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The Quarry
I hope you didn’t think I was done with Supermassive Games just because I finished reviewing The Dark Pictures Anthology ! Just like any goo...
Switch Back / 今はもうない
The S&M series has always had a lot of character work and philosophical tangents, and while they sometimes felt a bit overbearing, they nev...
The Devil in Me
The Devil in Me is the grand finale to “season one” of The Dark Pictures Anthology . While it’s larger in scope than the previous games and...
The Locked Rooms of the Twin Snakes / 双蛇密室
The Locked Rooms of the Twin Snakes is the fourth book in the Lychee Kamiki series starring the titular high school prostitute detective, ...
House of Ashes
House of Ashes is the third game in the The Dark Pictures Anthology , after Medan of Medan and Little Hope . The first two games…
The Tragedy of 1 / 一の悲劇
I assume most people reading this blog know who Ellery Queen is, but for who don’t, he (actually the joint pseudonym for two cousins) is on...
Auto-tagged Shigeru
Little Hope
Four college students and their professor are involved in a bus crash on a field trip, dumping them outside the small town of Little Hope in...
Process of Elimination / 探偵撲滅
Process of Elimination is another Danganronpa wannabe from Nippon Ichi Software, following in the footsteps Exile Election . Process of E...
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Man of Medan
The elevator pitch for Man of Medan (and The Dark Pictures Anthology ) as a whole is that it’s a horror B-movie you can play. If you’ve…
The Wonder
Anna O’Donnell hasn’t eaten since her eleventh birthday four months ago. Or at least, that’s what she and her family claim. As word of the ...
Those Who Sneer Like the Mountain Fiend / 山魔の如き嗤うもの
Another Genya Toujou book, another series of bizarre murders in a remote village that are entangled with the local folklore. Those Who Snee...
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Who's the Shadow? / シャドウ
Who’s the Shadow? is about Ousuke Gamo, a boy whose luck would give the Baudelaires’ a run for its money. First his mom dies, and then his...
The Devotion of Suspect X / 容疑者Xの献身
I had The Devotion of Suspect X on my bookshelf for a while. It was famous and supposed to be really good, so I eagerly bought it.…
The Maid
The Maid needs to clean up its act. Ostensibly it’s a cozy mystery, but in reality it’s more like a contrived, saccharine story about an au...
It Walks By Night
It Walks By Night is the debut novel of John Dickson Carr, and much better than the other one . It features one of Carr’s recurring detecti...
It Walks By Night / 夜歩く
It Walks By Night is an awful book that no one should read. This isn’t going to be a roast, because it’s not that kind of awful,…
Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane
Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane is, as you might surmise from the title, an Ace Attorney -inspired murder mystery video game. (Game...
Auto-tagged Ace Attorney, Phoenix
Triangle Strategy / トライアングルストラテジー
Normally I’m not a fan of strategy RPGs, but the stars aligned for me and Triangle Strategy . I played the demo when it first came out, and…
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Replaceable Summer / 夏のレプリカ
In the opening paragraph of my Illusion Acts Like Magic review, I described how Moe met her high school friend Tomoe Minosawa, and then nev...
Illusion Acts Like Magic / 幻惑の死と使途
Illusion Acts Like Magic begins with Moe meeting her friend Tomoe Minosawa and going to a magic show. Saikawa was supposed to come as well ...
Special Report Division / 特殊報道部
Who doesn’t like a good conspiracy theory? There are plenty of allegedly supernatural phenomena out there. Personally, I’m a skeptic. Despit...
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Medium - The Medium Detective Hisui Jouzuka / メディウム 霊媒探偵城塚翡翠
Shirou Kougetsu is your ordinary, run-of-the-mill Japanese mystery novelist. He writes novels, goes on wacky adventures with teenage sidekic...
And Then They Never Die / そして誰も死ななかった
The protagonist of And Then They Never Die , Ushio Oomata, is a sleazebag. He’s crass, rude, and a fraud—he’s a mystery novelist, but the on...
Gloomhaven
Gloomhaven is a dungeon-crawling fantasy board game. First released in 2017, it revolutionized the genre and was hailed as one of the best ...
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a isometric action-adventure puzzle game. The story involves Lara finding an ancient Mayan artifact...
House of Earth and Blood
The first sentence on the blurb on the back cover of House of Earth and Blood is “Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life.” And t...
Turnabout Airport / 逆転空港
In the world of Ace Attorney , it seems impossible to be involved with the law without getting accused of murder once. (Or thrice .) Yet des...
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Nobody Can Pass Judgment on Me / 誰も僕を裁けない
I’m fairly certain the title of the book is meant to be a defense against reading erotica in public… Anyway, Nobody Can Pass Judgment on Me...
Cat, the Great Detective / 猫には推理がよく似合う
Cat, the Great Detective is a mystery novel that, you may have guessed from the title and cover, features a cat. Our protagonist is Kaori T...
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Stray
Stray got a lot of hype. If you were completely oblivious to internet discourse in the weeks leading up to its release, allow me to provide...
Vaporum
i'm gonna level with ya, the post I wanna post isn't quite ready yet, but I want to preserve the "posted" date I think the way blogger works...
Operencia: The Stolen Sun
Operencia: The Stolen Sun is a first-person grid-based dungeon crawler, which readers of the blog may already know that I love . While Lege...
Murderer vs. Maniac / 殺人犯 対 殺人鬼
While some books take a while to get into the action, Murderer vs. Maniac wastes no time. The opening scene is all about the protagonist ...
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Six Pork Cutlets / 六枚のとんかつ
Feeling hungry? Six Pork Cutlets is a baka-mys short story collection that won the third Mephisto prize , so as you could probably expect ...
Those Who Cast a Curse Like the Headless / 首無の如き祟るもの
And so we arrive at the third book in the Genya Toujou series . The previous two books provided a wonderful blend of J-horror, murder myster...
Who Inside / 封印再度
Who Inside is the fifth book in the Saikawa & Moe (or, as I prefer, S&M ) series. It’s ten books total, so we’re halfway through! (…Ignorin...
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The Mannequin House Murders / 人形館の殺人
I didn’t like this book at all. I don’t have much more to say about it.
Death Within the Evil Eye / 魔眼の匣の殺人
It’s difficult to succeed genius. Chrono Cross isn’t as good as Chrono Trigger , Bioshock 2 isn’t as good as Bioshock , and National Treas...
Auto-tagged Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross / クロノ・クロス
Chrono Trigger is a stunning masterpiece with beautiful pixel graphics, engaging gameplay, fantastic music, memorable characters, and a well...
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The Silver Case / シルバー事件
The Silver Case takes place in 1999 in the (fictional) 24th Ward of Tokyo , where the murderer Kamui Uehara committed the titular Silver Ca...
Auto-tagged Revolutionary Girl Utena
Overcooked! 2
I’ve taken down zombie hordes with nothing but some guns and parkour , faced down mad gods in decrepit, abandoned space stations , and battl...
Chronos: Before the Ashes
When playing Chronos: Before the Ashes , my initial impression was that it’s basically baby’s first Souls -like , although as I dwelled upon...
The Man Who Died Seven Times / 七回死んだ男
After Evelyn Hardcastle died seven and a half times, dying seven times just doesn’t seem that impressive… The protagonist of The Man Who Di...
The Black Umbrella Mystery / 体育館の殺人
The Black Umbrella Mystery is a story with the soul of Ellery Queen and the body of an anime protagonist. There are a few Japanese…
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The Butterfly Murder Case / 蝶々殺人事件
While Kousuke Kindaichi is by far Seishi Yokomizo ’s most famous fictional detective, he is not the only one. Yokomizo also wrote many book...
Snow White / スノーホワイト
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the cleverest of them all? Snow White is a light, cute and unique book, and now that I’ve read the second…
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A Great Detective Never Lies / 名探偵は嘘をつかない
A Great Detective Never Lies is slightly convoluted, so bear with me for a moment.
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Jack the Poetical Private / 詩的私的ジャック
Despite its focus on STEM, the S&M series sure seems to have an aversion to formula. While the previous book broke the mold by moving from...
Auto-tagged The Perfect Insider
The Seven Great Detectives / 7人の名探偵
Yukito Ayatsuji ’s The Decagon House Murders was published in 1987, and is credited with kick-starting the shin-honkaku (new orthodox) mov...
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Legend of Grimrock II
Legend of Grimrock II is a masterpiece. Go give the developers your money.