Scramble Demo

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The Japan-exclusive demo for Scramble, released on February 6, 2020 for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. The gameplay features about the first hour of the game, and concludes as you leave the Shibuya Jail with Sophia.

Internal Name#

The suffix of "trial" is used in a few places internally.

Unused Text#

The following unused line appears in the demo's text archives.

そろそろ寝ようぜ

This translates to "Let's go to bed soon". Although it does not appear anywhere in-game, it is used as blackout text internally. Because the demo uses the same text file structure as the full game, this line replaces all lines of text that are not used in the demo. It covers about 10,000 lines in this way. The line itself is similar to a phrase seen in Atlus' spoiler warning for Strikers, that being "Let’s go to sleep."

Unused Assets#

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This demo contains a good amount of assets that, while used in the full game, have no purpose in the demo.

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H0003_Panther
H0004_Fox
H0005_Queen
H0006_Noir
H0007_Navi
H0008_Sophie
H0009_Wolf
H1008_Pandora
H1503_Commander
H1511_Jewelry
H2057_Silky
H2210_Wish_Jewel
H3006_Knife_06
H3300_Whip_00
H3300_Whip_stretch_00
H3400_Katana_00
H3400_Katana_Saya_00
H3400_Saya_00
H3500_Glove_L_00
H3600_Axe_00
H3800_GreatSword_00
H4300_SMachineGun_00
H4400_ARifle_00
H4500_Revolver_00
H4600_GLauncher_00
H4800_WRevolver_L_00
H4800_WRevolver_R_00
H5007_Enemy_Launcher
H5103_Mask_Commander
H6000_Skateboard
H6001_Snowboard
H6002_Cart
H6010_Kidd_Shell
H7000_Harisen
H7532_souvenir_Sendai
H7533_souvenir_Sappo
H7534_souvenir_Okina
H7535_souvenir_Fukuo
H7536_souvenir_Kyoto
H7537_souvenir_Osaka
H7538_souvenir_Yokoha

Differences#

Ending Video#

At the end of the demo's playable portion of the story, a video promoting the full game's release plays.

Home Icon#

The demo's home icon adds "Trial Version" in Japanese.

Demo	Full Game

Title Screen#

The demo's title screen adds "Trial Version" in Japanese to the logo.

Demo	Full Game

Limitations#

Features that the demo lacks when compared to the full release.

Load/Save Game#

Despite having the Load Game option on the main menu and multiple places to manually save or be prompted to, you can't save or load data in this demo.

Auto#

The "Auto" toggle used to automatically progress dialogue is missing in the demo.

Demo	Full Game

Skip Cutscenes#

The ability to skip cutscenes and events is missing in the demo.

Full Game

Oddities#

In a sea of hashed file names, the "Trial" graphic seen on the title screen stands out with the internal name of "03_title_win_trial", implying it was somewhat of an afterthought when compared to the game's standard compilation.