Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi（Super Famicom）
📋 The basic interview flow and how to approach branches
An overall approach to visiting the 6 storytellers and exploring branches shaped by listening order and choices.
Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi — what should I check first in Walkthrough and branches?
Trying to pursue every branch immediately becomes confusing. On your 1st run, avoid digging too deeply and prioritize experiencing the framework: who tells which stories, and how the after-school interviews proceed and end. Understanding the whole before seriously pursuing completion is ultimately the shorter path.
| Phase | Objective | Checklist |
|---|---|---|
| Early game | Understand the storytellers and the basic interview flow, then complete 1 full run |
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| Midgame | Confirm how order and choices affect flags, then systematically explore unread stories |
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| Late game | Narrow down conditions for hidden scenarios and special endings, and collect every story and ending |
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1. You keep hearing similar ghost stories and cannot find new ones
Cause: You repeat the same interview order and choices, producing the same combination of flags
Solution: Change the conditions from the outset, such as approaching someone else first or reversing early choices, to explore different branches
2. You cannot reach hidden scenarios or stories beneath the surface
Cause: You follow the regular stories straightforwardly without setting the prerequisite flags for special branches
Solution: Deliberately select unusual options or choices that change the atmosphere, then try again on a run after seeing a particular story
3. You lose track of which stories you have seen and which remain
Cause: Numerous branches and scattered saves make completion difficult to track
Solution: Note completed stories by storyteller and theme, separate saves by scene, and work backward to fill unread gaps
Trying to pursue every branch immediately becomes confusing. On your 1st run, avoid digging too deeply and prioritize experiencing the framework: who tells which stories, and how the after-school interviews proceed and end. Understanding the whole before seriously pursuing completion is ultimately the shorter path.
- ▸ Remember the first person you approach and the theme
- ▸ Choose straightforwardly and continue all the way to the end
- ▸ Check post-completion unlocks and management screens
Branches are easier to organize if you think in terms of two main factors: whose stories you hear in which order, and the options chosen during conversations. Order changes which story appears, while choices change how it develops and which ending you reach. Varying these two factors and observing differences is more useful than memorizing an unconfirmed supposedly correct procedure.
- ▸ Change the interview order and compare the stories that appear
- ▸ Keep separate saves before choices and compare the differences
- ▸ Mark and track branching points that produce major changes
The game is designed so that a single sequence cannot show every story and ending. List unread stories and unreached endings, then work backward to plan how to change the entry point—the first person—and subsequent choices. Even testing that approaches trying every possibility creates less rework if you keep saves for individual scenes.
- ▸ List remaining stories and endings
- ▸ Plan repeat runs that change the entry point and choices
- ▸ Reduce repeated testing with scene-specific saves
Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi: follow the listed steps in progression order.
| Stage | Objective | Checkpoints |
|---|---|---|
| Early game | Understand the storytellers and the basic interview flow, then complete 1 full run | Choose whom to approach first in the classroom after school and learn the ghost-story themes of all 6 storytellers / Make straightforward choices without overthinking and continue to the ending to experience the overall structure / After completing a run, check unlocked elements and any available screen for managing storyteller order and story numbers |
| Midgame | Confirm how order and choices affect flags, then systematically explore unread stories | Start with someone different from your 1st run and check how listening order changes the stories presented / Keep separate saves before options that look like branches and compare how each choice changes what follows / List storytellers and themes you have not heard, then prioritize the remaining stories |
| Late game | Narrow down conditions for hidden scenarios and special endings, and collect every story and ending | Look for stories with a different atmosphere that appear only after certain stories or combinations of choices / Choices that abruptly change the fear or theme often lead toward hidden routes, so mark them in your branch notes / Use your completion list to work backward from remaining stories and endings and target the gaps |
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