A really good visual novel with great character design, music and the snappiest writing. Despite some silly, obtuse adventure game solutions, the cases are well written, compelling and fun to piece together. I wish traversal was more fun or at least more interesting to look at as in a couple of the later cases it became a bit of a chore selecting ‘Move’ from a menu and a text box to go anywhere, especially as the environments get bigger and more complicated. I’d like this game a lot more if not for the last case, which was added to the DS release and feels very tacked-on. The writing is still good in it but it’s needlessly bloated and could have done with the same care that clearly went into putting the other cases together.

Reviewed on Feb 24, 2021


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