Really great visual novel with some light logic puzzle elements. I found that it took me a while to figure out what the game wanted me to do when and what was even possible, which lead to some frustrating game overs. The navigation from investigation scene to the next was incredibly tedious, why couldn’t I just have a big list of locations to pick from why do I always need to do a choice tree. The real meat here is the actual trials and the characters, everything else is a big bloated and tiresome but the highs are really high. Love how the original storyline wrapped up. Now to talk about the bonus case afterwards, it felt like it went on so long compared to the others. When I thought I was almost done there were still like 4 “to be continued”s left. All the many moving parts and trials lead to a spectacular finale though and it was well worth it. This final trial was definitely the most annoying out of all of them though, lots of shoehorned Nintendo ds gimmicks and some fairly annoying characters. Especially Meekins with his earbleedingly loud megaphone, for his parts I ended up just muting the game which I shouldn’t have to do. Finishing this gets to excited to dive into a vast series of games im bound to love.

Reviewed on Mar 27, 2024


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