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I forget, is Rika Suzuki the writer on this game? That sort of thing matters if we're talking about Cing staff rising from the ashes.
nope, she's not involved in this at all
I forget, is Rika Suzuki the writer on this game? That sort of thing matters if we're talking about Cing staff rising from the ashes.
nope, she's not involved in this at all
Didn't the JP GAFfers who played this say it was a bit of a letdown and only 2-3 hours long?
Which is why I'm having a hard time mustering the hype. I never liked any of the non-Suzuki Cing games.
Only out in America, payback for The Last Window
I forget, is Rika Suzuki the writer on this game? That sort of thing matters if we're talking about Cing staff rising from the ashes.
nope, she's not involved in this at all
Which is why I'm having a hard time mustering the hype. I never liked any of the non-Suzuki Cing games.
What games did she specifically do?
Is this a murder mystery game? I remember playing the beginning of Hotel Dusk and being turned off by the lack of stakes. As far as I could remember, I think that game was basically some investigator dicking around at some run down motel.
Didn't the JP GAFfers who played this say it was a bit of a letdown and only 2-3 hours long?
Excellent. That sounds like fun, probably gonna pick this up then.she was scenario writer on the another code and kyle hyde games as well as glass rose. evidently she also did scenario supervision on again but i don't think anyone really considers that one of her games.
yeah, it's a murder mystery game. basically ace attorney's cross examination sections. if you didn't like the adventure game elements of hotel dusk you'll be glad to hear there's basically none of that here, lol
Bought and played through this the past few days. It's... okay? It's clear it was really low budget (and the credits show a similarly small staff), which isn't explicitly a bad thing, but it's very noticeable. The whole game just takes place in the Unsolved Cases Division, with the occasional photograph of the crime scene or small flashback, and there's maybe five or six music tracks. And the characters look decent, but there's not much animation to them (they're Live2D) and the crime scene photos are bizarrely washed out, like they've been through some bad photoshop filters.
The story is fine, and the writing decent enough (though boy, Shounosuke makes Kyle look like a nice guy), but there's not really a lot of game here. It's super linear, with just a few questions (virtually all of the "pick the right answer" variety, not branching choices) and the occasional "examine parts of the photograph" moment (with one completely nonsensical get-it-in-one-go-or-it's-game-over part.)
I realize this all sounds pretty rough, but I did enjoy it - it's just clear that they were really limited in what they could do. I hope the sequel it extremely clearly sets up is a little more ambitious if it gets greenlit; Cing's games were helped by the atmosphere of their locations, so putting everything in a tiny office kills the vibe a bit.
Also, it took me about 2 hours to run through. So yeah, short!
it was okay. definitely not cing's big comeback and extremely low budget but hopefully a sign of more to come. clearly meant to be the first part of something more as it's extremely short, so hopefully western sales allow them to continue.
Oh yes please. Please come to Europe
Is Kyle Hyde in this?
Mila?