Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved

A fun little mystery with great art and music. While short I'd still recommend it, and hopefully we'll get more one day.

剧情不错

추리물 같은 제목, 역전재판 같은 아트에 속지마라 추리요소 전무하고 글만 읽는 비쥬얼노벨임 세계관에 자신감이 늠쳐서 챕터마다 잘 읽었는지 퀴즈냄 비쥬얼노벨로서의 완성도도 의심됨 80퍼 지점까지 놀다가 남은 20퍼에서 부랴부랴 진도나가는데 전적으로 감성에 호소하는 신파극이란 느낌밖에 못받음

OMG! What a short and cozy visual novel! It contain Agatha Christy and Alfred Hitchcock vibes and allusions+Ace attorney spirit and music vibes+PC-98 visual novel vibes+ and Snatcher nostalgy! I like it! And through all game i thinking about - Man, this game needs for to be perfect just one little thing - it's frame like in pc-98 visual novels!!!!

The character design / sprite animation was killer. The art team knocked it out of the park. The music is well executed as well. I don’t think the story quite reaches the high highs you might want it to, but it’s never boring during the brisk runtime. I hope the team gets to make more games like this. They have the chops. Played on Steam Deck. It was a great way to play.

Loved this little visual novel! It's a pretty light mystery but very enjoyable throughout. I finished it in about 7 hours, which sounds short but to me the length felt perfectly fine. The writing and characters were solid throughout! While the Detective unnerved me at first, I came to grow on him and his story role. I absolutely enjoyed the main girl Emma, and I adored all the side characters who felt as kooky as an Ace Attourney game! I appreciated a lot how the story was an evolving mystery, with each day having different goals and twists. Even if it's essentially 1 mystery, that single mystery had a lot of elements to unpack which made it feel bigger than it seems. Music was lovely, and the style of classical used in many songs is extremely my jam! Emma's theme is wonderful and the clear standout, but I love how the style feels appropriate without dipping into other mystery cliche genres. The art and presentation felt great too. Sprites looked great, animations were good, loved Emma's side sprites, and the colors were wonderful too. The UI was a bit weird with how I think each Talk pathway would kick you to the main menu, but overall the UI felt fine. I especially liked how smooth bringing up the conversation history is in the UI! If you're on the fence for this VN because it seems small, then I'd say please jump in. It's a very enjoyable experience that absolutely felt worth the price to me.

本格推理ゲーム！！ 正直ローカライズの推理物となると日本語は大丈夫なのか心配していましたが、まったく問題を感じることもなく、キャラクターもそれぞれ個性的で非常に楽しめました。 難易度も高くないため、ゲームとしては苦労なく進んでいく感じです。 日本のゲームに比べてボリュームのわりに値段がある程度しますが、それは日本が安すぎるからだと思いますね。。。 物語が本当に秀逸でした。 列車が舞台となるのでオリエント急行殺人事件を頭に浮かべたのですが、この話の中心になるのは学生。 だからこそのストーリー展開となっており、最後は彼らの成長も感じられるという、しっかりとしたストーリーで大満足です。 物語の背景は大変重厚なので、プレイ時間の割にはあっさり終わったという印象はありません。 迷っている方はぜひプレイしてみてください！ あ、そうそう。 画面設定が毎回リセットされてしまうのだけは、なんとかならんもんかと思っております。 仕方ないのかなぁ。些細なことですので、始まりはいつも画面設定を直すところからスタートでした！

辛うじてオススメ。 列車内で、一人の女性が忽然と姿を消した。しかも乗客は誰も彼女を覚えていない。――ただ一人、あなたの友人であるエマを除いて。 っていう導入文で妙に期待を上げすぎてしまった感。 SFC(SNES)時代っぽいインターフェースは懐古厨には刺さる…のか？ 仮想の国、仮想の時代背景なども前提にあって、話を進めると情報として説明はあるのだが… ちょっと馴染みが無い感じでイマイチ。 うーん、良い所…どこだろう…。

An absolute must play for every Mystery game fans. This game got me hooked since I've first seen it on social media and I couldn't wait to finally play it. I'm really glad I did because this story was incredibly fun. The tutorial is a bit over the top but once the story on the train started it got me hooked immediately. I love the presentation and music and especially love the characters. Emma is such a sweetheart that is way too good for this world and needs to be protected at all costs from here on. Just let yourself go and enjoy this ride is 4-6 hours long and it breezes by and it will leave you feeling very emotional at the end

This was a pretty alright game. Has a lot of charm in its art direction and I liked the music. I think the characters were also pretty entertaining in their writing and how it carried their voice, though I wouldn't really call them deep to be honest. And the setting was interesting! I would like to learn more about it. I feel like most of my issue was the direction of the storytelling where at a certain point, you were just learning what happened through the characters talking to you. And sure they were omitting parts of the explanation, but it was just back-to-back conversations where the characters were revealing parts of the mystery. I think the game was intending for the ending to just be sad and unsatisfying with its resolution, but I just kind of felt like I was being dragged along by the end of the game. I think I also would've preferred if the game committed to making the main character his own guy with a name instead of halving him as a kind of player-insert character. I don't regret buying or playing the game though. I still had fun with it, I just wished I liked it more.