The screen is blank throughout the duration of the game, and the player spends the majority of the time listening as the plot unfolds.

However, at critical points in the story a set of chimes will ring, signifying that the player needs to make a decision at that moment.

They arrange to meet at a clock tower to begin their flight, but Izumi never shows up and shortly afterward she is transferred away again.

Several years later, Hiroshi has now become a college student, and Izumi is entering the job market and having meetings and interviews with company personnel managers.

[3]Sega was interested in obtaining the exclusive rights to the game, and Eno stipulated that he would only sell the rights on the condition that Sega were to donate a thousand Saturn consoles to the visually impaired, with Warp in turn donating copies of Real Sound alongside the consoles.

"[3] The game was written by Yūji Sakamoto, and features a number of secondary characters voiced by actors such as Miho Kanno and Ai Maeda.

So I thought that if I included these flower seeds, then that would pass on the image and give the user an idea of what kind of game it is without even explaining the story and all that.

[7] In 2024, From Yellow to Orange (the current incarnation of Warp) released an audiobook version of the game to commemorate its 27th anniversary.