SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair

SHINRAI is a good novel. While it is very amateurish, it's got a lot of heart and I think my time with it was a well spent ten hours.

A solidly built and set up murder mystery. Excited for what the creator's do next

To be completely honest, I didn't really think this game would be that good at first. I just wanted to see it through to pass some time and say that I finished yet another game, since I made it this year's goal to play some games I never touched before. However, Shinrai made me eat my words. Once the story *truly* picks up, Shinrai becomes an amazing story that makes you second guess the things that even you thought you knew about the game. The characters react in a somewhat-realistic way to high-stress situations, given that all of them are teenagers, and seeing how they act towards one another, given their circumstance, is really fun to see. Again, even if the mystery itself is good, the characters are the true stars of the game. Even if they are somewhat "trope-ey", I can't say I truly disliked any of them. Their speech patterns get annoying at times, but all of them play an important role to the story at large, and you can feel that all of them know each other and have realistic relationships to one-another. I'm not the best at this recommendation thing, but all in all, Shinrai is a great game with a good story and characters that I would very much recommend playing if you want to spend a couple hours of your weekend figuring out a mystery.

Short but fun murder mystery game. I had a good time. However, I do have some issues and, since I don't want to say anything about the mystery itself or the characters, this will sadly take up the majority of the text in my review: The art might take some time to get used to but I did get used to it. A select few tracks in the soundtrack sounded a little too messy for my taste, however. My greatest issue with the game is the lack of an important quality of life feature. From other mystery games, I value the option to look through your evidence while prompted to answer a question (that does not involve presenting evidence itself). However, in Shinrai, when prompted to name a culprit or answer a multiple-choice question, you can not look through your evidence and notes, which I found to be pretty frustrating.

Neat murder mystery game. The opening is a bit slow, but once things get going there's a good mystery to be had. I was fooled by several twists!

Good game if you are into danganronpa and zero escape types.

Danganronpa at home. But sometimes home cooking is pretty ok.

Henjin <3<3

This game isn't perfect. There's a lot of flaws, and a lot. But despite all of them, it's still an enjoyable little murder mystery. The cast isn't great and the majority are insufferable, or are attached by the hip to the protagonist; not letting them breathe on their own merits, and suffocating them over 90% of the runtime. The leash she puts on the protagonist sometimes feels more like a plot device than a friendship. As negative as that sounds, if you can get over the hurdle and enjoy the atmosphere and mystery then it's a good game. Recommended if there's a sale.

My favourite part was when Raiko sed "It's Raikoin Time" and Raikoed all over the killer