The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story

released on May 12, 2022

The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story centers around the ill-fated Shijima family, who have experienced a chain of inexplicable deaths in their family over the past century. Players will take on the role of mystery novelist, Haruka Kagami and use their powers of deductions to uncover the truth behind four murder cases that have taken place in the Shijima household over the last one hundred years.


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Un FMV bastante entretenido cuya parte de gameplay peca de ser obtuso a la vez que algo inconsecuente. No te premia nada encontrar el 100% de pistas y resoluciones más allá de un par de logros o tres y aún con esas pistas y "deducciones" lógicas, el juego abusa mucho de suponer las cosas y tirar "palante" a ver qué te encuentras.
O, al menos, es como yo lo he vivido. Algunas conclusiones no tengo muy claro que estuviesen bien traducidas (jugué en español) y daban una idea que luego no representaba lo que habías elegido. Sumado a eso, hubo un par de ocasiones o tres en los compases finales de la historia en las que los subtítulos ni siquiera estaban introducidos.
A parte de esas cuestiones técnicas, la historia de Centennial Case es interesante y tiene unos cuantos giritos muy buenos. Lo que son capaces de hacer con el reparto de actores tan ajustado para que representen a personajes diferentes en épocas distintas es honestamente genial y digno de mención.
Muy recomendado, pero sólo si te gusta el género y las novelas policíacas con muchos red herrings.

This review contains spoilers

Few games have the main character spend most of the game unknowingly shipping incest.

playing this right after death come true, another FMV mystery game, was a blast and a blessing. it's not solely budget, but the acting, tone and writing of this game just were so much better
i did got bored at certain moments, and there's a certain chapter where the core gameplay changed quite a bit, but the plot twists and the melodramatic flair of the scene quickly won me over again. i actually presented wrong hypothesis sometimes just to see the scenes they recorded for it, the tanuki one had me laughing out loud

and that epilogue chapter, man, just chef's kiss

Good start, not so elegant ending.
The "gameplay" part of this is mindnumbingly boring.
I should restart reading 427 perhaps...

I really wanted to like this game more than I did and I would love to see a better execution of the concept. The story is fun and I enjoyed myself but at the end of the day what little gameplay is present is super lacking and at points can become just a tedious chore to advance the plot. There were a few points were I felt engaged with the mystery solving but it was rare.