Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I found another out of bounds spot, although sadly this only leads to a semi-large enclosed space and can't be used to skip anything. Still, it looks pretty neat, and I finally got to see what happens when falling underneath the map.
0:00 - The OoB is done at the building with a large claw mark on its side in central Ebisugaoka. You first have to inch past a tight corner by f.e. doing a directed knife attack right at the edge, then walking past carefully so you don't fall down. The floor here is slippery, automatically trying to steer Hinako down as she walks, but attacks and dodges can be used to move and reorient her.
At the far edge of this small lip of collision, you can do a dodge which brushes against some planks which give her unintended height. Do a dodge with just the right angle to get maximum height, then follow up with a knife strong attack away from the corner to escape the small pocket of collision, then two dodges to the left to drop out of bounds.
0:34 - The out of bounds region mostly has a flat, curved floor which is not aligned with the graphics, making Hinako look like she is sinking into things left and right. The zone is quite graphically detailed, albeit with a few rough spots when looking at things from angles that are normally unavailable to the player.
Although at a few points you can walk underneath the playable area (mainly to the south-east), the general zone is blocked off by collision from all directions so you can't stray too far.
1:50 - The yard to the south-east can be unloaded in some conditions, making it look quite different. This place has one or two fun little wrinkles in the elevation which make Hinako "pop" up or down as she passes through. (Sadly, they can't be used for doing launches, or so it seems.)
2:53 - On the other side of the OoB zone you have the large rice field and a normally inaccessible shed you can peer into.
3:35 - Hinako is not in good terms with the local scarecrows, so she attacks this one on sight.
4:00 - Suddenly, Hinako's adventure turns into an underwater stealth mission. There's a glitchy piece of grass texture which stretches quite a long way underneath the map. There's also a part of the ditch that looks quite algae-ridden, or possibly only half-textured.
5:26 - There's a spot where you can fully drop yourself under the map near the south-east yard. Hinako falls quite quickly subject to the mercy of gravity. Eventually the foggy zone around the map dissipates, leaving behind a vast infinity of darkness. You can keep running around while falling for a while, and even "reach" some key locations early under the map, but sadly this doesn't count.
7:04 - After you've fallen for long enough, Hinako herself vanishes. I presume this is some automatic actor destroying or unloading procedure that is a result of hitting the bottom of the game world. Her map position marker also disappears - she has left the world entirely.
Any input affecting Hinako no longer does anything, only Pause-menu and its sub-menus can be opened. (The quick menus for using items or switching weapons are not available either.)
The camera also moves into a gray zone instead of remaining in the void of infinite darkness. Could it be that its coordinates are reset to origin as Hinako leaves Ebisugaoka for good?
(Not on the vid: switching your current weapon from Pause-menu is possible in this state, but this causes no visible result.)
I found another out of bounds spot, although sadly this only leads to a semi-large enclosed space and can't be used to skip anything. Still, it looks pretty neat, and I finally got to see what happens when falling underneath the map.
0:00 - The OoB is done at the building with a large claw mark on its side in central Ebisugaoka. You first have to inch past a tight corner by f.e. doing a directed knife attack right at the edge, then walking past carefully so you don't fall down. The floor here is slippery, automatically trying to steer Hinako down as she walks, but attacks and dodges can be used to move and reorient her.
At the far edge of this small lip of collision, you can do a dodge which brushes against some planks which give her unintended height. Do a dodge with just the right angle to get maximum height, then follow up with a knife strong attack away from the corner to escape the small pocket of collision, then two dodges to the left to drop out of bounds.
0:34 - The out of bounds region mostly has a flat, curved floor which is not aligned with the graphics, making Hinako look like she is sinking into things left and right. The zone is quite graphically detailed, albeit with a few rough spots when looking at things from angles that are normally unavailable to the player.
Although at a few points you can walk underneath the playable area (mainly to the south-east), the general zone is blocked off by collision from all directions so you can't stray too far.
1:50 - The yard to the south-east can be unloaded in some conditions, making it look quite different. This place has one or two fun little wrinkles in the elevation which make Hinako "pop" up or down as she passes through. (Sadly, they can't be used for doing launches, or so it seems.)
2:53 - On the other side of the OoB zone you have the large rice field and a normally inaccessible shed you can peer into.
3:35 - Hinako is not in good terms with the local scarecrows, so she attacks this one on sight.
4:00 - Suddenly, Hinako's adventure turns into an underwater stealth mission. There's a glitchy piece of grass texture which stretches quite a long way underneath the map. There's also a part of the ditch that looks quite algae-ridden, or possibly only half-textured.
5:26 - There's a spot where you can fully drop yourself under the map near the south-east yard. Hinako falls quite quickly subject to the mercy of gravity. Eventually the foggy zone around the map dissipates, leaving behind a vast infinity of darkness. You can keep running around while falling for a while, and even "reach" some key locations early under the map, but sadly this doesn't count.
7:04 - After you've fallen for long enough, Hinako herself vanishes. I presume this is some automatic actor destroying or unloading procedure that is a result of hitting the bottom of the game world. Her map position marker also disappears - she has left the world entirely.
Any input affecting Hinako no longer does anything, only Pause-menu and its sub-menus can be opened. (The quick menus for using items or switching weapons are not available either.)
The camera also moves into a gray zone instead of remaining in the void of infinite darkness. Could it be that its coordinates are reset to origin as Hinako leaves Ebisugaoka for good?
(Not on the vid: switching your current weapon from Pause-menu is possible in this state, but this causes no visible result.)
