Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved

Great for fans of the Ace Attorney series, it's a bit light on plot and especially gameplay, investigation and deduction, but it has the same nice aesthetic, atmosphere, mood, OST and graphics.

It’s pretty short but well paced. Still, I’d say it leans more toward a visual novel than an adventure game: it’s very linear, and there aren’t enough elements for you to really get stuck. That said, the retro visual style is really well done, and there’s never a dull moment. It’s no game of the year, but it’s still a fun little diversion… and now I feel like playing golf.

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.

I went in expecting something heartfelt, melancholic, and with excellent presentation. That's exactly what I got.

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!!!!

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

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.