ChäoS;Child (visual novel)/Gameplay

Chaos;Child is a visual novel game where the player takes the role of Miyashiro Takuru who experiences either a Positive or Negative delusion depending on the player's choice called the "Delusion Trigger". The delusion trigger allows players to enter different heroine routes but only after completing the first game ending called Over sky end. There is also a new "Mapping Trigger" where the player **must** link the correct pieces of information in order to progress the game.

The player is **forced** to reach Over sky end first, and after completing it, the heroine routes and one ending of the game will be unlocked. After clearing required heroine endings, the True route and ending will be unlocked and can be selected from the main menu / title screen.

## Delusion Trigger

      The player takes into the perspective of Takuru Miyashiro. Throughout the game, a sound cue will be played like in Chaos;Head, where the player can choose to pick either a positive or negative delusion. Although the player can choose not be select any and skip them, it is later important to select the correct sequence of delusions to enter into the different character routes in the game once you completed the common route. There will also be chances to select extra delusions while inside a another delusion. Selecting different delusion triggers will not affect the common route's story at all.

Every delusion will be about what's inside Takuru's mind and his mood in the current situation he is in. Delusions can range from erotic ones to gruesome ones or even a comical one and the types of delusions are never fixed into just only positive or negative but can be reversed or both.

### PC

On your keyboard, press Z and C to select Positive and Negative respectively. For extra, press Z to select extra and press C to deselect.

### Console

On PS4, the L2 and R2 buttons are what selects a positive or negative delusion respectively.

## Mapping Trigger

Players need to help Takuru, to match information together on a bulletin board like those seen in detective films. There is one ending that can be achieved by purposely selecting the wrong pieces of information. On console, making too many mistakes will reward players a trophy and another trophy if they get everything 100% right.

## Message Boards

Players are to scroll and read through comments from a post like in a real-life message board. It contains important information related to the story.

## Warning about the Openings

The game does not play any opening movie by default like in other visual novels. The openings contains major spoilers to the game which can hurt your experience of the game. The game does play the Xbox opening when you stay idle in the title screen for a while but unfortunately it contains the biggest spoiler out of the two openings, so it is highly advised to skip it by left-clicking the screen. After finishing the common end, you can freely watch both the Xbox and PlayStation opening safely and enjoy yourself while you brace yourself before you enter the heroine routes and true ending. You are also safe when you finish chapter 10 but the Xbox opening song does play in the background at some point after that, so there's no point doing it and you should just do it after you finish common end.