Ao Oni Version 3.0 was the first largely available updated version after the original.
Its only official release was in Japanese.
Story[]
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The game begins with a scene of an Old man exploring the house. He frantically attempts to open the front door, before an unseen entity attacks him. Four friends, Hiroshi, Takeshi, Takuro, and Mika, enter the house sometime later. Hiroshi goes to inspect the sound of a plate shattering in the kitchen . When he returns, the friends have disappeared. He explores the house, finding Takeshi shivering in a closet upstairs. He soon runs into the Oni and a chase ensues.
Hiroshi walking in the archive room.
Soon after, he meets Takuro in the archive room. Takuro goes off to hide while Hiroshi continues to explore. Hiroshi finds Mika hiding in the bedroom, but she in a small state of shock. After solving a puzzle involving burning objects to obtain keys and the piano puzzle, he makes his way into the basement. After running into his friends, a short conversation takes place. The Oni then appears and kills Takuro by eating his head.
Takuro`s gruesome death
Hiroshi locates a secret rope ladder that leads to the outside. When he returns with Mika and Takeshi to escape, the Oni is seen eating the rope ladder. Takeshi trips while running away and is killed. Hiroshi leaves the basement and realizes that he should probably sleep. He heads upstairs to sleep.
Squatto chasing the player around the mansion.
Hiroshi has a dream where the Oni enters the room. It takes off the mask, to reveal Naoki in an Oni costume. Mika, Takuro, and Takeshi holding a cake enter and wish him happy birthday. After being woken by a thumping sound next door, Hiroshi heads into the next room to witness Squatto beating Mika dead. He flees quickly, escaping from the oversized oni. He finds a secret staircase near the attic, heading into the oni room .
The oni chasing the player from the front door of the mansion in the ending.
He obtains the entrance key from behind the blob oni and escapes the mansion. On his way out, the oni appears, whispering incoherent words and chases him out. Upon leaving the mansion, the oni will also leave, still chasing the player. However, the oni will now be faster than the player. Although it may seem like this makes it impossible to run away from the oni, there is actually a short delay before oni leaves the mansion, meaning it is actually possible to run away.
Puzzles[]
Version 3.0 features two main puzzles.
The first is the piano puzzle. This involves locating two pieces of paper which form a password out of piano keys. The number written on the piano ("459") is used to open a safe in the kitchen.
The strange puzzle in the attic.
The second puzzle is one in the secret passageway in the attic. The player must walk across circles, to highlight other ones. When all the circles are lit up, the door to the oni room will open. Crossing the big, middle circle will clear the on/off status of all other circles, setting them all to off.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- If Hiroshi attempts to use the rope ladder without bringing Takeshi and Mika, an animation will be shown where Hiroshi climbs the rope ladder, before suddenly getting attacked by the oni. A game over will then happen.
- According to an interview with noprops for the Ao Oni Official Guidebook, the facial portraits for this version and Version 5.2 were all free to use resources. The game's credits also corroborate this fact by listing out the websites of Naramura (Hiroshi), Maker Let's GO! (Mika), Fayforest (Takuro), and Etolier (Takeshi).