Kowloon's Gate is an
adventure video game developed by
Zeque. It was released for the
PlayStation in
Japan on February 28, 1997, and re-released for the
PlayStation Network on April 14, 2010.
The game is set in
Kowloon Walled City in
Hong Kong. Critic Shin Muramatsu drew on his experience with the game's "Hong Kong Gothic" version of the Walled City to compare the past and future of Hong Kong itself.
Though never released abroad,
Kowloon's Gate was a
cult hit in Japan.In the
video game magazine Famitsu, a 2009 reader poll of games with highest demand for a sequel ranked the game tenth with 151 votes.
On June 22, 1997, before the
handover of Hong Kong, the demolished
Kowloon Walled City reemerged from the realm of
Yin (陰界) back to the streets of Hong Kong in the living realm of
Yang (陽界). The Hong Kong Supreme
Feng Shui Conference (香港最高風水會議) determined that the reappearance of the walled city was a sign of an imbalance of the yin and yang, and the if the two
parallel worlds are not separated once again, great calamity would occur. To set things straight, the order of
feng shui would need to be re-instilled in the realm of Yin. Thus the protagonist, a Super Feng Shui Practitioner (超級風水師), was sent into the Kowloon Walled City to seek and awaken the
Four Symbols so that order would be revived.
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