All I knew about this one was how much of a mess the original release was, so I was pleasantly surprised that the mysteries were actually pretty solid. My favourite was case 4 (where you get to play as Yoko/Yulia). The main cases are in a noir/realistic crime drama mode, while the "Unleashed" cases are more like five-minute mysteries.
Mechanically, there is some retro clunk, but having played plenty of menu-based adventure games, this didn't bother me. I don't have a comparison point for the original 80s games, but just based on this remake I felt like you could see some of the tone/style of this series in later detective games, moreso than e.g. Famicom Detective Club.
This is the "fixed" translation, which is hammier than a pulled pork stand at the State Fair (great). It's still aggressively Americanized (not great). This led to some bonkers moments such as a plot beat that relied on the map of the Tokyo Metro--or rather, the Aspicio subway system. Except since these are now fictional locations, the deduction turns into pointless, hard-to-follow process of elimination. Also there's a tendency to abbrv wrds to fit on the bttns, which occasionally makes deductions difficult. But you can't really fail, so.
Anyway, overall I enjoyed it a lot, and I'm glad I played it, though between the heavy localization, numerous typos, and at least one bug, I'm still rating it a 3 rather than a 4.
Mechanically, there is some retro clunk, but having played plenty of menu-based adventure games, this didn't bother me. I don't have a comparison point for the original 80s games, but just based on this remake I felt like you could see some of the tone/style of this series in later detective games, moreso than e.g. Famicom Detective Club.
This is the "fixed" translation, which is hammier than a pulled pork stand at the State Fair (great). It's still aggressively Americanized (not great). This led to some bonkers moments such as a plot beat that relied on the map of the Tokyo Metro--or rather, the Aspicio subway system. Except since these are now fictional locations, the deduction turns into pointless, hard-to-follow process of elimination. Also there's a tendency to abbrv wrds to fit on the bttns, which occasionally makes deductions difficult. But you can't really fail, so.
Anyway, overall I enjoyed it a lot, and I'm glad I played it, though between the heavy localization, numerous typos, and at least one bug, I'm still rating it a 3 rather than a 4.
The translation is rather stilted at times, you can practically play it with your brain on autopilot (aside from the quizzes they occasionally throw at you), and it's clear that they haven't done much, visuals aside, to update these decades-old adventure games. But the cast still grew on us, so we can't quite say that we had a bad time.