Insanity

* Original
* Remake

**Insanity** is a 2012 Japanese adventure game developed by Uri, her first project using the Wolf RPG Editor program. Originate in Japanese-language released in 2012 and 2020 respectively, with the latter provided in English translation by VGPerson on the same website released in the same year.

## Premise

A group of high school students are told of an old mansion that is supposedly haunted. One day, they decide to go investigate it. They look around and stumble upon a corpse in the dining room. They attempt to leave, but they quickly discover the front door is locked. Now they have to find a way out while avoiding the dangers that the mansion holds.

## Gameplay

Like many RPG Maker games, the player controls one of the six main playable characters, which allows to move through two-dimensional fields, interacting with and examining various objects.

For her new character feature, there are multiple playable characters can freely switch between it by the player.

## Characters

Keisuke
The leader of the group and one of the main playable characters. He's very compassionate about his friends. He's the one who discovers the hidden lab.

Kyouko
The main female character and Keisuke's best friend and one of the main playable characters. When she meets the scientist, he initially mistakes her for his dead daughter. She's the only one who, for a while, is not in danger. She briefly spends some time with Murai, but it ends when she sees Riho strapped to a medical bed. She can choose to either save her friend or let her die.

Yuuki Yamada
The grandson of Toshiki Yamada and minor character. For a majority of the game, he's unimportant and rarely seen outside of his group of friends. He, along with Ryouji and Keisuke, manages to find himself in the underground lab and unintentionally discovers Murai. He ducks into a locker but is freed by Keisuke later.

Riho
The secondary female character and Ryouji's love interest. Early in the game, she finds Ryouji stabbed and, for a while, stays with him. In a fit of rage, she decides to go looking for his attacker, but is captured by Murai. The player can choose to either let Murai kill or save her. Either choice will alter the game's outcome.**NOTE**: She finds Ryouji bashed in the head with the crowbar instead of stabbed in the remade version.
Ryouji
The secondary male character and Riho's love interest and one of the main playable characters. After he and his friends discover the corpse in the dining room, he's attacked by Murai. Later, he's taken to his underground lab and locked up in a cell.

Kenta
The smart guy of the group and one of the main playable characters. He manages to learn about the mansion's history and the inhabitants. After an encounter with Murai, he goes into his underground lab where he finds Ryouji conscious. He attempts to break him out, but Murai discovers him and promptly knocks him out.

Shigeki Murai
A former scientist and the primary antagonist of the game. He, for the most part, is off screen and spends his on-screen time chasing the main characters. As we discover later, he's afraid they came for his research for a potion able to bring people back from the death. When he encounters Kyouko, he assumes that she is a splitting image of Emiko and that his potion's finally worked.

Takahiro Yanase
Murai's butler who was murdered by his own master, Shigeki Murai, shortly after the beginning of the game.

Emiko Murai
The only daughter of Shigeki and Miwako Murai, died in a car accident.

Miwako Murai
Emiko's mother and the wife of Shigeki Murai, who murdered her after a fight concerning Takahashi's death. She only appears in some flashbacks in second playthrough.

Kana Takahashi
A Murai's family servant who was murdered by Shigeki Murai. She only appears in some flashbacks in second playthrough.

Toshiki Yamada
The grandmother of Yuuki Yamada and a Murai's former family servant. She only appears in some flashbacks in second playthrough.

## Endings

Bad End 1: Undermined by Insanity

To obtain this ending, you need two characters died or one of them survives.
1. **Kenta**: Go to the laboratory prison, without obtaining both **thick book** and **blood pack**, where Ryouji was found but Murai swiftly stabbed him with a knife, leaving him bleed to death.
2. **Riho**: Kyouko finds out Riho was tied in a laboratory bed by Murai and attempt to stab her to the abdomen for the cure. Kyouko knocks him out with a folding chair, saying that herself is not Emiko or Murai's daughter, leaving him distraught. If Kyouko wasn't put in position in ten seconds, Murai proceeds to stab Riho in front of her.

After the near end of the game, Murai has nothing left to do with his own failed "cure" for his deceased wife and committed suicide with a box cutter. In desperate, there is no way to get the passcode through the basement door without Murai, leaving the rest of the students trapped inside, permanently.**NOTE**: There are hints whether Riho survives or not: If she survives, Ryouji joins with her in despair; otherwise, if she dies, Ryouji committed suicide with a knife and joins with a deceased Riho.
Good End 1: Beyond The Doors

When everyone survives as well as Ryouji and Yuuki put in position to Murai's attempted suicide, you must go check the phone on the wall in the first laboratory and then Murai, saying that none of phones worked in the laboratory and instead wanted himself to put a passcode through the door peacefully, leaving everyone able to get out of the lab. As Murai was detained by the police for the murder of three, the rest of the students were able to go back to their homes. Back to school, the students were reunited as Keisuke meets Kyouko in the rooftop. In sorrow, she admitted that Murai wishes to meet his daughter again no matter what when he might have died without atoning his sins, but both wanted him to meet the people he loved over there.**NOTE**: This ending is similar to the original version, known under the name **Knockin' on Heaven's Door**.
Bad End 2: The Dead are Arrogant
When everyone survives but Ryouji and Yuuki wasn't put in position to Murai's attempted suicide, the fate left the same as the first bad end, except this only heard "the whisper of the arrogant dead".**NOTE**: This ending was added in the remake version.
Good End 2: Crawl out of Insanity

## Development

### Original

The original version was built in Wolf RPG Editor program, serves as Uri's first game and prior released in 2011, but has never been translated due to Uri's dissatisfaction of translating her project by someone else illegally.

### Remake

Despite not having a remake or translated version until 2019. Due to her future projects, both original and translated, turn to popularity in local and international audiences, Uri reluctantly decided to remake her own version with the same program. The remake itself showed lots of improvements such as system graphics and puzzle solving changes, while lap play elements and clearing benefits have been added. It's been released on January 8, 2020 in Japan and it was provided in English translation by VGPerson, released on next two weeks prior.

## Trivia

* Riho's scream upon discovering Ryouji is similar to Aya Drevis and Yonaka Murai.
* The main characters and backgrounds are nearly similar to *Ao Oni*.
* *Insanity* is one of the few games by Uri, to have no supernatural content at all.