Midori Press Kit

A green quad with golden sparks between silver trees and rocks.


This is Midori

Midori, sequel to the award-winning puzzle game SHI•RO, tells the wondrous story of priest Yoshida. Together, you leave home and bring back hope to the people of Kyoto. Travel through dark forests to invite the ancient gods, the Kami-sama, to Yoshida’s shrine. Solve challenging, handmade puzzles by placing emptiness in between maple trees to bring in the Kami-sama. Animal messengers of the gods will cross your way and offer their help. Learn Japanese words from them and whisper with the wind.

Midori is a completely new game set in the same universe as SHI•RO: A new story, new puzzle mechanics and a beautiful forest inspired by the craft of Japanese lacquerware. You play on a green lacquer box with fine details such as rocks, maple trees and spirits. Tilt your device to enjoy how reflective metal colors bring forth ancient stories.

Midori is available on the Apple App Store. It was released in April 2022.


Midori's Features


Images

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An iPhone 13 Pro displaying a puzzle of the game Midori. Placed on a dark green background are shimmering trees with bright little creatures on them, called kami-sama.

On a dark green background, a golden square shimmers under different shades of light. The letters Midori are written atop in Japanese Hiragana as well as in the latin alphabet. On a dark green background, the shape of the star constellation of Orion shimmers in gold. The stars are displayed as maple leafs with branches connecting them. An illustration from within the game displays blue rocks, a spear and a dove with opened wings flying above. The dove’s wing shimmers in silver, whereas a piece of cloth on the spear and a rock below glitter in gold. Below the illustration, a text reads: On this way to the Iwashimizu Hachimangu shrine, Yohida noticed a white dove.
In a puzzle of the game, four circles with silver outlines overlap. Within them, trees with shimmery leafs hold one to four kami-sama each: Little beings that resemble the seeds of maple trees. Surrounding this scene are three silver rocks, below is a dark green background. This puzzle consists of two circles outlined in silver and two in black with connecting lines between them and maple trees within them. This geometry is surrounded by silver rocks and simple interface elements. Two silver circles on the upper left, two silver circles on the lower right have one larger black circle between them that can move into different overlaps with the static silver circles. Within the circles are maple trees and kami-sama.
Four circles with silver outlines have golden outlines in their overlaps, and a circle with a black outline below can move in and out of overlaps. This more complex puzzle has many kami-sama that sit within trees in the circles. This advanced puzzle features seven circles, three of which can move along lines that are indicated in a light grey. Each circle has a maple tree within it onto which three to four small beings with maple seed outlines are placed. Below this geometrical structure with silver, black, and pink, yellow and blue shimmering elements there are silver stone formations. After solving a puzzle, the kami-sama plant themselves into the ground in the shape of a circle. Amid them, a Japanese word and its translation appear in golden letters. The kami-sama grow to be little tree saplings.
Four circles with silver outlines have golden outlines in their overlaps, and a circle with a black outline below can move in and out of overlaps. This more complex puzzle has many kami-sama that sit within trees in the circles. This advanced puzzle features seven circles, three of which can move along lines that are indicated in a light grey. Each circle has a maple tree within it onto which three to four small beings with maple seed outlines are placed. Below this geometrical structure with silver, black, and pink, yellow and blue shimmering elements there are silver stone formations. After solving a puzzle, the kami-sama plant themselves into the ground in the shape of a circle. Amid them, a Japanese word and its translation appear in golden letters. The kami-sama grow to be little tree saplings.
Four circles with silver outlines have golden outlines in their overlaps, and a circle with a black outline below can move in and out of overlaps. This more complex puzzle has many kami-sama that sit within trees in the circles. This advanced puzzle features seven circles, three of which can move along lines that are indicated in a light grey. Each circle has a maple tree within it onto which three to four small beings with maple seed outlines are placed. Below this geometrical structure with silver, black, and pink, yellow and blue shimmering elements there are silver stone formations. After solving a puzzle, the kami-sama plant themselves into the ground in the shape of a circle. Amid them, a Japanese word and its translation appear in golden letters. The kami-sama grow to be little tree saplings.
A golden square with the title of the game Midori written in white pulsates on a green background. A silver landscape from two-dimensional rocks, trees and human made structures on a greenbackground. In the center, a golden square next to a silver temple building fill up with a green bar in a clockwise motion.
An animation showing a puzzle of the game. Two-dimensional trees are shifting on a green background, while bright little creatures fly from one tree to another. An animated illustriation of a wooden gate on a green paper background. Some parts shimmer golden and at some point in the animation shift to silver. The first one is a piece of a bridge behind the gate, and below appears the text: The modest wooden structures of the Ise Jingu shrine are torn down and rebuilt every 20 years; ephemeral yet eternal, they persist through time. The second one is the hat of a person on the bridge, revealing the text: Amaterasu-omikami, goddess of the sun, will you come to visit Kyoto? whispered Yoshida to the wind. The last one is a part of the gate, and it reveals the text: He felt in his heart that Amaterasu would indeed come and bowed his head in gratitude.
A golden square with the title of the game Midori in white letters on it. The top text is in Japanese Hiragana, while the bottom is in Englisch. The logo of Studio Topicbird, a stylized black bird in a square shape with a line on it that looks like wires on a computer chip, which forms its eye and wing.



Team

Midori is a game by Topicbird (Jasper Meiners and Isabel Paehr)

Publisher • the brothers grimm

Sound • Leonard Bahro

Voice • Daisuke Hasegawa

Translations • Alexander Jahl, Laura Mazgaj, Julián Palacios, Diego Valverde Garro, Miya Yoshida, Xian Zhou


Contact

Write us a mail at talk@thetopicbird.com or contact our publisher via info@thebrothersgrimm.de.

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