Urban Myth Dissolution Center

The Urban Myth Dissolution Center is an investigation game with supernatural element. Some people uses psychological horror but personally that stuff went either over or under my head because two chapters in I'm like meh, if it bleeds you can kill it. I don't want to spoil it too much so I'll just quickly touch on a few aspect that bothered me. Keep in mind that this isn't a definitive review though the problems I spot is pretty fundamental so I doubt it'll magically disappear. 1. The graphics, which is somewhat unique but the pixel art is pretty rough. Which kind of surprised me because I've seen the trailer and other Youtuber play session which didn't look as rough as I thought, but when I played it on my laptop it look pretty rough for some reason. I end up playing it on the windows mode setting which is a little better but I hope if this developer made other similar games they can made their pixel art a little higher resolution. 2. The logic. This is one of the problems that is a little harder to fix. Some of the story element is a little bit illogical. It is a little hard to go into it without going into spoiler territory. But I've noticed some story/setting in first chapter, and even more on second chapter that doesn't make much sense. But I suppose in the spirit of "psychological horror" you kind of need these setting to get into the horror feel maybe. And suppose because I'm a pretty rational person this kind of horror element wasn't for me anyway. 3. The gameplay include these deduction part where you have to choose the right word to for a sentence which arrive at a conclusion for your discovery. Like ah hah, elementary me dear Watson, if the dead body is in the kitchen and the bloody footprint leads to outside then the killer must have fled kind of deal. The problem is that sometimes the sentence have to match the developers' sentence structure. Like if I choose B is the same as A, then the game would tell me that I'm wrong, because the correct answer is A is the same as B even though both sentence means the same thing. And that little flaw throw me off a little bit. 4. The play speed. This one is a tiny complaint compared to the rest. I sometimes wish I could speed through dialogue a little faster. Like I know where this is going don't make me read through every punctuation thank you. TL;DR: For me Urban Myth Dissolution Center feels like a Phoenix Wright imitation that isn't quite as good. There is the supernatural psychological element to it and if that really speaks to you then maybe you can give it a go. But if you come from Phoenix Wright thinking it'll be just as good it really isn't.

物語としては良かったと思うけど、ゲームである必要がなかった。

演出の盛り方の割りにミステリ部分にケレン味や迫力が感じられず、ちぐはぐ感とテンポの悪さがしんどくて1章完了時点で離脱 ミステリという言葉自体を知らないぐらい普段触れてなければ、あるいはこの演出が純粋にスゲー！となるなら楽しめるのかもしれない

ストーリーが稚拙で、子供向けの印象。大人にとっては簡単に推測がついてしまうものばかりであまり楽しくはなかったです。グラフィックは雰囲気があって良かったですが、好みは分かれそう。 文字送りが自由にできないのがかなりのストレスでした。

This game badly needs to drop the pretense of being a detective game. You still have to do deductions but they're both tedious and obvious, so there's no satisfaction to getting it right. Worse still, "gathering evidence" is just walking back and forth and clicking on every available option while revealing almost nothing new. The only purpose is to get the player character to have certain thoughts that she can then express to other NPCs and ask about new topics. After one case I was already completely sick of it.

剧情还是可以的，结局大反转。但是案件推理经不起细敲，玩法比较简单枯燥，当作纯视觉小说来看就行了。画风挺好的，毕竟是日本游戏热度还是有的，同人也很多。

Such a beautiful game, from the art to the story. It’s an absolute masterpiece! While it is a linear visual novel, the music, art, and storytelling are so incredible that it’s a must-play, whether you typically like visual novels or not. And the cherry on top is the fantastic ending—it completely changes your perspective on the entire game. Please, play it! :3

是非やってみほてしい、ノベライトゲームで一番面白かったかもしれないです。