Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery

A pretty great game. The bullet patterns are engaging and well telegraphed. I actually didn't see all the plot coming that was there. A few clues came out to be red herrings, but they made sense in the way that they were red herrings. However, the background of the final boss hurt my eyes to the point of the fight not being playable, and the words rotating during the word selection segment of fights is a bit annoying while trying to dodge bullets. My eyes are sensitive to shifting and rotating backgrounds like that, so an option to disable them or replace them with something like the regular scrolling background would be appreciated

[i]Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery[/i] is an indie bullet hell visual novel murder mystery RPG - a formula that works surprisingly well despite sounding conceptually incoherent on the surface. The game is quite short, requiring only a few hours to complete depending on the selected difficulty (which is surprisingly flexible and able to be tailored to the individual player.) The gameplay is fundamentally solid and reasonably enjoyable. The story is straightforward but executed and the case builds up very naturally in front of your eyes. Owing to the short length of the game, the characters are somewhat underdeveloped but each of them has enough personality flair to not overstay their welcome. The graphic design is excellent, even if the art style wasn't quite for me. The sound department perfectly supports the narrative and gameplay, but is not particularly memorable, Personally, I absolutely adored the game's creative use of visual metaphor. Every single character has a distinctive attack pattern that perfectly compliments and harmonises with their persona such that even though they never given the opportunity to be fully fleshed out, you can still glean a lot about them from their gameplay alone. The dialogue is also written quite well, though like with the soundtrack, nothing in particular stands out above all else enough for me to keep thinking about it. Overall, a very solid game that is worth picking up and playing if you want to be a magical girl detective for an hour or three.

Warning - Light Spoilers The game has charming pixel art and fun gameplay. I don't think it's perfect, but it does everything mostly pretty great. The writing of the characters feels authentic to their personalities, and so do the bullet patterns and mechanics (I especially liked the twins' last attack where you had to go either left or right to cancel projectiles, and how Charlotte utilized them all for a sort of boss rush). The game is short, but that doesn't take away from the stuff it does well. The music is awesome and fits the mood (I liked how it would intensify after each phase, and certain alterations of it would play on Iris and Lily's sections and then merge together). There's also a cat. If that doesn't sell it to you, I don't know what will

Real great game, its thing is definitely inspired by Danganronpa, if the refute animation isn't obvious enough. It is quite different though, if it helps, compare it to the argument armament part instead of bullet time battle. Its immediate suspect then short investigation before weird psychic mental argument thing, and the main part of the game: Bullet hell! I may be too confident and suffered deeply due to setting the lives to 2, but 5 is definitely enough, especially since it resets for every argument. By this point I should probably talk about it too, you are to cycle through 3 statements while it shoots bullets at you, and bomb the bad statement. Little complains about it: Its definitely way too easy to guess which statement is correct, bombing the wrong statement does not punish you at all, and the wrong statements are so obvious as they're literally just filler, almost none of them were red herrings. Point being, the gameplay boils down to shoot until statement three, sometimes shorter, sometimes you immediately win on statement 1, not like I can blame them, too much statement and bullet hell needs to be toned down, and I guess bullet hell was chosen over the mystery which was done well. And then the little segment of other things, story is good, music especially on the bullet hell segments were fire, and the artstyle can be seen as the kind that try and fail to replicate the anime style, enjoyed all the reveals and twists. Were they predictable? yes, did I get an uh oh moment when the bad guy slips up? yes, pretty fun. Will I recommend this to someone looking for danganronpa fangames? nah. I'm sure they're looking for a more mystery heavy one, but if they're just looking for games and happens to be a fan of mysteries and or bullet hells then yes.

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TLDR: It's like if alien space invasion and murder mystery visual novels had a baby. The best 2.2 hours I've spent today, I skipped my history lecture for this, was feeling a relative emotional low, but this perked me right up, should stop worrying about my feelings and worry about games instead fr fr, 10/10 made me less want to die. If you like games like danganronpa, ace attorney, this is great, not to mention its free.99, it has a cute art, interesting characters, storyline flows nicely, not super long, and if you're stuck on a level just toggle *infinite lives* in settings and bam, you're immune but if you're looking for some excitement( or a masochist), toggle 1 life, so each time you get shot you restart, fun times! Great soundtrack if you're into the electronic vibe of it, charming character and did I mentioned that it's free? It cost nothing to try and you should try it. I am excited for what else the Will-o-Works is going to be releasing with danmaku detective, Minnie my beloved. THE NITTY GRITTY As far as murder mystery novels goes, this one was relatively simple however still fun, you could almost guess whodunnit within like the middle of the game. The mechanics of the game are nice, very cute sprites and the png of the characters are very cute and expressive, it is not a point and click game unlike most murder mystery, you do interact with the clues but the main focus of the game is the bullet shooter hell, which the patterns are very fun and can be hard. Character dialogue flows smoothly no complaints there, well written and easily followed. Art and animation of things are extremely well done, that if you had said this game was 11 buckaroos, I would buy it however it is not 11 bucks but free.99 so it gets a star for this section too. OVERALL THIS GAME IS GREAT AND IF YOURE IN AN EMOTIONAL TURMOIL LIKE ME, YOU SHOULD PLAY IT :3

This game was fun! I really wished it was longer, but it had a good plot and funny characters. The only thing I would change is the difficulty of the battle aspect, all 5 lives would run out too quickly and for the boss battle I had to resort to using infinite lives. But it was fun overall, and I hope I can see these characters again in the future!

[h1]Before I played Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Absolutely delightful and a ton of fun. I am so so bad at bullet hell games but this was just a really fun way to spend a couple hours. 1000% recommend!!