byobu. (Partition). However, the protagonist also discovers that part of the room with the TV and VHS player has been completely blocked off as well by a byobu and he must go around to re-enter the room. But while he walks towards the entrance of the house, he notices and hears someone quickly running towards the entrance before shutting and locking the door behind them. Not bothered by this, the protagonist heads to the other side of the room and puts in the third VHS tape in the VHS player. 
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=== Tape #3 ===
In the tape, the boy is seen peeking inside said room where he sees his grandmother lying on the floor and the sounds of static coming from the TV is heard. The boy goes to another side of the room where he sees something outside, but just like with before, the thing that he's seeing is censored by a black bar. Upon opening another fusuma sliding door in the room, he sees a crow pecking on the grandmother, meaning that the grandmother has died. Strangely enough, a black figure can also be seen on the screen of the TV with the sounds of grunts and gurgles being heard from the TV. The grandfather then goes over to the corpse of the grandmother obviously devastated that he lost his wife. He cries for a bit before slowly looking at his grandson with utter disgust on how he could stand there looking at this without any emotion. The screen cuts to black for a few seconds before cutting to the boy, now back at the outside. Next to the hole is a doll in which the boy picks it up and the demon talks to him again. The demon tells him that the doll possesses some powerful energy and instructs him to go grab a lock of his grandmother's hair and put it in the doll's hair and give it to "it". The boy goes back into the room where he sees the grandfather mourning and praying for the grandmother, and he manages to grab some of his grandmother's hair without the grandfather even noticing. He heads back outside and places the doll down the hole for the demon. After that, the tape ends. 
----Just like with the previous tapes, the TV displays a picture of something on the screen when the VHS tape ends. However, instead of it being a picture of the location of the next VHS tape, it instead displays a doll in which the protagonist must find somewhere around the property. The protagonist notices a doll on the table and assumes this is the one the VHS tape is referring too. But when he goes over to pick it up, the doll's head falls off. Meaning this is not the doll the tape is referring too. The protagonist will then have to explore the various rooms to find the real doll. 
While the house has multiple dolls hiding in various spots, one of them (the real one) actually contains a key. However, when you play the game, the key will always be in a different doll. Here are the locations of the dolls within the house: 
* The kitchen table.
* The table next to the TV and VHS player. (As stated above).
* A chair next to the main entrance.
* In the room right next to the main entrance, a doll is seen inside one of the sliding closets.
* Standing on the piano where the woman was standing originally.
* In the room within the dead-end hallway, there is a doll inside the left-most sliding closet.
* In the dead-end hallway, there is an old bathroom. On the shelf, there is a doll standing on the stand.
Once the protagonist finds the real doll, the doll's head will roll off just like the others. But inside the doll's neck is the key to the room on the second floor. 
However, while exploring the place, he does encounter several more paranormal occurrences. From the tanuki statue blocking the secondary entrance of the house, the main entrance's door opening then closing once the protagonist gets closer to it, and even the sound of somebody running up the stairs to the second floor. But even worse, the protagonist notices someone hiding behind one of the curtains before quickly running off once he gets closer to the figure with a ghostly noise following through.
The protagonist then heads upstairs and unlocks the door with the key that he has found. The protagonist goes into the room and finds another room adjacent to it, where it is completely filled with dolls. There the protagonist discovers the fourth VHS tape. But when he tries to leave the room, the door closes and locks him inside! He tries with all his might to open the door, but it won't budge. Just then, the paper on the sliding door unexpectedly gets partially ripped through. Where the protagonist notices several small dolls lying on the floor and two large dolls standing there. One looking creepily at him while the other has a cloth covering its face. Then without warning, a crow flies into the room and caws at him before circling around the room and then flying away. After those occurrences, the sliding door finally opens up and the protagonist goes back downstairs to watch the fourth tape.
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=== Tape #4 ===
In the fourth tape, the boy is seen climbing out of a hole in which he found underneath the floorboards of his house. After climbing out and leaving the room, the tape cuts to black before showing the boy standing next to the hole. The demon informs him that his grandfather had just died while he was bathing. He demands the boy to give "it" his grandfather's fingernails and offer it to "it". The boy heads back inside and heads to the bathroom, where he sees his grandfather lying inside the bathtub in a pool of blood. The boy than proceeds to take out all of his fingernails with a plier and after a brief jump scare, he heads back outside to give it to the demon. After that, the tape ends.
----Just like with the previous tapes, the TV displays another picture of where the next VHS tape is. With the fifth one being inside the bathtub where the grandfather's corpse was. The protagonist heads to the bathroom and drains the pool of blood inside the bathtub, where he finds the fifth tape inside the tub. But while he tries to leave, the bathroom door becomes locked, leaving the protagonist stuck inside the bathroom. But after a few seconds, the door opens back up and a weird ambiance is heard. The protagonist goes back into the room to watch the next VHS tape, but to his surprise...the TV and VHS player is gone! Confused by this, the protagonist goes around the house to find the missing TV and VHS player. He discovers the room that was seen in the fourth VHS tape and even finds the same hole that was also seen in the tape too. He climbs down the ladder leading down the hole and discovers a secret passageway underneath the house. The protagonist notices two different paths in the passageway, one that leads to the hole in the outhouse where the boy was seen sacrificing items to the demon. And the other leading to an area that is filled with cross marked gravestones, several statues of Mary and Joseph, and a portrait of Jesus Christ. There he also finds the TV and the VHS tape within a small altar table. The protagonist puts in the VHS tape in the player and watches it, where for a brief second a picture of a statue of Mary is seen next to the TV before the tape plays.
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=== Tape #5 ===
In this tape, the boy is seen inside the passageway, where the demon tells him to invert the crosses of Jesus Christ inside the house. The boy does his bidding and proceeds to go around the house in search for the crosses. The locations of the crosses are the following:
* In the study room. (Left of the secondary entrance). Where the boy's parents were mourned.
* Inside the room in one of the sliding closets where the boy was decapitating the fish.
* Next to the main entrance of the home.
* In the main bathroom. (Where the boy discovered his grandfather's corpse).
* The room where the TV and VHS player was originally in. (Where the grandmother died and where the protagonist played the VHS tapes).
* The doll room on the second floor.
* The room in which the boy grabbed the corpse of the bird.
However, when he inverts each of the crosses, the flashlight will turn off for a second before coming back on. Only for a paranormal occurrence to occur that reminds the boy on what he did for the demon's bidding. In the study room, the boy's parents' corpses are seen on the floor. In the room where he cut off the koi's head has the room filled with the koi's that he decapitated. At the main entrance of the home, a bunch of statues of Mary are standing around in a circle in front of him. In the main bathroom, a statue of Joseph and baby Jesus is standing in front of the bathroom. In the room where the grandmother died, the cross and the ceiling light has her hair growing out of it. In the doll room, the dolls will have cloths over their heads and all stare directly at the boy. Finally, the room in which the boy found the dead bird is filled with dead birds. Not only that, but crows also strangely start to appear close to the rooms in which the boy inverts the crosses. After turning over the last cross, a loud static scream is heard meaning that the demon's influence and power has now taken over the house. The tape cuts to black, and then it ends.
----After watching the tape, the TV and the VHS player is noticeably covered in dirt and filth. And when he turns around, the statues of Mary and Joseph is standing right behind him. Having enough of this, the protagonist decides to quickly leave the place. But when he goes over to leave where he came from, the entrance is now blocked off! However, while climbing the ladder, he notices a small hole just enough for him to crawl through. But as he starts crawling, he looks behind and sees a man with long hair, a puffy red jacket, and a long beard climbing up the ladder and following him! The protagonist quickly crawls out of the small hole but notices that the man is still chasing after him. He quickly runs back to the gates, gets into his car, and quickly leaves the place. The screen cuts to static before we see the rest of what happens.
*If the protagonist gets caught by the man, the player will have to start again from the chase sequence.*
== Ending ==
After getting in his car, the protagonist then starts driving back home. But after entering a tunnel, he discovers that his path has been blocked by a fallen tree. After backing up his car out of the tunnel, he quickly gets out of the car to go find help, flee on foot, or to try to move the tree out of the way. We then see the rest of what happens through his camcorder, as he left it in his car when he was fleeing. Unfortunately, the man from earlier continues to chase after him. We then see him dragging the body of the protagonist, revealing he caught up to him and either killed him or knocked him unconscious. Then the man gets into the protagonist's car and drives it back to the house. 
The camera then cuts to the man dismembering the protagonist inside the bathroom. After washing up, he then takes the protagonist's camcorder and continues to film. He hears the voice of the demon, who demands him to take the protagonist's dismembered corpse to "it". Therefore, revealing that the man who killed the protagonist was the grandson of the family who was seen in the VHS tapes. (With him now being a grown man). This also reveals that he still lives in the house, despite its dilapidated nature, and is still sacrificing anyone or anything to the demon. After dumping the corpse outside to the demon in the hole, the recording stops and the credits play.
=== Bonus scene: ===
After the credits finish, we then see the boss and his subordinate watching the tape that the protagonist filmed. (As someone sent it to them). The subordinate then questions the nature of the video and wonders who filmed it. But the boss could hardly care less and claims that the footage is trashy to use for the project. Then the subordinate wonders if the video was filmed by the "guy who's been missing work". (Referring to the protagonist) and believes that the footage is indeed real, as it explains what happened to him. The boss presumes so but wishes he could have delivered the tape to him instead of him mysteriously sending it to him. Not only that, he believes that the footage is also edited and is a fake. After the subordinate apologizes for expressing his theories, he gets up to use the restroom. Once he leaves the room, the boss gets out of his seat to check on the subordinate. But he finds out that the door is locked. But after a few seconds, the door unlocks, and he sees the corpse of the subordinate lying on the office floor with paper scattered all over the office floor. But when he goes over to inspect the subordinate, the man from the house pops out of a locker and stares directly at the boss.
The screen immediately cuts to black, leaving the fate of the boss unknown.
== Controls ==
* WASD - Move the protagonist around.
* Mouse - Look Around.
* Left Mouse Click - Interact.
* Esc button - Options.
== Characters ==
=== Main Characters ===
* The Protagonist - A man who works at a small independent film company. His boss puts him in charge to go to the outskirts of Japan to film an abandoned house in which is supposedly haunted. He can be described as "living under a rock, as he doesn't know much about current trends that is happening at the moment. He is shown to be cautious and is well concerned about his own safety for the project but is also shown to be quite brave as he is able to explore the house with little to no complaints.
* The Grandson - The main antagonist of the game. He is the owner of the abandoned house that the protagonist explores in. Back when he was a boy, he was raised in a Christian family but was influenced by a demon to do certain deeds for "it". The grandson is shown to be apathetic as he shows little to no remorse over what he is doing to his family or anyone in general while spreading the influence of the devil in the house. Even as a grown adult, he still lives in the house and continues to do whatever the demon tells him to do.
* The Demon - The main antagonist of the game. The demon is an entity who demands and manipulates the grandson of the family who originally lived in the house to sacrifice and offer various items to "it". The demon only grows more and more powerful as the grandson continues to do the demon's bidding. By the time the grandson has inverted the crosses within the house, the demon's power is completely influence within the household.
=== Minor Characters ===
* The Boss - The boss of both the protagonist and the independent film company. He tells the protagonist to go to the abandoned house and film himself exploring it for an idea for a new film. He is shown to disregard a lot of his worker's concerns, complaints, and even safety. With the only thing he cares about is most likely money. As he demands the protagonist to do as he told when he expressed concern over not being accompanied by someone to the house. He also disregards over what happened to the protagonist after he doesn't show up to work one day and even his subordinate's theory over what happened to him.
* The Grandmother - The grandmother of the grandson. She was raised in a Christian family and has put her faith within Jesus Christ along with the rest of her family. The grandmother is first seen mourning for the loss of the grandson's parents. She is later seen scolding her grandson for requesting her to cut off the head of the koi. The last time she is seen, her corpse is seen lying on the floor. Meaning that the grandson was either encourage by the demon to kill her or the demon killed her themselves. She most likely haunts the house as the ghost of a woman can be seen from a window after the protagonist watches the first VHS tape. With this likely being her.
* The Grandfather - The grandfather of the grandson. He was raised in a Christian family and has put his faith within Jesus Christ along with the rest of his family. The grandfather is first seen mourning for the loss of the grandson's parents. He is later seen scolding his grandson for requesting his grandmother to cut off the head of the koi and demands him to put the fish back into the pond. After the grandmother is discovered dead, the grandfather is devastated and mourns for her loss. The last time he is seen, his corpse is seen lying in the bathtub with the water completely filled with his own blood. Meaning that the grandson was either encourage by the demon to kill him, the demon kills him themselves, or he committed suicide.
* The Subordinate - A worker at the independent film company. He only appears at the bonus scene watching the film that the protagonist filmed at the house with the boss. He wonders who could have filmed it and believes that the footage is real. He also shows concern over what happened to the protagonist but dismisses it after the boss tells him not to worry over it.
* The Parents - The deceased parents of the grandson. They died under unknown circumstances as shown in the first VHS tape. With the grandparents mourning for them.
== Trivia ==
* This is one of the few games where it doesn't end well for the protagonist.
* The protagonist in this game is one of the few main protagonists in the Chilla's Art games to be confirmed deceased.
* This is one of the few games where only one ending occurs.
* The title of the game has a double meaning. The word: "Jisatsu" is the pronunciation of two different Japanese words. 
** The first being: 自撮 which is the word for selfie.
** The second being: 自殺 which is the word for suicide.
*This is one of the few games in which we can see the protagonist's legs and arms when they walk.
*The player controls a total of three characters within the game. That being the protagonist, the boss, and the grandson.
*A broken bookshelf can be found outside of the house in the yard, with one of the books containing a full list of Chilla's Art's Patreon supporters.
**Additionally, the cover of the book contains a reference to Aka Manto. Another game created by Chilla's Art. 
*Many fans have compared this game to an infamous Japanese horror video called: "My house walk-through", created by a user named: "nana825763". In which the video shows the viewers, a dilapidated house. With many aspects of the video such as the home, the atmosphere, and paranormal occurrences that happen within the video shares a resemblance to what happens in Jisatsu.
**The grandfather's death in Jisatsu greatly resembles the way how the grandfather's corpse is displayed in said video.
*The grandson greatly resembles to that of Shoko Asahara. The founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult: "Aum Shinrikyo", who were responsible for the Tokyo Subway Sarin gas attacks in 1995. 
== External links ==
*Jisatsu on Steam
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