![]() So in dialogues his everlively nature gets lost and he becomes the guy who does not know what he wants. Kojiroh scenes are especially painful since protagonists only have their thoughts, but not dialogues voiced. Both Marina and Kojiroh lost a bit of their charm due to lack of humor or rather more drama. The happy face of Queen Prisia on Kojiroh's shoulder made me want to cry. Lots characters on CG are looking weird and sometimes just horrible. Standing sprites for female characters don't bear comparison with the game prequels. He managed to make even good old characters ugly. I don't really have questions to character design - I rather don't like the style of the artist. Rating comments: I tried to rate based on the weight of shortcomings noticed. Structure: Game takes place during seven days with Marina part having a small continuation on 8th day. How are those incidents linked with each other? What does the criminal strives to know from the victims?īoth plot-lines eventually come together only to reveal the grand scale of political game and conspiracy. But a lot of aspects of this task look fishy: director does not want to explain who or why is going to attack.Īt the same time investigator Marina is tracking the serial killer who violently tortures their victims with a knife. ![]() Synopsis: Detective Kojiroh receives a request to become a bodyguard for trading company director for seven days. Hopefully I found a very good japanese walkthrough and I'd strongly recommend to use it. That was counterintuite at all and there were zero tips what needed to be done. Another time I got stuck since at the old location you needed to click at lots of ambient objects for a new location (park) to open up. Here you have 10 maps and lots of locations inside them, so you don't really know if you know to brute-force every object and command at all those locations again for both characters or look for a zapping spot for characters to meet. ![]() In last titles the zapping moments were pretty evident since you got stuck at one scene and there were like only couple of actions available. At one point I needed to guess and move each of the characters to the location behind the Sun Mansions apartments to progress the story. I don’t expect sequels to be as good as the original, but hopefully they’re at least a 6.5-7 if Burst error is 8+.Difficulty: More severe than the previous three EVE games that I played. Meanwhile Marina is stuck in a romance that is the awkwardest kind of awkward.Īnyway, I’m now trying to find some of the sequels, like Eve The Fatal Attraction and Eve New Generation X. The game seems to lean towards Yayoi for Kojiroh’s true love interest, although it doesn’t seem entirely sure whether it wants them back together or not. There aren’t really “heroines” since there are no routes, but Kojiroh does find himself surrounded by a bunch of beautiful women who have some kind of affection for him developed in several days. Some of the dialogue had me really laughing, especially when Kojiroh was mocking Nikaido. I came for the mystery, stayed for the characters. ![]() Marina is one cool gal, and not a female protagonist you’d see every day. The protagonists are great, to the point that I’m considering digging into some of the sequels to see more of the character interactions. Switching between Kojiroh’s and Marina’s scenarios is key to the game, and provides a unique dual-protagonist experience. Nevertheless it was a fun experience with more 90’s style characters. Most of the plot points didn’t surprise me (I would have been more surprised if I played this as one of my earliest mystery VNs, but its age certainly shows), except for the ending which felt too fast and requires a rather stretched suspension of disbelief because it threw in some sci-fi when the rest of the game had a decidedly normal “modern” 90’s setting. I say it feels like Ace Attorney because there’s a lot of silly options and dialogue, a point & click-ish investigation gameplay, and a story that begins with a small case but ends on a big one. Kojiroh is an entertaining protagonist, as well as Marina. It has a little bit of various things: murder mystery, politics, romance, ecchi (no h-scenes in English release). The story isn’t particularly deep, but the mystery kept me interested throughout. It almost feels like an Ace Attorney game with only the investigation parts, two protagonists, and more risque situations. Behind the horrendous system and 90’s art that take a while to get used to is an interesting mystery and fun characters. ![]()
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