Policenauts

Policenauts (ポリスノーツ) is a Japanese adventure game written and directed by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami.

Storyline

The game's protagonist is a man named Jonathan Ingram, who is one of the five titular "policenauts" (astronauts with police authority) asigned to ensure the safety of Beyond Coast, mankind's first fully-functional space colony, in 2013. Jonathan is lost in space and presumed dead after a freak accident occurred during a space-walking experiment, but is found nearly 25 years later after thanks to the cold-sleep module which spared his life and preserved his youth. The actual game begins in 2040, when Jonathan (now a private investigator working in the town that used to Los Angeles) is visited by his estranged wife, Lorraine. She asks for Jonathan's help in solving the disappearance of her husband Kenzo Hojo, the only clues he left behind being a torn leaf, a set of capsules and the word "Plato". Jonathan is reluctant to take her case at first, but after witnessing Lorraine's murder at the hands of a masked assailant, Jonathan agrees to return to outer space (in spite of his cosmophobia) to fulfil her final request. There he is reunited by his former partner from his LAPD days, Ed Brown, who agrees to help Jonathan find Kenzo Hojo.

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