{"id":124596,"date":"2022-05-06T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-131104"},"modified":"2022-05-06T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T09:45:00","slug":"spike-chunsoft-hints-at-ai-the-somnium-files-sequel-news-with-hidden-bats-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/06\/spike-chunsoft-hints-at-ai-the-somnium-files-sequel-news-with-hidden-bats-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Chunsoft Hints At AI: The Somnium Files Sequel News With &#8216;Hidden Bats&#8217; Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6d6060e38a8b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6d6060e38a8b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6d6060e38a8b\/hidden-bats-promo.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"515\" alt=\"Hidden Bats Promo\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Spike Chunsoft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spike Chunsoft is the king of the countdown website. Overnight, the developer has launched a brand new teaser website which has got fans&#8217; tongues wagging.<\/p>\n<p>This new site is called &#8216;<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/sunaiku-foundation.com\/en\/hiddenbats\/\">Hidden Bats<\/a>&#8216;, and features 9 CRT TVs stacked, with the middle one letting you play a pretty bizarre video titled &#8216;Bats489&#8217;, which is an unlisted video on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTdOA6P30bYDxeUGaSUNmZw\">Hidden Bats YouTube channel<\/a>. Try watching this before you&#8217;ve had your morning coffee!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"Ahfp1lQW7VM\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>So, those of you eagerly awaiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ai_the_somnium_files_-_nirvana_initiative\">AI: The Somnium Files &#8211; nirvanA Initiative<\/a> might have noticed a few things. These strange images might look weird without context, but many of the visuals and images from the above video are actually also in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/07\/ai_the_somnium_files_n_nirvana_initiative_announced_for_nintendo_switch\">game&#8217;s announcement trailer<\/a>. What&#8217;s more, the teaser site that led to the sequel&#8217;s announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/06\/spike_chunsoft_has_a_mysterious_new_arg_website_could_it_be_about_zero_escape\">features nine eyes<\/a>. We expect nine is going to be a key number in this follow-up, then.<\/p>\n<p>As well as this bizarre website, there&#8217;s also an &#8220;official&#8221; <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HiddenBats\/status\/1522395729246965762?cxt=HHwWhMCylbG20aAqAAAA\">Hidden Bats Twitter account<\/a>, with a sole tweet that simply says &#8220;48:00:00&#8221; and links to another website called the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/sunaiku-foundation.com\/news\/\">Sunaiki Foundation<\/a>. And there&#8217;s plenty to gleam from this site, which presumably represents an in-game company.<\/p>\n<p>On the &#8220;News&#8221; page, there are a number of posts, with one from 1st April announcing the appointment of a new company president, Kagura Iwato. Other posts establish the president&#8217;s disappearance just days later and setting up a company task force to search for him.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the top post, dated 6th May, details two more missing persons with photos \u2014 Aine Ichirai, a high-school student, and Binato Tohara, a university student. Both students live in the Saitama Prefecture.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Aine Ichirai AI The Somnium Files NirvanA Initiative\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2bfd8ce1cae8a\/aine-ichirai-ai-the-somnium-files-nirvana-initiative.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NTAgNjMwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"450\" height=\"630\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2bfd8ce1cae8a\/aine-ichirai-ai-the-somnium-files-nirvana-initiative.450x.jpg\" alt=\"Aine Ichirai AI The Somnium Files NirvanA Initiative\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Binato Tohara AI The Somnium Files NirvanA Initiative\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e3ac5bed4518f\/binato-tohara-ai-the-somnium-files-nirvana-initiative.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NTAgNjMwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"450\" height=\"630\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e3ac5bed4518f\/binato-tohara-ai-the-somnium-files-nirvana-initiative.450x.jpg\" alt=\"Binato Tohara AI The Somnium Files NirvanA Initiative\"><\/a><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: Spike Chunsoft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>The &#8220;About&#8221; page is a typical company information page, detailing in simple terms what the company does, when it was established, and where it&#8217;s based. Interestingly, while the company is based in Tokyo, it has a branch out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Clicking the &#8220;Patrons&#8221; button takes you back down to the countdown.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Spike Chunsoft has used elaborate means to promote its games or stir up chatter among fans, as the company did something unusual for the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ai_the_somnium_files\">AI: The Somnium Files<\/a>. It opened up a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxYoH_UNbIKP1xnsTx9m5Gw\/videos\">Lemniscate YouTube<\/a> channel \u2014 Lemniscate being an in-game media office and talent agency. Many of the videos on this channel feature Iris (A-set) in a vlog series, with four different story arcs taking place. In some of them, Iris is doing a &#8220;Let&#8217;s Play&#8221;, while in others, she directly discusses the &#8220;Cyclops Case&#8221;, the main case in the first game.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Greatsong1 for sending us the tips on this website launch! We&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on it over the weekend to see what other juicy details we can pull from it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Share your theories with us in the comments down below!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Spike Chunsoft Spike Chunsoft is the king of the countdown website. Overnight, the developer has launched a brand new teaser website which has got fans&#8217; tongues wagging. This new site is called &#8216;Hidden Bats&#8216;, and features 9 CRT TVs stacked, with the middle one letting you play a pretty bizarre video titled &#8216;Bats489&#8217;, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}