Surprisingly engaging - I ended up loving the story, characters and the world of the school. Was really interesting seeing essentially an alternate take on the Ace Attorney formula - exploration and poking around crime scenes, visual novel sections, trials about presenting evidence at the right moment. It's all filtered through the design language of an action/shooting game. Exploration is first person with sprinting, even going to speak to someone shoots out a little question mark. Trials involve aiming, firing (including using a silencer), rhythm minigames and hangman. All very violent, lot of mechanics get piled on top of each other, but it genuinely comes together. Certain moments, especially towards the end, felt like I had pieced together the mystery a lot earlier than the game and was waiting for it to catch up, but otherwise I was along for the ride for real.

Reviewed on Apr 07, 2023


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