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Kanon: Best Edition

An enhanced port of Kanon for the PlayStation that adds progressive output, a flicker-free function, and a higher sampling rate.

22 December 2004

Kanon: Best Edition is a visual novel developed by Key, released 22 December 2004 on PlayStation 2.

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What Kanon: Best Edition is

Kanon: Best Edition is a visual novel game developed by Key and released in 2004. It was published by Interchannel. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Yuichi Aizawa is a second-year high school student who visited the city where the story takes place seven years before Kanon's beginning. The story opens on Wednesday January 6, 1999 when Yuichi arrives in the city and is very detached from it and its inhabitants. Before his return, it is decided that he is to stay with his first cousin, Nayuki Minase, and her mother, Akiko. After his long absence, Yuichi has forgotten almost everything except minor details of what happened seven years before and needs to be reminded of what he left behind. Nayuki initially tries repeatedly to jog his memory but is unsuccessful. Throughout the story, as he learns about the supernatural undertones of the…
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama, fantasy, romance and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Kanon: Best Edition launched on 22 December 2004, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords and Gran Turismo 4.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, Gran Turismo 4.

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When did Kanon: Best Edition come out?
Kanon: Best Edition was released on 22 December 2004 for PlayStation 2.

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