Infinite Red: The Day the Earth Stood Still

February 18, 2024

Mode Gone

PlatformAdventureVisual Novel

PCMac

Single player

Side view, Text

Mystery

Summary

A game about an unreleased, unfinished, video game tie-in to a canceled 1999 multimedia reboot of Infinite Red, a 1970s tokusatsu character.

Storyline

Decades after Infinite Red faded into obscurity, series creator Eiji Marutani is approached by the world's largest electronics manufacturer, Umihara General Electric, to ride the late-90s media mix boom and revive the cult classic hero. Marutani's death led to the absorption of his production studio to a larger North American media conglomerate, and the Infinite Red revival was put to bed before anything came of it. Until, that is, a mysterious file appears on a fan-wiki's server...