(W) Hirukuma (A/CA) Kazuhiko Morita. Yoshio is 30 years old* with no job and a shut-in lifestyle. His mundane days and nights are suddenly interrupted when he receives a copy of The Village of Fate* an experimental game with graphics like nothing he's ever seen before. In the game* he takes on the role of a guardian deity who watches over the people of a new village... but he finds that the game characters are so intelligent* reactive* and human that he starts wondering if they could be real people somehow. Through his connection to their strangely vivid lives* Yoshio begins to discover the brightness that had been missing from his own existence.